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Traveling the Back Roads and Memories from an Earlier Time.

(With toddler in hand, a mother discovers nearby adventures and then, the children grow up!)

Even though last April I found myself in Paris with a slew of teens on another performance tour (more later), I haven’t blogged about that yet, but keep thinking of the past when my children were so little and open to the mysteries of the natural world.  I’ve always been passionate about exploring nature and traveling the back roads to uncover secrets never before seen – at least by my eyes!  Not an easy feat with toddlers!!  So, in order to satisfy my need for adventure, I began in my own backyard, so to speak. There’s a pond at the end of my street and the hike there is doable for wee ones.  Once there, my girls and I discovered frogs and dragonflies, wild flowers and --  lying flat on our backs -- those same things and more in the clouds.

"Climate of Change" Comes to DVD

From the producers of An Inconvenient Truth, CLIMATE OF CHANGE is a rich and inspiring documentary that takes the viewer around the world to find the ordinary people taking action in the fight to save our environment. Releasing on dvd February 22, 2011 via New Video, the narration was written by British poet Simon Armitage and voiced by Tilda Swinton (Chronicles of Narnia, Adaptation).  The film seamlessly explores how teenagers in India, villagers in Papua New Guinea and Africa, self-described “hillbillies” in Appalachia and a PR expert in London are harnessing their global thinking to act locally within their respective communities. 

The entertainment biz trade publication Variety called it a “half eco-docu, half art…social-action cinema with a twist,”.  Director Brian Hill and his cinematographers create a real sense of ambience in each of the countries and communities they visit.