Circle Scribe, Web Mistress &
YouTube Channeler
I loved my self-imposed “soul responsibility” for creating and publishing the newsletter and website of the Sisters of the Sacred Circle, and my shared responsibility for the websites of Twin Lotus Center and Triple Gems, but I've moved away and those website have closed down. I'm retired from all those now.
My current occupation is making YouTube picture shows from the thousands of photos I have accumulated. I first scanned all the photos we inherited from my parents and my husband Frank's parents. Then I scanned 30 years of pictures in my own Family Albums covering the period "before digital" (1969-2000). Next, I created pictures shows (mostly 5 minutes or less although there are a few longer ones) and uploaded them to my YouTube channel (Laurie Lotus Miller). The easiest way to negotiate my YouTube channel is to click on "Playlists." That will give you the basic folders I have organized the videos into. There's one for Sisters of the Sacred Circle and one for Twin Lotus Center, for instance. Click here to see all my playlists.
I've completed scanning, making videos & uploading my Family Photos from my grandparents' generation through the end of 1999. I am now working on 2000 to the present. Pictures shows of some events have already been uploaded. The digital photos are all on my computer making the scanning step unnecessary, so that will save time. There can't be as many pictures because the kids and the grands are all grown and moved away! Right?
Links to my YouTube Playlists
FAMILY 1968 & BEFORE (INCLUDES VINTAGE) FAMILY 1969-1979 FAMILY 1980-1990 FAMILY 1991-1995 FAMILY 1996-1999 FAMILY 2000-2005 FAMILY 2006-2010 FAMILY 2011-2015 FAMILY 2016-2020 FAMILY 2021-2025 Follow the individual links below to see a few sample picture shows on my YouTube channel.
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Here is a link to the Picture Show I made of my paternal grandmother Leona's photos. The cover is my Gramma Leona and Granddaddy (my dad's father), my dad Hal (the older boy in the back) and his baby brother, Roger (my uncle).
So far I have ten Playlists devoted to FAMILY during different time periods, and I'm still creating family picture shows! |
I have 38 picture shows related to Twin Lotus Center (2010-2015). Most are less than 5 minutes long. A few people contributed their photos & I included them with credits. Click here for the TLC playlist.
I have 90 picture shows (!!) of Santa Cruz Sisters of the Sacred Circle events and related activities with my Sacred Sisters & others from 1997-2017. These are short, too. Here is a sample of one of our exciting events - Karuna & Seraphina's Egyptian Winter Solstice. You can see the complete SSC playlist by clicking here. |
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Other pictures I've published on YouTube are of gardens or natural places. I love flowers and took a LOT of pictures of my Apple Lane Gardens where my husband and I lived for 30 years. He was a landscape artist and contractor, and it shows!
I also took pictures of other professional gardens near my home including UCSC Arboretum & Gardens, Filoli Gardens, & others, and as far away as Hawaii, Ireland & New Zealand. Click here to see my Gardens playlist. |
During that time, I hiked weekly in Monterey & Santa Cruz County and I took lots of pictures of the places we hiked: redwood forests, Big Sur Coastline and "the golden rolling hills California." All my picture shows of Hikes are here.
Although some videos of travels with our extended family are included in my Family Playlists, I also made some amazing picture shows of my travels with friends or with Frank. I especially recommend the Ireland series. Some of my favorite pictures are from that trip.
I haven't finished scanning my travel photos yet, but there are plenty to watch in the meantime: Australia, Canada, India, Ireland, Mexico, New Zealand and the western states of Arizona, Hawaii, Idaho, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming. See my Millers' Travels Playlist by clicking here. |
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I produced newsletters for Sisters of the Sacred Circle, Save Our Shores and National Organization for Women for a few years. I am self-taught and not credentialed, but I'm happy to share what I know about making a newsletter, setting up a website with Weebly or helping you learn to use Movavi (the video making program I use).
I want to help empower women to put themselves “out there” on the internet by way of creating a newsletter, setting up a website or creating YouTube videos. I am in no way an expert, and you may think I'm not very good at it after checking out my website! But I can offer free bits of friendly advice. If you want help with a bigger project requiring blocks of my time, we'd need to work something out as a fair energy exchange.
I want to help empower women to put themselves “out there” on the internet by way of creating a newsletter, setting up a website or creating YouTube videos. I am in no way an expert, and you may think I'm not very good at it after checking out my website! But I can offer free bits of friendly advice. If you want help with a bigger project requiring blocks of my time, we'd need to work something out as a fair energy exchange.