Three Things + 1 : Inspirations for storytelling
Tags:(1) Jon Schmidt's Love Story (Taylor Swift) meets Viva La Vida (Coldplay) via Jana Beck (who does these very cool custom high-contrast paintings). I've started listening to more music again. I go through phases with what I listen to on iTunes/internet radio while I work. For a long time it has been all news all the time and I am finally starting to move back towards more music and less talk. I find that listening to music often connects me to stories and evokes a wide range of emotions from my past.
(2) I can't remember if I have posted about this one before or not but it is so, so good it bears a second posting: Phillip Toledano's Days With My Father.This is words + photos. This is real life documentation & celebration. This inspires me to tell the stories of my family with more words and less stuff.
(3)Jen Lee's Fortunes: a little book of written pieces. Inspiring and filled with emotion, Jen weaves stories that are great examples of a different way to write our lives other than who, what, where, when, etc.
(4) I got a second and third batch of family photos from my cousin. These ones were even older than the others. Found some serious gems in this bunch. This one is my Great-Grandfather John (also called "Mac"), Grandfather Neil (my Dad's Dad), and Great-Grandmother Martha. Even though I have no idea of the stories of most of these people's lives they inspire me in the not-knowing. I could look at them for hours just studying the faces, looking for family similarities, day-dreaming about what their lives were like in the early 1900's.
4th Annual Paiges In Time Cropathon
Eugene, Oregon scrapbooking event coming up Friday, August 28th through Sunday,
August 30th at Valley River Inn. Includes a benefit auction for the Heart Gallery of Lane County (A Family For Every Child : one of my favorite local groups). All the details are listed here including the classes that go on sale July 27th. Note: I am not teaching any classes but am planning to go & scrapbook on the 29th.
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what a beautiful post..I agree about the impact words can have, so inspiring!
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So with you on #4. In the same boat right now...Many photos and few details.
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I've seen Days with my Father before and it moves me every time I do.
I'd love to do that crop in Eugene (need some me time) but I can't leave the baby for that long (reason I need some me time). I'm going to have to wait until next year. :D
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Ali, thank you for sharing the lovely story "Days with my Father" and the music. So inspiring and moving.
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Thank you. I now have to go buy his CD. That was outstanding!
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That music is giving me chills. I shared it with all my students, and sister... and friends. Going to his site now.
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Erin - scroll down to the bottom of the photo and the top of another photo appears - click on that for the next part of the story.
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This music is awesome!! Ali Thank you for sharing! Days with My Father is so beautiful
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Ali! Thanks for sharing the video. I am not much of Taylor Swift fan, but I can appreciate this. Love it. :)
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Love the song! Do you know Rob Costlow? Similar music; piano.
And I do feel exactly like you when it comes to old photographs! I just LOVE to study the faces, their "old fashioned" clothes and I love to imagine what they might have thought in the moment their picture was taken, what they lived like, how town looked like in that time and so on and on!! Its great! Real gems!
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Oh my, I just read what Phillip Toledano wrote about his dad and I am almost crying.. This is so beautiful and real and emotional... it´s life art. It´s human.
Thank you for sharing this.
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Thanks for the you tube video. I have seen this before and love it!
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Love the days with my father - I will need to do something like that. My dad has been gone now for 14 years, still smell his cologne and remember so much of the time I spent with him as a child and a young adult - such a great man. Thanks for sharing Ali.
Love the old picture - I am like you, I can't get enough of the old pictures - they make me feel at piece and a part of something very special.
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Ali thanks for sharing Jon Schmidt - that was wonderful - I even posted it to my FB page - thanks again for the inspiration!
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Wow. Thanks for the links. Love Jon's rendition of Love Story. And Days with my Father was simply touching and beautiful (and tear inducing!)
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Beuatiful music Ali, powerful. I'm listening to it over and over....thanks for passing it along. Off to check out the photos now too.
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That arrangement makes me feel like I am falling in love all over again! I want to just give my husband a big kiss!
Thanks for sharing it- sorry if that was TMI.
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Ali,
So honored that "Fortunes" is inspiring you today. Thanks for sharing it and all the others--you are inspiring me.
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The old photos are great!! Photos are so full of history - they always make me wonder when I look at them what was going on at that moment in time !!
Thanks so much for sharing!!!!!
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Ali- Thanks for the fun post today! :) Well, maybe not so fun as inspiring today! :) I have seen the "Days with My Father" blog when you first posted it, maybe I caught from Molly Irwin's site too, but I will say, it had me in tears...what a beautiful story.
I love the photos you are getting...I want to get the Fortunes book now...I would love to learn how to tell a story in a fresh, new way. :)
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