[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UclwHBbPww?rel=0&wmode=transparent&autoplay=0] Backpacking in Europe: Night in a Mausoleum Backpacking through Europe as a college kid is a very good thing to do. One of the challenges is finding a place to sleep every night when you get into a new city. So my companion and I decided to just…
Month: June 2013
My Hilltopper Home
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poikcRPfXwI?rel=0&wmode=transparent&autoplay=0] This is from my university. Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Storytelling Is A Challenge For Me
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOA8mUflH-Q?rel=0&wmode=transparent&autoplay=0] The Skill Of Storytelling Is A Gift I remember going to my aunt’s and uncle’s house when I was a kid. To me they seemed so old and they would tell these seemingly never ending stories about the great old days that were so hard. Their childhoods and…
Being Strong
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LlKh0RnnFA?rel=0&wmode=transparent&autoplay=0] A Strong Person is Whole within Themself I was at the doctor’s office the other day and it was full of sick people. No surprise right? I have spent time in hospitals and you see a lot of sick people there too. Also, not surprising. What I realized…
Emotional Moments in Life: Moving House
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsM7kFLA0jg?rel=0&wmode=transparent&autoplay=0] Moving House is Very Emotional I have moved pretty often during the course of my life. Moving house causes emotions to run high. As I stand in front of another big move I am feeling the confusing signals my insides are sending me. The rationale tells you that moving…
Sports and the Arts: Skills For a Lifetime Best Learned as Children
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8njMjqn1Nh4?rel=0&wmode=transparent&autoplay=0] Sports and Art Skills for Children The first five years of life are critical in the development of a child’s personality, mentality and physicality. Children have no choice in deciding what those five years bring them. Children are forced to take what they get simply because they are 100%…
Knowing Your Power and Being Able to Use It
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUI62KzWDXc?rel=0&wmode=transparent&autoplay=0] Power: Something We are Born With Sometimes it takes a different perspective to get clarity on a desire that you have had in the past. You knew your desire was clear, but had lost all connection to it, because the trials of life waters down the power of…
Live Performance Is The Real Thing
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=927rgyP9EjI?rel=0&wmode=transparent&autoplay=0] I have sung for nearly 25 years onstage in live performances of opera, musicals, operettas, in concert and in recital. Every performance was a challenge and I wish I could say every performance was great, but they weren’t. Singing with a microphone is foreign to me. I am…
Your Brilliance is Your Light Shining Into the World
Let It Shine Your Brilliance is Your Light Shining Into the World I define boredom as a state of being that is without Brilliance. People tell me all the time that they are never bored and I believe them, if they use their definition of the term. People claim…