The last year has been one of the most difficult years of my life.
While I cannot share much of what has happened, the good news is that I
am still going. Sometimes I’m not sure how.

At the end of May my
last contract position ended and since then I have been officially
unemployed, a disempowering experience to say the least.

Anyhow, for a new experience last Friday I was an ‘audience extra’ at Market Call Tonight on BNN.
Here’s a clip of me asking a question, something I make myself do
whenever I attend a seminar. Okay, I don’t know a lot about the stock
market, but I realized that I know more than I thought I did.

By
all means watch the whole show, Ross Healy’s viewpoints are
interesting. If you want to see yours truly, a little nervous (could
have done with some of those beta blockers, laughs) go to 7:25 on this clip (after the ads) for about 2 minutes to hear his full answer.

If anyone knows the code to reverse the order of a Flikr slideshow I’d appreciate it. It’s currently running backwards, from finished painting through all the stages to the drawing, which is a bit awkward. Women In Summer, I’m happy to say, is finished.

(Clicking any of the images will stop the slideshow and provide more of the info I included for the picture.)

Also, I’ve grouped this series on one page by the tag, WomenInSummer, at Flickr, here.

Hey, what a lovely surprise this morning! My little recording has made it to #1 at SoundClick!

# 1 in Poetry (highest position was 1). Total songs: 1,242
# 9 in Talk (highest position was 9). Total songs: 5,363

I’d like to thank all my readers and listeners for such beautiful support. Blessings all round. Love every one of you. xo

Voicings

A recording (2:49min):

Voicings:Hi-speed, cable
Voicings:Dial-up

voices,
buzzing paths on the expanse we walk through, the dark, hoverings in
the distance like our hidden thoughts, climbing the insides of our
minds, echo chambers, repetitions, stress points, gasps, retreats,
revolving around and around, circling,

spinach and feta cheese
and pink salmon, sanpellegrino limonata, juices, absorbing, digesting,
flowing to all cells, hollow drums, rain sticks beating on the inside,
slipped discs, swollen tissue, torn hearts healing,

voices,
fragments of conversations, hearing pathways, following lines of
letters, words randomly interspersed, little collections of refuse,
humming things, what’s being said and what’s being thought at variance,
then laughter,

a music, endless conversations in all minds in
all buildings, streets, films, televisions, computers, books, magazines
and newspapers, sitting absorbing lying, string-theories of words
accompany the activities of the world, thought flying through the
words, fleshed words, graced words, like balls flying far beyond the
baseball bats in the floodlit diamonds, and racing running billowing in
the green grass blue sky up into outer space,

billions of
constant conversations, without stopping, the telling, others,
ourselves, reams, naked skin of words making love, a love of words,
conceptualizations, significations, words that are concrete, actual,
sensual, rolling, synaesthetic experiences, how our tongues love to
form sweet angry hot explanatory seductive smart gossipy sophisticated
kind compassionate judgmental searing truthful words just for speaking,
writing, dreaming,

and when yours and my words meet, from my
lips to your ears, from your lips to my ears, in the air trance
entrance where ringing cymbals grow ever more sweet crystal singing
sounds ethereal and divine where utterance who cares what we say
ecstatic light levitating through space our tongues interlinking the
whispering our longing our souls on fire our hearts speaking,

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I was describing the speaking I was listening to, oh ok partially, it was an inspiration, on Canada Live – With Patti Schmidt and then The Signal – With Pat Carrabré.

You can always go over to Rubies In Crystal anytime. I prefer the Terms of Service over there. So that’s where everything’s collected. Drop by, love to hear from you.

Early this morning I pulled out my yoga mat (a sheepskin bought in 1994
and for which I sewed a case out of peach-coloured upholstery fabric as
many years ago), laid it on the floor (a very tight fit since I live in
a closet), and did this yoga set: Spinal Flex Series.

I began my day with this simple yoga set for the spine for many
years – sure it got boring, but different music every day helped.
Today, as I flex back and forth, I feel how stiff I’ve become, how I
need to loosen, to take care of this Sushumna, central column, spine, place where all the nerves, nadis, meridians
flow. I feel the weight of what I carry as I rhythmically flex,
especially when I get to the ‘shoulder shrugs,’ eh, let the tension go,
let it go…

Each day is new, life is strange, but it keeps going. Perhaps I
shall still be sitting on my mat, flexing my bent old spine when I am a
centenarian, shrunken, withered, wrinkled, but ever so wise

Thinking of you, I got out my old scanner with the crack in the
lid, started it up, scanned these sets at least 3 times to get a clear
image: click on them for full-sizes. My friend who was in her
30s and had pain in her back that was finally diagnosed as arthritis
and had physiotherapy sessions let me teach her this set one afternoon
when our then younger children were in school and she marveled at it. A
few weeks later after doing the set daily she asked, ‘Why don’t
Physiotherapists teach these exercises? This flexing really works,
really helps.’

Are we as young as our spine is flexible? It’s okay, I won’t
go into ‘yoga teacher mode’ and lecture on the spine. Let’s just say that all of the billions of nerve
cells in our bodies are connected to our brains through the braid of
nerves running through the spinal column. If nothing else, keep this
central part of your body flexible, in motion, healthy…

Kundalini Yoga: Guidelines for Sadhana (Pomona, California: Kundalini Research Institute, 1974), p.45-6. For another layout of this set, see Basic Spinal Series, and scroll to the end to read a description of Mul Bhand (root lock) and Maha Bhand (great lock).

An inspirational movie, joining blessings of a million strong. I woke this morning to these blessings, this blessing…

We Send You Our Blessings

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http://www.mayyoubeblessedmovie.com/

May you be blessed…

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