IN THE LONG RUN
A Hopeful World Odyssey
Updated:
October 07, 2009
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updated Wednesday October 07, 2009
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LATEST NEWS....
updated October 07, 2009
News summaries...
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October 3, 2009
Not really news - but just a
shake-your-day reminder.... that life is short. So go ahead!... Break the
rules...forgive quickly...kiss slowly...love truly...laugh often...give long hugs...and
never regret the things that make you smile! Enjoy
your day, every day, my friend!
Sept 15, 2009
Sunset Cruise in the Pelican.... how do you like to relax and also find
inspiriation... I sometimes do it in a kayak!...
Sept 2, 2009
IT'S ONLINE! The fantastic musical video about the journey on Melawend is
now up on YouTube! And here it is embedded - you can watch it right here!
It was created by the very talented Siovhinn
Polizzi through her France-based production company - WeUTubedU Check it ou...t! Best seen in
Hi-Def, full-screen -- use the buttons at the lower right of the video. All the best to
you, my friend!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atkysvMHFUM
created by: WeUTubedU.net http://www.WeUTubedU.net
song: wait for the dawn / dan o'connor
courtesy: dansongs.com
images: Copyright - Thomas Martin Smith
August 3, 20080
COMING SOON to YouTube!.... A talented video
producer based in France is creating a musical video based on IH THE LONG RUN: A Hopeful
World Odyssey -- I'll post here when it's up on YouTube. Stay tuned!
August 3, 20080
Hi! - time to catch up! Took the Pelican out for her maiden voyage! --
around Victoria's Inner Harbour and out to Work Point. A look at a custom chopped
roadster in Polynesian motif...
July 31
- bought a beautiful "pleasure blue" & white Pelican kayak!
I'll be paddling lakes, rivers, and oceanfront around Vancouver Island for photography -
look for future posts here!
July 26, 2009
- bought a fantasitc mint vintage Morris acoustic guitar at the Western Speedway
flea market! Beautiful sound! Always wanted to learn how to play a guitar -
now on with it!
July 1, 2009
- had a great time in Victoria for Canada Day (Canada's 142nd birthday!) - see photos
June 14, 2009
-- photographed a beautiful Siberian Husky / Wolf dog at the Western Speedway flea market.
It reminded my of my dear Kula.
June 5, 2009
-- received an awesome charcoal and pencil drawing of my awesome MELAWEND.
May 29, 2009
-- presented with a military commendation rarely given to civilians - a Bravo Zulu
Award.
May 13 - 21, 2009
-- returned from a visit with my wonderful daughters, Melanie and Wendy in Toronto.
-- attended the 100th Annniversary Reunion of my alma mater - Ridgeway-Crystal Beach High
School, in Ridgeway, Ontario, Canada.
-- visited some of the fantastic people I use to work with when I was a law clerk / title
searcher..
-- explored the familiar streets of my youth in Ridgeway.
I'll be posting photos of these adventures soon. You can also see them in my photo
albums on facebook:
http://www.new.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1454820834&ref-profile
Such times are also great opportunities to reconcile with your past so you can move
forward more easily. Would you agree?
In a hand-written
blurb that he sent to Tom, here is what
Ewan McGregor
had to say about IN
THE LONG RUN: A Hopeful World Odyssey
"My
two trips by bike were amazing and life changing
but short compared to Tom's two-year traveling extravaganza!
One Man, One Scooter, One Hell of a Ride!"
Ewan
McGregor
Award-winning actor, UNICEF Ambassador,
creator & co-author of Long Way Round and Long Way Down
Read more
Become friends with
Tom on facebook!
also...
Share in Tom's renewed passion for
PHOTOGRAPHY!
Tom's photographs have been published in newspapers and
magazines around the world,
including Rider, Cycle World, and The Straits Times. He
is a former member of the
Canadian Association of Photographers & Illustrators in Communications
sponsored to CAPIC by the late Ivor Sharp, one of its founding members.
Here some images from the past and
the present:
Tom's Photography Gallery - 1
Also, see more images in Tom's
Albums on Facebook!
Enjoy!
If you have any questions or
comments, please send me an e-mail.
Here are two self-portraits
taken December 31, 2008
IMPORTANT
SALE OF THE BOOK has
been temporarily SUSPENDED.
It is simply too expensive to print in its current form.
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