Childhood Reminiscing and Current Events

In recent years, I've become hyperaware of my patterns and cycles, and going back through these old posts...damn, they're so highlighted, it's almost embarrassing. Almost.

In the past few weeks, there have been signs and synchronicities that ask the question:

 "What were you into as a child?"

And just today, listening to a podcast, they were discussing being kids and tape recording silly skits and doing kid shows or writing interview scripts and recording them with their siblings and buddies.

As I was editing a couple of videos for Pulp City Magazine, I started thinking about my first Kodak camera, and commandeering my dad's tape recorder and writing silly plays and radio shows with my brother or just recording us while we played with matchbox cars and his racetracks, or with my bestie, April, while we played with my Grandpa Dollhouse or Barbies. Some of those dumb pics I still have. I wish I still had those tapes.

As soon as my mom's church, where she worked, updated her office computer, that old DOS machine became mine and came with a dot matrix printer. It looked like this one but had yellow/gold type.

I journaled on that thing for years and printed it all out before we updated our home computer. The printer wasn't calibrated and printed over the page perforations, so I have the 100+ pages all still mostly intact. Maybe we'll go down that memory lane for like, Throwback Thursdays or something. 

It's been fun working at 903 Mills Market* and talking with the kids about how great a time it was to be alive during BetaMax vs VHS and dial-up internet and watching music flow from vinyl records, to 8-track tapes, to cassette tapes, to CDs, minidisk players, .WAV players to mp3 players (and listing all the streaming download sites), and then so many of us came back to vinyl. 

Point is, I've always been into media.

In the past 10+ years, I've come through for a lot of you, but I've also failed on some projects because I let myself get distracted by life instead of focusing on the work.

I apologize to those of you I've failed or disappointed. I apologize to me too.

I admit to the self-sabotage and have been doing the work to make changes and put an end to certain cycles and patterns, and in turn, finding a peaceful balance and a renewed sense of ambition, motivation, and inspiration.

And so now, I'm on this incredible startup team for Pulp City and we did our first food feature yesterday and it feels so good to be back in it. I went in thinking it was just going to be me & Dom with a couple of cameras, and then, all of a sudden, we had a 4 person crew with so much being covered. It was an absolute dream come true. Seeing the footage they were getting and being able to put together a really good idea about how to cut it, and how great we all worked together....  It was just really inspiring and we're so excited to show you the things we've been working on.  We're slated to launch next month for Orlando's 150th birthday!

If you're a local business owner or know someone with a local business, get in touch with us and we'll do something fun together!!!

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*I'll tell you stories and introduce you to my 903 Mills Market family very soon. They're the best.

Now You're Just Somebody That Used To Blog

First,

 Whoa, guys. 

Remember us back in the day? 

I might be a li'l dizzy and full of reignited joy in this moment. 

Is our spark sparkin'?

Napoleon Dynamite is on in the background. while I write this.

The last time I blogged here was 2018?  Dang.

How've you been?

I just logged into here, fucked around, and found a writing from New Year 2019 that was pretty brutal to read.

It made me proud of my 2019 self to have written so much when things were just....not as they appeared in this black mirror. 

Subscribe for Part 2!!! 

I'm just kidding. That's not why we're here. 

But I may or may not share that whole story very soon. Along with some others. 

Or maybe I won't. We'll see...

I've been thinking a lot about all the things.

Life. Death. Art. 

Tonight has been a time capsule of some of the things.

The past few years have been a massive observation and evolution.

It's all been a fascinating study of the human experience. I do hope that sharing some of my experiences might help you with navigating or validating your own learning experience.

You are not alone, sweet friend.

This life is for learning. It is not a competition. It is a co-creation.

It is a test in patience and surrender.

Also... Happy Father's Day. 

Here's what I'm thinking: 

We're gonna bring Brainure back. 

And we're gonna talk about this chapter of our lives. 

We can talk about anything here.

This is a safe space to process all of this and learn from life...Together.

I can't wait to have conversations and catch up with you.