majestic

http://pulptastic.com/happens-sing-800-year-old-icelandic-hymn-train-station/

gave me chills. 

When you know better, you do better

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fx447ShQLeE#t=223

bee-friending yourself.

I got published and am pretty excited about that little victory.

now onto the next ...

http://www.elephantjournal.com/2014/05/bee-friending-yourself-savannah-gignac/

i walk a tightrope

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WanvRqKhYfg

deep sea, baby

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWxuY4SYtaA


 

"I Follow Rivers"

Oh I beg you, can I follow
Oh I ask you why not always
Be the ocean where unravel
Be my only, be the water and I'm wading
You're my river running high, run deep run wild

I I follow, I follow you deep sea baby
I follow you
I I follow, I follow you, dark boom honey
I follow you

He a message, I'm the runner
He's the rebel, I'm the daughter waiting for you
You're my river running high, run deep run wild


I I follow, I follow you deep sea baby
I follow you
I I follow, I follow you, dark boom honey
I follow you

You're my river running high, run deep run wild
I, I follow, I follow you deep sea baby,
I follow you
I, I follow, I follow you, dark boom honey,
I follow you
I, I follow, I follow you deeps sea baby,
I follow you
I, I follow, I follow you, dark boom honey,
I follow you

I, I follow, I follow you deeps sea baby,
I follow you
I, I follow, I follow you, dark boom honey,
I follow you

My future ex-husband and RuPaul

 My future ex-husband, Marc Maron, spoke with RuPaul today on his podcast. I REALLY enjoyed this WTF podcast episode. Marc and RuPaul touched on:

• finding your true self, 
• shedding the labels society puts on you
• shedding the identity you unconsciously may be shackling yourself to
• the importance of being fearless

all the while peppering the conversation with TONS of hearty laughter.

I love Marc Maron's podcast because he and his guests touch on subjects that are a part of the human experience (ie: those sucky emotions, "heavy shit", life's major questions, the purpose of life),but he approaches these subjects with warm humor, compassion, and genuine interest. These are things we as a culture do not always talk about, but his podcast makes it approachable, interesting and .... really entertaining!

RuPaul had some AMAZING insights on how we choose to live. How these choices can free you or deplete you. How to let go of fear and live a life without fear.

My favorite quote was "Ru - Don't take life too fucking seriously!" listen AT 40:55!!!!

LISTEN HERE:
http://www.wtfpod.com/

http://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/episodes/episode_498_-_rupaul_charles

To love the moments we live in.

i had a beautiful walk all over the city today. i took a half day from work for an afternoon of doctor appointments. this wandering is something i rarely do. i walk with purpose even when i have no purpose. i walk very fast thinking of other things. i'm not in the moment. i also listen to my iphone or check apps. 

today i had no headphones. i let the world fill my ears and eyes. also, getting purposely lost, i had to focus on the little things to figure out where i was. it was great fun and i need to do it more often. now that the weather is good, i'm going to try to more. 

i wrote this on my "notepad" on my phone. when you get the feeling to write, you must write. and it was just one of those moments when the words were floating in my head and had to get out if i was going to remember the images i had seen today. 

Little girl bouncing along the hopscotch - the beads in her hair following suit. Jazz notes falling down the club stair case, floating through the air and taking a ride on my pounding of the pavement. I think Seaton street is my favorite. It's dripping with roses and ivy and all the houses are painted in the color of "home." To love the moments we live in. How easy one forgets.

and here are the pictures i took of Seaton street. I couldn't help it. 

I LOVE ALL THE WORDS.

http://www.behance.net/gallery/9633585/Found-In-Translation

GENIUS graphic art project.

words + art = c'est magnifique

my backside is famous

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5562/14188220013_8f626c2408_o.jpg





my backside was featured on BYT today.

clearly i'm infamous. OBVIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII.

blahhhhhh.

my future ex-husband, Marc Maron

http://www.ifc.com/maron/videos/full-episode-maron-talking-dead

MY FUTURE EX-HUSBAND'S SHOW IS BACK ON.

Maron, Season 2, IFC.

Drunk in DC

This is what happens when a Morroccan man takes your cellphone and puts his number in it. I do not remember name of said man. I do remember he was Morrocan. That is all.

AND APPARENTLY WE TALKED about my love for Tagines?

Drunk in DC. Nothing like it.

well ain't that the damn truth.

Neruda: "Love is so short, forgetting is so long."

reflections, red flags

sometimes old memories of people hit you out of nowhere.

i have to share this red flag that at one time I willingly ignored.  It was what I call a "red flag on fire."

i remember laying in bed the morning after, talking about our creative interests. he asked me if I wanted to be a photographer. I said "no, but I want to learn how to take better photographs."

"good. my ex was a photographer and that was," he rolls his eyes and gets grim.

"no. I don't want to be a photographer. I'm more into writing; that's where my creativity is."

"what kind of writing?"

"short stories, creative fiction."

"i don't like that. Fiction. Only historical narratives and real things."



HAHAHA.


wtf.

Audrey Hepburn's favorite poem

Unending Love

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times…
In life after life, in age after age, forever.
My spellbound heart has made and remade the necklace of songs,
That you take as a gift, wear round your neck in your many forms,
In life after life, in age after age, forever.

Whenever I hear old chronicles of love, its age-old pain,
Its ancient tale of being apart or together.
As I stare on and on into the past, in the end you emerge,
Clad in the light of a pole-star piercing the darkness of time:
You become an image of what is remembered forever.

You and I have floated here on the stream that brings from the fount.
At the heart of time, love of one for another.
We have played along side millions of lovers, shared in the same
Shy sweetness of meeting, the same distressful tears of farewell-
Old love but in shapes that renew and renew forever.

Today it is heaped at your feet, it has found its end in you
The love of all man’s days both past and forever:
Universal joy, universal sorrow, universal life.
The memories of all loves merging with this one love of ours –
And the songs of every poet past and forever.

by Rabindranath Tagore

GIRL BOSS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y04gnM57Sow

Interview with Sophia Amoruso - CEO, founder of Nasty Gal

ASMR documentary

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1105903924/braingasm-the-asmr-documentary

I've mentioned ASMR before on this blog. The intro of this preview is the exact feelings/sensations I've gotten since childhood. I'm not active in the ASMR community (ie, tape youtube videos) but I totally know all the sensations they are describing! To be honest I never mentioned experiencing it to anyone until I read an article about it on NPR. I thought everyone felt the same way when they heard certain sounds. I wonder how many people feel "braingasms" like me.

I didn't know the videos helped people with insomnia, anxiety, or depression. That's a great thing if youtube videos can help people find peace of mind and heal.

I remember showing my friend a video of ASMR on youtube and it totally freaked her out. she actually told me she felt anxious and weird-ed out watching it - haha! Whereas I felt high/relaxed after watching it. I guess everyone has their own unique sensory turn-ons. 

Spring Fever

This weekend was unexpectedly wonderful.
Walking home from the metro my neighbor invited me over for dinner of chicken covered in herbs, garlic, and butter, laying on a bed of crispy kale and a bottle of white wine. We sat on the patio and talked to the neighbors. The weather was perfect. Then my friend came over and we finished off the bottle of wine, went to our favorite local bar and then all three of us went to a Gypsy Jazz show at another bar nearby. Someone at the table ordered a lamb shank and then i had to order a Cabernet to wash it down with.

Food. Music. Good company. It is the holy trinity.

Saturday I wrote all day and then got an email that my Bee article was going to be published on an online magazine. I was really happy to get that news. It is a little accomplishment, but it is the encouragement i was looking for to keep writing and sending my stuff in. Then i went to Opera in the Outfield, watching The Magic Flute on the Nats stadium screen.

Sunday I went to an Andrew Wyeth lecture which blew my mind. His technique and subjects were so interesting. His approach to art was to strip away everything to find the true images, not to add things to make it look "better." The lecture focused on his fascination with painting windows. He painted 300 pictures of windows.

After the lecture I had an inspiring phone call with an old friend, as I sat on the stairs of the steps of the National Portrait Gallery.

I went over to my friends backyard, drank beer and lay in the sun in my sundress, then went to a local bar. They were having an annual celebration where all the men wear sundresses. It was amusing, to say the least.

I got a musician's number. He was wearing a yellow and black striped dress.

Everyone is out in my neighborhood. The streets are one again brimming with Millennials and the occasional stroller pusher. I love my neighborhood in the spring and summer. That when I moved to DC and i think it is the best time to be here. There are endless things to do, see, and people to meet.

Good life advice from Mike Rowe

http://news.distractify.com/people/mike-rowe-crushes-a-mans-hopes-for-finding-a-dream-job-and-i-agree-with-him-100/