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

In the Misty Dawn

I just found out a good friend of mine is going to have a baby. I felt so grateful that she came to me for advice and that I was able to help her ease her mind and body. I talked with her about finding a time each day, and in the silence, connect with her child. I remember doing this during my pregnancies and it brought me into a place of peace and joy that can only be found in the silence of the mind. It is here you are able to connect with our heart and then feel the connection of the souls. I still find my connection in the silence of the Misty Morning.

My newest song is a song inspired by Diana, Goddess of the Hunt; but the words are dedicated to Luna and the child growing peacefully within her.


In the Misty Dawn

In the misty dawn
I wake with peace
oh sweet spirit come
and talk with me
in the darkness
i am filled with fire
in just one breath
i meet my hearts desire

my direct connection
my minds reflection
my hearts protection
as i breathe in the light
it's my direct connection'
my minds reflection
my hearts direction
as i bathe in the life

in the silence...
yes in the silence
in the silence...
she speaks to me
in the silence...
here in the silence
in the silence...
i dream of thee
in the silence...
here in the silence
in the silence...
i am set free...

it's my direct connection
my hearts reflection
my minds connection
as i live in the light
it's my direct connection
my minds reflection
of my hearts protection
i breathe into life

oh sweet spirit as you take my hand
in dreams you help me understand
we're through the darkness
now we can see
we found the answer so let it be
let it be, just be with thee

in the direction connection
my hearts direction
it's my minds reflection
as i breathe in the life
it's my direct connection
my minds reflection
of my hearts protection
as i breathe in the light
i live in the light
i am me
i am me
i am me
i let it be
i am set free