A 2-star assignment: Tell a short story using flashcard and record yourself. It can be something funny, sad, or just even express how your day was.

Thanksgiving is right around the corner and I wanted to do a short tribute of thankfulness in video form.  What better way to tell my story?  I do believe that gratitude is the overflow of a joyful heart.  I’m a lover of the exchange of words on paper.

This was a semi-easy assignment (thus the two stars) and I wanted it simple because the words were going to be the most important.  The video was recorded and uploaded from my phone.  The music that is playing is a lyric-less Josh Groban track that I adore.  It’s a beautiful and season-appropriate melody.  I also thought narration would be inappropriate because the flashcards were going to be used.

There is something nice about a hand-written aspect to a video even if the handwriting is not the prettiest.  Handwriting is raw and something that I find is most in line with whatever emotion I am feeling.  The papers are also reflective on the way I feel.  Granted, these are the papers that I found to be the most handy and available, but color impacts how you perceive things and I wanted these to mirror how I saw the person or what I knew the person’s tastes were.  I know that I am spewing a lot of reasons and not much story here, but I think that each person is their own story and between the two of us we create another paragraph together in the book of life.