[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][prkwp_spacer size=”0″ el_class=”shout_variable bt_2x”][vc_single_image image=”42″ img_size=”full”][prkwp_spacer size=”44″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/12″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”10/12″][vc_column_text drop_cap=”yes”]I grew up in the Midwest, where people are extra nice. (Tell your mom I said “hi”). Here I am in the Seattle freeze bringing my Midwest nice. 🙂 I cover my life with intentional joy, art & adventure! Here you’ll find my minds scramble of events, photoshoots, travel locations, ideas, recipes and whatever else makes my heart skip a beat! My love affair with life, lived.

Opening daybreak… his mercies are new every morning. It also happens to be my name… You’ll find me capturing the beauty around me with my camera and it just might be your smile. 🙂 If you listen and watch long enough to the beauty around you it changes you, if you let it.

[/vc_column_text][bquote author=”― C.S. Lewis” prk_in=”“True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.””][vc_column_text]Through and through; through every plank and each rib, it thrilled for an instant, the whale obliquely lying on his back, in the manner of a biting shark, slowly and feelingly taking its bows full within his mouth, so that the long, narrow, scrolled lower jaw curled high up into the open air, and one of the teeth caught in a row-lock. The bluish pearl-white of the inside of the jaw was within six inches of Ahab head, and reached higher than that. In this attitude the White Whale now shook the slight cedar as a mildly cruel cat her mouse. With unastonished eyes Fedallah gazed, and crossed his arms.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]At that preluding moment, ere the boat was yet snapped, Ahab, the first to perceive the whale’s intent, by the crafty upraising of his head, a movement that loosed his hold for the time; at that moment his hand had made one final effort to push the boat out of the bite. But only slipping further into the whale’s mouth, and tilting over sideways as it slipped, the boat had shaken off his hold on the jaw spilled him out of it, as he leaned to the push; and so he fell flat-faced upon the sea in the manner of a biting shark, slowly and feelingly taking its bows full within his mouth.[/vc_column_text][prkwp_spacer size=”22″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/12″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”13″ img_size=”full”][prkwp_spacer size=”0″ el_class=”shout_variable”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”37″ img_size=”full”][prkwp_spacer size=”0″ el_class=”shout_variable”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”9046″ img_size=”full”][prkwp_spacer size=”0″ el_class=”shout_variable”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/12″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”10/12″][prkwp_spacer size=”22″][vc_column_text]And now, while both elastic gunwales were springing in and out, as the whale dallied with the doomed craft in this devilish way and from his body being submerged beneath the boat, he could not be darted at from the bows, for the bows were almost inside of him, as it were; and while the other boats involuntarily paused, as before a quick crisis impossible to withstand, then it was that monomaniac Ahab, furious with this tantalizing vicinity of his foe, which placed him all alive and helpless in the very jaws he hated frenzied with all this, he seized the long bone with his naked hands, and wildly strove to wrench it from its gripe. As now he thus vainly strove, the jaw slipped from him; the frail gunwales bent in, collapsed, and snapped, as both jaws, like an enormous shears, sliding further aft, bit the craft completely in twain, and locked themselves fast again in the sea, midway between the two floating wrecks. These floated aside, the broken ends drooping, the crew at the stern-wreck clinging to the gunwales, and striving to hold fast to the oars to lash them across.[/vc_column_text][prkwp_spacer size=”66″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/12″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]