Love, Taylor
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Party Hearty
I was asked to take some pictures and video at little baby Eliyas’ baptism a couple weeks ago. First of all, I had no idea what I was getting in to. I thought this would probably be a pretty casual …
Longing pt. 1
I long to share and break bread. For rectangular tables with rows of strangers-turned-friends. To hear the sound of forks scraping on plates and inebriated laughter hovering in the air. For the day’s worries to dim like the light and …
7 Things Sunday
I discovered at some point as a teenager that people feel comfortable confiding in me about their problems. Sometimes people I barely knew would message me to hash out whatever happened to be troubling them. And still today, whenever someone …
Day Dreaming
There’s a little voice in the back of my head that tells me I won’t make it to graduate school this fall. It’s only a few months away and I’m doing everything in my power to make it happen. I …
The Water Ride
The issue of clean water along with our overuse/waste of water as Americans (Oh, what? Yeah! That glass of water you didn’t finish and poured down the sink? That would have been saved and used to the very last drop …
Gifting
Last week I was working at the mall when a mother and daughter came in to shop for some new clothes. While the mother was browsing, the daughter began a small stack of clothes that she had set behind the …
“Henri Matisse Looks Like Satan”
Ever since I returned from Uganda I’ve been itching to find a way to more or less continue some of what I was doing there. I have a beautiful, wonderful friend who works with refugees. We ended up getting together …
Do You Know the Poor?
Parental influence and involvement in political activities is one of the largest predictors of where their children’s vote will go. So, this election I’ve been seriously pondering why my political tendencies are different from that of my own family. Politics …
