by Lisa Azarmi | Feb 25, 2022 | BEGINNINGS, CALM, PERSONAL GROWTH, PHOTOGRAPHY, PORTRAITS
“There comes a time when we must stop crying and wringing our hands and get on with the healing that we are so much in need of”Art Solomon, Anishinaabe Elder. Roland Reed – Portrait of an Ojibway Girl, Minnesota, gelatin silver print, 1907.
by Lisa Azarmi | Sep 28, 2021 | BECOMING, BEGINNINGS, BOOKS, CLASSIC LITERATURE, CONFIDENCE, COURAGE, FEMALE PORTRAIT, IMAGINATION, INNER STRENGTH, PORTRAITS, READING
“The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long...
by Lisa Azarmi | Sep 20, 2021 | ACCEPTANCE, ANIMALS, BEAUTY, BECOMING, BEGINNINGS, CALM, COURAGE, CREATIVITY, ENDURANCE, FEELINGS, GENTLENESS, HEART, HONESTY, HOPE, IMAGINATION, INNER STRENGTH, INSPIRATIONAL, KINDNESS, LOVE, MALE PORTRAIT, MOTIVATIONAL, PHOTOGRAPHY, PORTRAITS, SPIRITUALITY, VINTAGE PHOTOGRAPHY
“This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward...
by Lisa Azarmi | Sep 18, 2021 | BEAUTY, BECOMING, BEGINNINGS, BOOKS, CALM, CLASSIC LITERATURE, DREAMS, ETERNAL LOVE, FEARLESS, FEELINGS, FEMALE PORTRAIT, HEART, HONESTY, HOPE, INNER STRENGTH, INSPIRATIONAL, MOTIVATIONAL, PORTRAITS
“Write it on your heartthat every day is the best day in the year.He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the daywho allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.Finish every day and be done with it.You have done what you could.Some blunders and absurdities, no...
by Lisa Azarmi | Sep 18, 2021 | ACCEPTANCE, BECOMING, BEGINNINGS, BLACK & WHITE, CALM, CLASSIC LITERATURE, IMAGINATION, INDIVIDUALITY, INNER STRENGTH, INSPIRATIONAL, LIFE PATH, PHOTOGRAPHY, PORTRAITS, SEA SCAPES, SERENITY, VINTAGE PHOTOGRAPHY, WATER
“They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming.” Hermann Hesse – Siddhartha, 1922. Guruji – Lake Chapala, Mexico 1929.
by Lisa Azarmi | Sep 6, 2021 | ACCEPTANCE, BEAUTY, BECOMING, BEGINNINGS, BLACK & WHITE, COURAGE, ENDURANCE, HONESTY, HOPE, INNER STRENGTH, INSPIRATIONAL, LIFE PATH, PHOTOGRAPHY, PORTRAITS, SELF LOVE, VINTAGE PHOTOGRAPHY, WELLBEING
“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with...