all you need….
all you need is love.
all you need is love.
all you need is love, love.
love is all you need.”
THE BEATLES

i’ve always been fascinated by the way people blend…two people fall in love & create a little life…this sweet little person is a physical manifestation of love…we look for pieces we recognize…he has your “smile”…she has your “ears”…but really they’re an unimaginably perfect blend…years ago when i was pregnant with my first child, “the blessing project” was born….all children are blends…

but i’ve been particularly interested in how beautiful children from parents with different ethnic backgrounds blend…the sweet union of differences is amazing…so much beauty….and i think there is something powerful about a new born life looking up at two different faces & loving them the same…not knowing any difference….only learning later in life that there was a difference to begin with….

there was a moment when my four year old daughter looked up at me & asked me, “mama, if i scratch my skin….do i look like you underneath?”…my heart dropped to my stomach & i looked at her sweet face….i realized my answer was both yes & no…her brown skin would always be hers…just as my fair skin was mine….yet if you scratched either of us, we would bleed….we are, as all humans are…utterly & in the most important ways, simply the same….we love…we bleed…we dream…we are….

as i continue to photograph the blessing project…i do humbly & aware that there is much i do not & will not ever understand about the world…but one thing i know for sure, children are blessings….

xoxo

xoxo

tori & dean & liam & stella

LOVE & HAPPINESS

“Love and happiness…
something that can make you do wrong, make you do right…
Love…

Love and happiness
Wait a minute…
something’s going wrong
someone’s on the phone
three o’clock in the morning
talkin’ about how she can make it right
well,
happiness is when you really feel good with somebody
nothing wrong with being in one with someone
oh, baby, love and happiness
love and happiness…
love and happiness…

Love and happiness
You be good to me
I’ll be good to you
we’ll be together
we’ll see each other
walk away with victory
oh baby,
love and happiness…
love and happiness…

Make you do right… love’ll make you do wrong…
make you come home early…
make you stay out all night long…
the power of love…

wait a minute,
let me tell you…
the power of love…
make you do right… love’ll make you do wrong…
make you want to dance…
love and happiness…
love and happiness…

love is… wait a minute… love is…
walkin’ together…
talkin’ together…
say it again…
say it together…
Mmmm….”

AL GREEN

and beautiful….xoxo

this sweet chandelier hung above our wedding table & now has a home in our
kitchen…i stand beneath it in the mornings when i make my coffee….xoxo

have a beautiful day…xoxo

beautiful backdrops
for photographers…
DROP IT MODERN