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Manuel Alvarado's avatar

Beautiful work, and your words along with it really captivated me…. Thank you!

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Dave Hebb's avatar

This really resonates with me in a profound way. As an older person myself who has struggled with a variety of personal and professional obstacles for the past 30+ years I found this not only relevant and inspiring but also comforting that "playing the long game" is ultimately the wisest approach. It seems paradoxical that a medium that is so instant and immediately gratifying to create can actually take the longest to truly understand and present. Everything in this article applies to me, down to a word. I have just begun to come to that understanding in the past year or so, and even more so in the past month (better meds). I remember reading some similar ideas about not knowing what "series" you are working on until years later when I read an interview with Todd Hido and at the time I didn't fully appreciate what it meant. This article now came at exactly the right time and I hope everyone who reads it will take comfort in knowing that there is no real deadline for making a body of work. Thanks for sharing this story!

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