I told you guys I am a lazy blogger! Today my friend Thembie wrote me from Cape Town and told me he figured out I have a commitment issue, thats why I stopped blogging. Thanks for the psychoanalysis...always can count on my friends to do so.
Okay let me give you a few excuses and I will get to it. These past few weeks I have actually been organizing a premiere for my film Sincerely Ethiopia here in Denver. What does that even mean??? Well it means lots of phone calls, meetings, negotiating, marketing, distributing, schmoozing, sponsor agreements, freak outs, failures, mistakes and long emails. Add to it, I am on crutches and not very graceful at that either so its been a bit busy for me. Quick awesome story, I got to the soundcheck venue the day before my premiere and realized the wrong venue was booked... its things like this that I could swear happen to no one else but me so pardon my laziness.
On top of that I was also deciding what to do with my life, more or less. I'm dramatic if you haven't noticed by now. But really I had to just kind of take a step back and really start to process and look at this year, my goals, what was, what is and what should come from my end anyways. If I have learned anything through this experience its that our lives are just wildly unpredictable. Maybe mine more than many others but seriously I have stopped planning as much and just learning to go with the flow. Easier said than done! This meant a lot of personal reflection and very targeted prayers and conversations with important people in my life. Have I decided...absolutely not! But I feel much clearer and centered, thats what peace of mind does I think.
I just want to share a quickie on Sincerely Ethiopia. Shameless personal plug but this is my blog so I get to do what I want!
For me this project is such a passion/faith project. I am not saying this to be preachy but because at times where my faith in a lot of things be it people or situations or God was just so tested I could really just fall back on this project and tangibly see it. I knew where we started and how unprepared and unplanned we were, at times still are. Then I take a step back and see where we are and just seriously start to realize how powerful faith is. I am a doer and a questioner, to my own destruction at times so this project helps me grow my faith a lot as I see and question and work on it.
I just want to encourage anyone out there who needs it. One phone call 3 years ago started a crazy project that has now encompassed so many people and will continue to impact many more. I have no idea where it is going, I just know that we believed in it far before any of this ever came to life. I learned that is what being a visionary is! I hope you get a chance to see it, if you really want to contact me personally I will make sure it happens. When you do see it, I hope you realize that one phone call with a friend sharing a very vague idea began it all.
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Step out in faith guys. You might have a whole audience waiting to see that vague idea come to life!
Okay let me give you a few excuses and I will get to it. These past few weeks I have actually been organizing a premiere for my film Sincerely Ethiopia here in Denver. What does that even mean??? Well it means lots of phone calls, meetings, negotiating, marketing, distributing, schmoozing, sponsor agreements, freak outs, failures, mistakes and long emails. Add to it, I am on crutches and not very graceful at that either so its been a bit busy for me. Quick awesome story, I got to the soundcheck venue the day before my premiere and realized the wrong venue was booked... its things like this that I could swear happen to no one else but me so pardon my laziness.
On top of that I was also deciding what to do with my life, more or less. I'm dramatic if you haven't noticed by now. But really I had to just kind of take a step back and really start to process and look at this year, my goals, what was, what is and what should come from my end anyways. If I have learned anything through this experience its that our lives are just wildly unpredictable. Maybe mine more than many others but seriously I have stopped planning as much and just learning to go with the flow. Easier said than done! This meant a lot of personal reflection and very targeted prayers and conversations with important people in my life. Have I decided...absolutely not! But I feel much clearer and centered, thats what peace of mind does I think.
I just want to share a quickie on Sincerely Ethiopia. Shameless personal plug but this is my blog so I get to do what I want!
For me this project is such a passion/faith project. I am not saying this to be preachy but because at times where my faith in a lot of things be it people or situations or God was just so tested I could really just fall back on this project and tangibly see it. I knew where we started and how unprepared and unplanned we were, at times still are. Then I take a step back and see where we are and just seriously start to realize how powerful faith is. I am a doer and a questioner, to my own destruction at times so this project helps me grow my faith a lot as I see and question and work on it.
I just want to encourage anyone out there who needs it. One phone call 3 years ago started a crazy project that has now encompassed so many people and will continue to impact many more. I have no idea where it is going, I just know that we believed in it far before any of this ever came to life. I learned that is what being a visionary is! I hope you get a chance to see it, if you really want to contact me personally I will make sure it happens. When you do see it, I hope you realize that one phone call with a friend sharing a very vague idea began it all.
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Step out in faith guys. You might have a whole audience waiting to see that vague idea come to life!
