I know you all probably know already but...........after much debate and some tears on my part....we are moving back to Peeves. And since no one's put a blog on here for days I thought I would at least make mention of that. I know I am a giant complainer in many ways, at least I have been around all of my dear family who puts up with it....but..........(wait for it........) I also know I can be one of the more optimistic folks on the planet as well! And what I have figured out is that I tend to have alot more optimism in my soul when I am surrounded with the people I love. Even if I get dramatic at times, my soul is generally far more stoked when I don't spend every day alone or watching movies with Art wishing that I could go drink coffee during morningtimes at 905 Darlington, or wishing I could drive through Em's work and get some town gossip, or go get a pizza at Heyday and wink at Stan and Joey, or meet some of the Pville sisters for Brewer's Night at the Brick Oven, or convince the gang to meet at Poor Red's and then head back to our house for poker, or stop by Dad's house and visit the ragtaggle crew of animals and help tidy the place up and tend to a garden, or go to Mel's with mom and hear about her latest plans for outfits, or stop by Emily's mom's new thrift store, or go swinging at midnight with the friends or watch the sun rise with the friends, or have Jocelyn and Dan come over and record their music, or have Scott Sowa stop by and visit us at 2am, or make random plans for new backpacking trips, or have everyone come to our living room and taste our new batch of beer, or have dance parties on any given moment, or have craft days with Heather, or go visit Beana and Cleeclee and C Piff and Abigail, and have someone who lives close by able to take care of our darlings so that we can go on a little trip.....I really don't mean to be a baby but I just don't have any of this where I am. And it's not like I am fresh new to this town. I have been living here on and off for 5 1/2 years.....so you would think by now I would be comfortable and have close friends. The thing is, our family is so close, so funny, so fun, so amazing.....it's hard to convince those who have never gone swinging and singing at midnight that it just might be something they WANT to do and not something that makes them embarrassed or feel weird.
Hope that covers it. I promise I will be a better sport, all the TIME, even stuck with Dad and Mikie fighting in a car. Even at Glacier if its 34 degrees at night and pouring unrelenting rain, even if Heather and I get into a drunken scuffle. See.....if I hadn't given this another shot..moving back to Grass Valley that is....I would always have taken all that stuff I listed a minute ago for granted, for the most part. But the good ol' Lord likes to remind you what's important. And he/she did alright. Or the universe did...or the Great Spirit did....or whatever you want to call it. No matter what anyone else thinks, I believe I have found my destiny, and I believe there is a God who helps out with that sort of thing, if you really want it and ask for it. And I believe my destiny is..... perhaps oddly if I were speaking to my 20 year old self, to live in El Dorado County as my homebase til I am an old lady. But not just that!!!!......To travel the WORLD from there.....!!! To visit all the National Parks with Placerville as my home base.....! To open a restaurant there! To be in more movies and participate in the community there! To help Placerville become a town that values creativity and art and kindness more and more! To learn how to make awesome websites there! To play shows and nurture my own music and anyone else's music that I can there! To not be caught up in stupid, petty, unrealistic, snobby stuff like who's cool and who's kind of famous and who's dad is who etc etc etc....... But to live from my soul and grow gardens and be with the family I love and the friends I love and plan great parties and galas and sing together and camp together and fall in love with the wilderness together and be thankful to the Universe/ God together, to have babies together and raise families together, swim in rivers together, go on road trips together, work hard together, laugh crazily together, cry with beauty together.....forever and forever......and for sure for the REST OF THIS LIFE.
And on that note, a video I started a long time ago...................... for you all!
Reign Of Love from Adrienne Beatty on Vimeo.
3 comments:
this is incredibly beautiful, funny and perfectly amazing. i cry. i cry and cry every time i watch this. thank you so much for finishing it ade, it is so beautiful all the old pics mixed in with the new and the haunting black and white image of the cat and the dog, khristine and jeanette, grandma nelle, grandma g, the uncs and aunts, the beginnings, the growings, the places and people along the way...killing me, absolutely killing me. honey, this is a gift to our family and friends, and how lucky and blessed we are indeed forever. i'm so glad to have watched this right before bed. now i'll have flying dreams for sure. i love you. i'm so so glad you said what you said about peevs and that you're moving back. i know you're going to end up with the perfect house, whatever happens, and i for one can't wait.
Addie, this is another fabulous presentation of family and friends and activities all thru the years to show the incredible speed at which time travels. I too cry in my heart at the memories, fantastic and beautiful as they are. Thank you for putting this together...Sometimes I think that this type of thing is as close as we can have to getting the past back.
My favorite video EVER!! So loving every song and beautiful picture! Love you xoxo
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