It seemed like an excercise in futility, my point and click-ability was limited, not by intelligence, but experience. I had never used iMovie, the famously familiar software package found on all iMacs, intended for computer non-geek geeks like myself. But I felt I could do something to create even the most basic of movies about an event I have produced the last two years.
My business conference, Biz Talk, seemed, at least until tonight, to have run its course. I had grown weary of supporting it with my own money, borrowed money, to boot, so I fully intended to abandon the concept after this year. But tonight as I created a promo video for a student edition of the conference I was surprised by...
Memories. Events, people, moments, that had defined not just my life, but the lives of others, perhaps changing them forever. There he was, a 15 year old student from Visalia, in the right seat of a Citation jet, on approach to Mojave Airport. This student wanted nothing more than to meet our first keynote speaker in 2006, Burt Rutan, a pioneer in the space and aviation industries. No only did he get to meet him at the conference, but he got to fly in the private jet to take him back home to Mojave. What a thrill for this aspiring Aeronautical Engineer...life changing? Indeed.
Of course there were many other photos that evoked similar memories and then I felt the Lord spoke to me...
"A man's gift will make a place for him." As I drove away from the office tonight, I thought, I can't give up now, where will people find inspiration to go on, even when times are tough? I have to find a way to inspire, lift up, edify, strengthen other people for their life of adventure. Yes, that's it, Biz Talk is about something more than people in, people out, it's all about one person meeting another, finding a life defining moment, and flying into their destiny. It's my place, my space.
Flying lessons anyone?
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