My Newest Blog

www.avonlealoves.blogspot.com

Thoughts become Things was a great Blog.  She gave me the space I needed to find my footing as a writer and as a thinker.  On this blog I was able to learn about myself and analyze my mistakes over the last decade or better.  This is a necessary part of the journey and evolution of any person or thing or movement.

I am retiring this blog in pursuit of other subjects that reflect my new Journey.  I have discovered quite recently, that I am able to LOVE quite deeply and this is a new kind of experience for me.  I have had sort-of a Spiritual Awakening and now I can never be the way I was before.  I feel this is a long time in coming and I am thankful for the Forces of Nature that have brought me here even if I feel out of place and scared.

I have some truly amazing friends and people in my life who are helping me to get used to this new energy frequency that I am vibrating at.  I like how it feels even if it is sort of shaking up my foundations.  But as I already said, I can no longer see the world as I did before.  I can no longer think of things that way because I have a new paradigm.

So this blog will be retired.  I love some of my articles here and I hope that they catch the eye of important people and that those people will follow the link I posted above to read my new stuff.  My new Blog is focused on LOVE, which is the greatest force of life and is healing people who seek it.  I wish to offer Love to all who need it and not for personal gain but for the evolution of a peaceful world and Unified Consciousness which I now believe in.

Please follow and share my new Blog Link.

~namaste

Cosmic Changes Are Affecting Us All

In the universe, there are new developments in the year 2012.  The galaxy shifting, in it's natural course, is coming to a unique point and will culminate this year.  It is not the end times of life on this planet.  Some doom-and-gloom reports have caused fear.  It is an end of a long period in history...and era of sorts.

You may feel it.  I say you will feel it, because it is something to be felt, not seen.  It is a time to allow ourselves to transform rather than fight these new changes.  It is a time for us to listen inwardly to our deeper beliefs and look within to find our higher calling and our higher self. 

If this sounds difficult to understand, I can see why. The only way to get the answers you desire is to desire them deeply from your innermost place of wanting and then it will be shown to you.  Perhaps inside of you there is already an awareness of this shift...a stirring.  are you feeling aches and pains?  Lower backache without cause?  Dizziness and feeling off-balance?  Have you recently met someone in your life who means a lot to you in a deeper way then you can explain?

These are symptoms of this consciousness shift...and they are an awakening.  You should allow yourself to go through it and even embrace it.  Learn what you can about the growing consciousness of Unity and Community.  This is the time for us all to see ourselves as connected to one another, not as individuals.  Individuality is greatly overated.

~namaste

Why must we Transform

Transformation is a process by which any individual is changed from one form of being to another form of being.  In the Animal Kingdom, transformations can sometimes be very dramatic...as in the change of a caterpillar to a butterfly.  When it is human Transformation, we often mean a change in the physical appearance or something that is deeper than epidermal....perhaps a spiritual, emotional, financial or ethical change.  This would apply to any dramatic change for the better.  Transoformation does not carry the connotation of lessening one's value but of increase.  Therefore, one cannot transform from a model citizen to a criminal.  We would call that deterioration or regression or a "fall from grace".  To be transformed is to acquire knowledge that could better your life and then to use that knowledge actively to create a better life...to form a "new you".

My personal transformation began with reading "The Secret" and has been ongoing...including other types of Personal development.  Along with friends, I am a collaborator on a Group called CBA.  We are devoted to making life better in our communities starting with ourselves.  My transformation is personal...theirs are personal...we all are growing in different ways.  For me, transformation now...in my present...has to do with body and mind combination.  I am making major strides and changes in my food, source of food, mental process about food and my actual eating of food.  This is very important to my process because food purity, in my opinion, has everything to do with my mental clarity.  When my mind is clear, my meditation and visualization will be stronger, which will lead to greater progess in all areas of my life.

Transformation is hard....hard work.  I FEEL my body changing.  It feels both good and bad.  I feel exhausted, sometimes hungry, I have aches and pains associated with the alteration of my diet.  I am amazed at the power of foods...and the power of chemical reactions that happen in your body with the intake of food.  Every person has their own unique needs in this way, so each person will have their own journey when they make changes of this nature.  But for me, I am at the point of absolutely no return.  My convictions on this matter run so deeply now that I cannot disengage from them.  I really honestly cannot eat the way I used to eat. 

Now to be very raw here...I am at least 50lbs overweight from the acceptable body weight for my height (a mere 5'1).  So I should weigh around 105lbs to 110lbs for perfect health.  In the past, the weight loss was my goal and I always felt pressure to achieve it.  But now, although I know I must get to that weight and maintain it, I no longer focus on the achievement of the weight in pounds.  My transformation is based on HOW I achieve the right pounds.  My goal is to eat a Certain Way and exercise a Certain Way with a Certain Thought Process.  By doing this, I am allowing transformation from within to show itself without.  The reflection of my inner change will be shown outwardly on the body (in time).

Just like my perfect weight will present itself in time, so will other changes as they are ready.  But once again...unless the changes I wish to see outwardly, begin from a transformed mental state, they will not ever really show outwardly because they must first begin inside. 

Ask yourself how you can effect change?  What changes do you want to see in the world?  You can become that change and then effect the world.  You will make a true and real difference by living out your passions...no matter how small you may think they are.  You could be the person who inspires a worldwide movement that makes life better.  You really have to believe it. 

~namaste

The Full Moon in Leo

So full moons are beautiful.  Last night I was driving home from Providence to Warwick and I saw the moon on it's rise from horizon to high-sky.  She was orangy and huge hovering over Garden City.  I always love the glow over Cranston's Garden City but this was a beautiful place to discover her majesty in all her glory.  I felt her all day...oh ya...all day.  When the moon is coming full, I feel a general stir around me.  The children become agitated more easily and their general noise and activity level increases significantly.  If you have pets, you too may observe these types of changes.

On a personal level, I usually experience a dull headache, heel pain and I sway.  Yes, I said I sway...from side to side.  This is an ideal time to use my body as a pendelum....point myself north and ask for guidance.  Yay!  Full Moon!  I love the full moon.  This is due to a high water intake.  Yesterday morning when I woke up I could not keep my balance for about the first hour of the day!  Now that is what I call sensitivity to the moon phases. 

For those of you who follow my Morrocco Method Blog, the full moon and moon cycles in general can be useful when planning hair trimming, shaving, plucking, waxing, haircuts and other beauty treatments...particularly detoxing the body internally or from the scalp.  If these subjects interest you, I urge you to visit the page that follows:

www.morroccomethod.com

You can follow a link from there to products, information, the Lunar Hair chart, and the Blog.  I contribute to the Blog but not every post is written by me.  I also contribute to their sister blog.  The link is below:

www.thehairshaman.com

Ok, so enough about the links to my work.  I am excited to contribute and be a customer of MorroccoMethod. One of the main reasons is that I love to be inspired and I love that I love things...weird right?  Think about it for a moment.  have you ever had a phase in life when nothing moves you or makes you feel happy?  It's just duldrums all the time for a long stretch.  Am I the only one who has ever experienced this?  It can't be!  I have had short spurts like this and also long bouts of it.  I still go through it but I have found a few useful techniques that help get me through it until the next wave of enthusiasm brings me up high.

Now, understand that we create our lives by our vibration which comes from thought, so if we are in this funk I just described, we are going to stay there until something external effects change upon us or else we change from within.  Change from within relies on an understanding that we...you...I...are in control of this journey.  We control our thoughts and our thoughts create the vibrations that place us on the frequency with...I love this phrase...LIKE-MINDED PEOPLE AND SITUATIONS.

Let that sink in.

Like-minded.  It means, that you and the people around you are in-synch.  That feels good sometimes.  Misery loves company...so BEWARE.  Do you feel like wallowing with someone or do you feel like you want something better to come along?  If you want something better...make something better.  Create in your mind a sanctuary of pleasant happy thoughts and positivity and you will draw that to you like a magnet.  You will, in the process, repel any person or situation that does not share your vibration.  So raise it up!  You can do it!  Raise your vibration!  Get on a new and higher frequency...and you will find others who think and feel like the person you WANT to be.  The REAL YOU. I know it can happen because I have done it.  I am speaking from personal experience.

I am no longer a "dumping ground" for every sad story and I no longer unlaod them on others.  I do write about things...I let off steam.  But most of it, I take it to meditation.  I breathe and relax and restore the mental posture I WANT...not the one that the chaotic world around me is delivering up day after day.

If I can achieve this, so can you.  If you want to meet some like-minded people, and start working on a new possibility for living with positivity and integrity, I urge you to come out and meet my Personal Development Team called CBA (Conceive Believe Achieve). 

You can find us on facebook and meetup and our actual meetings take place at the Warwick Library.  Our next meeting is THIS Saturday, February 11th at 2:30pm.

www.cbagroupri.meetup.com

www.conceivebelieveachieve.facebook.com
 and
www.cbagroupri.blogspot.com

I have been maintaining our blog so guess what?  You get more of me...me, me, me!  I am not vain, really...I mean it.  LOL

Ok folks, that is all for today.  See you next time.  I love you all.  Have peace, real peace.  Make peace.  Love everyone as much as you can.  Be excellent to one another!

~namaste

Flowers of Avonlea

I love gardens.  You might say flowers and greenery and shrubs of all kinds, combined into gardens and secret escapes, is a passion of mine. 


I may not have the green thumb or training to create these wonders, but I sure can and do appreciate them with a ferver.

I on the other hand, can and DO create gardens...where the majestic flowers are friends.  Where the events ar "happenings" and the souls truly connect, regardless of miles.  In my experience, the formula has perfect balance when the right ingredients are combined and the climate is controlled...not too much water or direct sunlight.

This is what Flowers of Avonlea is all about.  It is my Secret Society of friends who share and bare there souls.  If you feel you are one of us...maybe you are.

My flowers love me and I love them and they are loving each other...and reaching out to share what they know, feel or believe and that makes a difference in the life of each flower.  I look forward to checking in with my flowers everyday to see how they are and to meet the discussions of the day with enthusiasm and confidence and love and compassion.  And when I need them, I reach out.  I know they will always be there for me.

In my lifetime, I always wished for my Diana.  Diana to my Shirley, that is.  I always wanted a best friend.  Now I have a circle of best friends to love.  I am the luckiest woman alive.

Thank you Flowers...with much much love!

Lilac

How Loving Anthony Kiedis has changed my life

So Thoughts...become things.  Dreams are thoughts.  They are the thoughts that roam about the subconscious, which analysts say are the more vital thoughts for the production energy.  In other words...if thoughts become things....dreams are the superthoughts that have the power to produce the greatest things!  the key to tapping in is tuning in.  About 6 months ago I began a campaign to tap into my dreams.  Last night I experienced the most vivid and interesting dream I have had in many years.  I have to journal about it because it was profound and within it must lie a very important message from the deeper recesses of my subconscious mind.

Many of you who know me or ever read my profiles and observe my "likes" are aware of my love for Anthony Kiedis, the Lead singer of The Red Hot Chili Peppers (RHCP).  I first discovered them when I was not quite 16 years old and I have been a diehard fan ever since.  I have always loved Anthony.  I have never dreamed about him before now until last night and the dream was very very vivid.  I will assume that Anthony being there was a message to listen to that part of myself that I hold most dear and that would be, my dreams and my beliefs.  Anthony Kiedis is a Vegan who observes the philosophy of Middle Eastern practices like buddhism and Yoga.  He uses breath therapy and retreats to restore his creativity and battle his addictions.  He surfs and stays physically active to balance his deep inner world and outer world, thus producing (in my opinion) his ability to write song lyrics that speak to people (like me).

Kiedis is a Leader to me...not the only one, certainly, and not without major failures (behind him), ultimately leading to his success.  Last night I had the privilege of exploring what it might be like were I able to meet one of my Idols of Pop culture.  In my dream I was visiting a Theme Park and as night approached, I entered a bar that was part of the park (similar to World Showcase at Epcot).  The bartender was Anthony Kiedis and nearby the drummer from the band, Chad.  I was immediately dumbfounded to see Kiedis there and began apologizing for the mess I looked like, as if in an effort to show him that I could be WAY more beautiful then I looked at that moment..funny, huh?

Kiedis was surprisingly approachable and gave me his full attention as I stumbled to find words fitting enough to express my enormous affection and knowledge of and for him.  I was trying to do this in a guarded way so as to not let him think I was a stalker/psycho.  He must have misinterpreted this or else it backfired because he immediately introduced me to Chad and explained that Chad was recently Single after separating from his wife.  I thought Kiedis must have a girlfriend and thinks I am looking for a relationship.  I changed my approach and relaxed a little and embraced the introduction and began to feel confident...as though I was in fact among friends and people who were my peers.  I talked a bit about my musical background and that helped.

By the end of my dream, I had gotten a very nice compliment from Kiedis...that he loved my hair!  In my dream I explained that I had been using red henna to create this color and wanted that "rock-star" edgy look.  Anyway, his approval felt really good.  He kissed me on the cheek as I left and I no longer felt like this amazing guy was way out of my reach.  I interpret this as meaning the dreams and beliefs I have about how I want to live (which I associate with Kiedis) are also, NOT out of my reach.  They are within my reach.  I can attain them.  I can attain them.  I can attain them.

Now I am feeling happier than I have in weeks.  Not because of some silly dream, but because in my dream I placed myself in a moment I have literally dreamed about having in my lifetime.  a moment when I can meet a Legend of Music whom i adore and practically worship.  I truly visualized it in my dream last night.  I knew exactly how I would feel and how awkward I would be and how I would waste the first few minutes in fear and babbling before I could relax.  And sometimes, we do not get that extra time to really get to know a person.  In my dream, Kiedis made himself approachable.  He spent time with me and I was able to open up and be myself finally and then leave feeling that I had turned an Idol into a friend and peer.  The thing that stood out most was my ability (while asleep and dreaming) to change my course of action.  In my dream, I made choices...to back off...to speak up...to stay in the room talking.  I lead my dream where I wanted it to go.  I created it.  I did not just experience it, I created it.

I think that is how it should be...in every relationship.  It is important to know we are all here under the same universal energy with the same aptitude for greatness as we admire in those we deem to be heroes.  I will always consider Anthony Kiedis a hero in my life, because I have learned so much from his life because I cared to watch and look and observe it and learn.  What I really want in life is to be watched and observed and learned-from and admired.  I also want to be adored.  Any takers?  Anyone want to adore me?...because you could be the key to giving me my wings. 

I want to be High-Flying Adored.  But not alone.

~namaste

Neptune has arrived

I am not sure about the rest of you, but I am pretty dang excited about Neptune's arrival this day.  It has newly aligned itself in the cosmos and we are in for a super good time.  Neptune is an influence I need to feel now, in a different house of my solar chart, to lift the veil of uncertainty that has clouded my vision over my relationships for literally 14 years now.  Neptune will remain in it's new location for...can you guess?...14 years.

A bit more on the astro-front:  It is the year of the Chinese Water Dragon.  If anyone is interested in how that affects their sign, go ahead and do a bit of research on it.  I found that Leo was particularly unmoved by the elements in last year's Chinese zodiac...being the Rabbit.  He is slow.  Leo's like me, are firey and passionate and we want to see action.  The Dragon guarantees a bit more of a Leo-favored pace in 2012.

When a new month arrives I analyze Leo forecast from four different sources:

1.  Diana Garland.  I watch her on youtube and she delivers and audio report
2.  Freshastrology on youtube.  She focuses on long-term influences instead of day to day.
3.  Susan Miller.  hers is not audio, I read it at astrologyzone.com
4.  Usually Shine

So Susan Miller for the past year has always had a nugget of something very useful wedged into her monthly forecast for me.  She predicted a death in my family in July and has accurately pinpointed a few key dates when emotional outburst or arguments have occurred and in general has been accurate about my relationship arena.  In her February 2012 Leo Forecast, I discovered this little segment that totally blows my mind. I am going to cut it and paste it for you to read.

"Now let's turn to matters of romance. Earlier, at the very start of your report, I discussed the important role of Neptune in your joint financial arrangements in coming years. Yet there is more to discuss - the fact that Neptune will not only enter your financial house but LEAVE your partnership sector for the first time since 1998 is important. Neptune will not return to your marriage and partnership commitment house (including business partnerships) in your lifetime.


This could easily signal a big and possibly improved change for your most romantic relationship. While it is possible that you were inspired by your partner, perhaps because this person is very creative or helped people in need (perhaps in a charitable way), there is a possible downside that Neptune may have brought during your time together. You may have had to give up too much for a partner in the past, sacrificing your own needs so that your partner may benefit. You may have done this willingly, or you may have been in a circumstance that dictated this must be.


Or it might have been that your partner has not been entirely honest with you all these years. (By now you would know if this applies to you.) Now, however, on February 3, you will no longer be subject to these types of difficulties in a relationship. You will enjoy the difference - everything will change now and you will find your relationship more even and clearer too. Now let's turn to the specific days of this month that you may want to note"
So since I have faith in this stuff, I am interested to see what develops between now and Tuesday of next week, a key date for my sign.

I have some ideas of how I want things to look in a few weeks or months.  The question is, will I get support from the universe in accomplishing it?  We shall see.

~namaste

Dabbling in the Law of Attraction vs Letting it Transform your life

Aha!  Now I have really caught your attention with that title, haven't I?  Yup, it is time to take it to a deeper level.  That will be the theme for this month (February 2012).  It's time to talk about committing...committment...taking it to a deeper or higher level.  Oh I hate this!!!  Don't you?  Don't you just hate the part when you have been doing this exercise program and all of a sudden, after months of excellent results, the "same old" routine is just NOT giving you results anymore?  You know what you need to do.  And so you suck-it-up and change the program to take what you have established and created...to the next level.  You have to do it if you want to continue with forward growth.  You see the end goal but achieving it is not as easy as it looked 10 months ago. 

So look back at where you started and realize and praise yourself because you have really changed some things!  If it is an exercise routine, undoubtedly you have gained muscle mass, lowered your BMI and possibly lost weight (as in fat)?  Your clothes feel better....heck, you have new clothes!  People are treating you differently I bet, because they do that when a person becomes thinner or healthier-looking.  It is unfair, I know, but human nature.  So take stock of your achievements and give yourself credit and praise yourself because there is a chance that no one else will do it.  Yup.  I am serious.  You may have overcome the biggest obstacle of your life and it may be noticeable from the outside and yet, you may get no cheers for it...no congratulations for your success.  In case that happens to you, give it to yourself because you really do deserve it.

For me, reflecting through 2011 and up to now, many things are new and different then they were in February 2011.  In fact, my whole outlook on life is completely altered from one year ago.  I deem this as improvement overall...absolutely improvement, no doubt!  I think I have recapped my year in prior blog entries and I don't want to repeat myself but lets have a glimpse:
January 2011 I was working 7 days a week (supplementing my regular job by a weekend call center job)
February 2011 I hated that job for stealing all my free time.  My daughter asked me to let her audition for an acting opportunity which turned into Camp from February through March. 
March 2011 She gained representation with Model Club
June she got her first acting job and my daycare business had an upswing in business for thr entire summer
September 2011 I helped form CBA Group
October 2011 I was headhunted to be a paid blog-writer
November my daughter got a lead role in school play ( a program she petitioned for and we had been working on visualizing into existance since January.
January 2012..now...lots of stuff going on just below the surface for me.

Ok, so little glimpse of what my physical or life transformation looked like from January to January 2011 to 2012.  When you do that for your own life, what do you observe?  What I did not write down were the thoughts I had during the changes I experienced or the new people who have entered into my inner circle. The people and thoughts and subtle inner shifting is so much more valuable to me then the larger changes I have told you about above.  It is always the little things that make the biggest difference.  I will compare it to the very small rudder of a very large ship.  We all know (from the Titanic) what the value of that tiny little rudder is.

The people we surround ourselves with and what input and words and ideas we allow to fill our mind, has all the power to transform us for better or worse.  What we read, we come to believe. 

So at what point do we move from dabbling in our understanding and knowledge of the Law of Attraction and really start to let our lives transform?  I personally believe that this happens at the point when we finally say to ourselves, honestly: "I will no longer let fear of the unknown stop me from jumping in wholeheartedly".  It comes down to committment and trust.  Do you commit yourself to the future you have dreamed-up or do you want to just dabble in the process of creating it?  Are you ready to put the real physical walls on the house or would you rather just draw-up the plans and then leave the building to others?
This is the point I find myself at.  I have been here before...many times I think.  A few times I have jumped.  Those times were hard for me.  A perfect example of this would be when I enrolled in college.  The admissions part was fun and the auditioning for the music scholarship was great and the applause of getting accepted and getting scholarship money and choosing the classes.  It was all great.  But then came the most difficult part for me.  Arriving at my dorm and moving in my stuff and watching my Dad leave...I knew I was totally and completely alone on this part of the road to my future.  I was terrified and I felt sick and I was violently ill from it but somehow I trudged on and slowly the campus became my home.  Soon I made new friends who made my life full and taught me new things and it is so easy for me now to forget how HARD it was to take that first initial step to do it.  It was SO...SO...So...hard.

Another great example was having a baby.  It is amazing when you realize you have actually gotten pregnant and you start dreaming up the baby's life...their room...what private schools they will go to...LOL...and then at about the 8th month you realize suddenly that there is no turning back. Oh my goodness...there is NO turning back!  There is this tiny human being inside of you but inside of you it feels like there is this enormous creature and the very idea of how they are planning to exit the womb...horrifyingly scary!  Especially when it is your first child.  After the second child, it becomes easier because you overcame the fear of the first.  Confirmed your ability to master the process with 2nd child...and if there are more to come, they will be with far less fear. 

Our fears can trip us up at any stage in this process of creating the life we desire and believing that we can manifest the possibilities in our mind and in our hearts.  I love writing about this stuff.  But I want my Blog to have impact not because I understand ideas and share them, but because I inspire my readers through my own transformation process.  No one will care what I can say if I cannot live it myself! If I tell you I know the secret to maintaining the perfect body weight and yet I am still 50lbs over my perfect body weight then why on earth would you care if I know it or not?  I would not have proven that I could use what I know, so therefore, there is no value in my knowledge. 

I must decide now, what it is I truly want.  It is time to create the best vision for me...the one that really inspires my deepest happiness and then work towards that goal now...today...and keep building that "into the future".  Last night I attended an Introduction to Landmark Forum.  I was a guest of my friend Berta.  I promised her I would write about this today and she is looking forward to the recap.  It was such an oddball night and it felt like there were so many obstacles in our path.  Whenever I attempt to do something and then there are myriad obstacles in my path, I am not quick to give up...unless it was something I never really wanted to do in the first place or else I saw no value in the activity.  But since Berta and Sam and Bob have all been offerring me the advice to attend and because I am a first-hand witness of their transformations and the way they seem empowered to really take the actions they desire, I wanted to know more about it.

Just to get us on the road, Berta and I faced many challenges.  Finally on the drive out to Quincy and looking to be approximately 10 minutes late (which we were), we discussed th odd events of the day.  I cough it up to Mercury retrograding pulling us all backwards a bit but also sat'an who wants us to fail in our goals.  Then Berta tells me the Landmark course recently moved to a new location which we are discovering on this drive...a new place.  We see the number 1200 sprawled across a building on the street.  Sam has given Berta this address so my first (silent) thought is..."ooops...he gave her the wrong address and this is Citizens Bank and we are in the wrong place".  My second thought as we park and lock the car is, "oh well, me and Berta still got a girls night out from this and I am pretty sure we just passed and IHOP...hmmm, pancakes sound good." 

We get to the front of the building and by now I can smell those pancakes. Berta calles Bob to get a confirmation and I observe that the door to this bank is open...just a crack.  On the glass is the tiniest little ticker tape notification of the whereabouts of our Landmark Forum. 

All I could think was how ridiculously clever was this universal energy that brought us all the way to Quincy Ma tonite to eak through a cracked door in a bank, marked by the tiniest little "sign" if you will....after all the obstacles and the most unlikely scenarios.  But we were there.  We got there.  Observe:

It was truly odd.  Then...poor Berta..she was mortified to discover that although I was her guest, I was to be separated from her for the whole night, as I was attending an Introduction and she was continuing her education with a more advanced seminar.  I had no problem going, but Berta was mortified...it was kind of funny.  Afterwards, when we left I suggested we grab a warm coffee for the long ride home and we tried but lo-and-behold...nothing was to go our way this night.  We instead talked and bonded for the ride back.

I definitely needed 24 hours to mull over the events of this past evening.  So there you have it.  Now I am looking at the threshold of possibilities slightly differently from before.  I am uncertain about when I will attend the full 3-day forum.  I would like to go with someone else instead of alone.  If anyone out there wants to take a transformational workshop at the same time as me...inbox me.  No committment.  we would not need to travel together or anything like that...just be nice to have a familiar face in the crowd.  Any takers? 

If you are ...like me...ready to stop dabbling and really really change your life:  Inspire me.  I need the inspiration.

~namaste

Music is the international langauge

I am having a really annoying flashback to a movie that was once a favorite of mine:  "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure".  Some of you reading this will no doubt remember the movie and will understand why it is connected to the subject of this blog.  I will warn you that today I am in a rare "comedic" mood. 

There ya go.  Now you have a visual..."Wild Stallions", featuring Bill S. Preston esquire and Ted Theodore Logan.  Ok, back to the blog message.

So in the movie, music (in the future) was going to be what brought World Peace.  Seems crazy, I know.  But is it really crazy?  Or is music in fact the very secret to everything?  Being a musician (as I am), I can tell you that the world of music is so vast and expansive that no one is an expert.  If you say, "I love music"...what does that even mean?  You love to hear sounds?  You like a specific genre of music?  You like to create music with instruments or with your voice?  You are into the production and distribution of music?  You like to attend concerts?  You are obsessed with a Musical Icon?  What does it mean?  What do you really mean?

My Musical journey began long before I began playing the french horn at age 11.  I was what Mom called a "tapper".  My daughter is a tapper too.  I asked Mom and Dad if I could take the drums but was given a horn instead.  I did master my instrument over time but my passion was not really fulfilled through it.  In college, I discovered my mousy voice actually had a volume control switch... and when I was able to control it, I began singing.  I had a bluesy sweet voice and loved being mistaken for a woman of color!

These days, it is easy to feel detached from the way I used to know music, but actually music and I have been evolving together.  I feel so many emotions now when I listen to music.  I feel there are messages within the sounds and also the lyrics.  I hear two sets of conversations because I am using my whole body to listen and my spirit too.  Does this make any sense to anyone?

I want to create a Discussion Group to become better acquainted with music from around the world...something I wanted to do while I was studying music in college.  Perhaps I am off to a late start...but better late then never.

~namaste