then click back on this blog tab or here to listen as you browse, or not?
2GN2S ...
An upcoming PBS-TV program, Portraits and Dreams, KCET locally in SoCal on Saturday, August 20, at 10 p.m. looks to me, to be special. A 2 minute preview, here.
(a few photos I pulled from the preview)
Portraits and Dreams revisits photographs created by Kentucky
schoolchildren in the 1970s and the place where the photos were made.
The film is about the students, their work as visionary photographers
and the lives they have led since then, as well as the linkage of
personal memory to the passage of time. I'll be there.
I had something else in mind for this update, but writing the above reminded me of my favorite blog out of the 3649 daily blogs so far over the 9+ years. It was Day 439 (3210 days ago) titled, So easy even a ... ( 3 and 5 year old can do it!)
At a wonderful family celebration of Grandpa Nomura's life, I turned my camera over to the 3 year old Kinuye and her brother, 5 year old, Kenji to take the pictures. The results are classics and I love revisiting that great day through their eyes. Though nine years ago (2013) and the cameramen are now teenagers, I enjoy it just as much now as then. If you have time, you can see it here. Let me know what you think?
My
daughter starts middle school tomorrow. We've decorated her locker,
bought new uniforms, even surprised her with a new backpack. But
tonight just before bed, we did another pre-middle school task that is
far more important than the others. I gave her a tube of toothpaste and
asked her to squirt it out onto a plate. When she finished, I calmly
asked her to put all the toothpaste back in the tube. She began
exclaiming things like "But I can't!" and "It won't be like it was
before!" I quietly waited for her to finish and then said the
following:
"You
will remember this plate of toothpaste for the rest of your life. Your
words have the power of life or death. As you go into middle school,
you are about to see just how much weight your words carry. You are
going to have the opportunity to use your words to hurt, demean, slander
and wound others. You are also going to have the opportunity to use
your words to heal, encourage, inspire and love others. You will
occasionally make the wrong choice; I can think of three times this week
I have used my own words carelessly and caused harm. Just like this
toothpaste, once the words leave your mouth, you can't take them back.
Use your words carefully, Breonna. When others are misusing their
words, guard your words. Make the choice every morning that life-giving
words will come out of your mouth. Decide tonight that you are going
to be a life-giver in middle school. Be known for your gentleness and
compassion. Use your life to give life to a world that so desperately
needs it. You will never, ever regret choosing kindness."
4 comments:
What a wonderful blog, Jacki! I loved EVERYTHING, from the start to the end. Thank you so much!
I love when you turn the ephemera upside down and use it in your work. :-)
Thanks Elenor, I am so glad you liked it too, it was one of my very favorites.
Thank you, John. I don't intend to ever have the test right side up, just a quirk I guess?
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