Half Lives
One life…how many of us live it to the fullest? How many of us pursue our dreams or become the difference. How many choose selfishness over selflessness? Too many people waste their lives in trivial pursuits and bitter grudges held too long. Too many walk in fear of what might be, never reaching forward for more. Too many cower in the corner and wait for life to happen to them. Too many choose apathy over action. Living a half life works for many. Living a whole life is hard. It’s filled with challenge, strife, fear and risk. As many times there is success, there is also failure, for...
Read Morefour letters, starting with c
We’ve banned a word in our house. It’s 4 letters long and starts with “c”. No, it’s not THAT word. Or that one either. It’s CAN’T. We won’t use the word “can’t” in our house. It’s part of something we call “lazy language”. Lazy language is used when we’re too lazy to explain something fully, to think it through to the end. For example, “That’s stupid” isn’t allowed, rather our boys are encouraged to say something like “That [insert random product/idea here] doesn’t...
Read Moretwelve to eighteen months
Could you imagine if all you had was twelve to eighteen months…to live, to breathe, to give your children all they need to grow into adults, to be with friends, to love… …to live. One year is five hundred twenty five thousand, six hundred minute (525,600). That sounds like a lot of time, but not if it’s all you have. I watched a good friend live every one of those 525,600 minutes. And then she was gone. It was fast, too fast. Last year I started to hear about a girl named Jen. She is a lot like I was 4 years ago…same age, two boys the same age mine were,...
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Sports parents are nuts. Not all of them, but a lot of them. I am just home from three days of an intense selection camp. Logan made it to the Team BC Lacrosse camp for PeeWees (11 + 12 year olds), so we made the 4 hour trek to Kelowna, BC and settled in for a weekend of lacrosse. Designed as a way to whittle the top 60 athletes down to a team of 20, this had the potential to be a high pressure situation for the kids. And for many I’m sure it was. But for many more kids, it was about playing the game with the best of the best, having fun on the floor and making new friends. The parents,...
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Breaking up is hard to do. A cliche, but true. Sometimes, though, the only way forward is to leave something behind. You gotta break away from everything holding you back and be…you. Whatever that is. Don’t panic, wonderful readers, I’m not breaking up with Steve or you. But I am breaking up with all the “shoulds” I’m truly sick of. I am a Creative (with a capital C…that’s right, a capital C). With that comes all sorts of scary stuff. Like not seeing the world like everyone else. Like not wanting the same things as everyone else. Like not doing...
Read Moretrading on tools
“How did you get into photography?” ”Did you and Steve meet in photography?” Conversation starters or genuine curiosity, these are the two most common questions I’m asked by those with “conventional” jobs or, really, any non-photographer jobs. The creative incites curiousity already, but a creative in business is something of a novelty to many. Those questions are invariably followed with something like this: “I saw your site, you guys do beautiful work. Do you only do weddings? Weddings must be SOOOO inspiring. You are so lucky to be able to...
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Fun loving, life living, hate-getting-up-early, dream weaving wife, mother, friend, daughter, storyteller, author, photographer and creative, Jen Bebb has certainly taken the idea she can have it all to heart. 