by Martha Brettschneider | Apr 25, 2023 | Mental Fitness
I put my photography on the back burner this year. It had become too commercially driven for my comfort level. The sense of wonder, mindful connection with nature, and playfulness that originally inspired me to make photographs seemed harder to access. I felt pushed...
by Martha Brettschneider | Mar 22, 2023 | Life Lessons, Mental Fitness
I surprised a friend recently when I told her that I was hiring someone to do my spring garden clean-up this year. This friend has known me for twenty years, so she knows that in an earlier chapter I never could have imagined not doing my own gardening. Looking back...
by Martha Brettschneider | Mar 11, 2023 | Life Lessons, Mental Fitness
A few days ago, visiting Denver’s Botanic Gardens, I encountered my own version of William Blake’s “To see a World in a Grain of Sand / And a Heaven in a Wild Flower…” I discovered the Universe in a frozen pond. Leaves and other plant parts that had been blown into...
