I had a very interesting week, let me tell you about 2 very different things I was involved with.

Last weekend my daughter and I were given a Blacksmithing workshop at the home of a friend. I met Dale when his wife Rita took over hosting the weekly art making sessions in her home after Lisa lost her place we had been meeting in.

This was in a small town, Poplar Bluff, Missouri, and when I first moved there to help my daughter when her youngest was rediagnosed with cancer, one of my first tasks was to look up painting supplies, for as an artist, I needed to know where to go to feed my addiction. I was so surprised to find out that the sleepy town had its own art museum, the Margaret Harwell Art Museum, and through the director I found out about a local group of creatives meeting in the home of an artist across the street from the museum.

After my granddaughter went into remission, I needed to find employment, and the small town didn’t offer what I needed so I moved to the city of St. Louis. Soon after, a few members of my art group moved up around the city too, including Rita and Dale, who scaled down his 40′ by 60′ workshop to half the size to 40′ by 30′. Dale has a small coal heated forge with a hand cranked air vent – very authentic.

When my daughter was seeking a Celtic belt buckle for her Viking cosplay outfit, Rita said that Dale would be happy to teach her to make it herself! This weekend we did blacksmithing, or rather she did all the heating and hammering, while I watched. Dale accidentally left the piece in the coals for a split second too long at one point, and the piece broke into 2. We were saddened that the hours of work that had gone into it might have been lost, but then Dale pulled out his welder and repaired it.

Pretty good for a first piece! I’m proud of my daughter! We’re hooked, and want to continue to learn more, and she was looking online to buy a forge to potentially add to her own garage workshop.

 ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

A couple of weeks ago I received a notification that a comment I had made on Robert Redford’s 2015 Facebook info release of his movie “A Walk in the Woods” was just liked. Curious as to who would like an old post from 2015, I checked to see who it was, and imagine my surprise when I saw it was “Charles Robert Redford”.

I wasn’t sure if it was really him, but found it interesting that I would receive a response in the same month that I had finished my first draft of the book I had been working on that encapsulated the years that my second husband and I were working on getting a feature film made, and hubby had tried to get ahold of Redford. I thought the timing was great.

Naturally at first I was hoping that it was indeed the real Robert Redford, but I could see fairly quickly that either he was developing dementia at age 89 and not able to carry on a conversation, (I’ll spare you the whole sequence of screenshots) or, as my daughter pronounced, a catfisher. This is a term usually used for people who pretend to be someone else. I couldn’t imagine why someone would want to pretend to be Robert Redford, but my daughter suggested catfishing the catfisher, so I pretended to go along, as though he were the real deal.

Well, after he “verified” his identity it didn’t take long for him to cast his baited hook, but I threw it back to him. He persisted, saying he was going on faith to trust a stranger, so I threw the hook back more forcefully.

Having walked the hellish halls of trying to get a feature film made, failing in every way and losing every cent we had and more, plus my husband having lost his sanity, I was the last person anyone in the real film world should reach out to for help or assistance of any kind. I’m so highly allergic towards any of that now, that I am not flattered to be reached out to. Besides, even if the real Mr. Redford were having issues, he wouldn’t ask a stranger’s help when he has so many people around him to manage those things.

As I told a colleague, it would have been nice if it had been the real Mr. Redford who was interested in the weird story my book holds! *sigh*!! I suppose if anyone else reaches out, I’ll have to ask for a Zoom meeting to see the person myself!

Let me post the book synopsis below so you may get an inkling of what I’m talking about.

I hope your week held some interesting tidbits!

 ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

Synopsis of
book – working titles – by Tamara Kulish

“Parts of my life, and so on…”

“We met on a Snowy Night”

“Echoes of the Crow”

“When the Crow Caws”

Years ago Tamara was asked to write a “making of the movie” book when her second husband, she and 2 other partners had formed a film production company. She started keeping a pre-production journal to document what they were doing, little knowing what forces would soon be unleashed in their lives. Her journal became the basis for this book when it became apparent that there was more at play than simply making a movie.

The Native American spirit that was in the original book the screenplay was based on started to make itself known to all 4 and later even extended to other people who were involved with the project in the same ways it manifested in the book. Just like the main character of the book, both men in the production company later lost their minds because they were trying to force events to follow their own vision instead of respecting what they had been told they needed to do.

The eerie parallels between the events of the book and what happened in real life were becoming apparent in their daily lives, adding to the intensity of struggling to keep finding and keep losing investment partners, which ended up bankrupting not only their money but the morals of some of the players. This story is more than the paranormal events that occurred during that time, but also what happened to the people who became addicted and obsessed with making that film, and how that tragically doomed two marriages, the author’s and that of her partners.

Tamara’s journey of self-discovery and healing is interwoven through the pages. She didn’t feel she chose that path, rather it chose her; yet she didn’t walk away from it even when it got very difficult and many others would have had the sense to. Her earlier life experiences perhaps primed her and set the stage for her to accept that journey.

 ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

Blessings!
Thank you for liking, sharing this post and for following me!
Tamara

I hope you’ll poke around my Archived Posts Main page divided up into 3 sub-pages: Mental Health and Rewiring the Brain || Healing and Developing Ourselves || Positive thoughts and Affirmations to find a wonderful trove of supportive and encouraging posts!
https://tamarakulish.com/

My books: Now available through Walmart.com!

Developing Happiness When You Can’t Find It and How to Heal Your Life on a Deep Heart Level are available in paperback and Kindle. Audiobooks are available for the busy person!

Guided Journals help you work on a particular issue by answering questions to help see patterns and to find solutions:

Removing Inner Blocks,    Anger Journal,    Guided Anxiety Journal    Joy & Mindfulness Journal     My Boundaries Journal   My Inner Thoughts Journal   

Thanks for buying my books on Amazon!

#writing #InspirationalWriting #art #creativity #strength #mentor #teacher #HappinessGuru #love #growth #healing #life, #inspiration, #quotes #happiness #joy #PersonalGrowth #pain #depression #anxiety #SelfEsteem, #LifeSkills #empowerment #encouragement #support #intuition #journal #consciousness #mind #learn #God #universe #angels #spiritual #spirit #awareness #journal #boundaries #emotionalhealth #mentalhealth #emotions