by Kim Ort | Jun 7, 2017 | Books, Essence, Inspiration, People, Photography
“Peony makes us feel luscious, wild, delicious – like everything is at our fingertips and everything is possible.” ~ Katie Hess, Flower Evolution This summer, I’m learning more about flowers, not just their names, but how they make us feel,...
by Kim Ort | May 24, 2017 | Inspiration, Photography, Practices, Visual Journalling, Workshops
In the visual journaling workshop, Once Upon a Time: Your Photographs have Stories to Tell, there is an exercise on storytelling, which participants really enjoy. The results are often surprising and reveal hidden writing talents. We take a look at three different...
by Kim Ort | May 10, 2017 | Belonging / Connection, Compassion, Contemplation, Seeing
Empathy is “the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.” I learned about the origin of this word in this Brain Pickings article. To summarize, the word empathy came into being in the late 1860’s when philosopher Theodor Lipps...
