A response to tlg847's "Freedom is ..."

Birthday greetings to str8jackit72 (Bekkah)! The video's lame but the sentiment's sincere.

Please excuse me, I've been feeling a little nebulous lately.

a glimpse of autumn in Ontario

The Worry Dolls and I hope you have a terrific day! Very best wishes, Doug

The first day of summer and the first day of Kierri celebrated in the same month. I hope June appreciates the honour. Have a wonderful day! Love, Doug

Tagged by Kierri. If you would relish the opportunity to turn over the rock of your fears and discover the wriggling monstrosities beneath, please consider yourself tagged by me.

I was tagged by Dugalwest. I've finally managed to think of five facts!

Yes! Or at least I'm going to try. The song is from "The Fantasticks," the world's longest running musical. It's a little corny and sentimental, but the lyrics slay me.

My response to Writing Challenge #4 on the "LiveVideo Writing Challenge" channel.

My response to Writing Challenge #3 on the "LiveVideo Writing Challenge" channel. The first 43 seconds are audio only, with a dark screen.

My response to Writing Challenge #2 on the "LiveVideo Writing Challenge" channel.

Victoria Day celebrates the birthday of Queen Victoria and the present queen of Canada, Elizabeth II. It falls on May 24, if that day happens to be a Monday, or the Monday before May 24, if it doesn't.   more...It's also known as the May 24th long weekend. Many people consider it the first long weekend of the summer and a time to open up the cottage or take the first camping trip.  less

This prose piece was written years ago, but the video was created as a response to Samsarajade's "Poetry Evening!" Thanks also to Tahllulah who got me looking through my old writing folder.

From the musical "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" with liberties taken with lyrics and melody.

<b>I Believe in You</b>

You have the cool, clear
Eyes of a seeker of   more...wisdom and truth;
Yet there's that upturned chin
And that grin of impetuous youth.
Oh, I believe in you.
I believe in you.

I hear the sound of good, solid judgment
Whenever you talk;
Yet there's the bold, brave spring of the tiger
That quickens your walk.
Oh, I believe in you.
I believe in you.

And when my faith in my fellow man
All but falls apart,
I've but to hear your voice in the air
And I take heart; I take heart

To see the cool, clear
Eyes of a seeker of wisdom and truth;
Yet, with the slam-bang tang
Reminiscent of gin and vermouth.
Oh, I believe in you.
I believe in you.  less

Just a thank you to some friends from LV

A video better explaining what the group is about. Welcome video to A Writer's World group.

To you all

Welcome!
Members of the community here at LiveVideo created this vid to welcome you.

If you find it helpful, there are more welcome vids at
http://www.LiveVideo.com/TheWelcomeWagon

Make this video your own-   more...upload it to your channel to use when you come across someone new to the community!
Mediafire file:
http://www.mediafire.com/?bkqlinuyxz2



Thanks to the nearly 100 vloggers who participated in this project!  less

A response to the LiveVideo Writing Challenge #3 - "Photo Prose", posted by Dugalwest.

~<b>Spin Those Wheels ~

Kenny always had this thing for wheels. Turning wheels.

I could be working   more...on my car for hours and never see his face. Which was good. I didn’t want him getting hit by a flying wrench, or kicked as I lay across the fender, head buried under the hood trying to tighten that last bolt.

But change a tire or work on the brakes? He was right there, hand pressed flat against the sidewall, trying to spin it. That would have been the ’56 Buick with the big white sidewalls.

I can still see him kneeling on the driver’s seat, leaning on the horn ring while trying to turn that big ass steering wheel. Nighttime was his favorite time to ride in that car, because it was quiet out, and he could hear the sound of the tires on the road as we drove with the windows open.

I can still remember one of the first times he borrowed my car, right after he got his license. Later in the day, I found the jack loose in the trunk. When I asked him about it, he said he had to change a tire because it was low on air. I guess he was too embarrassed to tell me about it, because when he got home and checked it with an air gauge, it was fine. I think he just wanted to spin the wheels.

When school didn’t work out for him, I told him, “Either you go to school, or get a job and start paying your own bills.” So he started working on the loading dock with me. He was a good worker, but he was always watching the trucks coming into the dock and talking with the drivers about rolling down the road.

The next thing I knew, he’d talked the boss into letting him go out with the drivers, because that’s what he wanted to do – learn to drive a semi. I heard him joking with a friend, once, about how it was appropriate that he was reading Heinlein’s “The Roads Must Roll”. I never could figure that out. What did moving roads have to do with wheels turning? But that was him and his science fiction. I reminded him that the story sounded anti-union, anyway.

So, driving and wheels turning are what got him to stick out the job and stay in the union. He’s been driving all this time, and now he just retired. We went through some old family pictures for the retirement party, and I found this one. It was Christmas, and he was three years old. The first thing he did when he picked up that bus was to spin those wheels.
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Writing Challenge: "Photo Prose"

What I'm going to suggest for this week is writing a short piece, fiction or nonfiction, using a photograph as your inspiration. It can be one of the photos provided   more...in this video, a photo of your own or a photo from some other source. You can make up a story, describe the photo, write about the memories or thoughts the photo evokes in you, whatever you like. Start with a photo and go where it takes you.

You don't have to display your photograph if you'd rather not or if you're submitting your piece in a comment (though it is fun to see the photo at some point). If you use one of the photos in the video, you can refer to it using the reference number in the bottom left-hand corner.

Good luck and have fun.  less

My response to Writing Challenge #1 on the "LiveVideo Writing Challenge" channel. By the way, I did check and it was a hen that laid golden eggs in "Jack And The Beanstalk". "The   more...Goose That Laid The Golden Eggs" is an Aesop fable.  less

You're going to hear wind noise in this video, but how could I not use the performance of the Sally Ann band as my soundtrack?!

I taped this on Sunday in a little over an hour. I'd been putting off getting   more...out with the camcorder to make a spring video but I knew if I waited too long I'd miss my chance, so I pushed myself out the door without much enthusiasm. Nearby I came across a Salvation Army band playing outside a retirement home. When I asked if I could videotape them, the bandmaster said they were just about to play their last piece but that they'd tack on an extra one for me. After thanking them, I wandered around the neighbourhood taking clips of whatever caught my eye. A few blocks away there's a street lined with linden trees that have the most beautiful fragrance in the spring. On that street there's a church and as I passed it I heard the faint strains of the choir inside. I filmed the trees in the churchyard against the grey stone and, as I was about to walk on, the bells in the steeple started tolling. It seemed to me I was having some pretty good luck in that hour on that Sunday. You can call it providence if you like. I'm not what you'd call a religious man, but I won't object.  less

Poems using "found photos" as inspiration