Rozanna Giannakis

Today, I decided to leave my camera(s) at home. Things are usually so quiet any way when I take my daughter for a walk and nothing interesting really happens save for a few crows skimming noisily over our heads …

five minutes into our walk a round ball with stubby legs strolled across our path. a hedgehog swaying its booty at me; it knew i had no camera … but worse was to come,

further on gracefully perched on a branch a beautiful crane. In 20 years visiting this spot not far from home, I’d never ever never (you get the message) seen a crane, or a hedgehog.

It reminded me of an incident one beautiful evening in Las Vegas with my love who was teaching me film: I finally used up the film role after we had spent a few hours looking for interesting subjects to photograph and then it happened! Spider man passed by. A person dressed as spider man carrying a small sport bag quietly walked by under a lit lantern. It could have been so beautiful but alas, my film role was spent on dirt bins and the like.

This little lady bird appeared and made me so happy, it’s not a perfect picture with my cell phone but things do not have to be perfect for one to be happy.

Lessons I need to learn: listening and not impose my will on reality.

I have made a commitment to myself to start the morning early and meditate: gratitude, read positive material; pray for the abused and abandoned. I also always ask to for amazing things to happen to me and through me so that I not only focus on receiving but also giving. Sometimes I don’t feel like doing any of the above and then I just listen to the birds outside my window, open the window when it rains and allow nature to whisper it’s sweet words of love to me.

One of my favourite things to photograph are flowers; I do not feel that they are just unconscious happen-to-be-here decorations on earth, there’s simply too much perfection, beauty and thought in their design. Have you ever watched flowers dancing in the wind or two flowers locked in an embrace? 

Radishes at Whole Foods, Las Vegas

Fresh food cleanses and purifies the blood your river of life, fresh food nourishes the brain and improves concentration; fresh food hydrates the body, tones skin amazingly so, eye whites are clear and sparkly, skin glows and one has almost no pimples, hair growth is phenomenal and libido through the roof (oh yesss). Silky skin, beautiful white teeth. Depression lifts; sleep is deep and peaceful. How can I make these lofty claims. I can because I experienced these changes first hand on my own little body. My daughters’ epilepsy stopped within two weeks of her living high raw with lots of smoothies, green juices and salads with exercise and a moderate amount of organic nuts and seeds. It’s true. It’s real. I so wish for everyone to experience this miracle lifestyle that can change one’s direction in life,  appearance, mood, creativity, energy. Above all, it can alleviate modern day illnesses coming from too much dairy, sugar, yeast, wheat, meat and the list just goes on. Once one knows, one cannot not know. Once one has seen, one cannot not see.  It makes me very sad that so many who are suffering with poor health are doing so, because they do not know or underestimate the orgasmic effects of natural foods.