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Month: August 2015

Camera
Photography

Year 2015 365 Photo Journey (August 19th – August 30th)

Posted on August 30, 2015 / 0 Comment

Well, I finally bit the bullet and bought a new camera. It’s a Sony a6000 mirrorless camera, and it’s leaps and bounds above my previous tiny point-...

Rilke
Literature/Poetry/Quotes/Writing

Quotes From The Notebooks of Malte Laurid Brigge By Rainer Maria Rilke (3)

Posted on August 26, 2015 / 0 Comment

The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge is Rilke’s only novel. He wrote it while living in Paris as a young writer. It contains autobiographical content and...

Camera
Photography

Year 2015 365 Photo Journey (August 13th – August 18th)

Posted on August 25, 2015 / 0 Comment

Miscellany. Enjoy! 365 Photo Journey Apparently, this is a thing. Consider it a challenge, a journal, or a journey (I prefer journey). Take a picture a day and ...

writing
Poetry/Writing

My God

Posted on August 23, 2015 / 0 Comment

My god may not be your god. And frankly, it doesn’t matter. I can only know mine. We’re tied to the hip like that.

Rilke
Literature/Poetry/Quotes/Writing

Quotes From The Notebooks of Malte Laurid Brigge By Rainer Maria Rilke (2)

Posted on August 23, 2015 / 0 Comment

The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge is Rilke’s only novel. He wrote it while living in Paris as a young writer. It contains autobiographical content and...

Rilke
Literature/Poetry/Quotes/Writing

Quotes From The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge By Rainer Maria Rilke (1)

Posted on August 22, 2015 / 0 Comment

The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge is Rilke’s only novel. He wrote it while living in Paris as a young writer. It contains autobiographical content and...

Marcus Aurelius
History/Literature

Quotes From Meditations By Marcus Aurelius (1)

Posted on August 20, 2015 / 0 Comment

From Book Two: Finally, the intelligence. Think of it this way: You are an old man. Stop allowing your mind to be a slave, to be jerked about by selfish impulse...

Camera
Photography

Year 2015 365 Photo Journey (July 29th – August 12th) – Normal, IL Edition

Posted on August 12, 2015 / 0 Comment

Miss L., the Monkey, and I went to Normal, IL on a sunny Sunday afternoon. It’s a small college town. Kinda cool, but not super cool. Most of these pictur...

Brad Severance

Hi, my name is Brad Severance, and I'm a photographer, poet, artist, Francophile, and avid reader. I live in Indianapolis, Indiana.

You can check out my best photographs on my photography website site at photography.bradseverance.com and my Flickr profile at www.flickr.com/photos/brad-severance

I run a writer's group called Pen to Paper, Indy's most notorious coterie of misfit writers. Checkout our website at www.pentopaperblog.org and our Meetup site at www.meetup.com/Pen-to-Paper.

If you wish to contact me, don't hesitate to shoot me an e-mail at me@bradseverance.com


Current Projects

2023 Photo Journey

To practice and improve my photography, I will take a photo a day for year 2023.
Check it out here: 2023 Photo Journey


Stuff I’m Reading Now

"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body." — Joseph Addison
Don't get flabby! Read everyday. See what I've read in 2023 here.

I Sing The Body Electric! by Ray Bradbury

Short stories by one of the founding fathers of science fiction.

How To Walk by Thich Nhat Hanh

Thought you knew how to walk? Think again!

Collected Short Stories by Graham Greene

A compendium of Greene's best short stories.

Chapterhouse Dune by Frank Herbert

The sixth and final installment in the lengendary series.

Mindfulness by Joseph Goldstein

An in-depth look into the Buddhist concept and practice of mindfulness.

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

The multi-generational story of the Buendía family.

The Red Book by C.G. Jung

Jungs account of his exploration in the shadow self.

A Poet to his Beloved by W.B. Yeats

Early love poems by Yeats.


Past Projects

2022 Photo Journey

To practice and improve my photography, I took a photo a day for the year 2022.
Check it out here: 2022 Photo Journey

The 2021 Painting & Poetry Project

Each week, my painter, Addie, and I chose a theme upon which to write and paint. We had many exciting topics to explore and were excited to share our work.
Check it out here: The 2021 Painting & Poetry Project

2021 Photo Journey

To practice and improve my photography, I took a photo a day for the year 2021.
Check it out here: 2021 Photo Journey

The 30 Day Poetry & Painting Challenge

Each day, for 30 days, my painter, Addie, and I selected a poem (from the public domain). I wrote a poem and she painted a painting inspired by that poem. The result was an outpouring of creative energy.
Check it out here: The 30 Day Poetry & Painting Challenge

2020 Photo Journey

To practice and improve my photography, I took a photo a day for the year 2020.
Check it out here: 2020 Photo Journey

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