Remember My Love

I am so pleased from the bottom of my heart to announce the beginning of "Remember My Love." This organization was started to only bless people and their families. I never expected to start a nonprofit growing up, all I knew was I loved to create and make art in all shapes and forms, but there was always this part of my heart that called out in the darkness..."Is this all there is...how is art going to bless other's lives and to help them?" Soon my longings to do something meaningful to help people with my talents became a clear vision of what to do. As of now I am taking it one step at a time, one day at a time and one family at a time.

Thanks to God who aligned the stars to meet the right people at the right time. Thanks Dr. Podnos at Duke Cancer Center for being such a great support in getting this started. And thank you to the Cancer staff at Duke Hospital for all your interest in getting this off the ground.

Also, Thank you dear Shannon for sharing parts of your life with me and letting me use your images here on the new blog.


This whole idea for "Remember My Love " stems from my own experience of the loss of my own mother to Cancer in 1974. I didn't know her memory, yet I remembered her love which stayed with me forever. I didn't have very many photographs of her and I together, but what little I do have I cherish. They are a window into her expressions, the look in her eyes and her love.(my mother in high school)




Now, I feel privileged that God would use me in this way, and honored to share the time with these beautiful families to provide for them photographs that will impact their lives forever in a positive and meaningful way.

Now, it turns out that this organization is also already blessing artists as well. I am overwhelmed with how many photographers have told me that they want to be apart of this.

I didn't know it, but there are so many of you out there like me, an artist with a yearning to help others and not really sure how to do that with the talents that God has given you and the passions that you behold in your heart. Now, I am committed to helping other photographers and artists as well to give. I used to think I didn't have the resources to give, but now I have been proven wrong.

My goal in 2009-10 is to start a conference to help educate artists and photographers in how to do just that, not to leave their skills but to use them to make an impact on this world for the better, and love with passion what they do.