Lucy Hamel
BRAVERY
The love in bravery. For one person speaking up for themselves can feel like an act of bravery, while for another it could be admitting...
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Lucy Hamel
ONLY LOVE IS REAL *Perspective 1
Some spirits witnessed the scenes of the day with a star’s eye view, others chose to sit within the earthly bounds. Watching as the...
Lucy Hamel
ONLY LOVE IS REAL *Perspective 2
Her closet was jam packed with clothes to make an impact. She had worked hard on this closet. Who she was, and how she expressed herself...
Lucy Hamel
ONLY LOVE IS REAL * Perspective 3
Jacob loved that his walk was so silent. As a matter of fact he considered it a super power. He could enter a room undetected like a spy,...
Lucy Hamel
MAGIC IN THE AIR
It began the way a lot of things on earth do, in the belly of the earth or body, waiting to show life again and again. Or perhaps, the...
Lucy Hamel
THE PURITY OF BEING
I was so struck with this artwork by Christian Schloe. It felt so familiar that I wanted to write to you. One of my favorite meditations...
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HUGE
Operations and chemo had left him weak and had not had the results intended. He was pissed. As I entered the room to meet him, he sized...
Lucy Hamel
RESEMBLING LIGHT
Katerina woke, yet kept her eyes closed. She needed to pee. Her sigh held resignation. She never made it through the night now without...
Lucy Hamel
CLEANSING HADES
Every July and August the ancient island filled with a myriad of tourist in search of glamour and abandonment. (It wondered if they knew...
Lucy Hamel
CHILDREN KNOW
Children know. Remember? There is this feeling when you are running as a child. This feeling of super powers and greatness. The moon...
Lucy Hamel
ASANA LOVE LETTERS
Ella's thigh was trembling. She stood on her left foot, heal of the right foot raised. Her right arm wrapped under the right thigh, while...
Lucy Hamel
A HISTORY BOX OF JEWELS
I am trying to keep pace with Liz as she strides in the sand. It takes a moment to realize I would prefer to crouch down and photograph...
Lucy Hamel
THERE IS ALWAYS MORE TO THE STORY
My son Alex calls me Lucy. He changed from Mom to Lucy when he was about three. It's interesting to me how people react to this. Some...
Lucy Hamel
BREATHING WITH NANNY AND POPPY
I woke this morning on this first day of March with a headache. It’s been there for the last four days, joining the rest of my flu which...
Lucy Hamel
LEAVING GIRLHOOD
Fay walked toward her mothers' station wagon and climbed up onto the hood. She always craved warmth and the brown hood of the car held...
Lucy Hamel
THE OCEAN'S AURA
"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become...
Lucy Hamel
A WALKING CONVERSATION
A cold December years ago, my son Alex and I met up with my father in Zurich to celebrate Christmas. The morning after our arrival a snow...
Lucy Hamel
MR SMITH
As a girl, I had a wise and gentle neighbor, I'll call him Mr Smith. He lived with his wife and children in the house to our right. One...
Lucy Hamel
TRAVELING
I have this absolute love of travel. Be it sitting on an airplane looking out of my window and watching the clouds, to sipping a drink in...