The Human Experience Documentary

The Human Experience - Trailer

I watched The Human Experience tonight, and I have to say it was a truly beautiful documentary.  If the footage of the children in Peru in particular doesn’t move you, chances are you aren’t alive inside.  Within the first 30 seconds of the documentary starting, I could tell I was going to love it, and I’ll go so far as to say it was life changing and powerful.  If you endure corporate politics all day, after a while you may really start questioning humanity.  This film will help remind you what is incredibly important, the human experience.

From the homeless experience:

  • “You can’t say everyone is bad, we all have something happen to us.  If you don’t have good family and friends to support you, then you’re in a lot of **** because it is family and friends, and you know this is life.”
  • And then there is this brilliant clip from the movie:[audio:http://www.jeremyperson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/recording-20110806-000506.mp3|titles=recording-20110806-000506]

  • “Experience can be a generous teacher or a cruel teacher.  But whatever experience we have, whether it is good or bad, we can always remember and learn something from it.”
  • “We can talk about ideas forever.  But ideas are simply that, they are thoughts, abstractions.  Until these ideas are rooted in reality, in the reality of my own life, my own experience, they can’t be tested.  They can’t be proven true.”

Jeremy’s Blast From The Past #2

In the packet of old images I was returned I also got some images with my Grandpa Hansen in them (my mom’s dad).  For those fortunate enough to know him found he was one of the most kind and gentle people you could ever hope to know.  He loved teaching me to fish as a kid and every time I saw him he wanted to take me fishing with him.  When I was a teenager he started wearing Reebok pajamas.  He always said how comfortable they were and every afternoon/evening he’d change into them.  We used to call him “Reebok Man” growing up…

Engagement Pics

You may have noticed a decrease in the amount of blog posts recently and in a large part it is because I’ve been planning a wedding!  A few months ago I asked Christina to marry me.  I told her she’d never know when it was coming, and I think I shocked her good when it finally came. We were at her parents house, and it is a very long story, but I eventually found the right time to propose.  We’re getting married in late October of this year so wish us lot of luck.  Cathy Breslow took these wonderful pictures a few weeks ago at a park.  I’ve known Christina for a little over two and a half years now.  Over that time we’ve become the best of friends and completely inseparable.  We both share a similar past and through those experiences we now share a common future with a fantastic outlook, one to last a lifetime.  Tyler and I are so fortunate to have found her and as you can see in the pictures we adore her and promise to always love her.