Home Life

Yes I am back and playing with video again. Isn't it funny how you suddenly get mesmerized with an activity? So kind of a silly confession but I did not realize that my camera could take video! And now I could just kick myself for all the months overseas and in Colorado where I could have been stockpiling beautiful video. Oh well... you start where you are, right?

Ready to Begin?

Here is the beginning of what I hope to be a weekly series on this blog. I am thinking about doing the Linger series in a vlog format where I can even have guests come on and answer the Linger questions this week. Let me know if you would be interested in being a guest by commenting below this post. 

In the meantime, here is a look into what's going on at the studio.

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Make Your Move

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Have a variety of interests...These interests relax the mind and lessen tension on the nervous system.  People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.

-George Matthew Allen

What is One Dumb Thing You Used to Believe

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Did you know I have a website filled with articles to help you with your small business?  On that blog I took the time to answer Danielle LaPorte's Series of Questions (YOU KNOW how I love a good question!).

Here is one from the archives:

This is my submission to Danielle LaPorte's Burning Question:

What's one dumb thing you used to believe?

I used to think that if you just want something bad enough, it will come together "somehow."  But as I have held onto dreams that have never come true and as I have been a part of collaborations that I hoped would turn themselves around (but never did) I have come to realize that you have to know when to say "when."  You have to know when to say enough is ENOUGH.  This is not going to happen.  Make peace with it.  Move on.  Learn from it.  Mourn it if you need to.  But let it go.

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Retreat In Your Midst

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Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.

 

-James Stephens

Self Portrait

The last few weeks have been filled with preparing as a family to have a son in the military.  My oldest came to stay with us for his last two weeks before boot camp.  It was an interesting time for he and I since he moved out when he was 18. Now at 23 both he and I have changed quite a bit.  The person he knows now as his mother is incredibly different from the one he grew up with.  I was in no way exercising my creative life in the way I am now.  So we spent much of the time trying to figure out how to find some common ground on which to communicate.  There were moments where it seemed too hard to find the space and it would have been so easy to think why try since he is leaving in a matter of days.  But if you know me, you know that was not a viable option.

So one went off to boot camp last week and one is off to first grade this week.  It has been such a challenge to find a way to be a mama in two different developmental stages. I credit healthy living, an open heart and prayer filled expectancy as reasons I am even able to give my all when it feels like there is not much left to give.

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Wide Awake

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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.  One is always living a little more or dying a little bit 

- Norman Mailer