may i? return to the beginning...

We all dream alot.
Some are lucky, some are not.
But if you think it, want it, dream it,
Then it's real.
You are what you feel....

Andrew Lloyd Weber/Tim Rice
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream coat

{Look, Love, Laugh} Minneaplis, MN Nokomis Studio

I lay this suitcase on my chest so I can feel somebody’s weight.
And I lay you to rest just to feel a give and take?
I got a new interpretation and it’s a better point of view,
you were looking for a landslide I was looking out for you,
I was looking out for you, someone’s looking out for you ....

when you’re outside looking in you belong to someone
when you feel like giving in and the coming of the end,
like your heart can break in two,
someone loves you....

-Brandi Carlile
My Song

It was so hard to choose what pictures to post. So much fun, play, giggles.... I adore these ladies....
I adore the entire family:)

{Summer} Minneapolis, MN Child Photographer

"Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art."
— Maya Angelou

{Fins or....a trip to Walgreens for yet...another pool} Minneapolis, MN Lifestyle Photography

“I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.”
-- T. S. Eliot

I won't lie.
I posted this deep quote because i have huge ego complex about motherhood and I know what my kids need...
Yup. More than them.
Yup.
WHATEVER....
So i wanted laughter and deep deep empathy (dramatic insert)
when I posted this quote and pics.
For years I have been a sucker for those cheap Walgreen blow up pools.
For years I buy and fail. Not this year.
Which are a (insert adjective of choice involving frustration anger rage) to blow up....
But i feel this obsessive, stupid need to conquer this cheap pool like and make it work....
Crazy.
Waste of Money.
Killing our new sod grass...
Dumb.
Selfish.
Yup. Yet I plow or (pump) on...
Guess what Walgreens. I did it with your cheap air pump that broke right after.
I did it despite having almost a heat stroke...and begs from the kids for the sprinkler...
but it was 98 degrees...
and the end
justified the means...
for me at least
-and that folks is a stacey cordes taxi cab confession...oye!

{Language of the Kiss} Minneapolsis, MN Fine Art Photography

When we last talked we were lying on our backs
Looking at the sky through the ceiling
I used to lie like that alone out on the driveway
Trying to read the Greek upon the stars
The alphabet of feeling
Oh I knew back then
It was a calling that said if joy then pain
The sound of the voice these years later
Is still the same...
Unforgiving the choice still is
The language or the kiss
-Indigo Girls
Language or the Kiss

I had so many amazing sessions today that I cannot choose.
Everything was beautiful.
Selfishly I posted this.
Cause last night ...
with horrible insomnia
I looked at these lights...
felt calm and fell asleep
more to come...
I have beautiful pictures to post...

{glimpse} A Preview of something new...

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever
solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
C. S. Lewis

this is the just a preview
of a beautiful
family session...

{Know. Listen.} Fine Art Photography

It won't be easy
You'll think it strange
When I try to explain how I feel
That I still need your love
After ll that I've done
You won't believe me
All you will see
Is a girl you once knew
Although she's dressd up to the nines
At sixes and sevens with you

I had to let it happen
I had to change
Couldn't stay all my life down at heel
Looking out of the window
Staying out of the sun
So I chose freedom
Running around trying everything new
But nothing impressed me at all
I never expected it too

-Andrew Lloyd Weber
The Musical Evita
The Song "Don't cry for me Argentina"