11 years of contemplation and self discovery have gone into making this book. I was once told that everything is prayer. I had not thought of it in those terms but that is what I do. I look for beauty. I look for community. I look for meaning and connection. I find people interesting and at times exotic. In them I see bits of myself. Sometimes a whole story, sometimes just a moment of being human. The good and the not-so-much. That is what I look for. There is a bit of the journalist and the portraitist, the storyteller and the landscape artist.