Dear Followers of Contemplative Photography I’m happy to announce the Substack publication of Media of Hope. I began writing about television’s higher, untapped potentials in the early ’80s. Book publishers appreciated the content, but consistently agreed that “people want to watch television, not read about it.” A year ago, a friend encouraged me to update […]
A contemplative approach to creating change without trying to control the outcome How do I consciously participate in creating my life while remaining surrendered to a reality larger than myself? Over the years I’ve been intrigued by the topic of “manifestation,” the practice of consciously bringing a goal or desire into reality. Some writers take […]
Love makes one retirement community stand heads above the rest In November 2025 my wife Linda had a stroke. It wasn’t severe, but after a hospital stay we moved her into an “assisted living” facility where she underwent speech and physical therapy. She had always cooked, so under her guidance I managed to “assemble” some […]
Our world is as big as the candle we carry Since my introduction to photography in high school I’ve been in love with Light. Long before I understood aperture, exposure or composition, I sensed that certain qualities of light carried emotional and even spiritual force. The qualities of light—its softness, direction, contrast, intensity and mystery—could […]
Part 2: Our Greatest Innovations Are Revealing a Crisis of Seeing Beyond appearances, every technology is an expression of human consciousness extending itself beyond limited thinking. What we’re witnessing today is not merely rapid innovation, it’s the emergence of certain technologies that transcend utility, developments that don’t just improve life, but reveal who and what […]
Part 1: What They Are Teaching Technologies are like “media,” they extend our senses beyond the limits of time, distance, scale, intelligence and life experience. What we’re experiencing today is not merely rapid innovation, but the emergence of technologies of transcendence, those that are not just changing the world. They’re teaching us something radical: that […]
How Love is Learned, Modeled and Shared From Early Childhood on Kinds Of Love Love is a family of capacities. Some forms occur through biology, others through relationship and still others through deliberate moral and spiritual cultivation. As a felt experience, many types have been identified. Eros is romantic or erotic; Philia is friendship and […]
A Practice of Compassion, Presence and Shared Humanity After placing an order at a fast food restaurant takeout menu, Linda pulled up to the window. I was in the passenger seat. She handed over the money and moments later, when the bag of food was delivered she noticed a sandwich was missing. She waved to […]
Our collective consciousness created it Left to right: Sven?, Fran Macy, Donald Keys (Moderator), Gehard Elston, Bill Porter In June 1983, under the auspices of the World Good News Network (WGNN), I led a team to Toronto, Canada to video document a week-long event entitled, “The Congress of the Planetary Initiative for the World We […]
Whether books, baseball cards or baby dolls, they reflect the soul’s agenda… We come here for a reason. Once here, the soul guides us, in part, by the way’s we’re compelled to feed it. Specifically, we activate the endowments (gifts) we were born with, those that drive our interest and motivation to grow and contribute, […]
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