Last month we had the pleasure of having The Claytones and sweet Carmen stay at Chez Dodd. Hanging by the creek with our unruly dogs, they made beautiful music and I ran around like a chicken with my head cut off in the lovely month of May, which had to be the busiest May of my life. Toward the end we had a fun photo shoot and shot a little video in Beaman Park. One of my favorite places to hike in Nashville. Enjoy!
What is your deeply buried gift? Don’t think it’s not down there. It is. Something is going to help it rise to the surface. When I was a child, I dreamt of going to Hollywood and making movies. I remember specifically knowing what it must feel like to do that very thing, although I was in the middle of a rural ranchette in Texas. I carried around a video recorder the size of carry on luggage, which attached to a giant news station style camera, and I made movies. I can think of three or four different films that were lost forever in the 80’s. I remember shooting portraits of my cats sitting alongside cowboy hats, with a little 110 camera, and writing story after story and reading book after book. Talking into an old recorder with an English accent, singing at the top of my lungs as I played the piano. These are the snapshots of my childhood forty years ago. When I graduated from the theatre department at Baylor University, I was not ready emotionally and did...
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