Life in a Day

Don’t look back kept popping into my head today. First off during my 10km run around Elk and Beaver Lakes. I was pacing behind Glenn and Donna. Catherine held back three and half minutes before she started. I resisted looking back for her to conserve energy. My second run this week and second one in four months. Already onto a 10km.
I heard her come up, but I didn’t look back.
Last night I decided to shoot a time capsule of my day for the Life in a Day documentary. www.youtube.com/lifeinaday A global project preserving this day in history by documenting it through self-shot You Tube videos. To be edited and broadcast at the Sundance Film Festival in 2011.
How ambitious. By noon I’d already shot 16 minutes.
As it’s the first day of my holidays, I took it easy today. First the run, then breakfast, coffee, a newspaper read then a nap. Up to do dishes and depart for the country to see momma who was visiting friends and then to the Sooke Fine Arts show. Not a huge day but I found myself opinionated each time I spoke to the camera.
What do I fear most? Lack of water, destruction of mother earth, not being able to use my skills to somehow make a difference, consumerism. What do I love about life? People, learning, fresh air, clean water, freedom. What makes me laugh? Silly people definitely. Hanging with friends and not being afraid to speak my mind.
So why did don’t look back keep coming into my mind today? I read something about it in my horoscope. I heard it in a song. I’m recording a time capsule of my day and don’t look back keeps popping in my head.
I’ve always been one for preserving moments in history either through the written word or photography. A chance to look back and remember what was. How that time felt. A reflection of where you are now.
As this day draws to a close, with a beautiful moon shining I say to myself, it is time to move on. To another day with more opportunities to learn, grow, share and shine - with gratitude.

Solitude Holitude With Life in a Day

My new name for holidays. Solitude holitude! I started today around noon. Don’t get paid for them. But sure plan on enjoying them.
Never been one for doing nothing. Tomorrow morning starts off with a 10km run around Elk and Beaver Lakes. Maybe a swim after. Then it’s wherever my heart takes me.
I also plan on shooting a Life in a Day video www.youtube.com/lifeinaday My time capsule of July 24, 2010. Also my first official day of holidays. There are three questions to be included in my vid: What do you fear most in your life? What do you love most in your life? What makes you laugh?
Then there’s the soundtrack inclusions: a clap, a single note held for as long as I can, the sound of my breath in and out and a snap of my favourite sound. Also a blip on what’s in my pocket.
Unedited this will then get posted to You Tube and possibly viewed by the likes of Kevin MacDonald and Ridley Scott if it makes it past the editing bench. Then maybe chosen for inclusion in the full length documentary to be aired at Sundance 2011.
Pretty cool I have to say. A video time capsule of my day tomorrow.
Stay tuned.