Hey guys, I'm going to do a feature journal! Would you like me to feature your art?

Here are the rules:
1. Put in a simple request via comment on this journal for me to take a look at your gallery and be featured in my next journal post.
2. Offer the same opportunity for fellow deviants as the offer made (Do unto others, kids).

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Journal:

Right now I am in Dent, Minnesota, at camp Mori No Ike. This camp is a program of Concordia University in Minneapolis, one of their many "language villages."

Today and tomorrow we are preparing things before the kids arrive on Monday. Then, I will be teaching Japanese for the next six weeks to people ages 8-18. To start off, I will be teaching cooking club and conversation practice. Should be fun.

I was just recently hired to be a camp counselor and language teacher at Concordia Language Village's "Mori no Ike." I will be teaching for six weeks.

I hope to derive new interest and inspiration from my time at camp, and to photograph traditional Japanese ceremonies we will be performing.

I am not yet sure what I will do with the remainder of my summer. I definitely hope to spend some time in Seattle, and I am weighing the balance between a trip to Hawaii or saving my money.

You will likely know my activities through my photography here, as always.

Have fun summers, everyone!

~Rain

With 666 deviations awaiting my view, I think I must take the hint that it's time to do some catching up...

Did you know, it's still winter in Minnesota. There was hail today, and expected snow tomorrow. At this point, I anticipate snow on my birthday....

Also, I am still looking for photo series suggestions. Any creative ideas?

Dear Watchers,

It has been a long time since I've updated here, but I am back now. Similarly, it has been a long time since I was given a creative photography project.

Would you please let me know if you have any good ideas for photo-shoots?

~Rain

My life is very important to me, and I dont know what I am going to do with it, but sometimes I get glimmers of the big picture when things happen, like the way shoes appear before me on church steps, or the way the thrift shop always has exactly what I have been needing, and the way I always find cheap travel books for exaclty where I'm looking to go, and luggage too.
The only thing I know I wanted to study when I entered college was "what is this world? how does it work?" Now I've expanded it to include the question, "and what can I do to better it?"
Sometimes I say I just want to learn massage therapy and herbalism, then paint and sell my photography all day, but this is only partially true.
Today I aquired from my beloved Hard Times Cafe a lonely planet guidebook for Bangkok, Thailand (a place I have been dreaming of) and their complete guidbook to Europe. Also, a sturdy pair of boots. Doesn't this indicate something?
The art-for-social-change course I took pissed me off for destroying my finances and not meeting my expectations, but it got me thinking and I am thinking now, but looking for my goals is like looking across the street at a list of options, squinting through the pouring rain.