The digital photography class is coming along brilliantly… here’s one of my favorite exposures from a recent assignment: it’s a blown glass vase my step-son made for me, which makes it particularly beautiful (it looks better against black – check it out in the new photo blog I started for the class).
Another amazing VisionHolder conversation last night – these are the free phone sessions with some of the most exciting voices of our times that Heartland Circle produces every month. This time the visionary was Brian Johnson, founder and CEO of Zaadz.
This call was already going to be exciting for me, since I am a big Zaadz fan, but it exceeded all expectations. I felt like Brian had entered my dream, or more accurately perhaps it’s a collective dream we’ve both tapped into, but it felt remarkably synchronistic especially when he started talking about beauty. The words he used could have been coming out of my own mouth, and I have to tell you I don’t meet all that many people who know what I’m talking about, so this was unusual and almost swooning-level exciting for a number of reasons.
To hear this perspective being spoken by another who is first of all a man (the percentage of men who really know what I’m talking about in this area is very small), second a successful businessman, and to put the cherry on top, a successful businessman in my field who has taken the passionate dream I have for a transcendent technology and given it form, was absolute Heaven.
And it feels like the conversation has just begun…
I was having an exceptionally wonderful day yesterday, and a song on the radio really captured the mood for me. I only caught a couple of lines, but they were exquisite: "There’s perfume burning in the air, Bits of Beauty everywhere…"
That seemed to sum it up for me – you know those days where the air is full of magic, and every direction you look seems suffused with beauty… there was nothing particularly exciting going on, I was just driving home from my digital photography class, looking at the pleasing symmetry of the California hills in front of me and listening to the radio turned way up loud.
I came home and Googled the song. It was a Leonard Cohen tune called Blue Alert, about that acute moment of wondrously frightening surrender; falling in love. Ahhhh. I seem to live my life on that delicious edge lately; my beloved beckons in every doorway and I rush to open the door and throw myself in.
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