I have a new title--the 6th or 7th in three months--for my ongoing self portrait/daily life book project. I plan to write an introduction that starts with the words: "It started with a fall, a knee-buckling ankle-spraining fall onto an unyielding sidewalk in Detroit." Then I'll tell a bit of the story of how I moved from being temporarily able bodied (TAB) to being a woman with a disability.

On Monday my mentor on this project, the Magnum photographer David Alan Harvey gave me another tight edit that included my recent work. Where the first edit in late July had been done in person here at my home in Detroit, this one was handled online, specifically on David's blog, "Road Trips." In the process we discovered once again the dangers of trying to communicate online. There was a mixup and David clicked on the link to my interim edit which had 28 images, 18 of them new, instead of going to the gallery that had 61 images, 51 of them new. When he posted his choices and they included only 3-4 new images, I was crushed. That seemed like a pretty small percentage of keepers. Fortunately I shared my feelings of disappointment and that led to our realizing we were looking at different galleries of work. But because this had started late at night, it still took 12 hours before we cleared things up. When David posted his choices after looking at the proper gallery, he added 16 new images to our original 10. After retitling the gallery this afternoon, I added this photo that I'd taken on the day of my most recent fall on August 15. The "Falling Into Place" gallery now has 27 images. CLICK HERE to see it.

Oh my but this project has gotten under my skin. Every minute of every day I'm on the lookout for new opportunities to photograph my life. Most days I find something of interest. But that doesn't mean it will make my initial edit. I'd guess I've taken well over 1000 photos since starting this project on June 11. I wonder how many 1000 more I'll take before I'm done!