Seaching for enlightenment and healing hands

I went searching for enlightenment and found the falafel guy. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.

One of the many treasures I picked up on my path to spiritual wisdom (“Are we there yet?”) was the Reiki Master Sofia Singher. My first session with her was transforming.

At the time, Sofia lived in a small house in Narrowsburg. Her face was a beacon of light, round and open with smooth pink cheeks and clear eyes. Her salt and pepper hair was cropped close like Gertrude Stein’s. I felt instantly safe in her presence.

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Capturing images of aesthetic value

LIBERTY, NY—In the quiet, dimly lit recesses of the darkroom at Liberty High School, Amber Miller’s photographs come to life as she methodically develops them according to the precepts of her former photography teacher, Linda Berkowicz.

Miller, a senior, has resumed her advanced studies with Kathleen Lambert, who took over the photography classes after Berkowicz retired this past June.

Miller’s photographs are riveting. Far from straightforward images of people or places, her pictures are evocative compositions of subject, angle and light. Armed with her camera and a fascination with human faces, Miller sees the world as a series of still frames to be composed using her instinct and the vision Berkowicz imparted to her.

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