Author: skip schiel

a socially engaged photographer, father, grandfather, brother, friend and lover, practitioner of buddhism, quakerism, american indianism, catholic workerism, and earthism, plus basic humanism
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Notes for a forum: “And you will be carried where you do not wish to go: a photographic witness”

Invited by Friends Meeting at Cambridge, on May 22, 2023 I offered a forum on the topic of my spiritual journey—”spiritual” for meaning as deep as possible. It was part of a series of weekly talks by participants in our community and others, mostly on personal spiritual journeys, and other topics as well. Some religious […]

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special edition to honor the 75th anniversary of the nakba, the Palestinian catastrophe of 1948: May 15, 2023

  From my photographic project, The Ongoing and Relentless Nakba— Seventy-five years after the catastrophe of the Nakba, conditions for refugees and their families continue to worsen. This is largely because few in the world notice to the point of working to bring justice to the Palestinians. My hope derives from working with Jewish Voice […]

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Slices of 2022-Part Three: designing and maintaining my website

Since 2004 I continue to maintain a website which I designed and love to manage. My website functions as a directory for my digital era photography (I have an earlier analog or celluloid archive which is only partially represented on my website) and a mobile portfolio which I can lead people to with a link. It is also a form of diary, helping me remember not only what and when I photographed a particular topic, but the context for it. I find my website extremely useful, altho at times frustrating because of the constant need to update and maintain. As is well known, freshness—constant new posts—adds to audience growth.

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Gaza Comes to Massachusetts

Francis Day 2022 reflection— As part of a procession to memorial trees during the annual St. Francis Day celebration at Agape, a lay Catholic/Catholic Worker style nonviolence activist center in central Massachusetts, I offered the following reflections at a tree dedicated to suffering and resilience in the Middle East. Agape’s annual Francis Day celebration in […]

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ALASKA: COVID-19 AND ME-PART two

On the road in Alaska with my sister, Elaine, and my brother-in-law, Bob. August 21, 2022, Sunday, Juneau Alaska Perhaps because I’d drunk coffee at lunch (having no decaf in the house) I slept relatively poorly last night [August 20, 2022]. Guilt and worries about Covid also may have interfered. Elaine is now infected, Bob […]

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Alaska: Covid-19 and me-part one

On the road in Alaska with sister, Elaine, and my brother-in-law, Bob. August 20, 2022, Saturday, Juneau Alaska Quick notes about my Covid-19 infection, written about 12 hours after we’d discovered it, the incident early morning while waiting for the ferry between Juneau and Skagway, written around 2 pm yesterday. To be expanded. At the […]

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