PASSION

Playing your passion can get out of hand. You love it, and sometimes you do seemingly irrational things in the process. At least, I have with my photography passion. A few examples: Climbing a mountain with heavy equipment, in the dark, to be in the right spot at sunrise, paying exorbitant amounts of money for just the right equipment, being still for a long, long time, while waiting for the right light, or the clouds to move in.

The fisher in the image below seems irrationally passionate about putting a pole in the waters imaged. I suspect he was loving the moment. I reflect on two rare fishing trips I initiated with my father while he was in his eighties. Fishing was an, earlier in life, passion for my dad that I missed. I have a passion for connection with family. Lake Michigan salmon and Canadian walleyes were the attractions that brought the desired connection. I remember I was admonished for putting down my fishing pole and picking up my camera - funny really, but telling. I also remember being told you just don’t leave a hook on your pole while flying on a small bush plane into camp on a remote lake in Canada. It is interesting what I remember. I do remember the rare events fondly. I am grateful to live my passions. I feeling I was right promoting passion living in my planning career.

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Passion