life – Starlisa Black Photography

Understanding ADHD

ADD/ADHD THOUGHTS 11/15/2018. Warning, this is long and thought stimulating. 😁👀❤️ I am getting to that point of finding my strengths instead of beating myself up for my “faults”. The negatives get more attention typically, because those are the things that bother other people most such as chronic lateness, distractibility, difficulty following through on tasks,Continue reading “Understanding ADHD”

In Honor of Loved Ones

buddha statue in a foggy Columbia River Gorge, surrounded by snow.

Many of us have lost so many loved ones already this year, and it brings with it an occasional melancholy that can also be the doorway to good memories. Today, processing photos from my archives, I ran across this set of images I took at a dear friends home in the White Salmon area. Sharon Continue reading “In Honor of Loved Ones”

Unfocused Mind Diaries part 1

2014… Year of Changes June, near the end of the month, on a Sunday afternoon. My mind has been so unfocused and scattered lately, and getting worse the last couple of months. Anxiety attacks about what should be small things, but shake and bake my body and brain. These are followed by time staring blanklyContinue reading “Unfocused Mind Diaries part 1”

Wind, Sun, and Gratitude

Wind, Sun, and Gratitude Letting the winds of Life dance around me like whirling Dervishes, my roots reach deep into the earth’s mysteries and songs, while my arms, like branches, reach with joy into the sun filled heavens above. Longing swims the same channels through my veins as Gratitude, connecting the heavens above and earthContinue reading “Wind, Sun, and Gratitude”

Life’s little whirlwinds

Sometimes when you think you have a handle on life, a whirlwind kicks up and sends you off in a new direction, perhaps a bit tattered and torn, with new scars for show and tell. In this case, a family death brings a trip to Utah with my older Brother and his daughter. While makingContinue reading “Life’s little whirlwinds”

Magic of Water…. necessity of Life

Water is the staff of life… without fresh drinking water we would all die fairly quickly and painfully, and yet our world is busily polluting and otherwise destroying water at an alarming rate. Did you know the large majority of our body mass is water? We come from water in the mother’s womb, and theContinue reading “Magic of Water…. necessity of Life”