by Dorothy Greco | Oct 17, 2014 | Art, Photography, & Beauty, Blog, Friday Soul Food
Something a little out of the ordinary. No hillside blazing with color or white church steeple interjecting itself among the orange leaves. One hour on one acre (mostly on my knees) with my Canon 7D, macro lens, and a tripod. OK. I admit it. This last flower...
by Dorothy Greco | Oct 3, 2014 | Blog, Friday Soul Food, iPhone Flowers/Macro, iPhone Photos, Photography
I often go through my days barely stopping to eat or catch my breath. Too much to do. Mostly good things but my tendency is to cram a 20 hour agenda into my 16 awake hours. Making photos like these forces me to stop. Forces me to look—and hopefully to actually see....
by Dorothy Greco | Sep 26, 2014 | Art, Photography, & Beauty, Blog, Friday Soul Food
I am amazed by the beauty of this season—from the majestic maples, to the tiny nasturtiums. Regardless of whether or not you consider yourself a person of faith, beauty transports us, up and out of the mundane, up and out of the pain into something bigger. Something...
by Dorothy Greco | Sep 19, 2014 | Blog, Book review, Friday Soul Food
What do you want? As in, what do you really want? This is a combustible question. Jen Michel writes in Teach Us to Want, “I am a woman who has struggled long with an inordinate fear of her selfishness, a woman who has wanted a measure of certainty for finding and...
by Dorothy Greco | Sep 12, 2014 | Blog, Friday Soul Food, Marriage & Family
If ezer, the Hebrew word used to describe Eve, literally means strong rescuer, being a mother and being an ezer have often felt mutually exclusive. Changing diapers, settling sibling arguments, teaching my sons to read are all important but definitely not on par with...
by Dorothy Greco | Sep 5, 2014 | At the Intersection of Faith & Culture, Blog, Friday Soul Food
Near the end of Jesus’ ministry on earth, he tells a crowd, Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave...
