Growth.  Expansion.  Recovery.

These three phases are the components of an auroral substorm; in the sobriety journey, recovery from addiction, our daily lives…we experience all of these phases in some capacity.

For nine years I was in the throes of an alcohol addiction.  I attempted to take my own life.  I endured an emotional break which included physically harming myself.  

I wanted to die & attempted to drink myself to death on many nights.

Yet in sobriety I discovered photography; and through photography I fell in love with the aurora. 

I found a place to be free.  To reflect.  To heal.  A place where traumas vanish.

A place to grow, expand, recover.

“Book II - Continuum” is the second collection in my long term body of work, where journal entries connect with the aurora to offer insight, hope, and honesty in recovery.

“In darkness there is opportunity - not only in finding the light, but also in becoming the light.”

(This book will consist of two parts)

Book II - Continuum (Pt. 1)

There are tears…many tears…and no reason to wipe them away - it’s simply a time to embrace them.

Feel them.  

Soak them in.  

Be thankful for them.

Coming this far hasn’t been without pain - to bring this date about, this point in time, this flood of emotion, it is a gift.

To be breathing is a gift.  

To feel is a gift.  

To be present is a gift - seeing this light in its own right is a gift.

“Gift”

Gift

What is the value?

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