THE 3RD ANNUAL SIDEWALK CHALK ART FESTIVAL
THIS SATURDAY JUNE 13th,2009
TIME: 8AM TO 2PM
Bring the kids, bring yourself and bring a smile because YOU WILL NEED IT! The 3rd annual Sidewalk Chalk Art Festival is THIS Saturday. If you haven’t been to this boisterous affair in the past it’s NOT TO BE MISSED! Budding artist & master craftsmen alike, work side by side to revitalize Historic Downtown Clermont using color & god given talent. Come witness as participants from local schools and community organizations create murals right on Montrose Street.Just right for the whole family and best of all…it’s GOOD FREE FUN!
“From Clermont Downtown Partnership website: Registration is FREE and there is no charge to spectators. The event is for artists age 6 through 10, ages 11 through 15, and ages 16 and older. Cash prizes will be awarded for each age group. Registration begins at 8:00 AM and winners will be announced at 2:00 PM. All registrants will receive a box of soft pastels and the chalk areas are approximately 38”x50.Pre-registration is encouraged (space is limited): Sponsor Packet and Application.
For more information or a registration packet please call Cheryl Fishel 352-394-8618. ”VISIT our newest non profit partner site: http://www.lcrc.us for LAKE COUNTY ROWING CLUB*While writing this recent article for Kimberanna.com I remembered my “Reality is Perception” post from Jan. 17, 2009 where I had stumbled upon a photo that made me pause to reflect. (Dug http://villageofjoy.com/amazing-3d-sidewalk-art/ ) The photographer featured Rosalind Rattus, melded Art & Photography. Her pic perfectly described my Reality is Perception theory.
My outlook on life is that you are what you create. Wake up every morning, put on your make up or don’t. Do what makes you feel beautiful, special, unique. Every experience you have, every article you read, every friend that you make sculpts the ‘package’ that the world sees when they look at you. If this is true, “Can I change who I am, by changing how I appear?” Fake it til you make it? The answer is simpler than that. Just be who you are.The answer is a secret, that everyone knows the answer to… Can you control your own destiny? Obviously more learned men than I, (Bob Costos, lol.) have wrestled with this question throughout history. If you do something seven times, (I think it’s seven, couldn’t find it atm) it becomes habit. Yet MIT discovered even if you take the treat at the end of the maze away, the rats would still follow the same path hoping for the cheese. Why? They fear the unknown more than the known. When faced with a path that we perceive as safe or known, most of us will always pick that one, even if the only reward is knowing you will get somewhere. Educate yourself. Knowledge is power and is available to everyone. FREE. Pick who you want to be and become it.We all have challenges that pop up, usually when we think we can handle them the least. Once again we must train our minds with relativity and overcome like David did Goliath. The size of the problem may seem trivial when compared to the bigger picture. You may be losing your home but your family is safe, you are healthy. Your child wasn’t killed to avoid paying child support. We have built ourselves up to the point we are today once, so we can and will do it again. This time learning from our mistakes. Building a solid foundation. Wealth is not the measure of happiness. Happiness is the measure of wealth.On Friday when your check hits the bank and you feel like a little pick me up, does taking the kids to McDonald’s to have Happy meals and play in the balls seem more special when you clear $600 a week than $10K? Do you bring your camera to catch every smile or grin? Do the kids know the difference? Did you take the time to tie up their shoes or grumble for them to hurry up? Don’t regret the past while you ignore the present. Reality is always perception through the eyes of a child. Our actions create their reality. Surround yourself with them and learn perspective. Sometimes just having them around makes me feel like I do when I see an old fashioned coke bottle. That stolen moment ripped from the past…I pop off the cap and I’m back in Nelsonville, Ohio sitting by my Aunt Lorna, middle of summer watching the Parade of the Hills. The world is at my feet. ”When I grow up, I want to be just like you!”, I coo as I sit watching her selling tickets for the Professional Woman’s Club. “25 cents a ticket, 5 for $1. Win this nice quilt!” I mimic. A kid again. Future President of the United States.Now that you know the secret, you have the tools to create whatever future you truly desire. Not what will get you the big house or the shiney car. The you that enjoys your job, that doesn’t have anyone to answer to nor anyone to blame. Let go and become what you really are inside. Break down all your walls, use the tools your maker gave you and design a reality that reflects who you really are. Not what the world has forced you to become. BE HONEST. BE YOU.Let the real you become the new you, the new you should be the real you. Take stock of what you know you are. What you like, what you can change, what you want to change. Why do you need to change? Write it down, uase it as a reminder of what not to do. Never forget the mistakes you made wear them as a badge of honor. Battle Scar. What do you want? Visualize it. Taste it, smell it, walk around inside it…literally, figuratively whatever. You must know where you are going in order to make a roadmap for the trip there. If you don’t know the way, follow someone. Ask for directions. It’s going to be a long journey, pack light. Bring only your faith, thirst for knowledge and an open heart. Let the inner hero in you breath life. LIVE.LOVE.LAUGH…leave a LEGACY.Kisses Kimberthe MUSEFOLLOW ME:twitter: kimberanna_comDigg: kimberannaFaceBook & MySpace Search kimberanna2001@yahoo.comPre-registration is encouraged (space is limited): Sponsor Packet and Application
For more information or a registration packet please call Cheryl Fishel 352-394-8618. “
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