During a summer rainstorm, I had all my attention focused on capturing the lightning.
My timing kept being just a little bit off, I happened to look behind me and see the most beautiful rays of sunshine behind the clouds.
I quickly turned away from the dark storm and lightning, and focused my camera on this bright, inspiring sight.
The lesson to be learned is that sometimes we too often are focused on " the most important things",
when right behind us there often lies a greater or more meaningful beauty.
A print for you here-
Wells Fargo Exiting Wholesale Lending
Some of the worst news of the year came to Brokers today as Wells Fargo Lending has pulled the trigger and will no longer be offering a wholesale avenue to Brokers.
This comes as big news to the financial market and will cause some big changes for brokers in the future. Wells Fargo is not the first of big bank lenders to officially cut the cord from wholesale lending as Bank of America, MetLife, and Citi Bank have done the same.
One might ask, will there be such a thing as "wholesale lending" in the future or will the banks become even more greedy (is that even possible)?
Here is Wells Fargo's official document explaining this change:
If you have a loan with Wells, don't worry. The cheaper avenue of Broker wholesale-ing is just slowly dying. Hurry and refi before tomorrow. Contact your nearest Wells Broker now.
I had the amazing opportunity to be a part of my bestest friend's wedding.
Jen's a Cali (more specifically a Valley Girl), and she was married on Saturday in San Diego. The day started out at the San Diego Temple.
We then headed to La Jolla Beach.
After a hectic spurt at the beach we had a few hours break and then ended the night at her parent's house overlooking Lake Elsinore.
A very, very beautiful day and I couldn't be any more happy for Jen and her husband Jesse.
I just can't wait to see the little kiddos!!!
CREATIVITY
"No matter what you may have been told, every one of us is creative. It is as much a part of us as our voice and breath and fingerprints. Creativity isn’t just about making “art.” Cooking, gardening, handiwork and crafts, keeping a journal are all creative acts. Arranging flowers or rearranging furniture, painting a picture or painting a room, singing on stage or singing in the shower—these are responses to the call.
Creativity is a way of living. It is being spontaneous and playful, exercising the imagination, finding solutions, and embracing possibilities and doing it all with passion.
Creativity is a way of living. It is being spontaneous and playful, exercising the imagination, finding solutions, and embracing possibilities and doing it all with passion.
Yet for all the joy and fulfillment it brings, some resist the call to be creative. In our culture the ideas that “Time is money” and “Art is frivolous” hold certain sway, and old messages such as, “Stay inside the lines” or “You can do better than that” have remarkable staying power. It takes courage to look beneath the surface of what we’ve been told in order to find our heart’s desire.
Creativity requires risk-taking. It asks us to surrender, to lose control and to trust. “Committing to our creativity is an act of faith,” wrote Jan Phillips, in Marry Your Muse.
“A promise to believe in ourselves.”
Honoring the creative Self means finding time, making space, being patient and taking the chance of looking foolish. You cannot care too much what others think or say. You must be willing to start over and stay with it; creativity takes stamina. There are no magical secrets or absolute rules. Creativity can’t be taught. You just do it. “Creativity belongs to the artist in each of us,” said Corita Kent.Like the body’s natural urge for motion and the human need for connection and community, the spirit longs to express itself. So when you hear the call to create, answer, “Yes.” It is your self searching for your Self, a movement toward being whole." -Found on the World Wide Web
Creativity requires risk-taking. It asks us to surrender, to lose control and to trust. “Committing to our creativity is an act of faith,” wrote Jan Phillips, in Marry Your Muse.
“A promise to believe in ourselves.”
Honoring the creative Self means finding time, making space, being patient and taking the chance of looking foolish. You cannot care too much what others think or say. You must be willing to start over and stay with it; creativity takes stamina. There are no magical secrets or absolute rules. Creativity can’t be taught. You just do it. “Creativity belongs to the artist in each of us,” said Corita Kent.Like the body’s natural urge for motion and the human need for connection and community, the spirit longs to express itself. So when you hear the call to create, answer, “Yes.” It is your self searching for your Self, a movement toward being whole." -Found on the World Wide Web
Bells, I heard,
And oh the Grace.
A troubled soul,
Salvation's taste.
-C.B.
And oh the Grace.
A troubled soul,
Salvation's taste.
-C.B.
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