Witney Carson has her own Youtube Channel....

Published on May 4, 2017I'm so excited to finally launch my YouTube channel today! For my first video I did a Q&A where I answered a bunch of questions that you guys have sent through to me! I’m dishing out all the answers about my favorite movies, my advice for when you’re struggling with self-confidence, how I first found my passion for dancing, how Carson and I met, and so much more.




 

Last edited by CEK40 (5/08/2017 9:44 am)

Good Monday....Show Day....to you all!!!

Well, our interestingly strange rainy day has passed and it is severe clear and crispy cool at the moment.  It was cold enough when I got up before 6 AM that I put the heat on for about an hour!!

Getting ready to host bunco tonite....again!!!  Does it seem like that just happened??!!!  Well, it did!!!  LOL. I will be done for a while now!!!  LOL

Hubby had an 8 AM MRI at the VA this morning, so thought I would catch up and figure out who to send home (whoever I choose will likely not be the right one!!!) and who will be on top.

KeepOnSinging wrote:

CEK40 wrote:

Happy Sunday Morning to you all....

I am just stopping by quickly to say hey...Today is my daughter, my youngest, birthday...she is 28 today...Wow hard to wrap my head around that....So I am off to pick up a few things for supper tonight...I have tried to get her to tell me what she wanted but like everything else she does it is always late...I always say she was 10 day late arriving and she has been late ever since...no lie either...

 

One of my all time favorite people was always late.  I met her during my first year and her fifth year of teaching.  But she was an outstanding teacher.  Students loved her; the administration loved her. That first year, our principal held up the procession for graduation because at that high school teachers and administrators  wore academic robes and led the procession that brought the seniors into the gym/auditorium.  He was looking at his watch when we all heard the click, click click of her heels and all was well.  When Frodo tells Gandalf that he is late, Gandalf replies: "No, I am exactly on time."  Undoubtedly your daughter is also one of these delightful people.  Sometimes, these are the people valule kairos (quality of time) in a culture that enshrines chronos (measured time) almost to the exclusion of kairos.  Young children spend most of their time in kairos.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOUR DAUGHTER, WHO, LIKE MY DAUGHTER, WAS BORN LATE----THREE WEEKS.

Cute story, KOS!!!  Both my kids were late too!!!! 

Just a question for you (tells you how long it's been since I have attended graduation!): don't teachers and administrators wear academic robes anymore to graduation ceremonies???  What a shame if they don't! 

KeepOnSinging wrote:

JetmamaDiDi wrote:

JetmamaDiDi wrote:

 
But we are too spoiled by the conveniences of our current world, don't you think?! I have always admired farmers and those who physically work hard. I think it is the simplicity of life that I long for. Even in my childhood, life was much simpler.....I actually remember being bored during summers out of school!!! Of course, my mother told me if I was bored, she'd find something for me to do (like chores!!)....so that didn't last long!! LOL

 
I think what attracts me to this art is that things seem orderly!!! Of course, I'm also a sucker for anything with pumpkins....anything fall, for that matter.

Thank you JET, CEK and View for your conversation about art and life.  Thank because the word " orderly" triggered a memory of the musical "Quilter", the story of one woman and her six daughters, all seven of whom were pioneer/settlers.  When my daughter was in college, she played one of the daughters.  The musical was to have a 10/12 day run.  Can't remember which.  I had planned to go opening night and closing night, but I ended out attending all nights the show was on.  And I am glad that I did because I found the closing dialogue among the seven women powerful  because it covers the hardships and tragedies and not just the happy times on the frontier.  And the reality was that by the time my daughter was in the show and I saw our family had been so affected, and still is, by my husband's battle with bi-polar illness (1977-2017) and the terrible side effects of many of the drugs that he was on.  I wrote down the dialogue and added it to my collection of stories and observations about how people handle difficult times.  Sarah's closing words are powerful but they do not conform to the you can do anything and do it well if you just put your mind to it self help advice.  Part of life is all about what happens that we did not plan on happening, and how we piece it together in any way we like because "piecing is orderly."  You quilters know a lot more about piecing a quilt than I do.

Here is the closing dialogue.

     Sarah:   "And He showed me a river of pure water of life, clear as crystal proceeding out of the throne of God and the Lamb."

     Daughters:   "And on either side of the river there was a Tree of Life....., and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations...."

     Sarah:   "You can't always change things.  Sometimes you don't have no control over the way things go.  Hail ruins the crop or the fire burns you out.  And then you're given just so much to work with in a life, and you have to do the best you can with what you got.  The materials is passed on to you or is all you can afford to buy....that's just what's given to you.  Your fate.  But the way you put them together is your business.  You can put them together in any order you like.   Piecing is orderly."  

This musical made its first run on Broadway in 1984.  I saw it at the theater at the University of Wisconsin, Wausau branch in 1993.

 

 I LOVE THIS, KOS.....and the dialogue is so correct (as I see it anyway) and insightful.  Life is, in quilting terms, a patchwork of bits and pieces put together with love and a certain amount of vision.  Sometimes it comes out as you envision it will; sometimes you mix and match and change things up because, either something happened that altered the outcome, you didn't like it as you envisioned it, or you ran out of fabric so you scrapped it up with what you had!!

I learned long ago that we control very little in life....and what our life is and becomes is largely how we respond to circumstances (fate as the dialogue calls it)....how we deal with it all.  When we are young and foolish, we think that life will go a certain way--according to OUR plan.  Somehow it often becomes something much different than we anticipated.  But the "trick", if you will, to happiness is to allow each of  those experiences...the patchwork....to take us where it leads, to make peace with each change that we do or don't like...and many are almost unnoticed as they happen.  Each piece or chapter helps form the outcome...adding something that molds the story of life.  In the end we will end up with our own quilt...our Tree of Life....of many colors, fabrics, textures....molded into the imperfectly perfect story of our own life story....unique and different, as each one of us is unique.