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The Best Christmas Gift Ever!
- By Steven H Horne
- Published January 11, 2009
I don't know how your holidays were, but I had the best Christmas I've had in many years. Three of my five children were with me for Christmas, along with my wife Helen. This was her first American Christmas. (New Year's is the big holiday in Russia and Christmas is celebrated on January 7 with some different traditions, like Father Frost instead of Santa Claus.)
That was special enough, but I even got everything I wanted and one surprise I wasn't expecting at all. The following pictures tell the story pretty well.
Everything else was opened and my kids said, "Oh, here's one more present for dad."
When I started to unwrap it, I recognized the package contained a 1/2 reel to reel
video of stuff I had produced in high school. I thought, what's going on here...
Then I realized that my kids had managed to get this old video converted to DVD.
I had not seen this material in about 30 years. I was thrilled as the following pictures
clearly show...
You see, I was the director of our High School TV station EAST-V back in 1971-72.
We were one of the first schools to have a TV station. Right as we were getting ready
to graduate there was fire at the school. I had managed to salvage some of the video
clips of stuff we'd done.
Unfortunately, I had never updated the format of the video, so I thought it was lost
to me. My son's David and Ezra arranged to have it transferred at a place in LA,
then produced the DVD for me.
My son also posted the clips to YouTube. Here's one of my favorite productions.
The military visited our school and we video-taped them and overlaid
scenes for the song "One Tin Soldier." In other words, we made a
music video. I originally intended to major in broadcasting and
my first year of college my botany teacher wanted me to switch majors.
She asked me what I intended to do with a broadcasting major.
I told her I wanted to set video to music.
She said, "I can't image there would ever be a market for that!"
I like to tell this story as an example of believing in the power of
our own dreams and ideas. Little did she realize how popular
music videos would eventually become.
Oh, and here's one more clip. A short one, with a 17-year-old
Steven narrating.
There are more of these on YouTube, including one of my favorites,
my friend Chad Booth doing a fake beer commercial. (I helped write
the script.) My user account is abcherb. Check it out.
That was special enough, but I even got everything I wanted and one surprise I wasn't expecting at all. The following pictures tell the story pretty well.
Everything else was opened and my kids said, "Oh, here's one more present for dad."
When I started to unwrap it, I recognized the package contained a 1/2 reel to reel
video of stuff I had produced in high school. I thought, what's going on here...
Then I realized that my kids had managed to get this old video converted to DVD.
I had not seen this material in about 30 years. I was thrilled as the following pictures
clearly show...
You see, I was the director of our High School TV station EAST-V back in 1971-72.
We were one of the first schools to have a TV station. Right as we were getting ready
to graduate there was fire at the school. I had managed to salvage some of the video
clips of stuff we'd done.
Unfortunately, I had never updated the format of the video, so I thought it was lost
to me. My son's David and Ezra arranged to have it transferred at a place in LA,
then produced the DVD for me.
My son also posted the clips to YouTube. Here's one of my favorite productions.
The military visited our school and we video-taped them and overlaid
scenes for the song "One Tin Soldier." In other words, we made a
music video. I originally intended to major in broadcasting and
my first year of college my botany teacher wanted me to switch majors.
She asked me what I intended to do with a broadcasting major.
I told her I wanted to set video to music.
She said, "I can't image there would ever be a market for that!"
I like to tell this story as an example of believing in the power of
our own dreams and ideas. Little did she realize how popular
music videos would eventually become.
Oh, and here's one more clip. A short one, with a 17-year-old
Steven narrating.
There are more of these on YouTube, including one of my favorites,
my friend Chad Booth doing a fake beer commercial. (I helped write
the script.) My user account is abcherb. Check it out.
Steven H Horne
Steven Horne is a professional member of the American Herbalist's Guild. He is the recent past president of the Guild and was on their board of directors for four years. He has also served on the board of directors for the International Iridology Practitioner's Association and is a professional member of that organization.
Steven has lectured all over North America and in several foreign countries on herbs, nutrition, iridology, emotional healing and other aspects of natural healing.
Steven lives with his wife Helen in Leeds, Utah.
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