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Peacing Myself
2009-01-15 20:53:00
I am back to a practicing the piano routine, as well as a writing / blogging routine. I have a photography shoot coming up in a few weeks and my dance group is in hiatus.I feel like last year was about painting this huge mural (figuratively). It is now 2009 and I look at the many things I did last year and think... wow... I suppose I was a bit of a mad artist.My piano chops had some fun for a little bit with a spell of intimate concerts at home with a flutist friend who is also a salsa friend. Those little gatherings at home were accompanied with small dance parties . All that sound and music activity gave way to an energy to put into blogging and podcasting. I went a bit extreme in countering my interrupted podcasting life by doing a show everyday for a week or so.. tapering to three a week until dance rehearsals became demanding and coupled with technical difficulties; a break from podcasting was needed.Quieter my life became... summer dance rehearsals kicked salsa off my p...

Odd, Honest, And Beautiful
2009-01-13 23:55:00
Surely there must be others who are living a charmed, odd, beautiful life...It's my flavor.Other flavors I notice from friends,....loves individuality and being outspoken.....loves being supportive and quiet from the sidelines.....loves the obstacle of stressful events to manage and hopefully win over..One can be loud, another quiet... another an adrenaline rush.What's your flavor?JNET
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I Care For No Opinion
2009-01-07 10:08:00
It has been brought to my attention several times that I really ought to watch my thoughts and how I express them.E: Why don't you ask R for his opinion?JNET: If R has something important to share with me, I think he would've shared it by now. Perhaps he trusts my judgement.. And if I really cared for his opinion I would've asked by now.HA: Stay with safe topics and be agreeable. Things will be easier for you, if you take my advice.JNET: You're the only one that seems to have a conflict with my ideas. I don't think you really understand me.HA: You are naive and idealistic. I think I speak for several of your friends. I don't want to mention names and its only for your own good. Get in step.The above is a simple collage of a re-occuring theme. Expressing one's self... even out of compassion and truth doesn't always make perfect landings on everyone....But what if the majority of the people who know me would've never made the conclusions that a slim minority do...
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PHOTOS: Happy 2009 :)
2009-01-02 21:28:00
I danced into 2008 with reckless abandon. By Spring I was ready to return to the comfort of myself and quiet...I got so quiet that I took a break from writing, salsa dancing, podcasting and playing the piano. Its now 2009 and the most important place to me is the quiet that I find in my solitude.To begin writing again...And being myself again...The borders of jnetsworld have stretched to new horizons. There are not enough words to express who I am now. But perhaps in pictures....Snapshots of 2008...My solitude found a family. (above: E, C and M)My place was no longer only about my music and rehearsals. I danced for pure enjoyment to be with my friends to laugh and play. I am normally not as social as these three have drawn me out and stretched me. These three created the salsa dancer I am today... all great teachers, technique perfectionists, and friends ... who have made permanent marks into my heart and soul.. as well as a permanent home in jnetsworld :)I learned how to m...
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WORD UP: Unromantizing Christmas
2008-12-17 00:29:00
Madame President, Fellow Toastmasters and Honored Guests:In the spirit of bah humbug, and you don't have a soul sentimentality, I have written for you...Un-romantizing christmas...Friends, we have come to times of great hardship, unsure economic footing, our own car companies running on empty... AND we only have X amount of shopping days to muster a spirit of Christmas , Kwanzaa, Hanukah and Winter Solstice.Now why would I want to unromanticize Christmas in the space of 7 minutes? You've been happily worshiping evergreen trees for generations. Isn't it the season to be jolly, be generous and gift your nearest and dearest while getting absolutely sauced? You have special events and sales at the mall to attend. Doesn't the holiday and year - ending season rush puts adrenaline and calories through your system that count and plan your schedule around?Well I want to one up Mr and Mrs jones... that's why I am going to trump Saint Nick and December 25th in true Hollyday spirit. Y...
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Love Is In The Air... and I Am Feeling Claustrophobic
2008-11-13 08:00:00
My facebook marriages, engagements, and relationships crescendo-ed to a quiet and peaceful single status. Meanwhile my real-time experiments enjoyed some happy practice time with the occasional mess up. I slowly found my un-JNET status of participating in salt shaker activity a bit of a challenge.This silly year has been full of play. The podcasting habit slipped AGAIN, my blog writing routine disrupted - but I can do double turns when I salsa and I've been dancing and performing. Having added Pilates to cross train against dance and yoga, I can continue my ice cream indulgences with E after an evening of dance and then some.And yet, all the ice cream in the world coupled up with fun and affection cannot cover over the growing frustration of having not been productive in my writing and piano practice, leading me to think that dating and a future of salt-shakering... ie pairing up is going to take more mindful thought and discipline. I also entertain the possibility of being a ...
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Random Thoughts of A Hurried Mind
2008-11-01 10:35:00
2: 35am. Breakfast @ 8am. I'll be missing D's bikram yoga competition. Darn. My piano students. So little quiet time. Busy. And I still can't be still. 2:38am. Dancing salsa @ Sportsmen Lodge was fun. The day was full of serious and silly. Was it really Halloween? Intense over relationship talks with E. Private thoughts intense over things yet to be said. He loves me ... he loves me... and he loves me too. Life is dancing and I linger over the breaks of silence.I only think of you... future... I miss you. Everything is perfect no matter what. Take it seriously but not too seriously. The possibilities are endless.2:45. The adventure. I think of travelling solo and welcome that romance. Sky-diving tandem is fun but jumping alone doesn't fill me with lonliness. I love the excitement of being with myself as I steal into 2:48.2:48. Breakfast with friends. Maybe I can leave a bit later. I'll still miss D's competition. Darn. so hard to be still.... as I remem...
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About Kayamanan Ng Lahi :)
2008-09-04 19:16:00
For Immediate ReleaseContact: Ave JacintoAdministrative Director for Kayamanan Ng Lahikayamanan@earthlink.net ~ www.kayamanan.orgPHILIPPINE MUSIC AND DANCE INTERCONNECTUNDER THE STARS AT FORD AMPHITHEATREFour Multi-Disciplinary Folk & Traditional Arts GroupsCollaborate For September 13 Event(Los Angeles - September 4, 2008)The Philippines' rich and diverse culture of dance and music will be presented in celebratory fashion -- under the stars – as Kayamanan Ng Lahi Philippine Folk Arts presents MAGKAUGNAY (“Interconnectedness”), Saturday, September 13, 8 p.m. at The Ford Amphitheatre, 2580 Cahuenga Blvd. East in the Hollywood Hills just off the 101 Freeway across from the Hollywood Bowl.Presented as part of The Ford Amphitheatre's LA Oasis Summer Series, the evening premieres a creative, rarely performed vibrant collaborative numbers featuring a mix of traditional and post-modernist dance accompanied musically by the resounding rhythms of drums and metal gongs, the spellb...

The Stillness Of Me
2008-08-31 06:04:00
Good evening Madam President, Fellow Toastmasters and Honored Guests.My name is JNET and I am presenting my first speech:Seeing me in this dress, you would probably find it hard to believe that I am an introvert. I am someone who romances silence even though I am a musician and teacher. I am someone who appreciates stillness even though I am a dancer.I'd rather hear about you but I have 10 boxes to fill. My ambition tonight is for you to learn a bit about myself by sharing a particular day in my life that occurred, a particular day of the week in my life and how my life is colored thusly. And to also to share in such a way that connects us despite respective cultures, ages, and experience....Firstly, a favorite quote by a wise Jesuit priest...“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”We are NOT human beings have a spiritual experience. WE ARE SPIRITUAL beings HAVING a HUMAN experience...And what is experien...

Relaxing Within a New York Minute
2008-08-12 20:17:00
I am living the rugged angel life in Los Angeles and it is far from the "relaxed" I'd like to live.Car stress... I do love my bug... unfortunately, a mysterious electrical issue has now stumped TWO specialists. My car is only happy in Los Angeles and totally drains out of juice when it travels over 100 miles.... which means visits to my family in San Diego has been accompanied by a good deal of car stress.I am renting a car tonight instead to head to San Diego.D's mother unexpectedly passed away and I am off to my 4th funeral within the past 24 months. (5th... if you include the little memorial I had for my beta fish at my rose bush). I race back up to Los Angeles to return the rental, teach and go to rehearsal...I am performing at the Ford for their family event series of "edu-tainment" on arts and culture...I'd like to do a million other things to catch up with myself and despite the hiccups of life over car and annoyances, I find I can relax and enjoy random moments. I am ...
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Flying At The Speed Of Joy
2008-07-24 19:23:00
J: "You are very quiet. I don't think you've said ten sentences..."JNET: "It's before noontime. I rarely speak to anyone before then."I stepped out of my world and joined my roommate to celebrate his birthday at Magic Mountain. After several weeks of juggling my schedule, stressing over cars, fitting in family and friends and trying to keep up with rehearsals and exercise, Magic Mountain seemed like a good place to blow my mind.But even the surreal sounds of listening to "It Had To Be You" while being roller-coastered at speeds beyond 80mph, 20 stories above the earth, with pyrotechnics dancing to a mix of heavy metal, didn't blow my mind.Life is already blowing my mind.J: "You are soooo quiet."JNET: "It's noisy in my head."Random conversations while standing in hour plus long lines....Zipping along in roller coasters doesn't do much to scare me. Instead, I am filled with an awe for the engineering and creativity. To enjoy a moment to safely fly and be able to imagine...
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SS: The Accidental Boyfriend
2008-07-09 03:57:00
I'm a bit unravelled.It's a good thing.My current facebook status update: Life and love is interestingly hilarious.I am onto my THIRD facebook marriage of the summer and the only appropriate thing I can think to say to my prospective real time suitors is..."Welcome to JNETSWORLD:)"I do not know how most people do it... living it Noah on a daily basis. Together conversations and together times bumping against the Independent Meditation. Life in the carpool lane is not everyone's experience.It's exciting and un-nerving.Un-nerving because I am happy and wonder what more can I want in having someone's life align with mine. Un-nerving because conversations and thoughts are more demanding. I must balance self ambition and develop a shared dream in order to build possible futures with another person.I feel like I've started a brand new company and I'm not the only president.E: "You are incredibly rational."JNET: "A couple of my guy bestfriends have voted me as such."E: "Don...
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PHOTO: Obituary of a Teddy
2008-07-05 22:46:00
*as written by gordonopolousTEDDY. Passed away July 4, 2008 at the age of one and a half weeks.Teddy was a lifelong Los Angeles resident, born into a modeling career and faithfully served as an inspiration to the Women's group for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Manhattan Ave branch. With his talent and cute, cuddly looks, he effortlessly won a role as a demonstration for a cake decorating class held at the church. He was then scheduled to travel to an Eagle Rock bowling alley to serve as a going away gift to a friend of the church, but that assignment never materialized due to an error by his creator in which he was inadvertently left behind and forgotten. He never recovered from this traumatic event.After retiring, he served the remainder of his days in nearby Studio City, at the home of fellow Christians, where he became a centerpiece for their kitchen table. His realism and outgoing personality easily won him many friends and he became quite popular in his...
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Life In Wonderland II
2008-07-04 09:44:00
A reflection on a reflection... two years later...Do I change, evolve or pretty much remain the same???**************This is how I feel about Life a lot of the time.My friends endearments make me feel put on pedestals. And though I may throw myself freely into unknowns that stretch imagination and reality...I am afraid of heights and terrified of going to new places sometimes.Though I make friends easily, love how beautiful the world of people is diverse and wild like a garden...I feel incredibly claustrophobic at many times and have a strange wish that I had powers to render myself invisible. I distance myself from others with structures of esoteric knowledge and find my most blissful moments alone.Though I may lead a spontaneous life, finding adventures at strange turns, and wander into new worlds alone..I prefer the serenity and saneness of quiet days with good friends where little needs to be said and nothing is amiss in standing still.Though I am told that I am beautiful, held ...

SS: Composing a Symphony and Not a Jingle
2008-07-01 22:08:00
E: "What are you looking for?"JNET: "Truth... True Love"I've never had a confidant; a someone to share my every day thoughts with. Ever....Ever...ever... ever. And I never craved that type of audience. Being happy with my life never entailed a captured or captivated witness. A full life is difficult to unload every day plus the given divine moment is sacrificed.Every person who's known me from birth knows that I am as happy catching up with a friend once a week as the person I catch up once a year and that I take no offense if time stretches longer than that. If I need to work out my thoughts, I rarely run to a friend.I work out my thoughts alone, at the piano bench, at my yoga practice, in my writing. And then I go to my friends to let them know of my plans of how I intend to handle the situation. At that point I have rehearsed scenarios in my mind in how I would like my life to play out.I am an introvert that finds fuel in the silence of life that practices understandin...
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SS: Salt Shaker Experiment Part TWO
2008-06-27 22:24:00
My roommate asked me if I can marry him for a week.The single click ease of facebook marriages makes for an interesting experiment. It's like running through sugar glass; acting the part with a lowered chance for pain while having the advantage of playing out a scenario.Call it therapy for chronic singles that dread the prospect of coupledumb... I mean... coupledom. The status update is a purposely generated flirtation.... not with each other but rather with the concept. Dare I admit it, I am flirting with the idea of getting married... to someone... someday... at my insanely deliberate pace that is not in step with the common crash and burn world.A part of me wants to be apathetic.Isn't the world of salt shakers a boring dialogue of "what did you do today" "what do you want to eat" "where do you want to go" questions that are repeated ad nauseum until you are entranced or terrorized to bury your self in "partnership"? I want to be inspired. I want to be inspiring... not l...
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Feeling Heavy in a Zen Sort of Way
2008-06-27 07:23:00
I go through moments where I am sitting in the chair of emotions and then shortly, visited by lengths of peace. Disappointment and sadness punctuated the hours. The practical side of myself looked at these moments as ego based and in the peace of detachment....I look to the future.I expect a miracle.A miracle? Like a walking across the water miracle? No... but something wonderfully unexpected, gracefully creative, captivatingly honest and inspiring. That's my dream. It makes walking away from anything less, easier.Shall I let myself be free into the unknown to meet truth and my dream or shall I accept less and live a life caged in mediocrity and hopelessness? Sadness had exhausted me over the week. It stole the wind out of my week's dear victories and joys. But I remember the moment when a clearing came to pass. "To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness"-Maurice MaeterlinckI spent the week in silence, too sad to play the piano, heavy he...
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SS: Crashing From the Dopamine Or This Thing Called Love
2008-06-26 14:25:00
It was a brain dropping perhaps, the downswing of a dopamine high.For a little while, life seemed perfect. I didn't need to sleep and I was exceptionally happy. Happy to be charmed and outwitted. A fault in theory did not hold up to argument and debate.He could not make a case and I could not hold my regard.I was surprised that I hadn't lowered my head from the clouds sooner. I suppose I can blame it on a darwinian fever; a human nature lending me to feel strongly emotional.A shot blasted through my little heaven and the balance was tilted. I found no landing; no steady ground to stand upon.I fell.For several days now, I've allowed silence to settle in me. I fasted and sought ways to iron out my thoughts from my fantasies. Was I a part of an unfolding miracle or was I simply riding out a chemical reaction?The beauty of it was fleeting. All songs and music over it was muted. And I found myself in a cage, feeling hungry when I have never suffered from hunger... the air ...
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SS: Courting The Dreams of My Mind
2008-06-24 22:02:00
Despite a life spurning salt shaker ritual as plebian, I cannot say that I do not dream of love.Los Angeles can be a very isolating, maddening and lonely place. I listen to those who lament the loneliness of not possessing a partner. I listen to those who hurt for not being possessed. I am only inspired further to seek the uncommon to trump my doubts.JNET: "I'm looking for a king."E: "A king?"JNET: "But a specific type of king. There are many kinds of kings and I am looking for the best one for me."I have crossed paths with many kings and the mathematician was my favorite. But like Queen Sheba who spent a season with King Solomon sharing riddles and wisdom, I had returned to rule my world with lessons from admiring someone so powerful and kind. His deliberateness in silence, word and action amazed me for I never met anyone as mindful and unhindered. He claimed everything in his path. Not many people show such dominion and grace. I usually meet people who'd rather live ...
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SS: Practicing Salt Shaker Life
2008-06-12 12:11:00
Notoriously single, I decided to get married the easiest way I knew possible;I married one of my facebook buddies...JNET: "E, do you mind confirming me as your wife? If you don't mind playing along, I'd like to marry you this week."The announcement... specifically, my facebook status update, coincidentially landed during a weekend I was planning to visit Las Vegas for the first time. Predictably, the plan was cancelled.My first hello came from a friend in Kuwait... followed by half a dozen others from around the country...A: "You got married !! OMG !! Congratulations !!! All the best sis :)"Close friends suspected I would be spontaneous enough for a Vegas wedding but the glaring clue that made it questionable was that they all knew I will only marry on a specific date. I also began putting up crazy updates to entertain my friends to clue them in that I was playing a game... such as;"JNET is honeymooning to planet XYZ in an ice cream truck..... JNET is drawing out her wedding ...
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Hate is Good?
2008-06-09 21:54:00
Last month, I went shooting and I checked out a self-defense class.Lessons I learned:If someone points a gun at you, RUN... it's hard to keep your target unless you are a really good sharp-shooter.and...Being able to defend myself is going to take more than a few classes. It is all muscle memory. Like learning music, nothing will play out right unless you practice A LOT...G. attended Krav Maga with me and we left with our respective opinions of the class. After practicing our punches with partners who were holding practice pads, we closed the hour with two 30 second sessions of pelting a bag that each person had to straddle.Having just one 30 second go at punching was surreal and by the time I was at my second punching go, I had to stifle myself from breaking out into laughter. Being aggressive to throw punches on my bag felt very strange and I started to wonder...Would I be assertive enough to protect myself should I come upon a situation that demanded my wits? Fight or fligh...
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Trampled and Doing Alright
2008-06-06 22:15:00
Last Friday evening turned my insides out.E. showed up to my door with a dozen pink roses and a birthday card. He had just flown in from Florida and I was dressed up for an evening out on the toon. After a quick hug, he announced...E: "I just got a call. A is in the hospital. She got trampled by her horse."I put the roses and card aside and grabbed my purse and an ill feeling overtook me. I can't take another death, I thought to myself. I'm still recovering from losing B. last winter and helping her mom sort out her apartment and things. Blast that horse, I knew I should've discouraged her from taking it after it had killed its last owner.JNET: "Let's go."I didn't say much en route to the hospital. A's condition was a mystery. Her friends that were with her didn't give us much to work with. We drove to Thousand Oaks full of worry.A. had become the darling of the emergency room. Considering that her horse had lost its footing while racing at top speed and A had fa...
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Defying Downward Spirals
2008-05-30 23:23:00
It's Friday and I feel a bit wiped out. A busy weekend stands before me and all I can think about is how to power relax and deal with an overwhelming sense of feeling a bit blue despite my red dress disposition.So much to look forward to this weekend... Like every weekend, I have commitments. Last time a shooting class at the firing range.. this time a fighting class to check out Krav Maga... then straight to a salon to follow a model and take pictures before going on set in Whittier. Meanwhile, I have a friend visiting from Florida... socializing and fun times will stretch into the late evening and spill on to Sunday.Sunday, I plan to make it to church. I need a dose of amen because though I have so many fun things that fill my day including my teaching practice through out the week and three midnight podcasts to host over the week, I've been feeling flat and a shade of indigo.I seem to have booked my self into a space where I have to rigorously own my quiet times in a minut...

PHOTOS: My Metal Dimension
2008-05-20 23:29:00
You might have just as well put me away into a box... a metallic ugly box...My perspective of myself needed alignment, afterall, they were JUST braces. And though I wore them for only 10 months and suffered very little physical discomfort compared to my teen counterparts, my vanity was in pain. I was a grown adult in ortho anti-fashion; braces.Some days I managed to keep my cool cute. Most days I fought with myself for being so shallow.They finally came off, two days before my birthday, just in time to celebrate and not be self conscious of a metallic smile. But I fluctuate in battling habit and unconsciously smile awkwardly under phantom braces. I'm bouncing between the space of shy and not shy.If only I was as accepting as my friends and family of my metal stage than I was of myself. Hip Los Angeles doesn't exactly embrace the extra bling. My friends did their best at encouraging me and their words made them less "visible" as I forgot them while being distracted in the mo...
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The Silence of Me
2008-05-20 00:01:00
My life is a constant celebration of challenge and thankfulness that it only makes sense that the parades and toastings meet their balance in the silence that is me.My birthday this year has been phenomenal thus far... the challenges that are put up against my heart makes me wonder if I will burst. My car is broken and stalled in San Diego and I am using my mother's car in the meantime. Mom just had surgery and is on the mend staying with my brothers. She was having a terrible time over it and was awful to take care of over Mother's Day Weekend... She's much better now but not without jumping some hurdles. Romancing LA is now podcasting 3 midnights a week at blogtalkradio so that I may practice more rigorously my public speaking skills while balancing out my teaching practice and personal fun time on a pin. I have yet to grow my discipline with writing... to eventually publish that book of mine.Laughter... and lots of it personify the spirit of my family and friends. There...
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Super Girl Solitude
2008-05-17 20:34:00
While others look forward in anticipation of upcoming events and occassions, I look forward to my next occassion to be alone.I have a date with myself on Monday at 1am. To be alone again is an EVENT in itself.ONE A.M. is when I'll have completed podcasting for the evening... prior to podcasting, I'll be dancing and taking a salsa class with friends, before dancing, I'll be modeling for my photographer friend and taking a few pix myself ;)My "priors" and "befores" do not end there...Prior to helping my friend with her photography class homework, I'll have attended a self-defense/fighting class for 3 hours... I'll have waken up, fed and dressed myself by 8am in order to commute to my class. I'm sure you all think.. soo what? It's an active life and waking up to get to a morning class that I get to attend for free..is no big deal... She'll be on the fast train until 1am.. How fun!As it is, I am writing on stolen time. I ought to be cleaning the apartment because I'm havin...
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Living The Super Girl Life
2008-05-17 03:49:00
It's my birthday week and the champagne toast life has bumped up a notch.Life is dizzying full and bubbly.As if it is enough that I am podcasting Romancing LA THREE midnights a week... and teaching my private students and enjoying my piano practice... as if it is enough that I want to go dancing at least twice a week to practice my salsa chops, make time for friends and family while juggling visits to yoga and pilates..And it is enough.I am enjoying it all. From facing off and laughing with mom over the tensions of taking care of her since her surgery, to chasing two year old nieces and nephews with tickles.. The parents' praise and the rocky practice paths of my students make for my work into play. And late nights followed by naps make waking into the next day an adventure.A happier adventure still if I remember to keep a full glass of water near by all the time, make sure my cell phones has enough bars, and be ready to switch ON at moment's notice though I crave solitude and...
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Waiting On Inspiration
2008-04-26 23:48:00
He loves me... he loves me not yet... he loves me... he loves me not yet...My muse has been MIA and still I am happy. A moment of missing him and sadness would come across me but a new moment would wash the feelings away.I stopped writing. Looking at my archives, I see I've gone away for quite awhile. I've come back from my proverbial bermuda triangle where many wacky things occurred. I danced into a new world and gained a couple of new friends.JNET: "Now if I can only squeeze you two into one person that is irresistibly kissable, then I have found true love."I battle that side of me that looks upon salt shaker coupledom with skepticism. Isn't my true love "art"? Solitude had been my best friend.... a happy relationship supported by friends likewise engaged in their art, livimg lives that center around work that is synonymous to play and passion. We socialize over rehearsals, concerts, recitals, cd and book release parties... Not anti-social... perhaps just striving to be...
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Romancing LA
2008-04-22 21:11:00
You would think that after six straight months of doing a blogtalkradio show that a habit had been established. One show a week did not guarantee a habit. I feel off step and chose to dance instead, hitting up the salsa scene, ran around with friends and enjoyed adventures that rendered me unprepared to do my show.Romancing LA slid to the backseat of my life. And somehow Guilt settled into the passenger seat."It's good to take a break." "I want to choose a new time slot." "I only want to do my show if I am well prepared." "I did not have internet access to do my show." "I was busy"A litany of excuses grew. And then the calls and emails from my friends began..."How's your show going?" "When's the next show?" "What's going on?"I missed doing my show and the guilt of separation was hurting. Not only was I not doing a show... I had also taken a break from writing. I was experiencing a whole new world and not writing of it. I had even taken a break from practicing the ...

POEM: Lost Poet
2008-04-05 00:04:00
I wandered and didn't realize I was lostLaughed the days awayDaisy chains and wild bouquetsBloomed and I have forgotten the jokeCan I retrace my steps and discover againThe altar of my inspiration?Was it your love or was it my loveThat was the source of salvation?A lingering cadence, a quiet candleKeeps a corner warm for what?To remind me of from where I have comeOr to reprimand me of what I have not?Quiet muse, never been forgotten museYour favor I seek and dream to find anewEvery evening passed, I sent word to youHas this poet strayed far from view?My words swayed with songs,My hands spoke through new limbsBrought to movement by a humble museI danced and laughed with you in mindWas it my pen that kept us true?Dear muse, accept my poem...A lingering cadence, a quiet candleKeeps a corner warm for what?To remind me of from where I have comeOr to reprimand me of what I have not?What is poet without a muse, and a muse without its poet?Copyright ©2008 J. R. Hollyday
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