Soy Sauce

Golden Stage

Face is change with age

Step onto a Golden Stage

God is Truth in Light

I love sushi!

I love Thai, Chinese, Japanese, in fact, I love most Asian cuisine. I worked for years in a great sushi place, Fusion Point, in St. Augustine Florida. So, I know a bit about soy sauce...or so I thought. Having poured it, eated it, spilled it and cleaned it; but never have I seen it like this!

Yes, this is Soy Sauce. This what it looks like really close up-it's a micro photo, taken by a Japanese filmmaker.

It's so beautiful, I see faces and so many other things...

What do you see?

Write about it, dream about it.

Think about it as you put that next Yum-yum roll in your mouth!!

peace and love,

Jules

All the world's a stage

All the world's a stage -

"'All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms;
And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lin'd,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;
His youthful hose, well sav'd, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion;
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.' — Jaques (Act II, Scene VII, lines 139-166)"

The Six Stages of Life

A few weeks ago we took the kids to the International Sand Sculpture Contest. No, it wasn't on a beach, it was in a mall parking lot, and that was ok. Because the sculpture's were Amazing. I fell in love with this huge Sand Shaman. I could have stayed and looked at him all day...anyway, on the back of him was a simple, but cool mandala. It had six points, and for some reason this sent me thinking about the points of change, or stages of my life. Bringing me round,once again, to Shakespeare:





"All the world's a stage..."





Working on my one woman show, I am continually exploring my stages, but I always want to go deeper...so...


I spent the morning reading, writing and pondering the Stages of Man, the stages of women, the stages of life. I've read everything from Confucius to Conquest... from Solon to the Sphinx.

It seems everyone has their own version of the stages of life.

Basically it boils down to this:

We're Born, We Walk, We Learn, We Love, We Live, We Move On....

There are many stages and phases we all go through. Some resist change...I try to explore each stage of my life to the fullest. For many years I was a wild child, traveling all over the world, dancing on many stages. Exploring new thoughts, new places, new ideas. I seemed to always be circling back to myself.

Returning home. Physically. Spiritually.

After spending a lot of time in the South, when I went home, to RI for a year; I was missing my Choir and spiritual friends in St. Augustine, Florida. I was singing at some of the Healing Heart Services on Wend nights at the Center for Spiritual Living in Warwick, RI. I was inspired to write a Chant, country style. Now, I was thrown that this song came through me...I am a ROCK N ROLL GIRL!! But, somehow, it's become a favorite.(makes me feel like Bonnie Raitt). I sing it all the time with my daughter.
This past week, at an amazing service at the Center for Spiritual Living Seattle, I was able to raise my vibrations by chanting along with wonderful musicians and friends. The whole community was lifted up. At one point in the chanting, the phrase, OM is my Home as sung. I was healed by those words as they came off the stage into my heart. I knew It was time to share My chant with the world. I have shared it with a few, now it is for all.


Sing it out with a bit of twang.


Om is my Home

OM OM OM IS MY HOME
OM OM OM SHANTI OM
OM OM OM SHANTI OM
OM OM OM IS MY HOME
OM OM OM IS MY HOME

LOVE LOVE LOVE
YEAH, I GOT LOVE
PEACE PEACE PEACE
YEAH, I GOT PEACE
JOY JOY JOY
I GOT JOY

OM OM OM IS MY HOME
OM OM OM IS MY HOME

LOVE LOVE LOVE IS MY HOME
PEACE PEACE PEACE IS MY HOME
JOY JOY JOY IS MY HOME

LOVE LOVE LOVE
PEACE PEACE PEACE
OM
SHANTI SHANTI SHANTI
PEACE PEACE PEACE

OM
OM
OM

OM IS MY HOME


Indeed "All the world's a stage", where are you at? Are you happy there? If not, just do what I do...Step onto a new one, change the scenery, get a new light plot, and write a new script.

Step into your Light.

Step into a new STAGE.

peace and love.

jul

It all started in Providence.

When I was a girl my father would say,"who's better than you, Ju?" and I'd say,"Nobody Dad, nobody."

When I was a girl my mother would say,"Be faithful and true."

When I was a girl my teachers would say ,"We see something in you, go out into the world and do what you do"

"Who's better than you"
"Be faithful and true"
"Do what you do"

These are lines from my one woman show. And I have tried to live with all of this is my heart, always...I am not saying I was always faithful and true...but I do do what I do and I know nobody is better than YOU!!

This photo is a slice of my life...

I am using as our inspirational photo of the day because, today I have been working on some songs and poems that are the Real me.

Today's poem is not a haiku, it is a map...with an ode to Batman. It was inspired by an old friend, who I knew when I lived in Germany, we recently reconnected(thanks facebook) and he wrote be brief note of where he has been for the past 20ish years ..! Here is my response to his question of ,"And where have you been"

I've said it before and I'll say it again..."I've been everywhere man!"


"But you can call me KITKA"

It all started in Providence
Germany-BAM!
Providence-POW!
Maine-BOOM!
Providence-HUH!
New York-WOW!
Providence-KERPLATZ
Florida-SPALSH!
Providence-BAM!POW!BIFF!
Denver-WOOSH!
West Palm Beach-WOO!
Daytona-BASH!
St. Augustine-POOF!
Providence-KABLOUEY!
Seattle-OM!


OM is my Home....


and so it is.

peace and love,
jul

splash

bridges of loves light

washing the world with our joy

clouds of dreams rush on



peaceful poets, sharing love.



peace,
jul

It's a Hawkins thing

Imagine like John
shadows cannot confuse us
we are peace in light



Last night I strained my back...it's a Hawkins thing...or a Payette curse...lol...Or is it the fact that I cleaned out my closet and spent the past few days organizing, walking the kids up and down the hill, generally, being a mom...living life... and all that jazz...or maybe it's more metaphysical than that...the universe telling me to lay down...whatever, it hurts...I'm going back to bed to heal...here's the inspirational photo and my-ku for the day.











peace

My-ku

Time for a challange: connect with nature, and each other through poetry. I am asking you to join me in some fun.. Here's a chance each day to wake up your brain!


When I first started going "on-line" I would go to poetry sites, one in particular, and everyday I would enter different contests. There was "poetry in motion", a hundred or so fridge magnet-type words are given to and you can only use 20 words to create a poem. The once a month contest where you submit your work, you are limited to a number of lines, 14 I think(like a Sonnet!) . whenever you submit it you get something in the mail, saying , "You have one second place in the bla bla bla world poetry contest" then they tell you your work will be published in a book you can purchase...lol...you know the kind.


However, my favorite contest, by far, was the Haiku contest. Here you were given an inspiration photo and wrote a traditional Haiku, submit it and a winner was chosen at a random time. If you won, you got a mouse pad with your Haiku on it. And then of course they would try to sell you ANYTHING you want(mugs, magnets...) with YOUR Poem on it.


I never won the Haiku contest...and that's ok. Because the best part was reading all the other peoples poems. what did that photo inspire them to write.


Well I've decided to do my own Daily Inspirational Haiku Challenge, not a contest, but a place to share. I want to create a place for peace and poetry. Join me...


I'll post photos here and on my FB Page. I will be creating a FB group, as well as a weekly writers group here in Fremont, The Center Of the Universe. For more info, feel free to contact me thru email or fb.





Please feel free to share your poems here, be they Haiku or your-ku...just be inspired and share...





Here's My first one:





my tears fall on gold
with each petal I unfold
sharing perfection





peace and love

I've been everywhere, man

Today I begin again, a new dawn, a new day...re-vamp-take...ummm..let's say 2 and ...go:

I have put together MY one woman show. Today it actually became a play. It has taken form, beyond just the shape of a show. I have been working on this "piece" for sooooooo many years.

The beautiful man in the pix is my friend Charles Smith, we went to Rhode Island College together. He lives in Seattle, too. We reconnected at a Christian Rizzo event last week:amazing. Our meeting reinforced my love of the arts;
And my desire to stay connected with my past and look happily towards my future.

Jason says it is the show he sees me take all the way to Broadway.(I've been off-off, but I'd really have always seen myself ON) It is my time to shine. It is time for me. After being in wonderful Seattle for nearly a year--I am ready to shine. Having successfully MC'd Eddie Watkins Jr's "Motown and Miracles", last Friday night: I am confident my show will be a hit!

The work has been a process of taking my improv, Shakespeare, cabaret, monologues, original songs, Broadway songs, spoof songs, 7-min wiz of oz, midsummer in a min, spiritual poems, and stories of my very big life and putting them all together.

It finally came together with the finding of the perfect "Theatrical device": A Cafe. Yes a Restaurant. A Pub, a place of food and spirits. After 30 yrs of being a performer I know a thing or 2 about working in a Pub!

So here I go, I have set myself to task. The stage has been set. for me.for you.

and so it is.



be kind to all...peace