WESTMINSTER CANTERBURY COMMUNITY:

Embracing Mindfulness Day

With approximately 450 residents living on a 50-acre campus, Westminster Canterbury is a vibrant retirement community in Lynchburg, Virginia. The facility offers housing that ranges from independent living to skilled nursing care with memory support as well as ongoing programming for physical, mental, and emotional health.

(This series is part of my ongoing "grown-up field trips" project, which I've designed in order to put myself into as many unpredictable situations as possible. There are stories everywhere, and I want to practice telling them on the fly. My ultimate goal is to work as a White House photographer, and I'm following the 10,000 hours philosophy to make it happen. I cannot feasibly log that many hours of photographing heads of state right now, but the most appealing part of a White House job for me is the idea of being thrown into the unknown and being challenged to tell stories and capture details in real time. So *that* is what I'm pushing myself to do as often as I can. I love the adrenaline rush of documenting the unknown and unexpected. For me, it is fulfilling in a way nothing else is; it absolutely feels like what I was made to do on this earth.)