i'm sure we've all got a flip-side. alter-ego. counter-balance to what we (mostly) are. for me there are several: the introverted-extrovert, the sloppy type-A, the spiritual skeptic, the lazy adventurer, the shy drama-queen. and, this past week, i have been the cave-dwelling explorer. clearly a resting under-the-covers persona was called up to inhabit all that i took in while i was in uganda. to be honest, between latent jet-lag and feeling way WRONG from the anti-malarial medication i was taking (finished them on thursday), i was rendered pretty useless and ineffective when it came to forming sentences or processing photos. the bigness of everything, the weight of responsibility i feel to do this project justice was too much for the malaise i was under. top that with the truth that i am, without question, one of those feeler types who needs to process, gel-up an experience before i can articulate it with any hope of sounding other than obvious–well, i guess that pretty much sums up my silence here.

happy to report that i am back. peeking my head out of the cave and turning up the tunes while sorting and processing the 3,189 photos i took in uganda. oh, and there are some i am so very excited about. some that i believe tell a good and accurate story. that are sharp and clear and stand-alone-excellent-photographs. these will be revealed, in time, and most likely will be the ones selected for my big dream of publication and gallery exposure with this project (and increased attention and fundraising for CAFWA).

but you know which photos i am loving this morning? i'm loving the in-between shots. the ones that are over-exposed, unintended, blurred, or otherwise technically imperfect. the ones that JUST HAPPENED. for me, this is where the real is . the softness, the mystery, the flip-side, the same that is all of us. because we all require a balance to what is mostly projected by our circumstance, our personality, our dominant doing self. the "off" to our "on".  and i think the luck of being seen, caught, captured in-between is nothing short of beautiful.

a few more of what i am talking about…