Hannah Galliosborn Videos

"I need to go up, up, up..." Our four-year-old, reenacting the resurrection of our Savior, is the medicine I didn't know I needed. 🕊 IG = @HannahGalliosborn

It may be January, and our decorations are down... but with this snowstorm, finally, 'It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas' around here. So here are more Christmas photos to go with the carols I've been singing all day. #HannahGalliosborn

Dia de los Muertos
I was shooting a presentation of Dia de los Muertos on Olvera Street in Los Angeles when to my surprise a quiet little blond boy was brought onto the stage. Our son had been standing with my husband several feet away when a skeleton took his hand and invited him to participate. He laid down for several minutes, holding flowers as if on his own grave, before this little dance. He leans on the quiet side, socially cautious and circumspect. To say this was out of his comfort zone puts it mildly. The dancer couldn't have been more gentle and sweet with him, but the therapist in me braced for what could be the groundwork of a phobia of skeletons, or the development of true stage-fright. The next day he surprised me by volunteering, "Next year I want to wear a full skull mask, and stay on the stage dancing... a lot longer." He'd mulled it over before deciding how he felt about his theatrical debut. He had been brave, and knew it. He was proud of himself for doing something new and scary and wanted more. When I grow up, I want to be like him. Thank you @olverastreetofficial and @TeatrodelBarrioLA for sharing your gifts, talents, being our teachers, and being beyond gentle with our little boy. #HannahGalliosborn #OlveraStreet #DiadelosMuertos #happyhalloween #dtla

These eggs were blown empty, and the first color painted before Kit and I started dating again. I never imagined they would survive a move across the country... twice. At the time their survival seemed as fragile and unlikely as Kit and I rekindling our relationship after a 7 year hiatus. But here we are 7 years after getting married, with our children watching me finish painting these same eggs. Medical training, moves, disappointments, physical impairments, and deaths were not enough to crack our shells. Looking at the life we're building for ourselves and our children, with love that grows with each shared chapter, I realize we've changed. Everyone experiences bumps along their journey, but we won't shatter. These years have changed our very makeup. We are made of tougher stuff than when I picked up some leftover acrylic paint and started these eggs. From now on the eggs I paint will be wooden. Fragility is for the birds. Some things are made to last. #HannahGalliosborn #eastereggs #makersgonnamake #artistsoninstagram