by Kim Ort | Oct 18, 2011 | Books, Inspiration, People
Twyla Tharp’s book, The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life (paid link) has been on the must read list for several creative people I admire. I finally got around to reading this book myself and now understand why it’s so influential. Twyla Tharp...
by Kim Ort | Oct 11, 2011 | Contemplation, People
This was the subject of a conference I attended a few weeks ago at Bellarmine University in Louisville, Kentucky. It was hosted by the Merton Institute, as in Thomas Merton, contemplative monk, and author of the bestselling memoir, The Seven Storey Mountain. All of...
by Kim Ort | Sep 20, 2011 | Inspiration, People, Photography, Seeing, Simplicity / Minimalism, Wonder / Awe
Recently, I’ve mentioned that I use photography as a meditation tool, and it seems to have resonated with some in a way that other terms, like “contemplative photography” sometimes don’t. Pretty much everyone has some idea of what meditation...
by Kim Ort | Sep 13, 2011 | Inspiration
I read a lot of great posts in the past week about 9/11 and specifically, people’s memories of that day. Re-living the day through video and images was difficult but necessary to really remember the people who were lost and the heroes who came forward at that...
by Kim Ort | Sep 9, 2011 | Inspiration, Photography
Last weekend, we visited our daughter, Michelle, who has been working on an organic farm this summer in Southwestern Wisconsin. This area is called the Driftless region, since it was bypassed by glacial drift, and the land was left unchanged from earlier days....
by Kim Ort | Sep 6, 2011 | Contemplation, Inspiration
This summer, I was fortunate to spend time with dear friends and family members that I don’t see very often. These are people that I have lifelong relationships with. I trust them and enjoy their company. And, I feel cherished by them. Besides being extremely...
by Kim Ort | Sep 2, 2011 | Photography
I love farmers’ markets, but there is nothing like being in the Niagara Fruit Belt in Ontario in the summertime. Fruit stands with images like the one above are everywhere. This peninsula, between Lake Ontario, Lake Erie and the Niagara River has some of the...
by Kim Ort | Aug 30, 2011 | Photo By Design 1, Photography, Workshops
It was the third week of October, 2001 when my friend Carol and I boarded a plane from Indianapolis to Saint John, New Brunswick for our long-awaited, week long photography workshop with Freeman Patterson and Andre Gallant. Only three weeks after 9/11, we had debated...
by Kim Ort | Aug 23, 2011 | Belonging / Connection, Contemplation, Inspiration, Photography
Dictionary.com defines the word “abstract” as “thought of apart from concrete realities, specific objects, or actual instances; difficult to understand.” During my recent vacation, I had the chance to visit three places that were all very...
by Kim Ort | Aug 16, 2011 | Inspiration, People, Topics
Last Friday, I posted an image of my adopted hometown of Indianapolis in all four seasons. As I returned home from my Canadian vacation on Sunday, I learned of the tragic Indiana State Fair stage collapse on Saturday night. Five people were killed and dozens injured...
