January is our family's annual month of prayer and today when I woke up with this quote on my mind and its been stuck all day:

"The magical equation about giving is that the more you give, the more you actually get."

I'm always grateful for the fact that my step-dad and I both share a love for photography. In the midst of all the projects I work on (TNG newspaper, the [y] network, First Choice) Our informal conversations and desire to exceed expectations always push us to collaborate and find resources to better our craft. We created a joint email account and subscribed to a pro Animoto account. For a referral link click here. And look forward to many, and I do mean many, more professional slideshows. Thanks pops!

So in light of my laptop crashing this morning [moment of silence here, please and thank you] I posted up this picture of Reggie, one of the groomsmen from Saturday as a reminder more to me than anyone else, that it is what to have regardless of the circumstance or situation: swag.

The three wise monkeys: "see no evil, hear no evil, speak on evil." Self-portrait: thanks to my dad's strobe lights, D80 remote and backdrop. Inspired by Vikram Rangala, former professor at UF, and his Writing & Love class. Ghandi carried a small statue of the three monkeys as one of his only possessions; Ghandi was a staunch proponent of non-violent activism, very much like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Nelson Mandela.