The Inner Path of Photography

We yearn for the taste of the sacred…and through our cameras discover it, the world, and ourselves.

Category: Inspiration

Patti Smith on Creating/Staying with Your Work

Recommended Video for Today:

An inspiring talk by the musician/poet/artist Patti Smith  at the Louisiana Literature Festival, August 2012. Experience only the first 2 minutes – and easily take heart. Listen to the total 6 – and say “yes” to life.

“One does their work for the people.
And the more people you can touch, the more wonderful it is.

You don’t do your work and say ‘I only want the cool people to read it.’
You want everyone to be transported or hopefully inspired by it.”

“Be concerned with doing good work.”

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“Life is like a roller coaster ride. It is never going to be perfect.”

May you honor that deepest part of you that naturally transports and inspires.

 

 

“Quote – Flaubert”

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Do not read, as children do,
to enjoy themselves

or, as the ambitious do,
to educate themselves.

No, read to live.

– Gustave Flaubert

Image: “Snowy Marsh Neighbors, Eastham, MA, 1.29.2014”

Heidi Straube – Inner Path Photography website

 

“Capturing God”

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And so

at the end of this day
I can only be

 in Stillness.

Feeling deeply
the Unspeakable.

Image: “Samoset Sunset, 2.1.2014”
From “A Winter on Cape Cod”
© 2014 Heidi Straube

“My studio…today”

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“A foggy day leads to a foggy mind.”

She laughs.

Not really. I just made that up!”


Image: “View from my window, 2.2.2014”

Copyright Heidi Straube 2014
More: “Winter on Cape Cod”
http://www.straubephoto.com