“New foundations and new partnerships, celebrations and meeting with compatible souls”. This is the message that Juanita and Lupe, my faithful cat-helpers received and gave to me this very hot morning. It was the last day of June of a very strange and particular year and although the augurs of our times were conveying messages of dystopic possible futures, I was called to photographically investigate the absolute incarnations of boldness, beauty, wit and joy that were here -according to my helpers, who always know more than they reveal- to lift us up. This brought to mind one of the affirmations of Florence Scovel Shinn: “I now put to flight the army of the aliens (negative thoughts). They starve on faith and feed on fear”. Boldness is an expression of fearless faith that everything works for our good and beauty is an expression of inner harmony that helps us remain unmoved by appearances. Looking with the corner of my eye -like only photographic investigators can- I could see renewal smiling at us around the corner. She was most welcome.
