I have been experimenting with video and thought I would try out some videocasting to give ellen Living a more personal feel. Let me know what you think.
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I love this picture of Jack. It’s how I feel some days — Tired and I just want to hide out but somebody please feed me!
Jack is a great cat to have around when I’m not feeling well. He stays up on the bed with me and lies next to me. He doesn’t whine or meow or bat at me to get attention. He just waits patiently for me to pat him.
What are your pets like with you?
I came across this site yesterday where you “sit” for a musical portrait and end up with a 5 minute musical composition. The site is the Lifehouse Method and one of its creators is Pete Townsend of The Who.
The “sitting” is interesting. The process is as follows.
My composition feels very peaceful to me with an intermingling of energy and movement. It starts off quietly and then brings in an even keeled tempo. Yesterday when I listened to it I thought of it reflecting my down mood but today when I listen to it I feel a simple quality of contentment. I’ll let you listen for yourself.
Ellen’s Theme
(You may need to turn your volume up to hear the audio)
Try it out for yourself at Lifehouse Method. What does your musical portrait express?
I’ve been feeling a down the last few days. We have been having rainy, cool weather that is not good for the fibromyalgia, it sometimes causes a flare in symptoms, and it doesn’t seem to be good for my mood either. Tomorrow looks to be cloudy and cool as well so I am in for another day of gloom, or at least I thought until I woke up this morning and looked outside. There I saw why we need the rain and it gave me some hope that there will be a brighter future.
The field behind where I live has transformed in the last few days changing from bare trees to a lush, green, beautiful sight. And, it will keep on transforming until I can’t see the pond behind the trees. My heart lifted from the depression I was feeling for those moments I looked over the field. It has returned, I am not sure why, but I know that it will leave and hope will return.
It’s Open Mic Niteover at Successul Blog at 7pm Chicago time and the topic is the Joys of Being Home and so I thought I would write a little post about being at home and why I love my home.
When you come to visit you wouldn’t be very impressed with the outside of my home. It’s contained in a 6 story, brick apartment building on a major route. After I buzz you in I have you take the elevator up to the 5th floor and walk down a long hallway reminiscent of a hotel until you reach my door. I greet you and have you come in and see my square box of an apartment. It is nicely carpeted, artwork and photos adorn the walls and a mish mash of furniture and electronics scattered throughout.Â
Knick knacks, mostly from my mother and my oldest sister Susan cover the standing baker’s rack from my parents. The dining room table, too large for the room but also passed down to me from my folks, may be covered with unopened mail and magazines. I have you come in and sit down on my sofa that is positioned just so that I can see my wide screen television and have just the right audio from my surround sound system.
That’s when I point out to you that most of the artwork was created by my sister Libby who is a wonderful illustrator and graphic designer. Then I run into my office, the second bedroom of my apartment, and grab out my photo albums to show you pictures of family, friends and my travels. I don’t really want you to go into my office because it currently houses 2 working computers, 2 broken ones for parts to be salvaged from to fix my friend’s computer, overflowing bookshelves with my favorite books and boxes of old software programs and lastly, paper, lots of paper. Enough paper that I could start a recycling plant!
