Project: Katrina Hope…raise funds…raise walls…raise spirits

I’m not known for my patience. I like things to happen the moment I dream them up. In fact, the following quote from Lance Armstrong is one of my favorites:

Patience is a polite quality and often appropriate, but it rarely gets things done. Impatience, however, is the hunger for results and intolerance for excuses and delays.

Therefore, it has been shocking to myself and to my friends and family that I have waited an entire year to complete this documentary…and I’m still awaiting the conclusion. It seems that for once, though, being patient has been worth it for me. Patience allowed me several trips to the Gulf Coast to hear the stories of men and women, young and old, who have dealt with Katrina firsthand. Patience granted me the ability to edit the documentary at a slow, but meticulous pace. And patience has been the key toward dealing with several major setbacks of the documentary.

Now, I can be impatient again, though, because the documentary will be completely finished in less than a week! I’m itching to have it completed, sitting in lovely dvd cases, waiting to be shipped out to locations across the country and throughout Europe. Just hang in there a bit longer, Project: Katrina Hope supporters. We’ve almost done it.

Posted on August 7th, 2008 by Gretchen Wieland
Filed under: From Gretchen