My Interests?
Writing, Poetry, Music, Singing, Parenting inspired and aware children, deep conversations, Conscious People, Theatre, laughing, walking, making profound discoveries, the transcendentalists, spirituality, reading, learning, growing.
Now why am I interested in Writing, Poetry, Music, Raising Consciousness, Spirituality, Learning and Growing?
Three names, especially.
Samuel
Emma
and Katherine.
If you want to love me, first you have to understand my deep love for my children.
(An oddly frightening thing is - I am wanting to have another one. I think, though, having a man I love from the depths of my soul needs to come first this time.)
I'd like to meet:
I would like to meet people who understand this poem:
The sun is rising so clear today
A textbook beautiful
Technically adept sunrise
I wanted it to be a sloppy
A clanging “You must be joking!â€
Cluttered sunrise today.
But sometimes we don’t get what
We think we want –
We think we want clanging chaos,
“More cacophony!†We shout, banging
Our chests like a confused Tarzan choir –
And what we receive instead is a
Quiet, hissing whisper, air releasing
Air filling… slowly… intentionally…
Ever-so-sure-and-deliberate
So we pause, shock denial anger back to
“a-ha†shock and step into the question
The curvy loop,
Itself a fascination…..
We, no… I…. miss so much through stubborn insistence
When the treasure waits, peacefully, gracefully
So I said “Good morning†aloud, across the miles
And pointed my heart towards you…….
I receive an internal snuggle in return
And I smiled
Inside
Out
My friend, Ginn Williams, has a book coming out - check out her links -
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I am also happy whenever I meet open-minded, open-hearted souls who are artists-in-life.
Every day I meet Rainer Rilke, in his words. Listen now to some of them....
"Being an artist means: not numbering and counting, but ripening like a tree, which doesn't force its sap, and stands confidently in the storms of spring, not afraid that afterward summer may not come. It does come. But it comes only to those who are patient, who are there as if eternity lay before them, so unconcernedly silent and vast."
I would also like to meet subscribers for my ezines, including Daily Passion Activator.
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Music:
I love singing.
“Singing is like praying twiceâ€
The “Real†Maria Von Trapp
There is something sacred in experiencing
the lush sweetness of a heart-filled voice
traveling up and down a string of
pearl-like-notes, simultaneously filling
the body and being birthed from the body.
When we sing, we take the words and
notes of a scribe and fill the words with
our soul..
Maria Von Trapp got it right. Singing
IS like praying twice.
It is like communion, it is like love-making,
it is like a couple, dancing across the stage
as they effortlessly connect on a soul level.
Singing is like the delicate awakening of
chiarascuoro of the heart.
Yes, “Singing is like praying twice.â€
When we sing we breathe in, deeply – and
when we are conscious singers – our breath
is deliberate, treated with utmost care. What
happens to your body when you
take a deep breath?
It expands – it fills – it signifies plenty.
As the singer, you can do anything you want
with your song – you can make it loud and
intense or make your song small and equally intense..
You can make it more airy and filled with pockets
of breath or you can fill it with your very essence
so that its punch is more powerful than steel.
You may choose to sing-pray when you are delighted
and you may choose to sing-pray when you are
devastated. You may sing-pray as a beginning
or invocation and you may sing-pray as a
moment of closure or benediction.
I remember reading of famed opera singer Maria
Callas who shared that we sing when words alone,
without music, can’t communicate meaning adequately.
It needs to be amplified – which is what happens
when we sing-pray.
Yes, Yes, Yes.
“Singing is like praying twiceâ€
I enjoy singing almost any sort of music - from campy musicals to classical music to the occasional country tune. I have been known to hang out at this eclectic hole-in-the-wall bar called "The Junction" where I sing rock-n-roll, lots of 80's music, sometimes country and once I even sang "Somewhere Over the Rainbow."
I don't like being put into a box in any category - too much like a coffin.
Television:
ER, Occasionally a Law and Order Episode(I like 'em all... in Law and Order the original I tend to watch just the cop part because I have a huge crush on Jesse Martin)... I also like to watch Project Runway from time to time and makeover shows on Bravo and TLC. I don't always admit it, though.......
Books:
The Sound of Paper, Atlas Shrugged, Writing Down the Bones, Letters to a Young Poet, Mary Oliver poetry, Rumi poetry, Joyce Carol Oates fiction....I love memoir, too. Any memoir. Have enjoyed getting to know the work of Anne Morrow Lindbergh recently.
Heroes:
Martha Graham, Helen Keller, My Mother, My Father, My Children, Rainer Rilke, Mohandas Gandhi, Annie Sullivan, Martin Luther King Jr, Carly Simon, Julia Cameron - etc etc etc
See the pictures of those children up above here?
They are my heroes... and so is he:
Hank keeps me moving, everyday.
