My storyteller career started under blanket forts with Mema in a magical world of talking bears.
I ran (and won!) my first 50-mile trail race in 2020.
I have an internal ice cream radar that allows me to locate ice cream shops anywhere.
I met my husband while working in Bundibugyo, Uganda, and saw him in 6 different countries before we were married.
I competitively figure skated till I was 16 years old.
Mary Oliver’s poetry has long been a quiet companion to me. I often sit on my couch, reading her poems of walking through fields glistening with morning dew, then look outside my window to the rain-soaked PNW pine. Her poems are a breath—a gentle pause in the rush of life—reminding me to find beauty in the everyday.
Cig Harvey’s photographs hold that same magic.
Before Fujifilm partnered with Cig for the GFX100 II launch, I wasn’t deeply familiar with her work. But as I immersed myself before our first creative call, I saw it instantly—her way of seeing, of questioning, of exploring the world through light, color, and form. She chases beauty with an almost sacred urgency, capturing the fleeting, the in-between, the thin spaces where the divine seems to slip through.
Watching her photograph her deconstructed cakes on a long table that she had dragged out into her beautiful forested yard, I saw that urgency firsthand. She is fascinated by ever little thing and curious to keep exploring till she has the image that satiates her curiosity. I recognized that feeling, that urgency. The need to create, to chase an image, to keep looking just a little longer.
That impulse lives in all of us. Meeting people Cig reminded me to keep exploring. Keep creating.