Katie SwiftPHOTOGRAPHER
‘Cause when you go to your nephew’s football game… you’ll want him to see that you’re there… cheering him on… along with everyone else… Knowing soon you’ll forget the scoreboard, but never that sunset sky… And you’ll want to thank him and his entire team for the miracle they make every Friday night underneath the lights…...
‘Tis the season for gift giving! For someone who loves to give and receive gifts, you’d think I’d be excited for Christmas. Instead, what I find, year after year, is that I’m increasingly overwhelmed and stressed by it all. Maybe it’s my perfectionism- wanting to find the perfect, most incredibly thoughtful gift for everyone on my...
After New Year’s, we dragged up boxes from the basement. Boxes cramped and overflowing with all the kid’s papers and projects. Sunday school scribbles, glittered ABC’s, macaroni necklaces, wallet sized photos we forgot to hand out. Math quizzes, birthday cards, drawings I labeled and dated before the kids could do it themselves. I’d thrown nothing...
As the new year approaches I am reflecting on 2015 via Instagram and Facebook timelines. And I am lol’ing at this e-card my sister in-law shared: And of course I’d like to think this isn’t true. I’d like to think that all my goals and prayers and al-anon meetings have done some kind of dent....
Everything I need to know about taking great family pictures I can learn from Jenny. Family is who we hang up in our hallways. The faces we want to see on our way to the kitchen. We collect our time together in rectangles. Find our lost loved ones in frames. Flashed out and faded. Awkward...
Has anyone ever really been convinced by a bumper sticker? Or been changed by a church sign? Can a facebook comment really be that profound? Do I really need to take a stance? Maybe I should just take a seat. Next to you. Relax. Enjoy (turn the phone off). And be convinced by your laughter. Be changed...
Last thursday morning I was talking to my mom about all my plans and visions and great ideas. I have a new one about each week. I want to change the world and minister to all the people, And apparently, my mom does too. She told me something that just might change the world. Or...
Sometimes trusting God is like night driving. Moving through the darkness. Trying to make out the signs. With just enough light to see the road that’s before me.
“If you judge people you have no time to love them.” -Mother Teresa Grace begins in the mirror.
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