I was reading Paulo Coelho's blog today, and came across a wonderful post from a few days ago, discussing ones "personal legend". It is a wonderful reminder of our need to pursue what is deep within us, what it takes and why some fail.

Like so much of his writing, I would thoroughly recomend taking a few minutes to read it.

Conversation with the master the personal legend

FilmFellas from Steve Weiss, Zacuto USA on Vimeo. I just came across this short film by Steve Weiss, that I thought was amazing and wanted to share. Watch it now and tell me what you think. It's a discussion over dinner about the future of movie making and TV vs publishing films on the internet. I found it profound, I mean think about the contrast between the desire to have your work seen on the big screen, a goal most film makers aspire to but few reach versus the ability to publish tomorrow on the internet and be seen by millions. Oh and BTW isn't the quality of Vimeo mind blowing. just think about the possibilities. Enjoy!

Well after less than a month with iPower I have moved web hosts due to their unreliability. I am sure this isn't the way they are permanently but over the last week my site was down on a number of occasions for hours, and I have lost my confidence. I am very sorry for the inconvenience caused ... grrr. One of the interesting observations is that they weren't prepared to go into detail of what the technical issue was, just each time that "it was a router and it's now fixed". I guess companies do this due to being scared of looking bad, but left with no convincing information I was forced to move and protect myself. I wish them luck, but at least now I have some confidence that things will be even better than before. Maybe they could have shown me that they care and there should have been a strategy to not made the situation worse. Hopefully I have done my homework a little better this time, and have moved to Host Gator. I've read lots of positive reviews, they consistently rate high on "Best ISP" lists, and I love that they have an environment policy and plan. I also really love how they present themselves giving a sense of size, combined with the promise of support from the owner ... You can even chose for your support ticket to go to CEO Brent Oxley if you're not satisfied with the help you're getting. Anyway setup was easy, registration and getting started took less than 20 minutes, just like it should be. Once again, thank you for your support of me, and I trust that all will be good now and in fact the site even feels a little faster.

Sometimes you see a music video that, although not for everyone, really hits home for yourself.

This one, has beautiful cinema photography ... and as someone on YouTube commented, a voice that is "haunting beautiful"

For me, since I can't understand the words I get caught up in my imagination ... and with the images and the sounds make up my own story.

The coastline in this video reminds me of the places in New Zealand, where we would play as kids and you yearn for when you are away.

Enjoy

Sanvean (I am your shadow) - Lisa Gerrard

One of the incredible blessings of working in the Queensberry Group is the wonderful people we get to spend our time with, and few are more inspiring than Peter Haythornthwaite.
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I was sitting at the kitchen table about to take a photo of this wood pigeon when I got an email from Peter commenting on my blog. Amongst other things he said "I guess a natural 'other' would be small videos of family discoveries at the beach - your area, your 'forest' area, your Titirangi - why do you live there etc." The timing made me smile as this beautiful bird perfectly symbolizes why we live here. I guess home is always where your family is, but only a few meters from our kitchen table we have the wonder of nature (Peter you must admit Mother Nature was a pretty good designer), while through the internet and travel the rest of the world is available to us as we want it. Our house sits on a ridge, with the sun rising on one side...
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... and of course setting on the other. It's as if we live in an incredible painting, but one that changes by the hour and where the wind blows. Today the sea is looking very moody and cold.
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