Baking is like therapy for me. When the noise of life gets too loud, the steady rhythm of measuring, mixing, folding and layering is remarkably calming. Colleen Thompson Writer. Photographer. Raconteur Serenity Let’s have tea. Let’s have galaxies, let’s have earthworms, let’s have sorrow and tenderness, and let us pour and receive the bottomless mercy that life has for us in our foolishness, our failures, and our most secret longings. In return, let us forgive the world for being the world, let us allow all things to be forgiven, to be blessed, just for a moment, just for the duration of a cup of tea.

In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary. ​ Amid a world and in a time that so readily gives us reasons to despair, the golden hour, on a wild walk, is still the most reliable wellspring of light. ​ Shimmering days seemingly help dissipate the self-involvement with which we humans often live through our turbulent times. Colleen Thompson Writer. Photographer. Raconteur Showcased In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary. Amid a world and in a time that so readily gives us reasons to despair, the golden hour, on a wild walk, is still the most reliable wellspring of light. Shimmering days seemingly help dissipate the self-involvement with which we humans often live through our turbulent times. First Light Blank Wall Gallery Athens, Greece, 2024 Cinnamon Caps Botanical Exhibition Photoplace Gallery, Vermont. "Powerful Composition" Exhibition, BBA Gallery, Berlin, Germany. Bali Boys Valid World Hall Barcelona, Spain Friday's Coming BBA Gallery Berlin, Germany Posers The Matca Gallery Hanoi, Vietnam Beach Walkers "Best of Black & White" Exhibition. Blank Wall Gallery, Athens, Greece. Hanging by a Thread Photographer of the Year 2020 Exhibition. Agora Gallery, New York City FOTOZA Gallery Johannesburg, South Africa. Salted Travel Photographer of the Year Exhibition. INTHEGALLERY, Copenhagen, Denmark Pampas Shimmer The Photography Show London, UK Gathering Season Gallery Gora Montreal

A place that ever was lived in,” wrote Eudora Welty, closer to a hundred years ago now than not, “is like a fire that never goes out. It flares up, it smolders for a time, it is fanned or smothered by circumstance, but its being is intact, forever fluttering within it, the result of some original ignition. Sometimes it gives out glory, sometimes its little light must be sought out to be seen, small and tender as a candle flame, but as certain.” Colleen Thompson Writer. Photographer. Raconteur Shack Life A place that ever was lived in,” wrote Eudora Welty, closer to a hundred years ago now than not, “is like a fire that never goes out. It flares up, it smolders for a time, it is fanned or smothered by circumstance, but its being is intact, forever fluttering within it, the result of some original ignition. Sometimes it gives out glory, sometimes its little light must be sought out to be seen, small and tender as a candle flame, but as certain.”

Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace. Colleen Thompson Writer. Photographer. Raconteur Seeded Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.

Baking is like therapy for me. When the noise of life gets too loud, the steady rhythm of measuring, mixing, folding and layering is remarkably calming. Colleen Thompson Writer. Photographer. Raconteur Sugared