July 2010 - Update and Thoughts

The past 8 weeks have frankly been a blur. On May 18th, my Mom went into home hospice and her journey was complete on June 4th just after midnight when she went home to be with the Lord. We had her funeral on June 8th and my daughter gave a beautiful eulogy of my Mother's Dash in her eyes. The poem "The Dash" by Linda Ellis was a piece that my Mom personally requested we remember during this time. It is a story of a man who is speaking at a friends funeral and refers to the dates on a headstone, the date you are born and then a dash and the date that you die. The dash is the "important" stuff, its the nuts and bolts of your life, the good, the bad, the crazy, the pain, the excitement, all that is in your life on earth. I become overwhelmed with emotion when I try to express what I am feeling about her passing but what I will say is I do miss her and most of all I miss being able to "give her a call" for all the silly stupid things a daughter calls her mother for.

In an effort to get back to business if that's the PC way, I'm looking at my travel calendar and trying to work out the details. So look for my travel log for dates that I may be in your part of the world. I am sifting through the missed trips since January and will hopefully get those stops back on my books.

Subsequently, I have not updated my blog or the website with new promotions yet, they are coming. This short post is to give a quick note to let you know that I haven't forgotten, just haven't found the energy to sit and contribute. I am still honoring the previously posted promotion which allows for the session to be included when you pre-pay towards finished prints, I expect to change the promotion before the 15th of July so if this is something you are wanting to take advantage of, give me a call.

I have just a couple of spots left for Senior Partners/Reps so if you are interested in being one of Katherine Payne Photography's Senior Partners or Reps please don't delay I really don't like telling people no.

So I'll close for now with a thought in honor of my Mom.
If the dash between the dates is the "important stuff", don't let that pass you by, embrace every opportunity, love one another, especially tell them you love them and believe me, Photographs and Portraits do capture your memories that last a lifetime, take time to schedule those lasting memories.

Keep seeing the light!