Self portrait mid december

of course, the photographer's pictrure is a "beautiful" one, and this looks a lot more "nature" but I feel it is even more "me"

I both, I open big eyes

I cannot do it for the moment, as it is only three days after cataract operation, and even if it is an "easy" one relatively, it is still an operation and has to heal

it will, soon, I know, even if it seems long hours, I already see better then yesterday and it hurts a lot less, only sometimes do I "feel" I have an eye

Brick lane and market

that was taken three years ago, today it is too early for me to return yet, but the Meetup group "we shood people" is going and shooting, street photography is great!

After the operation, still here

Jane Fonda talk on Ted about the new "third age" and how she feels now that she is "in" it,
how all changed but not yet the perception of the "old" that are thought still "decrepit" and in fact, one feels happier, more free and the third, "act" can also bring closure.

And yes, we can always have the power "how we take" what happens to us, how we repond to a situation

Everybody can...

Everybody can who speaks can sing!

A great TedX speech by Naomi Susan Isaacs, and it applies to me as in my young ages I was told I cannot. .

Everybody can tell stories!

Even more, then singing, in my opinion, ar as much, the stories are in us and we all tell stories. To ourself, to others one to one or in group.

Telling a story in face of a big group is even more energizing. Sharing our stories, offering them to become others experience. To  use them in their life. Begin to tell stories!

Different "faces" and expressions

Just a few here for this blog, while waiting that my Cataract operation go through, Friday morning.

My thoughts are wondering to it and back again to everyday and to which of those would be better to be used next time.

It is a pity, I can not have someone, take a few good shots at one of my Stand Ups!

Similar but different

The reflet in the water ressembles the original, but it will become different, depending of the wind, the light, the sun.

The story about what happened changes also, "the past changes" depending on our mood, the audience and the place we tell it.

One photo, can also tell different things to different people, but even to me, in different times!

Journal 25 Dec 1944

A new year begins, and I wish all of you a very happy New Year 2012!

This is how it all begun for me.

The story of my "recorded" life, begun some years ago, in Budapest, Hungary, with my first recordings at age ten, the first Christmas, a war time, in my first diary.

From then on, I never stopped long time, to record, document, how I felt, what happened, to be able to discover later how I changed. To express myself.

Now, it would be 67 years already that I continue to do it. Writing in diary, writing short stories, writing in the blog, telling short stories, or even Stand Up and telling one line or one paragraphe stories all flows from one to the other.

We have to begin and persist only. And if something changes, go with the flow.