Good Monday Morning.
Tags:Home safe and sound.
As I sit here and think about what I want to say about this past weekend at CKU-A in San Jose, I feel like I end up saying the same thing every time. It is truly an amazing experience to meet so many women who passionately love life art as much as I do. This time I kept getting all emotional about it - it is just such a special experience.
The women in my album track were phenomenal. Everyone was ready and willing to play and get to work bringing together a bunch of random elements from a week in their life into one BIG album. One of the coolest things I experience each time is the recognition on the faces of the women in the track that their everydays are important. That there is so much there in "regular" life - whatever that may be for them.
To the women who shared this experience with me: thank you so much for being open, for sharing your stories with me, for laughing at my jokes, for your enthusiasm and passion, for your hardwork and willingness to step outside of your comfort zone, and your overall kindness. Thanks for being mellow and making friends with the people at your table - one of my favorite things is watching those friendships develop. Love you guys.
And to the dinner crew Dona, Cathy, Dan, Tara, Em, Elsie, Grace, Shannon, Carrie, and Ana - so, so much fun at that dinner. Loved hanging with everyone. Loved just being in the same place as everyone.
As for me, I am home today to work on some assignments and then I leave for Salt Lake tomorrow for a week of meetings. Gotta plan out some AWESOME stuff for the magazine for next year. Get ready to continue to be educated, empowered and inspired.
Hoping to have some photos to share from last weekend with you later on today.
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Sounds like another wonderful weekend for you and your students. Awesome. :)
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hey you...there was just something brewing in this CA air. Miss you already!
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wow dinner with all those fun people.. glad you back safe and sound
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Hello, BIG fan.
I know this is off topic, but I love your designs, they are so pretty. No words can describe how pretty they are!
Your one of my idols!
=D
Alexa
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Thanks Ali for a wonderful CKU! For this CKU I feel like I had a purpose, a mission, to complete an album to Celebrate the Everyday. The whole experience was great!
Also thanks for the advice about the blog banner. That will be my next project! Shelly
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Thanks Ali, I had a wonderful time!!! I'm so excited I won your book! I love it. Can't wait to see what you come up with next...among your many endeavors. Have a great week!
brenda
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Ohhh. No photos. Darn.
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you always continue to empower and inspire. It's what you do.
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can't wait for the new stuff!!
and sounds like an amazing time!
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I took some pictures of my husband working the other day.. he was totally rolling his eyes at me the whole time... but then we were talking to his mom a few days later & she told him how that is one thing she wished she had more of.. more pictures of her every day life on the farm... her comments that day made me appreciate celebrating the little things even more... LOVE that you remind us to do that! :)
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dude, your class was awesome.
you are awesome.
like a blossom.
haha!
i am a poet.
and i didn't even know it.
;o)
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Wow. Wow. Wow. I, too, was in your AWITL track and quite frankly, could have sat in that room all day happily chilling and grooving on putting that album together. I knew it would be a lot of work and expected to feel pressured and freaked that I got only one day done. But you were so great, so low-key (and so funny), the end result just didn't seem to matter as much as the process, meeting and sharing with the others at my table, and enjoying assembling these little bits our lives. Thanks for an unforgettable couple of days - and when it's finally finished, the inspiration for an album of a lifetime. Literally!
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