Rainier Marie Rilke (I’ll refer to him often) once wrote:
“…wish that you may find in yourself enough patience to endure and enough simplicity to have faith; that you may gain more and more confidence in what is difficult and in your solitude among other people. And as for the rest, let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.”
This quote came to mind as I spent the last couple of months trying to figure out if I should pursue photography full-time.
Then I remembered this photo. When I took this photo, I was sitting in Busboys and Poets-a coffee shop/bookstore/restaurant (you would have to see it). It was a crowded day. Something that you would never be able to tell from looking at this photo.
Tags: busboys, busboys and poets, DC, letter, letters to a young poet, marie, poet, rainer, rilke, solitude, washingon, washington dc, young poet
August 19th, 2008 at 5:43 pm
This photograph is so beautiful and captivating. Please let us know if you’d like to share your photo with us — we could post to our website or even our Facebook Fan Page. (Or both!) If you’d like to, you could even post it to our Fan Page on Facebook yourself as a “fan photo.” It definitely seems as though photography may just be your knack. =)
September 8th, 2008 at 10:39 pm
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