pat loughery

The Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep Foundation (NILMDTS) administers a network of more than 5,000 volunteer photographers in the United States and nineteen International countries. At a family's request, a NILMDTS Affiliated Photographer will come to your hospital or hospice location and conduct a sensitive and private portrait session.

Dang, I miss street photography and street portraiture.

Having just finished photographing my 2nd wedding, I'm nodding my head to many of these lessons.

From the UK Guardian: "The world's verdict will be harsh if the US rejects the man it yearns for"

An America that disdains Obama for his global support risks turning current anti-Bush feeling into something far worse

I should proably just turn this into a blog entry instead of a link here, but for now let me say this: Lots of friends who are involved in 12-step programs tell me that what we're trying to do and live is quite parallel to the 12 Step ministries such as Alcoholic Anonymous.

Take a look for yourself at the 12 steps here, and think about how your life can be lived (whether in response to a known addiction or not).

Grace asks an important question: Is the fallout of the Todd Bentley fall igniting a charismatic reform? A survey of Latter Rain movements.

Another entry into the New Monasticism and race discussion:

"As we read it, Jason and Vonetta, Eliacin, and Gabriel don't question whether white guys can be in the band. But they raise another question: What would it look like to be in the band without leading it?"

OUTSIDERS is a documentary photo exhibit by Seattle photographer David Entrikin. Its subjects are the unfortunate people who live on the streets of Seattle –OUTSIDERS. The MISSION OF THE EXHIBIT is to powerfully bring the statistics and the news stories about Seattle homelessness to a clear and stark reality.

David Entrikin's photographic work has captured the homeless people of Seattle.