Balancing and letting go

This was one bizarre image I found on a string specialist site from a conference. It has the look and feel of a viking funeral.

I spent 0ver 7 hours yesterday trying to put together a sound track for the International Christmas video. It's tough when the creative juices aren't flowing readily and best clips have extraneous sounds. I've realized how rude some people can be talking while other people are performing and playing their instruments. Sadly the camcorder captures all this extra sound which I had to try and remove or render unintelligible. I tried every trick from noise removal filters, playing two versions at the same time slightly out of phase, to placing sounds over the speaking voices.

I only have 2 weeks to get this video edited in my spare moments and get a whole lot of other things to get completed. There's a lot of balancing to do and I wonder if there are things I have to let go of and move on. Last year I finally realized I wasn't going to build kites again for a longtime and passed my kites onto my godson's family. But there's so much else! As I work with my Auntie Mary preparing her mentally to go home there are many things I have to persuade her that she must begin to clear away to make room for living. This is not just physically but also mentally because we collect stuff unintentionally caught up by our culture. Of course the challenge is for all of us in our cluttered lives which are just over full and over busy.