Today, I was learning how to make titles for the Yucatan Travel Movie. I am using Sony Vegas Platinum Pro 9 software. It is very much a learning experience but I am making progress . . . and, it is fun!
I love digital! It is so much easier than film, which is the medium on which I originally learned how to make movies.
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I am getting ready for a “meeting of the clans” week-long retreat when a number of us who are contributing to the Yucatan Travel Video will be getting together for meetings on production and promotion.
This is an exciting time for me because the original actors and camera people will be together again for the first time since our last shooting trip to the Yucatan in March of this year. Plus, we will have our editing consultants with us.
I am enthusiastically preparing for the get together.
Carol Chapman
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Last night, I spoke on “2012, Edgar Cayce and the Maya” in Comox, British Columbia.
I love this topic and I love sharing my information plus my PowerPoint presentation.
However, what I love the most is the people I meet – their intelligence, their minds, their shining faces, their knowledgeable questions.
It is always a delight. And, the people in Comox were great!
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Today, I decided I needed to get back to my Yucatan book so that’s what I’m doing.
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I’ve received many email replies to my newsletter mentioning my research on Edgar Cayce’s readings on Atlantis for my May 2nd Lancaster, Pennsylvania seminar on Atlantis and its Colony in Egypt.
This is encouraging because I wondered if, because of the recent great emphasis on 2012 and therefore Yucatan and the Maya, if the perennial interest in ancient Egypt and Atlantis had been diverted.
I think that ancient Egypt and Atlantis will always hold a fascination for many people. I know it does for me.
Copyright (c) 2009 Carol Chapman
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You probably know that Miriam is my daughter and that she came with my husband John and me to Yucatan. She is an important person in my life and also in the documentary movies I’m making partly because she is young, attractive, and also full of life. Often, when she’s in front of the camera, her words are precise, to-the-point and interesting. John and I tend to go on and on and on.
In the middle of the many emails I’ve received on the tiny Mayan woman, Miriam sent me an email to remind me that:
two quick comments about the tiny mayan woman: all the helpful information she gave us was incorrect. there was no dancing in the park. the days were wrong and the time was wrong.
and the artisan store did not close at 3:15pm. so perhaps there was a cultural difference (although no one else acted like that), but all the info she was feeding us was a little bogus. thought that might be important in WHY she seemed a little strange.
Yes, thank you, Miriam!
Copyright (c) 2009 Carol Chapman
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Here are three more comments about the tiny Mayan woman who came up to me during our lunch in the restaurant in Merida, the capital of the State of Yucatan in Mexico.
By the way, she first said that I had such amazing eyes, probably because my eyes are green whereas all the Mayan people have dark brown eyes.
Then, as I said earlier, she told us about upcoming regional ballet folklorio dances. She also told us to buy from local artists and NOT to buy from the people in the Governor’s Square who were not selling local wares. The people in the square were the women from Chiapas – the ones I cannot resist buying from.
Here’s the feedback:
* Is she getting the Atlantis Science and wisdom out !! ?? Hopefully, yes.
* I THINK THAT SOMETIMES PEOPLE ARE LEAD TO US SPIRITUALLY.
STRANGERS OFTEN COME UP TO ME AND I KNOW THEY H AVE BEEN SENT TO GIVE ME A MESSAGE.
THEY WERE USED BY A HIGHER FORCE WITHOUT BEING CONSCIOUS OF WHY.
BUT I AM ALWAYS THANKFUL FOR THE MESSAGE.
GOD OFTEN SPEAKS TO US IN MYSTERIOUS WAYS… A BIRD OR BUTTERFLY OR A PERSON JUST APPEARS AND WE KNOW IT WAS A MESSAGE JUST FOR US.
* There is much wisdom in that which the small woman had to say.
Copyright (c) 2009 Carol Chapman
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Here’s more feedback on the tiny Mayan woman I met in Merida while traveling in Yucatan, Mexico. During a previous post, I had wondered if the woman was merely being helpful or if she was crazy because the restaurant waiter kept rolling his eyes as if to say that I should not acknowledge the tiny, but helpful, woman.
One man wrote to say that:
This tiny woman was a new ager prophet and seer, who was impulsed to get ancient memories of Atlanteans sciences and wisdom out into the open. She was a like new age prophet similar to your self, just a Mayan elder communicator. The waiter was just a waiter working stiff. wondering why this woman would give information out with out directly asking for tips or alms in return.
And a woman wrote to say that:
The woman just wanted to help, maybe someone to talk to. You were it. I travel a lot, there have been times when people just stop and talk, because they know I speak english and they wanted to practice their english.
I really appreciate these comments. They show views of the situation I had not considered.
Blessings,
Carol Chapman
Copyright © 2009 Carol Chapman
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This time, when I’m in the Yucatan, I plan to be at Chichen Itza during the amazing spring Equinox event when sunlight makes a diagonal pattern on the side of the stone serpent whose body rises up the side of the Pyramid of Kukulcan.
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Today, I’m working on reserving accommodations in the Yucatan, Mexico, for the final shooting of my 2012 Doomsday Movie.
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