Three Things + 1 : Inspirations for storytelling

What a wonderful collection of inspiration. Thanks Ali!

beautiful song :) But I can't get the days with my father to work - is it me?! Thanks for sharing :)

Always love your inspirations! Days with My Father is brilliant! And, I just love Jen Lee's new book. I'm off to check out your other treasures!

Thanks for the video link - I LOVE it and have been listening to it over and over already!!!

i think this will be playing on my computer LOTS of times here at work...very soothing. I already like the original version but this one...love it.

Thanks so much for sharing... I have phases too... right now I'm in the quiet mode... where I just love the quiet... I love listening to music, too... and I love putting the news on the TV, to keep up while I'm creating!
Family photos... I know... I have so many pictures of family too... I ask a lot of questions to those who knew them... especially my Aunt Mary who is now 104 years old... she's as quick as a whip and I can count on her for my family's stories... she's a kick... know everything about everyone, (I think she was a busy body in her time) and when I saw her last month... she reminded me of some of my own childhood memories with my sister and brother when we lived on the farm... her stories are precious... it's amazing what we forget in our own lives... it's a blessing to have others around us to help tell our story too... Thanks again. M

ohwow. i love them all. thanks so much for sharing, Ali!

Ali,
Thanks so much for that music!!! That rendition of Love Story is so awesome.
I have a 12 year old DS and he's not much into "the girl" singers right now so I don't often get to listen to them! I am going to Itunes to download this one!
Thanks!

Thanks for sharing the link to Phillip Toledano's work, it was so powerful and just what I needed to start my morning off inspired to live fuller today.

good stuff, all.
My Dad was "mac" all his life. My kids never knew him. I need to do something about it.

thanks for the You Tube Link ali! just loved listening to that this morning at work....beautiful music.
Have a great wednesday!

great post ali. love the song. and thank you for pointing me to phillip toledano's site. wow.

I dont' remember that Days with My Father link...it is amazing and so inspiring.

You never fail to inspire me! This post got me thinking about the big hat box of photos that my husband's great-grandmother (Nannie-Mom) kept under her bed. Her favorite thing was to get you to come into her room and sit with her while she went through the box and talked about the photos. The photos varied from very recent to early 20th century and I loved to listen to the stories. I was always a willing participant. She was born in 1899 and died in 2004 and was quite a woman. I wish I had recorded the conversations now. Her grand-daughter has the photos and I am now motivated to scan and scrap some of them -- maybe something on generations as my daughter was born almost exactly 100 years after Nannie-Mom and they knew each other. Not many of us get to know our great-great-grandmother!

Great photo! I love those beautiful old homes behind them. Sometimes I think we crop our photos so closely today that we "crop out" some of the history. TFS!

Love that video. I already loved "Love Story" but this is fantastic. Thanks for sharing all the inspiration!

Hi Ali,
We are having a family reunion(my husbands side) at our house (four generations will be here) over Labor Day. In anticipation of the event I have scanned close to 2,000 pictures contributed by different family members. The goal is to make the few each family has available to everyone - we still haven't decided if we are starting a family website to post all the pictures or just copy to DVD. However since I am the official scanner I've had the time to look at each photo.... I've become adept at finding my husbands grandfather in a crowd and he died 20 years before I met my husband. The resemblance between cousins and grandchildren, that in some cases have never met is uncanny. We know for sure that we are putting together a video/slide show and I had already selected Taylor Swift - Love Story for one of the songs!!!
Have a great Wednesday -
Laura

Saw Toledano's piece on A CUP OF JO a while back and was very moved by that documentation of family + life.
Photos+Words. Photos+Words. Photos+Words. Amen.

thanks for that song this morning. totally put a smile on my face as i eat my breakfast in the semi-dark of the kitchen.

you were so sweet to link back to my blog... what a fun surprise!
and isn't that composition just fabulous. i first heard it months ago, and i still can listen to it on repeat for hours while i paint :)