I’m not too far behind with keeping up blogging like I said I would. As of typing of this paragraph, I have not recorded anything for Gravity@1053′ but that is not to say that I won’t later this morning, or during lunch.
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(Four Hours Later) Wouldn’t you know it… work kept me from being productive! AH SNAP! Not sure if I will have much time to record anything tonight, but we’ll see. Perhaps, I can get a guest or two on the next Gravity Episode!
On the photography side of things, I haven’t been that active that much either. The Kids had a few friends have birthday parties early in the year and I took pictures there. But other than that, there are two photography projects for this year, one which is current and the other one on the horizon.
The first project is Artwork for Farragut Christian Church. The guy who is charge of the artistic side of happenings at the church (e.g. worship band, etc) had an informal meeting after one of the services for all artists who would want to submit artwork which corresponded to the sermon for that week. The church is currently going through a year long stint through the book of Matthew. I was all over signing up to submit artwork, as in photography, for this. It gave me a subject matter, or at least a bible verse(s) to use as a reference, for me to go out and take new pictures. Although, the artwork that I submitted this past week was an picture from the Archives, but for the most part, I try to think of new material. More importantly, it gave me a deadline!
TO date, I have submitted 2 pieces for the church. The first piece that I submitted earlier this year (and I have that as a separate entry) was for The Last Supper. The most recent on was for Matthew 6:26-34 about “Worrying”. Here’s a link to the Bible verse, if you are so inclined. I realize that The Bible is not the Go-To source for Regiliousness for all out there… and Lord knows that I don’t want to “offend” anyone… or Do I?
FCC Artwork for June 20, 2010
The second project is that I am planning on being available for-hire for photography shoots. I’m still in the planning phase on this one… as what will my niche be, what will I charge, when will I be available, etc… More on that later…
This weekend, we have visitors staying with us… Pa-Pa and J-Lo. While they are hardly Rockstars to the world out there… to two kids at our house (The Elder and The Younger), they are! They’ve been anticipating their visit for as long as they can remember and it has been sometime since the Dynamic Duo has been to Tennessee, mostly due to responsibilities close to home. But relief came this weekend and so they traveled West to Tennessee.
Pa-Pa is a habitual Coke drinker, just a few degrees behind the level of me as a Diet Coke drinker and he has in the past saved the bottle caps and other codes with MyCokeRewards Points. He was worried that since I hadn’t blogged about them (or anything for that matter) that I wasn’t still collecting them. I have been continuing to collect them, and even redeemed some of the points for the few things in the prize locker that I would actually use.
Now, I do have to give proper thanks to those who have been sending me the points! Glo-Ma, I-Run-For-My-iRoy Susan, Leesa Lens-eye and RedheadedEditor Mizzu Ellen have been sending me points on a regular basis and I thank you all for remembering me and allowing me to get free stuff! It makes Christmas that much nicer!
You could say that I am sort of a Self-help, motivating type of guy… at one time I wanted to be a teacher, soccer coach, dream|life coach, mentor, and so on… you would think that teaching would be one of my passions. And it’s not necessarily the main one, the position of a Teacher, but Teachering is Hard… My sister in law (Amy-In-Law), I don’t know how she does it… she’s a teacher, in a public school system, in rural South Carolina… Holy Standardized Tests Batman!
I think that sharing Wisdom, or enlightening is more accurate of what I would love to do… I am working on my own personal Mission Statement which I can use as a barometer on whether some is good to do or not. My Lovely and Talented Wife has a great one that she uses to determine if something is generating P.O.W.E.R. in her life. I think in some ways, I have been adrift, not exactly sure of what I should be doing or striving for… it seems to change often, but there seems to be a common underlying theme. So, I am peeling off those layers and exposing my core (and for now, that’s all I am exposing… :O )
One of the websites that I have in my RSS Feed Reader is from LifeHack.org which dishes out article about how to improve|adapt your life from the inside out. I saw this article today and it struck my fancy… and since I am committing to blogging again, what a better thing to post.
5 Simple Ways To Spread Positivity by Seth Simonds
I’ve purposely not included the text so that you can click to the article and that way give the author credit for the content, not just me regurgitating the key points and then moving on.
Something strange happened yesterday… okay, something strange happens to me everyday, so maybe this was just a normal occurrence…. who knows. Anyway, I was on The Runner’s Roundtable podcast yesterday on Talkshoe.com as one of the Race Directors of the WORLDWIDE FESTIVAL OF RACES! We are coming up on our 5th running of the event! Holy Schmoly! Hard to believe that it has been that long but time marches on.
So during the intro, Steve Runner (not his “real” name) asked me “So, Terry, what have you been doing running wise” (okay, don’t quote me) and for a split second, I went into another dimension and started to contemplate… “what HAVE I been doing?”
The Short-Short answer is NOT MUCH. The last time that I ran was on June 12, when I went trail running. Since then I haven’t run a mile or even a quarter mile. My last race was early May with the Run for the Deaf 5k where my Spring Racing Season did not turn out as well as I wanted it to. If you believe in the Periodization Theory, that is periods of time are grouped together for a specific goal, I have been in a Rest Period. Probably the longest one of my running career. My first month of basically “not running” was in July 2003 when The Elder was born. I ran once that month, and then came back in August. Usually there is another Rest Period in December/January where there is 3 weeks of little running as I recover from the fall marathon and then ramp up for Calhouns 10miler at the end of January.
So why the big break? Not sure, but I have my theories…
But what Wednesday’s Runner’s Roundtable did was to get a little fire going. I am still planning on running the Flying Monkey Marathon in November, so that means that training would start somewhere around August 1st. But that’s like 5 weeks away… and would result in an approximate 12 week resting period. Good thing you don’t really forget to run… or is that to ride a bike? I just check the calendar and this weekend (June 25th) would be Week 8 of no-racing, no-training. It’s actually kinda Surreal…
But Terry, it’s hotter than the sun out there, what are you thinking? Yes, it is hot out there, maybe not as hot as the sun, or even as hot as in Arizona, but isn’t it the Humidity that really is the clincher?
So yesterday during the Runner’s Roundtable, Steve Runner cornered me and in the deepest, most evil sounding voice… “So… when is the next Gravity@1053′ episode?”, the skies darkened and everything went silent. The next voice I heard was my own subconscious saying, “Dude, you are on Air… internationally, say something with words and try to make it sound good… Lord, please help us…”
Then I remembered that I actually enjoy recording my podcast: Gravity@1053′, what I don’t enjoy is the stretch of time that it takes to get to the computer, edited and all that other podcasting-type stuff. Part of the little fire was, yes, I do like to podcast… and I do have my laptop up and running, so what is stopping me? Basically, just a lack of focus and motivation. Well, make that a significant lack of focus when it comes to the extracurricular stuff in my life, which in turn, lowers my motivation on just about everything.
There’s been a number of factors (as with everyone) which has been contributors. Some of them I have been able to address and not necessarily nullify but at least mitigate it some to where it is manageable. I’ll probably blog about them, which will give me topics to blog about, since blogging has been another casualty of lack of focus… SQUIRREL!
While I don’t have a training program penciled out at this point, there is one in the works. I’ll need a couple of days to work on that to make sure the schedule is manageable for the rest of the summer and the fall. But what I am looking at doing is recording a new episode of Gravity@1053′. And I don’t think that I am going to try to capture the audio exclusively on runs, since that doesn’t always work well for me, but use the Planet3rry Mobile Recording Headquarters instead. I have a smart phone now… it should be smart enough to help me you would think!
My goal is to record the audio and have a show ready for Monday Morning…
Oh, and if you are reading this entry on my blog, you might see that I changed the theme… a new start… a clean pair of underwear… so to speak
