by Amy Bretall | Jan 21, 2017 | Blog, Faith, Life
One year ago today, January 22, 2016, started my focused pursuit of the cross. I was driven to find and take photos of crosses, ones I had passed many times, but never saw, in urban settings, rural roads, churches -I looked for crosses every day and took photos. And I...
by Amy Bretall | Jan 17, 2017 | Blog, Inspired, Life
My mother recently gave me a gift—the view into a time passed. A photo of my sister (right) and I (left), she age 3 and me age 2. Since receiving I have been thinking about this image. My mom digitalized all the old “slides” from the 1970’s. I remember...
by Amy Bretall | Jan 3, 2017 | Blog, Life, Love
One year ago, January of 2016, the words in my heart and head were: Live, Breathe, Alive. I wasn’t sure the “how” for reaching, but my inner Me was speaking. In 2016 I gave 2 eulogies in a 4-month period of time for the grandmothers in my life- one...
by Amy Bretall | Oct 15, 2016 | Blog, Inspired, Life, Love
Yesterday I posted about meeting a little girl in Cuba. Today I want to share how I found her. A day after meeting this little girl in Cuba (one year ago), I was still thinking about her. Having dinner the prior evening with Santana, a local taxi driver we met and...
by Amy Bretall | Oct 14, 2016 | Blog, Inspired, Love
One year ago today, October 14, 2015, while traveling in Cuba, I met this little girl. Walking outside of Ernest Hemingway’s estate to see more of how Cubans really live, I took a photo of the surrounding neighborhood, turned around, and there she was… just...