Living the Dream: Putting your creativity to work (and getting paid)

Foreword

Every time the nurses walked into my room they would ask the same question: “How are you doing?” I think it was a matter of habit. And every day I would answer the way I always do, without sarcasm or irony, but perhaps also out of habit: “Living the dream.”

They laughed every time. That I was lying in a bed from which I could not get up, with two shattered feet and a cracked pelvis, was, I think, what made them laugh. They thought I was kidding. I wasn’t. I was alive. Although they talked about me never walking the same again, I knew I’d walk and be able to do my work, and that was enough.

I am a photographer. I’m an author, an adventurer, a nomad, and an accidental entrepreneur. I make a living doing something I love: creation. I create ...