by Kim Ort | May 15, 2012 | Books, Inspiration, People
What an amazing Mother’s Day weekend. We were out to see a play Friday night, but the rest of the weekend was spent at home, enjoying the beautiful weather, getting work done around the house, and relaxing in our gazebo. During my down time, I was totally...
by Kim Ort | May 8, 2012 | Inspiration, Openness, Photography, Spirituality
“I decided to stop selling and start radiating.” ~ Danielle LaPorte What does it mean to ra·di·ate? (dictionary.com) 1. to extend, spread, or move like rays or radii from a center. 2. to emit rays, as of light or heat; irradiate....
by Kim Ort | May 1, 2012 | Contemplation, Openness, Photography, Workshops
Last weekend, I met with a group of 10 wonderful people at Bethany Spring in Kentucky to explore relationships using our cameras. The theme for the weekend was space, namely what do we bring to the space in our relationships? Bethany Spring is the retreat center for...
by Kim Ort | Apr 24, 2012 | Compassion, Inspiration, Photography, Space
The Space Between What’s wrong and right Is where you’ll find me hiding, waiting for you ~ Dave Matthews Band As I prepare to present my first weekend contemplative photography workshop in Kentucky this weekend, I keep thinking about space, that is, the...
by Kim Ort | Apr 17, 2012 | Photo By Design 2, Photography, Visual Design
Thanks to Thomas Marzano on Twitter for pointing out this article in Smashing Magazine, Not Just Pretty: Building Emotion into your Websites. The article references two books on visual design for websites, Don Norman’s Emotional Design, and Aaron Walter’s...
by Kim Ort | Apr 9, 2012 | Books, Inspiration, People
Karen Armstrong is a respected historian of world religions, and 2008 winner of the TED prize, for which she created The Charter for Compassion. I have been following her work on compassion for quite some time now, but just finished reading her thoughtful and...
by Kim Ort | Apr 3, 2012 | Contemplation, Inspiration
Thomas Merton, in his book New Seeds of Contemplation (paid link), wrote: “It (contemplation) is that life itself, fully awake, fully active, fully aware that it is alive. It is spiritual wonder. It is spontaneous awe at the sacredness of life, of being. It is...
by Kim Ort | Mar 27, 2012 | People, Videos
The Internet provides us with so much to look at and we seem to move from one thing to the next with the barest of attention, liking and faving along the way. Robin Sloan’s simple and powerful essay (free app), called Fish, addresses this issue and asks the...
by Kim Ort | Mar 20, 2012 | Curiosity, Inspiration, Light, Photography, Videos, Wonder / Awe
** Books mentioned have Amazon or Bookshop affiliate links, meaning I make a few cents if you purchase through my link. I only recommend books that I’ve read. Shawn Achor, founder of Good Think, Inc., and author of the book, The Happiness Advantage, gives a fabulous...
by Kim Ort | Mar 13, 2012 | Perspective, Photography, Seeing, The Practice of Contemplative Photography
Ch. 17 (and the final chapter) of The Practice of Contemplative Photography, (paid link), by Andy Karr and Michael Wood, is simply called “Equanimity.” In this chapter, the authors emphasize that there is no specific style for contemplative photography,...
