The Soul's Frontier
Kim Zierlein
- Feb 15
- 2 min
Burning the Midnight Oil
A relationship that is honest and real means more to me than 1,000 romantic moments shattered with one broken promise. These past few days I have done much thinking. The processing of life and how love, and not just romantic love, but all-encompassing love shapes the world around us limitlessly. The thought... Love is something that is an inward and outward force. It is an emotion that gives and receives. It is an emotion when truly employed is not self-taking in anyway. The
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Kim Zierlein
- Feb 14
- 2 min
Free Falling
When you cut the rope to things no longer serving a purpose in your life, or they are cutting at you with a vengeance and it is time to take the fall. Sometimes being a lone wolf is what you need. Sometimes being the one to end something is a must. Sometimes you just need to either cut the rope. You need to free fall. Fall away from people.
Fall away from situations. Fall away from jobs. From friends.... From relationships.... From toxic surroundings.... There is a purpose to
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Kim Zierlein
- Feb 4
- 2 min
Wednesdays are for Wisdom
The gist is you need to learn to listen twice and speak once. No matter how many times I tell myself that simple truth, I find myself stepping all over my tongue at all hours of the day and night! You think with as many bruises I have given myself I would learn...but, sadly no. There are times I am sleepless, and not because I am excited about things, but rather I a trying to live with myself inside my own skin. People can easily shut me out; however, I cannot shut myself out
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Kim Zierlein
- Feb 1
- 4 min
Burning the Midnight Oil
When you decide to burn bridges be sure you can live with the consequences. I will be honest, when I burn a bridge, I burn it hard. I will be honest, it is not always the easiest thing to do. I will be honest, burning bridges takes a whole new level of strength. However.... When you burn a bridge, be sure you know your reasons for burning it clearly. When you burn that bridge that has great possibilities, but is full with toxicity; burn that bridge hard. When you decide to fi
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Kim Zierlein
- Jan 24
- 2 min
Healthy & Happy Series
Commitment to the personal journey you want to be on is key. My 12 Month Checkup This is MY health journey! I am here to stay committed for me. This is not about looking a certain way; this is about healing from the inside out and completely. However, my physical health was very much lacking and there were multiple reasons for that diagnosis. The smile is back and so is the glow! The Doctor Approves 2021 I have been in and out the last 18 months of 2 doctors offices trying t
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Kim Zierlein
- Jan 21
- 3 min
I "KNOW" I love me enough...
When the world, especially those that are close to you, TELL YOU, you are just...average...is average ok for you? I am slowly learning how to be "me" again in my new skin, that quite frankly is, amazing skin! It is skin that I had before and set it down awhile when I was told it was not that great. Now I realize it was the outside just saying things because they did not have that unique skin. Will the skin be identical to how it was before? No! But can it be better because it
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Kim Zierlein
- Jan 18
- 3 min
Burning the Midnight Oil
What do you do when your little man is no longer really that little anymore and you just have to let go and pray that he forges his way without fear? Last night was a night or hard to sleeps. Last night was a night filled with questions. Last night was a night of crossroads in a way for a little one becoming a man. There are things in our lives we have to face whether we really want to or not. There are times where someone else's choices or your own define how you will face a
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Kim Zierlein
- Jan 16
- 2 min
Photo Minute...Macros
Photo Minute...You need to notice it all; not just the big things, but the small things too. Let creativity loose with different angles and cropping techniques. The Goal: To help you think creativity with your camera and realize you never are capturing a bad photo; you are exploring technique with your available palette. Photo of the Week Shot with a Canon 70D
(free hold with wrist strap)
Aperture f/5.6 - ISO AUTO - Shutter 1/800 - Focal Length 85/1 Editing: Adobe Photoshop
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Kim Zierlein
- Jan 11
- 4 min
Burning the Midnight Oil
When wolves turn on their own; it is hard to understand where a frenzy begins and where it will end. What will the cost be of total control lost? In light of so many current events in the United States I find myself at a total loss of where rational debate was lost, and people turn on each other in uproar. This week was hard. This week was shocking. This week was controversial. This week was divided. This week was loud. This week was something that was a new chapter for me, a
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Kim Zierlein
- Jan 1
- 2 min
When Uncertain Tides Come
Life has a way of crushing you and rejuvenating you all in one. In times where there are so many uncertainties I know for sure I can turn to the Word, the heavenly breathed truth, and it brings...peace. God knows, God hears, God decides. Just because you ask for something that you think might be the right answer does not you will get what you ask for physically, but you will get what your soul yearns for deeply. I want to put my trust in Christ who speaks it, and it is so. Sp
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Kim Zierlein
- Dec 29, 2020
- 2 min
Leaving a Legacy
Thoughts for Tuesday 12.29.2020 Sincerity, always be an original in a sea of cookie cutter... What does that mean?
We are all original right? To an extent we are all original. We are each unique in our genetic makeup. However, life happens, and we try to hide what we are to who we are around everyday. We try to slip into skin that is not ours in order to be "accepted". We sincerely hate that we hide, but we cannot help it until... Until we finally have had enough, and we just
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Kim Zierlein
- Dec 28, 2020
- 2 min
Now That I Am Out Here...Question is will I choose to free fall?
It is so hard to be that person that feels and journals and thinks of all these amazing thoughts of how someone should be, and when it is time to test it my fear overrides my knowledge...always. To be completely honest I am fearful. I fear change. I fear hate. I fear mockery. I fear failure. I fear feeling. I fear, fear itself actually. There is a level of self-protection we all administer to our courageous thoughts. We try to be that strong person that will stand proudly, bu
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Kim Zierlein
- Dec 27, 2020
- 1 min
Pettet Country Christmas
This is am amazing blended and blessed family! I enjoyed being invited into their home to do a quick Christmas from our family to yours shoot to wrap up 2020! #findyourfrontier #writethefrontier #familytime #livefully #beauty #christmas #portraits #matchingpjs #blendedandblessed
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Kim Zierlein
- Dec 23, 2020
- 2 min
Old Roots, New Shoots
I'll tell you what is amazing...it's when new life comes from old things! There are so many things to learn from casting off the old to grow the new. I am awestruck by how the circle of life from beginning to end to the beginning again is reflected all around us. One tiny seed... One dying plant... One windy day... All three in combination would never be seen as that of a total rejuvenation harboring new life. However, they are an amazing complex trinity in how the circle nee
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Kim Zierlein
- Dec 14, 2020
- 2 min
Burning the Midnight Oil
Part 3...A Weekly Blog Feel the new wine as it saturates the new wine skin darlin'. For a long time I was trying to put new wine into an old wine skin and that just won't do. To Renew...what does it mean? It means sometimes total brokenness is necessary in order to start anew and form an entirely new being from the rubble. It means that a total regeneration is needed you cannot rely on patchwork anymore. Weekly Reflection For many years in my young adult life I have tried to
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Kim Zierlein
- Dec 1, 2020
- 1 min
Leaving a Legacy
Thoughts for Tuesday 12.01.2020 Serenity, it is always the cure... Holiday evenings are for home projects. Those quiet, still evenings for making a house a home. Lamps and heat on. Possibly music or a favorite movie on the TV. It is time to really appreciate the hearth which you were blessed with and make it a home for all those that live inside. Welcome all who arrive with the same serenity and hospitality. Warm blankets on soft couches. Oven on, cookies and sweet breads bak
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Kim Zierlein
- Nov 30, 2020
- 2 min
Burning the Midnight Oil
Part 2...A Weekly Blog On nights that your eyes cannot see, allow your soul to feel and burn the midnight oil of listening. To Listen...what does it mean? The act of sitting still, being quiet, and giving attention to someone or something else needing heard. Weekly Reflection If someone were to look at my heart in a metaphorical sense, you would have to scoop it up into your hands, and watch as the fine dust runs through your fingers. Like an hour glass of sand my heart keeps
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Kim Zierlein
- Nov 27, 2020
- 1 min
Liv's Senior Session
Liv is am amazing young woman I had the honor of photographing recently for her senior portraits...class of 2021. I instantly fell in love with her photos! #findyourfrontier #writethefrontier #seniors2021 #modelstatus #livefully #beauty #fallsession #portraits
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