In the late spring, early summer of 2012, my daughter, a member of the UVA-Wise Highland Cavalier Marching Band, is going to Paris. I am blown away by this and plan to give her all the financial help I can so that she will be able to go. On my own, I cannot afford to pay for us both to go. While I have a passport and have had the wanderlust for so long I can no longer remember when it started, I am struggling with the notion that I might not get to go. It isn’t jealousy or envy, for I couldn’t be more happy that our Tay gets to go on such an amazingly incredible adventure. No, it is the photographer in me that wants to see. That needs to see. That longs to see. One of my most constant prayers has been to ask that my photography enable me to travel. That greeting cards would allow me to go places that I’ve only dreamed of and to visit each place, across the globe, where my cards have sold. When I pray, what I see is being able to just jump in my car or on a plane and go wherever, whenever, with only a few changes of clothes, my camera, my phone, my laptop and my tripod … just any old time and for as long as I want. While I believe in my heart that such will happen eventually, as it was God who set me on the path of photography in the first place, and so I feel very strongly that it is He who has put this wanderlust in my heart, I have no doubt that photography will take me where I am meant to go. I am hoping that it will take me to Paris. I have a specific destination, besides Ardmore in County Waterford, Ireland, to pray about. So I am praying specifically this time. I am praying that the money I make on my greeting cards in the last quarter of the year, September through December will take me to Paris. While I wish that hundreds of thousands of people would share this and would talk up Through the Eyes of the Spirit, I leave it to the Father, who already knows how it will end.
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A Photographer's Heart 
We have a lot in common I see. i stumbled across your page while looking for any new video postings of the UVA Wise marching band. My son, a senior this year at Wise and percussion captain, will be going on the band trip to Luxembourg if all goes well with fundraising. I myself am a amateur photographer and to visit not to mention get to photograph a foreign land would be a dream come true. I think most of us are in the same position. As parents of college students, the best hope we have is just getting them there. forget us! ha!I hope you get there and enjoy with your daughter.