Rosie Hartmann

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I Moved!

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New Website

Ok most of the bugs are worked out.  I am now at http://www.rosiehartmann.com I hope you will all follow over!  At the end of this week this domain will automatically forward to the new one.  :)

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Tenacious

te·na·cious

adjective \tə-ˈnā-shəs\

: not easily stopped or pulled apart : firm or strong

  Old Salt Union is a ridiculous string band.  These guys are humble, soft-spoken and amazingly nice.  You almost wonder talking to them and seeing how laid back they are if they would bring it when they start playing.  Oh yes they did bring it. I know string bands sound better live.  Their videos seemed to…

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Synchronicity, it happens.

  These rowers practice every day at this location I sit at.  It’s beautiful to see them glide through the water.  They get so far so fast by working as a team.  The row boats simply glide through the water as if by magic.  There appears to be no effort but we all know there is.

The rowers being at this new spot may seem to be unconnected to anything going on in my life.  But they prove a point…

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I cheated myself.

Every day I go down by Lake Michigan and have some me time.  I try to shut out the world, listen to my music selection for the day and sometimes I write in my journal.  Today I was running late.  I had 5 minutes to sit at the place you see as yesterday’s POD.   It was not enough time.  I cheated myself.

Having time to reflect on the upcoming day, life’s events or whatever feels the need to cross…

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Simplicity!

Simplicity

Simplicity is the black and white picture.  Elegant, simple and yet thought-provoking.  Sometimes I complicate my life.  By that, I mean, all the time.  I am working on fixing that.  The biggest problem currently on the lack of simplicity is the 5 domains I control.  That has to go.  So in the line of the POD picture I am going to simplify.  I am combing two of the sites, keeping one…

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Why make a choice if you don’t have to?

Why make a choice if you don’t have to?

I live right on an alley.  This alley is magical in summer.  There are numerous people who grow flowers.  These neighbors of my mine are amazing with what they do.  There are so many flowers that occasionally I think I can actually smell them in the air.

I absolutely love flowers.  Yesterday I took the walk down the alley and had way too many pictures of these flowers.  Two of those pictures…

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Gonna have to try this out

Gonna have to try this out

Just one time I want to see if I can walk this wheel.  It looked like this guy, Melvin, was having so much fun.  He absolutely made the mark on approaching his craft with joy.  He played to the crowd and he looked like he was in heaven doing it.  It got me to thinking.

I do have time to do more things like calling this guy up and seeing if I can make trying it out happen.  So this week I am…

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Want More!

When I was a 5th grader I wanted to collect something, anything.  It all started when my sister’s godmother, who is also my crazy aunt that is amazing, sat me down and explained to me that her responsibilities to my sister where different.  She explained what it meant to be an aunt and what it meant to be a godparent.    She also explained to me because she was Mollie’s Godmother she wanted to…

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Banana Bread Beer

www.wellsandyoungs.co.uk

Bottom line, this beer is amazing.  I felt like I was sitting in my grammy’s kitchen except it was not banana bread with butter melting on it.  Instead I was in her kitchen drinking a beer that tasted like all that.  Now I have to add that at first it was a bit bitter but the after flavors of banana were just right.  The melded together just as flavors should but still…

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Denied!

Denied! http://wp.me/s44iKx-denied

Today you do not get to read about the actual POD picture, nope it’s all mine.  The thing about it is this; anything I could or would write about this picture is not blog-able for me.  I could make something up about it but why?  I would much rather write about an archive picture.

So you get something similar to what the POD picture was.  Music, it’s all about the music. When I hear music I also…

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Grrrr.... (and a little laugh too)

Grrrr…. (and a little laugh too)

I had an idea.  I thought it was a really good idea.  I thought the picture would turn out cool looking with an old school rock and roll feel to it.  Instead I got this.  It looks dark and grrrr!!!!

Here’s the process.  I went to a car show.  I got a hood ornament, an emblem and a rusted out fender.  My brilliant idea; toss ‘em together in a Photoshop/Photomatix merge type thing.  The rusted out…

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Letting Go

It was literally time to clean out my closet.  I rewarded myself afterword with a really good rum and coke.  My closet was full of clothes from when I weighed a lot more.  I like to hide behind those clothes.  I can’t anymore.  They are gone. It feels glorious to know that.

The rum and coke was well-earned.  It has literally taken me years to get rid of these clothes.  One item I had from a…

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The Art of Imperfection

The Art of Imperfection

This picture is a few pictures blended together.  Much like people are blended together from all of their experiences in life.  Take me for example, after I was born the next BIG moment of my life was surgery at 30 days old.  I was born with a cleft lip.  I was also born with a word that is really long and mean large lower lip.  That surgery was one of the first things that shaped me.

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