Sharing an adaptation of a message to a producer we had written:
First part a reminder to be creative for working out then second part has our proposal...
Sharing it here just in case it helps or inspires someone to help us do this part of the vision:
Remember this is an adaptation of the conversation:
Well, even though I probably won't get to meet you unless you come to (our town) for some reason, I did have a thought we wanted to share about "work outs"...
Not that I am really one to talk since I went from being an active bodymind listener to shutting down amd not listening to my body for theast five years, though I've started to get back into listening a little more recently..
the thought I had was how about making all of one's dates be "work-out" dates. And I don't mean at the gym or anything.
I mean like just a nice long walk in an arboretum or park or something simple like that. Or get yourself and your date a couple of hulahoops ;)
Or have a belly dancing date, lol...where y'all both participate, grin. :)
If you were in Houston, I'd probably have you just have you help out in the garden with us, lol. Depending on the type of garden project, it can be more of a work out than most people realize, lol.
But anyways, just wanted to chip away the myth that in order to be in shape that one has to set aside actual "work out" time..
Here at our home, we installed a pull-up bar between the kitchen and the den so that in theory every time one went through one could do a stretch and a pull up. I personally did not do the pull-up part though I do use it to help stretch , but kiddo did take advantage of it and I was impressed bc it did help him.
Or use a ball instead of a chair for the core..
Or squat more on the floor.
People take vastly for granted both how incredible it is to get up and down from the floor can be. Places where they don't have chairs or couches the folks tend to stay in better shape bc they are always using their legs and cores just to sit and squat..
Anyways, instead of working out, just keep yourself stretching and wiggling your spinal cord and getting up and down a lot even at work. Every time you are waiting on something - take that opportunity to stretchhhhh or practice your balance or some kind of movement. Something simple. Something small. Yummmm.
But if you are ever too intimated to do this with a date, feel free to give us a call and we will inspire you over the phone, lol.
Grin.
By the way.. we soooo agree with you about the word "spoil"..we want to be refreshed and rejuvenated and empowered, not spoiled, lol...
Grin.
Oh one last thing.. do you think sometime maybe over a phone call or something, we could pick your brain about producing? We are but curious about some of it...
Big happy hug. Glad to make your acquaintance! 😁
The producer wrote back a thank you for the ideas and asked: "Also, what would you like to know about producing?"
My response startled me bc I usually prefer to write my answer then talking person but this time I did say:
"Lol, I am going to totally shock and surprise myself on this with this request-- any chance you might be up for or willing to do a zoom/video call for us to discuss our ideas so i can visually assess just how incredibly far fetched my ideas are? But if we did that, would you be okay with the conversations being recorded... I totally understand if that would not be okay with you...
If your prefer my written answer, may i have a week or so to try to take the ideas ive had in my head and put them down into writing in a coherent form? It also came to mind to make a video proposal though that might take a little longer to do..."
Producer asked us to " stick with a conversation here for now. Ask away"
If you have followed the conversation thus far: here is Our attempt to put it all into words:
Hmm. How to verbalize thoughts?
Broken it into three sections.
-P1-
Hmmmm. So, after a sensory shut down experience i had about a year before the divorce, kiddo & i started to take a tool we had used to to help with transitions
and turned it into a tool to help us survived the stress of life, then the divorce, and then even more so, mom's dementia.
Over the years, we started to learn to record well - everything..
Both as a survival tool to help with our sanity, but also as a sort of third brain to help with our scatterbrainedness with all the stress we are under.
It became a way of life to help us to be able to feel safe to participate and be in the world..
And the more recorders on, the better, bc the few times we didnt have a recorder on or the recorder failed often turned out to be some important moment or area or conversation whoch would have been useful to have had recorded or which we had really wanted to have had remembered for some reason or another.
We had started a couple of youtube experiments, some as a sort of dumping ground/sorting tool of some bits we felt like sharing... and some as a sort of a way to share some of our ideas. In the back of my mind i might have had a sort of Trumanlike show idea originaly -- though currently we actually share very little of our actual life bc we dont really have the equipment id like to have to do the kind of editing id want to do to share more of those sections of our lives..,equipment like a functional laptop or decent editing equipment (as ive personally found the phones softwares abilities to be a bit limited.)
I know we dont have the most fascinating of lives right now for others to watch right at this moment.. But i guess there is this pondering of wodnering how we could take all the accumulation of the past (or the present and as we go forward) and take something we automatically already do for ourselves to simply be in the world, and somehow make it useful for others
or helpful to others
or maybe bring in some income.
We are about to create a couple of new youtube ideas of areas and topics we have been wanted to bring up (although some may be a bit controversial so I am not sure if youtube is the right place to put them though i will probably try anyways.) But anyways, dont know quite how to exactly verbalize exactly what it is that we would like to try to do.
.P2.
What we do know is that the world is about to change for us bc we are being forced by my ex to sell my family's home of over 50 years,
but we are also fighting hard to try to find a way to also still try to save it - our familys home and land and what is inside it-- AND to be allowed to keep living there as we are even if we wont be the ones having our names on the deed anymore. At least not for right now. Though the end goal is to make sure we get our names back on that deed somehow! - in some form fashion or way and get back control of our home!!!.
But Something we find so extremely frustrating is to think how every year how easy it is for millions to get so easily fundraised to make some of the crappiest silliest two hour films which arent useful to the world at all... and yet here we are struggling to find an investor to invest only 1/2 a million that with 100% certainty will one day get their money back (bc we know we will do almost everything we can legally think of to try to get our familys home back that doesnt trespass on our values or one what we are trying to accomplish.) But with an idea that COULD actually be of some use to the world if it was allowed to happen!!!
Surely there has got to be some way to combine this idea of our filming and recording eveything AND raising money for films AND saving the home AND creating some film to raise up 1/2 million or however much will be needed to save our home ..
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Your next question might be: 'well, how could our idea to save our home help the world in any shape, way, or form?.'
Well ... The current plan is that once the we convince the ex to place the home with our consultant's person, then we will try to get our nonrprofit idea up and running..
Our non profit idea is to use our home and land that means so much to us and that holds our story to try to teach folks how regenerative food forest urban living can be done INSIDE the city. That you do NOT have to leave the city to accomplish these goals. Starting with our own home and familys land, our nonprofit will create urban food forests regenerative development projevts.
But if we could somehow incorporate all of the footage/recording we currently have and or will be taking (since that is the only way we are comfortable interacting with anyone or even getting out of bed and/or well doing anything)
And produce some sort of film or yotube show or something with it and using that to help raise the 1/2 million or more that will be needed to save our home....
Than that would be a definite dream come true!!
-P3-
It may have all began with my love for simple photography ....and grew to if my eyes see it or my ears heard it, and i wanted to remember it, then i wanted to record it. The joke that we have is "uh oh mom (me) saw it, everyone hold still till she takes a video picture/video of it". Or '"wait, dont move that, mom hasnt taken a video of how you are or how it is just yet"
Since my mother and my son who grew up with me -- it it is a way of life that matched their own love for photography and capturing moments of time.
But for others, it could and can be something others are not always as comfortsble with or dont have the patience with.....
so from some folks's perspective, this is considered to he a massive flaw about me that limits and slows us down...
But in permaculture there is this absolutely beautiful philosophy that every problem is actually the solution.
So Imagine if we could take this so called thing that the occasional person calls a problem (our need to audio/video record every moment of our lives that we are a part of..) and what if we could thst so called problem into the solutiom here!
I am not exactly sure how to do it. But i know it has got to be possible.
The footage and audio recordings are going to happen regardless as our way of of being and participating in life.. It is just how we are and what we do...
so we might as well make it turn into a benefit, right?
Polio pateints have their machine lung. Recordinng technology is our machine lung that lets us exist in the world.
So if we could find a way to use all of that way we are to help save our home and be able to keep living in our home .. and to be able to run our nonprofit dream out of our home that means so much to us, then
Imagine the possibilities...
Of turning our problem into our solution!
:)
Nov/Dec 2024