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Shoshana

Under a Magritte Sky...

About Me

Audience Development consultant-Horn player-Colorado-Hiking-Learning to snowboard Listening to music-Composing and arranging Gardening-Marketing - spreading the word - Beatles nut - Animal lover - have 2 cats, want to get a dog - I like wolves and donkeys too (yes, donkeys). Check out my new logo; my sister created it. She's really good at logo design if you are interested.
Various jobs: retail associate, various customer service rep. positions, music sales, online ad sales, greenhouse and garden center sales associate, aerobic instructor, admin assistant, musician, brass quintet owner, marketing director, ???
I also was the founder of the Celebration Brass Quintet in Chicago. I attempted to form a sister group in Colorado, but it is tougher to get good trumpet players here that aren't so busy! I used to play with the Chicago Brass Choir as well as other local Chicago groups.
In Colorado I have been more behind the scenes as a marketing director for a local professional symphony. Recently, I started my own business:
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Audience Development Blog

My Interests

My sister designed my new logo...what do you think?

Music, music and more music. Good art, movies, books and theater. Cartoons. Metaphysical stuff (freaky stuff happens), astrology, saving animals, meditation (Eknath Easwaran's 8-point program), working out using BeachBody - Turbo Jam...

Wolves for freedom
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I'd like to meet:

Cool people and John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Peter Gabriel, Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn, Dennis Brain, Eknath Easwaran, Ella Fitzgerald, Harrison Ford, Colin Firth, John Mayer, Dave Matthews, the Dalia Lama, Gandhi, Wayne Dyer, Eckhart Tolle, more to come...

Music:

Big Beatles fan - huge Beatles fan! Followed by Peter Gabriel and the Police, classical composers(no particular order). Rock, pop, jazz, classical, fusion, practically everything and anything.

Movies:

Defending Your Life, The Philadelphia Story, Hard Days Night, Help!, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Garden State, Charade, Star Wars Trilogy, Harry Potter, Singing in the Rain, American in Paris, Royal Wedding, While You Were Sleeping, Pride and Prejudice, August Rush, Across the Universe, The Thomas Crown Affair, James Bond...

Time Warp
Young Frankenstein Tribute

Television:

Meerkat Manor, That 70's Show, The Simpsons, Sex and the City, Whose Line is it Anyway, MythBusters, Star Trek NG, Cash Cab, CBS Sunday Morning, Muppet Show, Everwood, Charmed, What Not to Wear, Biggest Loser, Oprah, So You Think You Can Dance,Discovery Channels, Animal Planet, TLC, PBS,

Peanuts - It's The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown

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Books:

Catcher in the Rye, Enders Game, Songmaster, Power of Now, Tao Te Ching, The Secret, Harry Potter - SF, Classics and spiritual/psychology, but I am a non-fiction junkie mostly.

Heroes:

Anybody who dares to live their dreams.

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My Blog

Check out this event: The Shoot Out 24 Hour Filmmaking Festival Boulder

Hosted By: The Shoot Out BoulderWhen: Sunday Oct 12, 2008 at 1:00 PMWhere Boulder Theater2032 14th StreetBoulder, CO 80302United StatesDescription:The Shoot Out Boulder Click Here To View Event...
Posted by Shoshana on Wed, 08 Oct 2008 10:59:00 PST

Change starts right here and now...

I've been thinking a lot about how I can effectively add to the change that is so desperately needed right now in the USA.  Many of us feel so hopeless.  I wanted to put out a few ideas for ...
Posted by Shoshana on Mon, 29 Sep 2008 05:37:00 PST

A New Earth - are we ready?

I finished the book "A New Earth" by Eckhart Tolle.  One of the questions he poses: "Is humanity ready to change?"  This is one loaded question.  My thoughts are that many of us are rea...
Posted by Shoshana on Fri, 29 Feb 2008 04:52:00 PST

Check out this event: Boulder Ballet - Comédia

Hosted By: Boulder BalletWhen: Friday Feb 22, 2008 at 8:00 PMWhere: Dairy Center for the Arts/Lakewood Cultural Arts CBOULDER, CO 80301United StatesDescription:Boulder Ballet Click Here To View Event...
Posted by Shoshana on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 10:36:00 PST

A New Earth

I jumped on the Oprah book club wagon.  I started reading the book A New Earth by Ekhart Tolle.  I was reading chapters 1-3 and had to stop to think about what he is saying.  In a nutsh...
Posted by Shoshana on Sun, 17 Feb 2008 08:15:00 PST

Do you want peace?

It's been a little while.  Life has the habit of flying by.  Today I added a few peace advocates to my friends list.  I've been thinking a great deal about peace lately, maybe due to th...
Posted by Shoshana on Sun, 10 Feb 2008 09:16:00 PST

The benefits of laughter!

So a cafe au lait is keeping me up tonight.  I just added Whose Line is it Anyway? to my friends and it made me think about how great laughing is for us.  When is the last time you laughed?&...
Posted by Shoshana on Sun, 27 Jan 2008 10:39:00 PST

Time off is important!

One of my best friends is a work-a-holic, and I recently stepped away from a position that had me needing work-a-holic meetings as well.  We both work in the non-profit world.  Even though t...
Posted by Shoshana on Sun, 20 Jan 2008 10:16:00 PST

Trust your gut

Today I had a job interview.  I wasn't quite sure if I wanted the position or not, but it seemed like a good enough job so I kept the interview.  The interview went quite well, but something...
Posted by Shoshana on Thu, 17 Jan 2008 03:40:00 PST

Volunteering

So today was my first day volunteering at the Humane Society's Thrift Store.  I spent two hours as their dedicated cashier.  It was a fun experience.  I talked with people about their p...
Posted by Shoshana on Tue, 08 Jan 2008 09:22:00 PST