A few more new photos...

Thru Sonia's Eyes' photostream on Flickr.

Please check these out and let me know what you think please. If you can not leave a comment on flickr, then respond here! thanks

A Trip to a Local Cemetery

A couple pictures taken this weekend.  My son has developed an interest in filming movies and is currently working on a zombie movie.  He asked me this weekend if I would take him to an old cemetery so he could film some "opening scene" footage.  "Sure son...lets go." 

To be honest, I really just wanted to go with my camera and my own agenda.

Waiting Room Observations. . .

To my left a mother quietly reads to the small child in her lap;
. . . slowly encouraging her little one to pronounce the words herself.

To my right an elderly lady with a blush to her face;
. . . speaks into her cell phone, "Didn't you hear my friend? I am getting married, this fall!"

I sit in between waiting to hear- waiting for a Doctor to tell me for good or for bad;
. . . "Well, this is how it is."

A strange place to be, bordered by Hope on both sides of the room;
. . .  when you have none.

Ready for Another One?

I understand. . . all of my two readers are probably starting to get bored with this, but here I am back again with another wonderful question from Mastin Kipp's The Daily Love and author Jackson Kiddard.  Believe me, I know that few people really read this blog...but these past few days have been a good exercise for me.  My hope is that some of it has touched another person...somewhere, in some small way.  (** Note, please do not in any way misinterpret that last statement!)

"If it were true that everyone you meet is YOU in another body, how would you treat them?"

Boy, I really wish I could get some comments on this one.  It seems at first like a simple question with a simple answer, but is it?  My first quick answer to this one is "I would kick their ass!"  But that is me and most times I really don't like myself very well.  The experts (and my therapist) tell me that I really should not feel that way but that self-loathing keeps me in line at times.   All the inspirational material advises me that I must love myself before I can love another.  Well...darn it, I guess based on my answer to this question -that it TRUE. 

Let me attempt to answer the above question again, the way my therapist would want me to.  If everyone I met was me in another body, I would smile and say "I love you...and you are great!"   STOP....  No, I can't take it!!  I am beginning to sound like Stuart Smalley!  Nope...think I will stick with my first answer!

Question of the Day- Part II

As promised yesterday, and as an exercise in forcing myself to write everyday, I offer up to you my second probing question.  Once again I remind you that these questions were taken from author Jackson Kiddard as I noted yesterday.  This time...I am going to take a chance and answer this one for myself.  Please feel free to reflect on it-either internally or leave a comment.

If you knew you had a choice about what kind of life you could be living, would you choose differently?

Wow, my first thought when reading this question was, "Hell yeah"!  However, the more I reflected on it and looked at my life, I began to be a little embarrassed at that quick response.  I thought to myself, "Wait, you mean I did not already have a choice?"  I was under the impression that I always had a choice in what kind of life I was living.  Don't we all?  Once we become adults, we make very independent decisions about life- do we not?  I tried to search deeper into my memory to find a moment that as an adult, I did not have a choice in what path I took, what corner I went around or who I included in my life.  The life that I am living in right now, is the result of several independent choices I have made. 

It seems to me this question might be asking, "If you could go back and do over some of those choices you made and change your current life, would you?".  To be honest, I am not sure that I would at this stage in my life.  I made some really bad choices a few times in my life, but I learned from them and I don't think I want to lose the lessons that I gained from the experience.  I guess if I really want to be honest, I would admit that there might be a few little choices made that I would change...like not spending as much money, or telling my family that I love them more often.  What about you?    

Questions for Everyday

This week (or what is left of it) I will post a series of questions that I read several days ago. These questions are borrowed from some wisdom that was posted on The Daily Love and written by author Jackson Kiddard.  Yes, I know they are not my words and this is not very original but I felt a need to share all these questions with you.  Maybe they will make a difference.
So, here are the first two;

If today was IT, would you die knowing you did your best?
If tomorrow never came, would you be proud of the last thing you said to each person you love?

Think, discuss and feel free to comment...
Thank you

Comedy In The Midst of Depression

It is so very difficult to find your sense of humor when surrounded by the fog of depression.  Ok well, at least it seems that way to me right now.  I am sure that many comedy writers may disagree with me on this one.  In fact, I think I have read that some of the best material is written at during the lowest of personal times.  If this is true, I wish someone would give me a road map out of this funk that I am in.

Guilty As Charged!

Yep..I admit it.  I am guilty of wasting great ideas and letting them float right on by -down the drain.  I can be, at times, extremely creative but I sit and let "stuff" get in the way.  Stuff like games, chatting, and parties. Statements like "I need to clean that room" or "I have been working all day long and I just want to chill-out" give me an excuse to not take chances.  Why do I do that?? 

I did take a chance almost a month ago, making the time to drive about 2 1/2 hours from home to attend the VIP screening of a new documentary American Ghost Hunter -The Movie .  I met some really amazing people; Chad Calek, Ryan Buell, Mary Beth Wylie, Sergey Poberezhny, Joe Ansley (lead vocals of the band Index Case) and Justin Holstein.  I have devoted some of my blog space to talk about this event and the people involved already. Please read some of my other post and check out these links to read more about the movie.  All of these guys are very talented yet at the same time, willing to spend a few moments with fans.

I have met many more ambitious, creative artist, and successful business people in my life so you would think some of that would rub off on me?  My problem is, I let the mundane, day-to-day survival stuff get in my way.  It is possible though for me to still concentrate on taking care of family, job and life but still continue to learn photography and write.  I might not be very good at it...but at least I will be able to say that I gave it a try. 
I will be writing more later..(not that anyone really reads these things anyway). Check out my photographs at Flickr and leave comments-good or bad!

Thru Sonia's Eyes' photostream

Thru Sonia's Eyes' photostream on Flickr.