"Do" Dreaming

Dec 22

Even Stop Lights

Sometimes I think thoughts that are kinda kooky. You may know the types of thoughts I mean. Thoughts that, if you were to share, you just know those you love would roll their eyes and come up with something like "there she goes again".

So I think these thoughts but rarely allow myself the priveledge of sharing. I know it's taking a risk to share, and most of the time, I just don't do it. One example has to do with Christmas and stop lights. I suppose it's because daylight savings time goes back to "normal time" not long before the Holiday Season starts which makes this work, but it occures to me, that during the Holidays, the green and red (and gold even) of traffic lights, coupled with the red of tail lights if sitting in traffic, make for quite a Christmas-y show. So, does that sound kinda kooky to you? I figured as much.

But, here's the fun part: While preparing the music for a Christmas Party and reviewing the words to some favorite carols, I noticed something. It has been shared before. Yep. By Ray Evans, two-time Acadamy Award winning songwriter. In.... you ready for this? Silver Bells !

Strings of street lights, even stop lights

Blink a bright red and green

And the shoppers run home with their treasures

That's the beginning of the second verse! So if a big time composer can share a funky thought, why can't I?

In fact, I should!

What about you?

photo by Yopizza

Dec 3

The Hole in the Y'all

For real - it's true. Y'all has a big ole hole in it. I guess most people think "Y'all" is a contraction of sorts - combining "You" and "all". But I beg to differ. It's not even slang. You see, "Y'all" when said correctly (Yawl) and in the right circumstance - to those for whom we hold endearment, the word has a much bigger meaning.

"You", yes. "All", not really. It's inclusive with the use of the "aw" - those for whom we feel "awe" for. Our beloved friends, family, and others perhaps in the near vicinity who get the vibe just for being there.

It's a big ole hole because it represents the place in our hearts for which "Y'all" as our dear ones fill. It's a big ole hole because we have to make a big one with our mouth to say it right. (try saying it without making a hole) - the general feeling about the use of "Y'all" is that it's simply a lazy Southern way to say a greeting.

Oh, Y'all. There is nothing lazy about saying it. Not only is it packed with emotion, but it's not easy to say at all, at least in the physical sense. It's certainly much easier to say "you all" or "you'ns" (or however that'n goes) than it is to use every muscle in the mouth to make that big ole hole in "Y'all".

We just can't help it. If you're part of "Y'all", then you're being awed. In a way it is a short cut.... "You? .....awe"

Thanks Y'all!

Image: Hey Y'all Italian Charms

Oct 13

Color Intervention

The area between San Diego and Tijuana hosts a biannual "Interzone Festival" or "Festival Tijuana Interzona". This year's festival included an Urban Renewal project, where artists from all over were invited to spruce up outside walls of buildings scattered all over the poorest parts of the area.

The resulting art is fascinating, healing and humourous, yet it has a sense of realness to it. The placement of the art is art in itself. The randomness of bright colors and brush strokes of living a grande life juxtaposed against dilapidated trailers sliding down a filthy hillside is like a cry from within the souls of those who live and have lived her. See me! I am here! I feel and thrive in this environment every day all day.

The art serves a dual purpose. To bring awareness of the plight of poverty, and to bring light to an otherwise dank and unforgiving place.

I cannot deny any human's right to rise from poverty.

My family has it pretty tough right now. But I live like a king compared to these folks. Rise on up, Y'all. In Love.

see full interview with curator Carmen Zella

Aug 24

#NoMoreRecession ~ A Hashtag for Good

It's a simple idea, really. Think of one thing people can do to help someone hurting because of the Recession, and tweet it with the hashtag #NoMoreRecession .

You know how sometimes you get that "lightbulb" in your head? Maybe it was a great idea that could help us dig ourselves out of this Recession mess! But instead of acting on it, we moved on to something else, and it was forgotten by the end of the day...

Take a second and tweet it next time, with the #NoMoreRecession hashtag. Let's see what we can do about it together!

I don't know the answers. But I do know that if a lot of us do a bunch of little things, it will add up. A tweet for good is a little thing. An idea can be a big or a little thing, depending on the action we take. Start with the easy stuff. I've tweeted a few to help you get started.

I'm tracking it on my lens on Tent Cities.... So you can check there or on tweetchat, or wherever you want. Just share your ideas (don't forget the #NoMoreRecession hashtag) and retweet some others you see that look doable.

You in?

Let's do it!

Photo: Gray's Papaya, New York City - by Aturkus

Aug 15

Summer's End

The first sign that Summer is ending is the increase in activity in 'Special Offer' events. I have two awesome such events to share with you today, plus, I'm including my new creation "Deep Water Mind Triip" Download link.

The end of summer marks many things for me. I'm a summer person, (but not a hot weather person. That creates a bit of a conflict... lol.) Seriously though, it means change. For the most part, in a good way. I love the Back-to-School, here comes fall, Halloween, the Holidays, all that good stuff, every year. Let's celebrate it with a couple of cool things for you!

The first is the end of summer giveaway called "Summer Rain". This one is a bit smaller than the usual giveaway I might normally share, but I like it because it's intimate. It's a nice way to "ease" into the goodness coming, and I have created a brand new gift for it (which is what I'm sharing with you today!)

http://successfulentrepreneursnichemarketingsolutions.com/display.aspx?page=110

I've given it a lookover and here's a head's up on a few of the gifts I'm most exited about:

Master Class with John Thornhill
Discover Your Life Passion
How to Become Your Best Self
The Mind Weapon Video
Review on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
The Primal You Report
And of course my new gift "Deep Water Mind Trip"

But you don't need to worry about finding that last one, because you're already an awesome reader and I'm sharing with you now!

http://successconcentration.com/deepwatermindtrip

The Summer Rain Giveaway event starts tomorrow, August 16. But, you can go ahead and sign up now if you have a gift you'd like to submit.

Now for the 2nd Exciting event~! Launching Today!

I've just finished reading one of the most amazingly enjoyable books on "Success" to come

along in a long time: "An Invitation to Your Financial Success and Freedom"

It's already being hailed as an instant classic, and compared with "Who Moved My Cheese?" by Spencer Johnson ... and even "The Dream Giver" by Bruce Wilkinson.

Written by Dr. Mary Ozegovich - known affectionately as Dr. Mary Oz,

"An Invitation To Your Financial Success And Freedom" packs an incredible amount

of helpful strategies into its pages.

It's a light, fun, highly entertaining read, in a style that puts the readers right in the story.

Because it's written in "allegory" style - it never gets

ponderous or confusing, the way so many "Success", "Business", or "Self-Help" books do.

Instead, this is a book you can easily read in an evening - even if you come home exhausted

from a grueling day at work - and immediately absorb its lessons without having to think about

it.

In fact, although it's not a "kids' book", I'd be willing to bet you could read "An Invitation To

Your Financial Success And Freedom" to your older children, and they would totally "get it".

It really is that simple, that entertaining, and that clearly written.

If your business or private life isn't where you want to be, then "something" might be missing

... and I'm willing to bet you can find it in "An Invitation To Your Financial Success And

Freedom".

While you're there, have a look at all the bonus gifts she's giving you with your copy of the book.

http://www.mcssl.com/app/?Clk=4414193

All those gifts she's offering you are available on a "limited time" basis.

That link again is:

http://www.mcssl.com/app/?Clk=4414193

Mary's mentor is one of my favorite authors - Og Mandino. The book is written in an even simpler style, but I like the message.

Y'all have a great beginning of the end of Summer, and I look forward to hearing from you soon~!

All my best to you always,

KK

Aug 9

Same Sauce

Sometimes my poor hearing is beneficial. I was listening to a speech by the Dalia Lama on my earbuds today, and he said “We are all made by God. We all come from the same source”. I was trying to multitask, however and mis-heard it as “same sauce”.

So, I decided to ponder that a bit. If we do come from the same source, then that would also be the same sauce, would it not? How is it, then that we are all so unique? If we all have the same exact ingredients, i.e., the “same sauce”, then we should be clones of each other, correct? All men would look and act like Adam, all women would look and act like Eve, done deal.

But no. That is not the case.

Down in New Orleans (N’Awlins), the Cajuns have their own style of cooking, which almost always starts with a roux. (per Wikipedia, “Roux” is the thickening agent of three of the mother sauces of classical French cooking”) So yeah, we may all come from the same “roux”, and start out with the same sauce, but there are gazillions of factors, both genetic and environmental that get thrown into the sauce and make us unique, not “same sauce” but individuals. If you’ve ever had Cajun Gumbo, you know that it’s never the same twice, no matter how much you try to follow the recipe. So even though we may all have the same ingredients, we can celebrate the fact that our individual footprint on the universe is ours alone.

My sauce would have quite a bit of salt, honey, brown sugar….. but with a little kick. Kind of like Sweet and Sour sauce, but not pink. More earth tones. Yeah.

So, what about you? What’s in your sauce?

Aug 3

Why it Doesn’t Have to be so Hard

So many times in my life and work, I come across people who seem to be shrouded in misery. Everything they say is something about a horrible thing that happened to them, or to someone else, or is happening somewhere in the world. Everything they do revolves around something painful or miserable. It’s almost like we seek out the biggest award for being the most miserable person still living. The end game, being death, is the apparent goal here.

I get it. Misery sells… Misery loves company… and all that other (not so happy) crap. Why though? Why do we humans so often want to focus on bad things? Especially now, that we are in a more enlightened age, and we know that “money flows where attention goes”. If we’re focusing on the toilet, or things that are equally disgusting, that’s where our life goes. So why do we keep doing this? How can we break the pattern of constant negative talk and negative thinking?

It’s kind of scary to some. In fact, it’s downright frightening. But it doesn’t have to be. According to Dr Hu Len, whom I’ve studied through Dr. Joe Vitale for the past few years, it all boils down to the relationship with our inner child. I remember back several years (maybe decades?) ago when the inner child was all the rage… healing the inner child was seen then as a sort of ultimate traumatic drama – raw and painful, the trophy of the day for martyrs of pain. If someone needed to “heal” their inner child, then they must have been through something horrifying at a tender young age. People started “blaming” all their problems on early childhood trauma. This becamse something of a badge of honor for negativity hounds…. The big excuse. The reason for every bad thing that ever happened in the history of the universe.

But that’s not what Dr. Len’s teaching is about. Healing does not necessarily mean going back and dredging up some horrible nightmare of a memory and reliving it. Healing the inner child is just that. A healing process. A loving, healing, nurturing and simple exercise he calls “cleaning”.

Dr. Joe Vitales Inner Child Meditation

Dr. Vitale has teamed up with awesome musician Mathew Dixon in a new meditation that guides you through healing your inner child relationship. This is a beautiful “core” guided process that combines the healing power of music and inner love to bring you in tune with most true self: the one untarnished by negative thinking; the little girl or boy filled with wonder and trust and genuine hopeful expectations. This is the relationship most important in your life, according to Dr. Len, and it deserves to be nurtured, loved, and free to express itself as you whenever the opportunity presents itself.

Dr. Joe Vitales Inner Child Meditation

Filed under // Clearing Cleaning Healing the Inner child Inner Child Joe Vitale inner child meditation

Jul 7

Mapping Trees - Working Beyond Passion

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“Do what you love and the money will follow.”

That is the best and worst advice I've ever gotten. There is a grain of truth in it, no doubt. But mostly I think it’s bunk. I don’t mean that in a negative way either. It’s just not a complete sentence in a real-world kind of meaning. Money doesn’t “follow”. Money is not mobile. Money is a thing, not a person. People follow.

“Follow your bliss” is a little better, though still lacking in completion. It may not roll of the tongue quite as nicely, but the real thing should go something like this:

“Figure out what it is about the thing you love to do the most that can bring in an income that is enough to satisfy you, and go and do that, then do it some more, then more after that. At some point you might start getting sick of it and not feel the love for it like you once did. Keep doing it anyway. The more you work through the pain and stretch yourself, the more you grow. Then when it’s all done, you can look back and see yourself in your work and smile.”

What’s really magical about art “work” is that it never turns out the way we originally plan. We have an idea, we start to hash it out, give it shape, and by the time it’s done, it’s often something else entirely. I love feel-good stories about how things come about that way.

Edward Barnard loves trees and he loves New York City. So, he decided to write a book called “New York City Trees”. That’s special in and of itself… but watch the magic here. He needed help covering the vast area that is Central Park, so he teamed up with Ken Chaya, who knew little about trees but is an avid Central Park birder. Together they created a map of every tree in Central Park. It’s fresh, it’s unique, original, creative, and…. It’s a hit!

I’ve been following someone new lately, a fellow by the name of Brian Johnson, who writes what he calls “Philosopher’s Notes”. Really it’s not just notes, but audio and pdf versions of his musings on different books, mostly in the self help genre but many that touch on every aspect of our lives. He’s indeed quite the philosopher, but what he’s doing for me is help me look at things in a new way. Kind of like what Mr. Chaya said after working with Bernard for a while on the Central Park Map:

“The park never looked the same again, once I began to discover the many many different species of trees.”

"Every creative journey is marked by passion. Pressure Comes along for the creative ride"... Brian Johnson, from Philosopher's Notes on The Creativity Book by Eric Maisel, Ph. D

Jul 1

Inspired Within:Letting Out Our Light

We already know this, but most of the time we ignore it.

If we hear it, or feel it, or see it, it is sometimes just a fleeting moment, and we miss the opportunity to acknowledge it.

Are you inspired at this moment?

Don't say no. Because I challenge you - you are.

Every second we are inspired. Every action we take is inspired.

We call ourselves looking for inspiration, when in fact we are choosing which inspired action to take in any given moment all the time, every day, in every single thing we do.

Why do you get out of bed? Why do you go to bed? Why do you eat or yawn or laugh or cry?

If you do any of those things, you are inspired.

Not poetic enough for you? Okay, then listen to the part of you, the light in you, that is begging to be set free.

Your gifts are unique to you. You cannot be anyone else but the beautiful, inspired person you are already.

There is no trick to finding your light. It is a simple matter, really, of allowing the clutter to dissipate, for a few minutes, once or twice a day, so that you can listen to your light.

Shhhhhh.

Be still.

Allow your light to glow a little brighter. Feel your warmth.

Breathe in, Breathe out.

You realize the universe needs your gift, and you are willing to share it.

Take time to get to know your gift(s).

You are gifted. Let us see!

Jun 9

I am a Lioness

I hunt all day while my husband grows his hair long

and lies around at home with the cub, and lets out an occasional "Roar"!

I am a lioness:
I care not what happens to me,

but you mess with my family,

and you will be very sorry!

I am a lioness:
See my battle scars?

These are my trophies.
I have done it, been there, and I've had it.

I am a lioness:
See the intensity in my eyes?
It's here all the time, and I'm looking at you!

I am a lioness:
Plain Jane, yes. But more passionate than
all the beauty one can possibly possess.

photo by Crouchy69