Retooling life for part 2

Author: amy

Tiny Film Premiere

Tiny Film Premiere

I made my first tiny film for a local festival. It was the 3rd annual festival and I had attended years 1 and 2. Determined to submit to this year’s festival, I succeeded! Yay showing up. Yay midlife refit. Yay trying new things. Yay learning…

Reminiscent of a Reservoir

Reminiscent of a Reservoir

Tall walls around, surround. You can walk the embankment perimeter see nourishment within the lifewater. Contained, restrained, pooled for protection and future use. Sometimes The level is low. Other times Filled to the brim. And there’s machinery required to make it all go.  The brain…

The praxis of taxes

The praxis of taxes

Taxes are great. I love a race against the clock.

On Jimmy Carter

On Jimmy Carter

I plucked President Carter’s The Virtues of Aging off the library shelf and since I’m midlife refitting, I took it home. My mother always said, “It’s hell to get old.”, why not work to attach some grace to the concept? Let’s see what old Jimmy has…

Blogstorm

Blogstorm

Brain dump of niche What do you want? Because of my blog/brand/book – my triple Bs What makes your bbb stand out in your niche? This isn’t finished, but here’s what I have: A place to begin.

Leg-of-Mutton Liftoff

Leg-of-Mutton Liftoff

Leg-of-mutton sleeves circle round the fashion cycle and return to grace our presence.

Shut That Mealy Should Mouth

Shut That Mealy Should Mouth

Stop using the word should. It only leads feeling bad about what is not happening.

Gripped

Gripped

Gripped By the fear that Is. life transformed in an instant where never again can you go back to the has been. Frozen in an instant while living the rest of life. There was a point. I continued to “just do it” way before nike,…

Two days left of 50

Two days left of 50

The theory is we all move through life at the same speed. A second is a second after all, no? I’d like to put forth it’s the quality of that movement through those uniform seconds that changes how fast we live our lives. My life…

Lackluster Life

Lackluster Life

My life has verdigris around the edges.Part mold, part tarnish, full inattention. I learn (and must learn) again and againit’s as easyif not easierto accomplish the taskthan drag it outin angst to awful infinity,the reward of completion so sweet. Scrape the green all together from…