Living Out Loud Volume 4: Don’t Tell Me; Show Me

This month’s Living Out Loud Project required us to make a video explaining, telling, describing, something about our lives. I pretty much haven’t felt like I’ve had one, thanks to the belly. But then something happened that made me take a second look, get off my ass, and reclaim what is mine.

I almost didn’t do the project, and for a month, came up with nothing. Then, at 12 in the afternoon of the day it was due, I came inside from where I’d been sitting on the patio, hunched over a box of old pictures I’m organizing for a reunion with 4 high school friends in Nags Head NC later this month. I walked through the kitchen, threw my coffee cup on the counter as I passed by the sink, and the beginning of the idea formed. One of the things I like best about writing is that it doesn’t exactly come from me. I start it, and something else takes over. Of course, I’m the one that becomes obsessed for the next 7 or 8 hours till it’s finished, but hey, that’s creativity for ya.

I need to figure out what I’m doing for this LOL Project due Sunday.
Really, I need to get a life in the next 2 days so I can video it.
~me, the Friday before deadline.