I was gifted with a "Brownie" camera on my 10th birthday. I’ve been capturing life as I've lived it ever since. As an art history/photography student in the 60's, I began to record the cultural shift swirling around me in CA which created a desire to live life from the inside out. I began to search for a direct experience with the power of God/Creator/Source without any intermediary, and found Subud. After a year of doing the spiritual exercise I accepted an invitation to be the cook for a fledgling Subud intentional community on the banks of the Shenandoah River in Virginia. I arrived with The Joy of Cooking and an army cookbook, naïve, willing to work/play hard, hoping to find my husband and live each day as an act of worship. What I gained was beyond my imagining as I stepped off the train and headed into an experience of community, fueled by a devotion to surrender to God, honoring all religious paths, participating in births and deaths and adjusting to real seasons, without boots!