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Kristy Walker, Minnesota
Kristy Walker is a professional wildlife and nature photographer who has won awards for her photos, some of which are displayed at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum. She shares her home with senior kitty, Angel, and volunteers at a wildlife rescue center in the avian and squirrel nurseries. Kristy currently serves as an official photographer at Eckankar’s international seminars. Locally, she currently serves as the president of the Minnesota chapter of Eckankar. She also helps maintain seventeen bluebird houses on Eckankar’s spiritual campus in Chanhassen, Minnesota.
A Hummingbird Teaches Patience
By Kristy Walker, Minnesota
Harold Klemp writes, in ECK Essentials, that patience “is the greatest discipline of all the spiritual works of ECK. By patience you can endure life, hardships, karmic burdens, slander, and the pricks of pain and disease.”
A Wildlife Photographer Listens to Divine Spirit
By Kristy Walker, Minnesota
Being a wildlife-and-nature photographer requires patience, perseverance, curiosity, wonder, discipline, and most of all, love. What else but love could motivate me to be outdoors in sub-freezing temperatures for the chance to catch a breathtaking photo?
A Hawk Offers the Call to Service
By Kristy Walker, Minnesota
On a below-freezing winter afternoon, the heater in my car stopped working. I had intended to make a quick trip to a print shop before it closed.