HOLD out your HANDS...

"Life is a daring adventure or nothing at all..." 

-Helen Keller 1880-1968

(The Open Door)

Excerpt writings from "The Faith of Helen Keller" edited by Jack Belck

Hold out your hands to feel the luxury of the sunbeams.

Press the soft blossoms against your cheek, and finger their graces of form,

their delicate mutability of shape, their pliancy and freshness.

Expose your face to the aerial floods that sweep the heavens,

inhale great draughts of space, wonder, wonder at the wind's unwearied activity.

Pile note on note, the infinite music that flows increasingly to your soul

from the tactual sonorities of a thousand branches and rumbling waters.

I am sure that if a fairy bade me choose 

between the sense of sight and touch,

I would not part with the warm, endearing contact 

.....of human hands..... 

or the wealth of form,

the mobility and fullness....

that press into my palms.....

"Even more amazing than the wonders of nature are the posers of the spirit..." -Helen Keller 

Photographs 2025