I am trying really hard to be a better business woman. “Trying” and “hard” being the operative words here, for this just doesn’t come easily to me, and I sometimes wonder if I’ll ever get it together. While I’m more than willing to work hard and reach towards greater excellence in all that I do, I don’t play the networking game well. I hate it actually. So much phoniness and insincerity, how can anyone know if another is relating genuinely or not?

I don’t know what I’d do if I couldn’t photograph children for a living. Observing them through the viewfinder is for me the rare confirmation that what I’m relating to is at last real and honest. Even when they’re not cooperative at all and nothing’s going smoothly, I’m oddly comforted in the fact that there’s no deception going on, nothing being “sold” to me, and that what is being expressed is ultimately authentic and true for them.

~Cynthia