Episode 32: Monumental Megan

 
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Summary: Sabrina and Trent talk to long-time friend Megan Roberts Young. 


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Show Notes: 

1. Zencastr.com is the website we use to record our podcast. We highly recommend checking it out if you are interested in recording conversations with multiple participants. Love it. 

2. Patreon.com is another site worth looking into. 

2. Where the Freedom Garden once thrived at Commonwealth Ave and Chehalem Rd in La Canada: 

 

Episode 31: Liz In Red

 
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Summary: holiday episode recorded live in Pasadena, CA. 


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1. Liz in front of the thrift store. 

2. Trent applying Nevea Cream and the bouquet of electronics. 

 

Episode 29: Words To Live By or "We're gonna need a bigger boat."

Summary: Sabrina and Trent share some of the favorite quotes of RIT podcast listeners. 


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Full list of quotes posted on Facebook: 

Jeni Cahill My favorite favorite poem is by the great Rumi: 

"Come. Come.

Whoever you are.

Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. 

It doesn't matter.

Ours is not a caravan of despair.

Come, even if you have broken your vows a thousand times.

Come, yet again.

Come. Come."

It's my reminder that I am always welcome back. To start over. Begin anew. (I cry Everytime I say it) It's quite special to me. 

Annie Langseth "There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep, and still be counted as warriors."

-Adrienne Rich- 

Kriss Lumsden “BE WHO YOU WERE CREATED TO BE AND YOU WILL SET THE WORLD ON FIRE.” SAINT CATHERINE OF SIENNA ... I keep this one on my website.

Tracee Bolte Jones "Whether you think you can, or think you can't...you're right!" ~ Henry Ford

Hannah P Ribbens "I had an uprising in my soul." K'naan

Sarah DuBow "If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am only for myself, 

what am i? If not now, when?"  - Hillel the Elder. I use this quote every day to make sure I am caring for myself, helping others, and not putting either of things off. 

Cynthia Reynolds At any time you can ask yourself: At which threshold am I now standing? At this time in my life, what am I leaving? Where am I about to enter? What is preventing me from crossing my next threshold? What gift would enable me to do it? - John O'Donohue

Eric Scott "Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work." - Chuck Close

Danielle Donaldson “Promise me you will not spend so much time treading water and trying to keep your head above the waves that you forget, truly forget, how much you have always loved to swim.” Tyler Knott Gregson

Margret Morse Keep walking, though there's no place to get to. Don't try to see through the distances. That's not for human beings. Move within, but don't move the way fear makes you move. Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and freightened. Don't open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument. Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground. -Rumi

Jasmine Jones Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide. - D.W. Winnicott

Christina Crook "I am not afraid. I was born to do this." - Joan of Arc

Kathleen Rossi I like this quote a lot... 

"I think everything in life is art. What you do. How you dress. The way you love someone, and how you talk. Your smile and your personality. What you believe in, and all your dreams. The way you drink your tea. How you decorate your home. Or party. Your grocery list. The food you make. How your writing looks. And the way you feel. Life is art." 

Helena Bonham Carter 

Heather Shafer Honor the space between no longer and not yet. 

Stacey Doyle Chris Cleave — 'I am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself.' 

Mara Ingerham "I stopped waiting for the light at the end of the tunnel and lit that bitch up myself." 

Dave Roberts No dress rehersal, this is our life

Kelley Walker "Once upon a time, when women were birds, there was a simple understanding that to sing at dawn and to sing at dusk was to heal the world through joy. The birds still remember what we have forgotten, that the world is mean to be celebrated." ~Tempest Williams

Amanda Grace 'Hope and Memory have one daughter, and her name is art' ~ WB Yeats. Resonates so deeply with me. I came across this as I was 'building my dwelling' (studio) in Sligo.. which also happens to be next to his grave 

Corinne Stubson "We're gonna need a bigger boat". (Roy Scheider- 'Jaws' ad lib)  

Amanda Grace Ha! That was on TV here last night. Never gets old.. although it did frighten me out of the ocean when I was small (and by small, I mean...til I was 38)

Corinne Stubson Amanda Grace :) 

Julia Mary Grey to be left alone, face to face with my own crime, has been just retribution

- henry longfellow

Audrey Grace Speicher " I want to beg you, as much as I can, to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which would not … —— Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.

Sylvan Bourgette "The Source has lit my mind Itself, and keeps my mind lit by Its light because It's light is what my mind is"

Melanie Price We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us. - Joseph Campbell

Sylvan Bourgette Sabrina Ward Harrison this is THE best post. Thanks!

Julee Brophy Herrmann When you're going through hell keep going. Churchill

Patricia Zoline was going to write that, but I see you already did :) 

Julee Brophy Herrmann Patricia Zoline is my current mantra

Nastassja Mills “When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am older, I admire kind people.”

--Abraham J. Heschel (My favorite quote ever.)

Kate Duvall "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Prefontaine) 

Jilan Carroll Glorfield 'belong to your lifetime' ;) 

Sarah Anne Rose Remember always that you are just a visitor here, a traveler passing through. your stay is but short and the moment of your departure unknown. -The 14th Dalai Lama

Michele Canady Morrill Live what you love

Darla Teagarden If you don't become the ocean you will be seasick every day- Leonard Cohen

Lizzy Debutante "Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is YOUER than YOU." Dr. Seuss

Jake Belcher Who is more foolish? The fool? Or the fool who follows?- Obi Wan Kenobi

Denise Muse Time chooses the moment

Erin Elizabeth Knight "I am a brutally soft woman" -nayyirah waheed

Rebekah Kortokraks My favourite quote is the Walt Whitman one you illustrated 

so beautifully "re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem" etc

Holly Bechiri Two...no three from my wall in my office/studio right now: 

"It does not have to do with whether you can buy and sell the work. It has to do with who you are and what you were built to do and how honestly you can depict those things and point to the fu...See more

Traci Reynolds "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -- I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.”

-Robert Frost

Andrea Welch Kleid

Terry Doyle "What you focus on... expands". I first heard Arnold Patent (motivational speaker) say this years ago.

Kristina Winnett "If we knew each other's secrets, what comforts we should find." -John Churton

Kristina Winnett Also, this one: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." - Ben Franklin

Elizabeth Fort Parsons Better to have loved and lost , then never to have loved at all.

Jeni Stafford “Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you, love you, bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. Let me hold you while I may, for it may not always be so. One day I s...See more 

Fern Polsky-Hilyard Where you stumble...there your treasure lies. Joey Camps.

Merry Meyer Those who hear not the music, think the dancers mad. 

Rama Hughes Don't be the best. Be the only. 

Heather Williams The one I currently have up: “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, tale...See more

Kym Cortigiano let the ground hold you - helps me anytime I need to relax and just breathe 

Selena Blewett-Sced I am an electric eel in a pond of goldfish. -sark(I think) 

Jason Thompson "What comes from the heart, touches the heart." ❤ 

Mandy Moonkiss Clarity Comes Back

Elena Beth Hull Sometimes it takes us longest to arrive at what is nearest

Angelica Escalera If you don't go, you don't see ❤ 

Meghan Genge I feel my boots trying to leave the ground,

I feel my heart...See more

Shawn Marie Hardy Here are two:

You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare. Georgia O'Keeffe...

Toni Dondero "If you want to live a life you've never lived, you have to do the things you'd never done" -Jen Sincero from the book "You are a Badass"  

Lee Mirabal I wrote this in 1991 and use it as my signature. "If you are living life too far from the edge...you are probably boring the rest of us".

Anna Stolarski "Forgiveness is the release of all hope for a better past." -buddy wakefield

Gigi Causey Bowler "“It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.”

― Harry Truman

Michael G. King Sabrina Ward Harrison..."You truely don't know how to live until 

you almost die." A detective said this in an episode of The First 48 on A&E. I so identify and understand that truth.

Vinitha Anne Grace "Everything will be ok in the end....if it's not ok, it's not the end" 

"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference" ~Winston Churchill 

Mary Lourdes Newman Mercurio "No one is more dangerously insane that the one who is sane all of the time. He is like a steel bridge, and the order of his life is rigid and narrow." ~ Alan Watts

Mary Lourdes Newman Mercurio ALSO...

"Pick up the pieces you see before you, don't let your weaknesses destroy you. You know wherever you go, the world will follow, so let your reasons be true to you." ~ Cat Stevens (from the song "100 I Dream)

Jonathan Kimberly Patterson Truth is like a lion, you don't need to defend it, you 

set it free and it will defend itself.

Patricia Zoline Be yourself. Everyone else is taken.

Patricia Zoline In the midst of winter, I found in me an invincible summer. --Camus

Bethany Nauert “The story of life is quicker than the wink of an eye, the story of love is hello and goodbye...until we meet again” - Jimi Hendrix

Pavita Singh "Promise me you'll always remember. You are braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think." ~Winnie the Pooh

Joyce Bock "To be old and wise you must first be young and stupid." I don't know the author.

Thais Leon Collins "Because the only people for me are the mad ones" -Jack Kerouack

Sherry Ann Marie Helde

Do less

So you can

Be More

Katy Slany Churcher ❤Simple things hold the secret ~Carl Jung

Shannon Kinney The most productive state of being is...peace. - Deepak Chopra

Shannon Kinney What podcast?

Christine Strickland Barker This is my favorite!

Heather Shafer Honor the space between no longer and not yet. 

Meryl Schoenbaum Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never knew you had.

Kathleen Rossi I like this quote a lot... 

"I think everything in life is art. What you do. How you dress. The way you love someone, and how you talk. Your smile and your personality. What you believe in, and all your dreams. The way you drink your tea. How you decorate your home. Or party. Your grocery list. The food you make. How your writing looks. And the way you feel. Life is art." 

Helena Bonham Carter

Meryl Schoenbaum "In order to discover new lands, one must be willing to lose sight of the shore for a very long time." - French writer Andre Gide

Meryl Schoenbaum "Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see." - Mark Twain

Meryl Schoenbaum "Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome." - Samuel Johnson

Candice Assassi Have nothing in your home but that you know to be useful or believe to be beautiful "

Tawni Frank Sullivan Be the change you want to see in the world -ghandi 

Fiona Dalziel 'To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong'

Sarah Fishburn Love is a place and through this place of love move with brightness of peace all places...ee Cummings

Sarah Fishburn Also,

There's a light that shines on all people, sees them through...the Doobie Brothers

Tracy Dove Never hesitate to trade your cow for a handful of magic beans - Tom Robbins

Tera Leigh Fortune favors the bold - Virgil

Penelope Harris "Work like you are living in the early days of a better nation." First heard in my twenties (ages ago) in a song by the Oyster Band, who credit Scottish writer Alisdair Gray for the line, who credits Canadian writer Dennis Lee. Been my motto ever since I heard it, but suddenly seems more relevant and urgent ... 

Emily Irene Bedal "Disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To enter ordinary relationships. I want ecstasy. I am a neurotic -- in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself. 

-Anais Nin

Emily Irene Bedal And... 

I believe in the power of motion, the wisdom of gravity, the emptiness of true love, the fact that there is no way out but through the body, no way up unless we all go together, no way down unless we follow the beat, no way in unless we embrace the dark....See more 

Sue Reaney I carry you in my heart...

Donna Heart "Creativity is not benign! " Liz Gilbert I think? I have it painted on my studio wall :)

Cherie Murray "Everything you want is on the other side of fear." George Addair

Cindy Smedberg Live simply so others may simply live

Amanda Hojnacki Wyatt

Kyra Dosch-Klemer "And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

— Anaïs Nin

Cindy Wunsch Bowen "walk gently with yourself"

Ainslee Pine no matter where you go, there you are 

Nora Napientek what if i fall? oh, but my darling what if you fly? (just got it inked on my arm)

Shared by Anna Stolarski

Liv's scribble scrabble monsters. Drawn on the way to school each morning.

Episode 28: A Conversation With Keith Paugh

Summary: Sabrina and Trent talk with film director Keith Paugh. 


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Show Notes: 

1. Find more of Keith at

     - cargocollective.com/keithpaugh
     - instagram.com/kpcollected
     - IMDB

2. Learn more about Leslie Paugh's interior design business at lesliepaugh.com

3. Some of Keith's movies we mention in the episode: 

4. DDP YRG

Yoga for Real Guys (YRG) with DDP

Diamond Dallas Page tells his story


Tell us about a kitchen floor you remember. 


5. This video

6. Some movies, writers, and directors you should check out: 

Yasujiro Ozu IMDB

Richard Linklater IMDB

Episode 27: The Biggest Nut

Summary: Sabrina and Trent talk about podcasting and nose whistling. 


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Show Notes: 

1. Listener survey: 

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3. A historic Los Angeles Ballroom. 

That's How the Light Gets In

Summary: Sabrina reads a favorite poem by John O' Donohue.


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Show Notes: 

There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.…
— Leonard Cohen

1. The Question Holds the Lantern   by John O' Donohue HERE

2. Beannacht a poem written and read by John O' Donohue.

Episode 26: The Wisdom of Insecurity - A Conversation with Chris Johnson

 
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Summary: Sabrina and Trent talk to photographer and teacher Chris Johnson. 


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1. CHRIS JOHNSON

Chris Johnson is a photographic and video artist, curator and writer. He is currently a full Professor of Photography at the California College of the Arts.

Chris studied photography with Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham and Wynn Bullock.

His photographic artwork has been exhibited in gallery and museum shows including the Smithsonian Museum, and the Oakland Museum of California. His video projects have been installed in numerous museums and art institutions.

Chris Johnson is the author of The Practical Zone System: for Film and Digital Photography; currently in its 6th edition.  Chris was President of San Francisco Camerawork Gallery for 4 years and from 1999 – 2005 he served as Chair of the City of Oakland’s Cultural Affairs Commission.

From 1997 to 2000 he was Director of the Mother Jones International Fund for Documentary Photography. As a member of the Public Art Management Team for the Port of Oakland, Chris Johnson is Project Manager and originated the concept for the 8’ x 20’ Media Wall installed in the new baggage claim area in 2007.  

In 1996 he created and produced a one-hour video piece titled “Question Bridge” that investigates class issues within the black community.

The current version of this project: Question Bridge:Black Males was produced with Hank Willis Thomas and a team including Kamal Sinclair and Bayeté Ross Smith.  This project opened at the Sundance Film Festival in 2012 and at the Brooklyn and Oakland Museums.

Question Bridge:Black Males won the 2015 International Center of Photography’s Infinity Award and in 2016 was inducted in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture.

In 2015 Aperture published Question Bridge: Black Males in America.

Most recently Chris created a major multimedia exhibition at the Oakland Museum of California titled “Who is Oakland?” and he is adding photographs and video to a site-specific augmented reality work called the Oakland Fence Project and his installation titled the Wisdom Arc Time Machine can be seen at the Exploratorium.

2. One of the pieces from the series of Polaroids documenting a breakup. 

3. Question Bridge HERE.

4. Alan Watts audio books.

5. More Alan Watts.

 

Episode 24: Where Art is Made

 
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Summary: Sabrina and Trent talk about Sabrina's trip to a perfect farm and the features of a good creative space. 


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Show Notes: 

1. Everwood Farmstead HERE

2. Everwood Farms workshop leader Lynn Tanaka's website HERE.  

3. Grand Designs episode about building rooms in trees. 


Tell us about where you make art.

 
 

Episode 23: The Worst Painting You Can Possibly Make

 

Summary: Sabrina and Trent talk about some of their favorite art projects and assignments. 


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Show Notes: 

1. This tomato. 

 

2. Trent's "paintings I don't want to make". For this series I made a list of all the things I didn't want to paint and tried to fit as many of them into each painting as I could. The "stallion, sunset, single backlit wave" one is my favorite. 


Tell us some of your favorite art projects.

Contact Trent here. 

 

Episode 22: A Bow to Brené

 
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Summary: Sabrina and Trent talk about getting started, getting in the arena, and about how much they like Brené Brown. 


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Show Notes: 

1. How to type "é" on Mac. To get the accent over the "e" you type "option"+"e" and the type "e". HERE is a list of other accent recipes for Mac

2. The following are two of our favorite Brené Brown videos. There are others on YouTube that are also worth watching. 

3. Brené Brown's most recent book and audio book. 

4. Some other great audio programs. 

 

Episode 21: Coconuts and Containers - Things That Make Us Happy

 

Summary: Trent and Sabrina take a moment to share some of the things that bring happiness. 


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Show Notes: 

1. Cruising Music:

2. Trent's minivan - perfect cruising machine 

3. Trentonreynolds.com "Book of Rick" series of paintings 

4. Art supplies Sabrina is happy about 

5. Art supplies Trent is happy about

6. The Container Store

7. Trent's container solution for miscellaneous screws 

 

8. A favorite thrift store

9. Italian Web Cam

10. Great TV shows

11. Recipe for Chicken Adobo

12. Whole 30 information

13. Sabrina's excellent coffee substitute

14. Trader Joe's coconut options you really need to try

 

Episode 20: The House of Lloyd

 

Summary: Sabrina and Trent talk with artist and teacher David Lloyd. 


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2. Temporary boob tattoo proudly worn as part of a breast cancer awareness campaign. 

 
 

Episode 19: I Don't Know What I'm Doing

 
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Summary: Sabrina and Trent talk about internal voices and not knowing what to do. 


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Show Notes: 

1. What you should do if you find a fallen baby squirrel according to Wildlife Rescue HERE.

2. A squirrel rescue success story found this week on Instagram.

3. Sabrina's cross-fit list. 

4. Demonstration piece for Trent's "mixed media portrait" class. Work in progress. 

Beginning stages of the mixed media portrait we talk about in episode 19

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Mixed media portrait project work in progress - talked about in episode 19. This is an image of my daughter.

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5. Work Sabrina made in the gallery last week. 


Tell us about your internal voices or your experiences with not knowing. 

 

What do you do when you're listening to Room in the Trees?