Love last.
Enjoy the last of summer.
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Archive for the ‘Fun times’ Category
Hercules’ true strength.
One of the most absolute joys of my creative life is writing and producing television and radio promotion packages for Xena: Warrior Princess and Hercules: The Legendary Journeys. Never a day went by when I didn’t thank the gods for the opportunity (pun intended) – to cut promos with one of my great creative partners, J. Churchill Morgan, and the rest of the crew at Crawford Post in Atlanta, GA, to work with a most excellent show production crew in L.A., New Zealand and Canada … and to laugh -spontaneous and pure- throughout the entire experience.
Every once in a while, I look through my box of treasures from that time and reminisce: Gabrielle’s leather journal she carried at the beginning of her adventures with Xena; a box of homemade Hercules and Xena Christmas cards we wrote that we sent to the post production crew (Happy Birthday, Jesus! From Zeus, King of the Gods); song lyrics set to the Hercules theme music that were inspired by Kevin Sorbo’s fabulous mane (Hercules, will you help me please? I’m having a bad hair day!). Hours and hours … and hours … of fun times, which amaze me still. I can never call it work.
This is why I’m sharing a video interview with Kevin Sorbo, who talks about his life and his new book, True Strength: My Journey from Hercules to Mere Mortal–and How Nearly Dying Saved My Life.
As I was experiencing one of the most productive and enjoyable times of my career, our main character –our hero- was at a precipice. And I have to say, as part of this crazy, glorious crew headed by Rob Tapert … never did Kevin’s pain encroach on us making a promo deadline, never did it show in the raw footage we screened, never once did we suffer while he was suffering. In Atlanta, at Tribune Creative Service Group, in the halls and edit suites, his work simply gave us joy.
And I’ll always be grateful to him for that.
Tree pose.
I’ve discovered Artist A Day by adding the app to my iGoogle home page. The site features “New Art Every Day,” delivered right to my desktop.
Today’s new art is called, “Birdcage” by Los Angeles, CA-based artist Tony Hong, who works exclusively in ink. I totally like the theme … a tree after my own heart, if you will.
For anyone in yoga practice, you may relate to this observation: I’ve also discovered that my sense of balance is a little …how you say… timid these days. Practicing tree pose is revealing this to me.
And I think I’ve found a new visual for balance; a little bird(cage) told me.
Happy birthday.
Today is my sister’s 50th birthday. I flew her out to the Pacific Northwest for a week-long celebration!
It’s always fun to see the place where you live through the eyes of someone who’s never seen it before. I spent my 50th birthday atop the Eiffel Tower; she’ll be atop the Space Needle. Taking a ferry, going wine tasting, visiting Pike’s Market and the Bloedel Reserve –hoping at least one day is clear enough for her to see Mt. Rainer, the Olympics and the Cascades- it’s really a renewal for me, too.
It’s beautiful here. And I’m so glad I can give this experience to my sweet, sweet sister.
Happy Birthday, Nancy! oxoxo
Utah Peaches.
It’s so easy to love a peach.
Once I discover Utah peaches, though, no other peach is the same. On warm August days in Idaho Falls and around the West, by the side of the road, you see the signs: Utah Peaches.
Don’t pass them by. If you do, you can never know the sweetest peach. Or bitter regret.
The summer I discover Utah peaches, I buy them by the bushel, peel the skin away and slice them (one for me, one for later; two for me, one for later) -and flash freeze each piece individually, so I can taste them in the middle of winter. Then, I sauté them up with some chicken breast and herbs. Or bake a peach cobbler.
But in the summer, I eat my Utah peaches naked. With abandon.
Photo by totalAldo
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Tomato.
Summer’s finally golden here in the Northwest, and I’m thinking about tomatoes.
Picked from the vine, warm from the sun, juice running down my arms … sweet, red, Green Zebra, heirloom, Sweet 100′s, drip … meaty Beefsteaks, slender plums, outstanding San Marzanos. Big, healthy bites, sweet surrender –a flood of childhood memories bringing me back to this moment, this taste, this fruit … the spicy smell of nightshade, yellow, orange, popping in my mouth, sticky … bursting with the flavor of summer.
Repeat.
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Photo by visualdensity
Clipping coupons.
What I’d like is to hike the hills of Julian, California.
Feel the sun on my shoulders and smell the sweet heat of the Earth. Stroll the streets, shop a little, maybe have a piece of pie. Stop by Pine Hills Lodge for an adult beverage. Continue on a wine tasting adventure and visit some old friends. Watch the sun go down sipping a nice Grenache Rosé.
What I’m doing, though, is clipping coupons.
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Cowboy in another life.
Dreaming about the lovely Absaroska Mountains in Paradise Valley, Montana near Chico Hot Springs Resort and Day Spa. Up near Yellowstone and Livingston. They don’t call it Big Sky for nothing. Saddle up and move ‘em out.
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Coffee and cigarettes.
Just finished reading author Stieg Larsson‘s Millennium series -The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest- as well as watching the Swedish movies.
I don’t know much about Sweden, life there or its politics –three things that drew me into the fictional story of Lisbeth Salander. Appreciating Lisbeth as a character kept me reading.
I think actor Daniel Craig makes a fine Mikael Blomkvist for the 2011 movie re-make.
But right now, what I really want is a cup of coffee and a cigarette.
Photo Credit: Flickr, ot
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Beautiful.
The Japanese Garden at the Washington Park Arboretum is celebrating 50 years this year! A wonderful spot for experiencing the simple pleasure of beauty. Always an inspiration. Here are a few snaps …
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