Every day, I take some time, usually half an hour, to sit with the birds outside the living room window.

Sometimes, I point the camera and watch. I learn new things about the birds, and they learn about me. We get to know each other.

The regulars don’t run from me. I get the sense they know me, and I am fascinated by their movements.

I might have been a successful person, but I was only a spiritual person five or six years ago, which has slowly changed my life. Now that success is no longer the driving factor of my life, I kept asking myself, what am I? Now, I am someone who loves and does some good every day. I also aim to send the color and light in my life out into the world. I intend to avoid the hollowness that often comes from the diminishment and stripping away of much of my strength and life. This is the time of my coming together of the self. There is a lot to learn, a lot to fix, a lot to grow.