Why do some people manage to do seemingly impossible things while others sit on the sidelines doubting themselves? How can my 72 year-old friend take yoga poses that younger practitioners won't even try? She has only been practicing yoga for a year yet the beauty of her poses fills me with awe. Is it because she has recently survived cancer and a painful divorce that she knows how to transcend the usual limits we place on ourselves?

And what limits do I put on myself? How much further could I stretch if I tried? Is it my age that stops me? My disability? As a photographer, do I expect too little because I haven't been at it all that long? So how does that fit with today's request that I send two of my photos to Downbeat Magazine for them to use in an article on Ann Arbor's Edgefest 2007? Before that happened, why had I kept putting off submitting photos to magazines? I'd say I was going to do it and then wouldn't.

Today's session with this amazing Winter Woman has changed my definition of the possible. Seeing where she took her body is going to take me awhile to assimilate. She did things that looked impossible. Now to work with the 130 photos I took of her and present the best of them in ways that reflect her wondrous essence. I think it's time for me to stretch my creative ideas into shapes beyond the possible!