As many of my peers are I’m sure aware, there is this underlying disgust for hummers and all things excess in our society. You can probably count me among one of the most aggravated for just witnessing excess.

Thanks to a friend I recently was able to read an inspiring commencement speech by one of the better thinkers we had around today. The class of 2005 at Kenyon College was a lucky bunch I think.

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There is nothing like a little clarity, the sort provided here, when life transitions are around the corner, or when they are not … because as he states … it’s making use of the mundane that can make us useful. And in a photographer’s world, the one mantra we hear too often repeated is that there are too many good photographers and not enough good ideas. It seems, however, that the opportunity for them is right in front of us.