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The Rampant Lion Photography Thank you for the support through the years. Through good times and bad, we had fun, been a wild ride!

10/07/2026

Who is responsible for your happiness?

That answer is simple, but it isn’t always easy.

You are.

Other people can add to your life. They can love you, support you, encourage you, and walk beside you. But they cannot carry the responsibility of making you happy every day.

At some point, you have to stop handing that power to people who may not even know what to do with it. You have to choose peace. You have to choose joy. You have to choose to keep going.

Happiness is not found in waiting on someone else to fix what hurts. It starts when you decide your life is still worth living, still worth building, and still worth protecting.



10/06/2026

You know, it has been fifteen years since I was told, “I’m proud of you.”

At the time, I thought she said it because that is just what mothers do. But now I understand she meant it. She believed in me at times when I didn’t even know how to believe in myself.

I spent too many years working hard, trying to make people love me. I gave up on dreams because dreams don’t always pay the bills. I learned that not everybody around you will support you, because your progress can make them face what they refused to chase.

Greed is everywhere now. It is not just people wanting your money. They want your time, your peace, your energy, and sometimes even your joy.

But there will never be enough money in this world to make me worship it. I can say that because I still get up every day and go to work. I pay my own bills. I carry my own weight. I have never needed someone else to do that for me.

And maybe that is why she was proud of me.

Not because I had it all figured out.

Because I kept going.


10/04/2026

God has a way of taking extremely broken things and putting them to good use.

But at some point, we have to stop calling everything bad luck and start looking at what we can control. Your mindset matters. Your choices matter. Your attitude matters.

What you are not changing, you are choosing.

That may be hard to hear, but sometimes the truth is what finally sets us free. God can use the broken pieces, but we still have to be willing to hand them over and start doing the work.



10/04/2026

The days get shorter, the sunlight fades earlier, and sometimes people carry more than they let anybody see. Seasonal depression can hit hard this time of year, even when everything looks fine from the outside.

Send the text. Make the call. Invite them for coffee. Sit with them awhile. You don’t have to have the perfect words. Sometimes simply knowing somebody thought enough to check in can make a heavy day feel a little lighter.

Be kind. Pay attention. Check on your people.




10/03/2026

I am proud of this one. She is working so hard, even through a stage of life that I know is not always easy. There are days that will test her, stretch her, and make her question herself, but she keeps showing up and putting in the work.

Watching her grow, learn, and become more confident in who she is makes me proud beyond words. She may not always see how far she has come, but I do. And I hope she always knows I am in her corner.



10/01/2026

Watching her grow into the woman she has become has been the greatest project of my life. Every stage, every lesson, every laugh, every challenge, and every proud moment has been worth more to me than anything I could ever create.


10/01/2026

Life is worth living.

Not because every day is easy. Not because everything works out the way we planned. Life is worth living because there is always another sunrise, another conversation, another laugh, another lesson, and another chance to become better than we were yesterday.

Some days will test you. Some will humble you. Some will leave scars.

But there is still beauty here. There is still purpose. There is still love to give, memories to make, roads to travel, and people you haven’t even met yet who may one day be grateful you kept going.

Life is worth living. Don’t get so caught up surviving the hard days that you forget to live the good ones.


09/30/2026

Young men usually aren’t the ones asking for senior portraits. Their moms are.

So, fellas, if Mom wants the pictures anyway, we might as well have some fun with them. Bring your personality, your style, and your attitude, and let’s create something that actually feels like you.


09/30/2026

God has been good to me.

I have seen good times, and I have walked through bad ones. I have met people who brought kindness into my life and others who taught me lessons the hard way. I have traveled, seen beautiful places, known love, felt heartbreak, laughed until I cried, and cried when there were no words left.

Through all of it, God has remained faithful.

So each day, I pray for enough quiet to think, enough joy to laugh, and enough courage to feel whatever life places on my heart.

I don’t want to simply exist through the days God gives me. I want to experience them. I want to love deeply, laugh often, feel honestly, and remain grateful.

God has been good to me, even when life hasn’t been easy.




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