Sometimes I feel like I am dying. Like I have never really lived. Like I am on my way out. Like I am gone. Like I am a leaf fallen from the tree - ready for a new existence. Swept by the winds - taken far from home. Filled with uncertainty. Swallowed whole.
Sometimes I feel So Alive!!! Unstoppable. Full-bodied vigor pulsating & swirling through my Soul-ar System. I see the beauty in everyone and everything. I want to breathe it all in. Deeply. And cherish the exquisite perfection of NOW. The uncontainable moment that holds this perfection. I want to scream out and share this with everyone. I want them to see what I see! To feel what I feel! To sense what I sense! To know this unknowable knowing.
"One realization, And thirty years to realize," said the zen master.
I lay my head down at your feet, the words you speak are more than words.
Yesterday is a haze, yet your wisdom still echoes beyond a decade.
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Monday, October 29, 2007
***New World Vision***
I see us creating a new world. One built with intention. Villages designed with love for the earth. Groups united together to assist one another in living harmoniously and supporting eachother in living in our highest intention. Surrounded by nature. Working together with nature - understanding how we are all connected to eachother. Generating energy from the sun, the wind, the air, the earth.
I have visions I have kept held inside - till now. It is time for me to emerge and reveal from my clarity and my truth what I know. The world is in such a dark place at the moment. I have felt the heaviness of this time. I am here to bring you some light, so to speak.
If you are wondering how I can know anything - it is because I have spent my life staying connected. Not to the TV, or to who's the next this or that, or what I should wear (though I love music and fun shows AND fashion and magazines) - I just have always known whats real and whats important. I have kept my spirit intact. My life has not been perfect. Far from that. I am in no way perfect, and yet its all perfect!
I have watched people very closely. I see how easily we lose our way. How easily we forget our own majesty. We seek outside of ourselves for what is already within. Its like we are a computer, and we keep looking for a program, the perfect program - and its already loaded right there, in a location we didn't look.
Loving another person will add to your life. A lot. BUT it will not make you whole. It doesn't complete you (despite what all the movies say). You are already complete.
Gathering things, money, power - will never be permanent no matter how savvy or educated you are. What goes up must come down. And if your spirit is unprepared for the downside of the up - you will fall flat on your face. Ouch!
I am not discouraging HAVING. Please create, have what you want! Just dont grasp onto it. I have known many people who have lost everything in this physical world - and the one's who had nothing else - have nothing at all.
I see a world where each of us understands our interconnectedness. Our need for eachother. A world where we see that all of humanity is of one race. All of us on our own unique journey. All of us brothers and sisters.
I see a world filled with kindness. Generosity. Open-heartedness.
Think of a little child. Of the wonder in their eyes. Of the enthusiasm as they experience everything for the first time. Awe. awesome. A world that is awesome.
Hey, you are creating it toooooooooooo.
I have visions I have kept held inside - till now. It is time for me to emerge and reveal from my clarity and my truth what I know. The world is in such a dark place at the moment. I have felt the heaviness of this time. I am here to bring you some light, so to speak.
If you are wondering how I can know anything - it is because I have spent my life staying connected. Not to the TV, or to who's the next this or that, or what I should wear (though I love music and fun shows AND fashion and magazines) - I just have always known whats real and whats important. I have kept my spirit intact. My life has not been perfect. Far from that. I am in no way perfect, and yet its all perfect!
I have watched people very closely. I see how easily we lose our way. How easily we forget our own majesty. We seek outside of ourselves for what is already within. Its like we are a computer, and we keep looking for a program, the perfect program - and its already loaded right there, in a location we didn't look.
Loving another person will add to your life. A lot. BUT it will not make you whole. It doesn't complete you (despite what all the movies say). You are already complete.
Gathering things, money, power - will never be permanent no matter how savvy or educated you are. What goes up must come down. And if your spirit is unprepared for the downside of the up - you will fall flat on your face. Ouch!
I am not discouraging HAVING. Please create, have what you want! Just dont grasp onto it. I have known many people who have lost everything in this physical world - and the one's who had nothing else - have nothing at all.
I see a world where each of us understands our interconnectedness. Our need for eachother. A world where we see that all of humanity is of one race. All of us on our own unique journey. All of us brothers and sisters.
I see a world filled with kindness. Generosity. Open-heartedness.
Think of a little child. Of the wonder in their eyes. Of the enthusiasm as they experience everything for the first time. Awe. awesome. A world that is awesome.
Hey, you are creating it toooooooooooo.
Friday, October 26, 2007
Willingness
We have to be willing to dive in and speak out and stand up and be seen. We - who understand, and carry with us the seeds of the next generation - we MUST be willing to cultivate a new world.
I am sure that you know what I mean if you know what I mean.
Those of us who were born "getting it" - and can't stand what is looming over our world right now. This dark cloud will go away through our love, and our songs, and our kindness and our understanding, and our simplicity, and our compassion, and our togetherness, and our care for eachother, and all living beings.
And until you can stand alone on your own two feet - you cannot know what togetherness really means.
Not hiding behind so you can agree.
We need eachother. All of us children brothers sisters mothers fathers friends lovers husbands wives.
i can only see us united. i can only see us as being the same. I can only know us as being branches of one tree.
STOP FIGHTING YOURSELVES - AND THE WAR INSIDE ENDS> THEN THE WAR OUTSIDE ENDs.
Don't you remember - WE ARE THE WORLD
You can make a difference everyday......
There is enough for everyone. There IS ENOUGH for EVERYONE!!!!!
Give everything you can to others. Be kind to everyone. We are ALL Royal. Be willing to not know. No one is right. There are as many ways to do something as there are minds as there are people. Give a loving Hug to someone. Say kind words to others. Share your money, your food, your possessions, your ideas, your time. Do it out of love. Do it for free. Be inventive. Do it a new way!
Be kind. Be honest. Live by your word. Be there. Be here - NOW.
Make a new friend. Pet an animal, hold a child, smell a flower, plant a tree, Plant the seeds of consciousness in your own being.
Give it all. Stop worrying about what you are getting back.
and remember that I love you.
I am sure that you know what I mean if you know what I mean.
Those of us who were born "getting it" - and can't stand what is looming over our world right now. This dark cloud will go away through our love, and our songs, and our kindness and our understanding, and our simplicity, and our compassion, and our togetherness, and our care for eachother, and all living beings.
And until you can stand alone on your own two feet - you cannot know what togetherness really means.
Not hiding behind so you can agree.
We need eachother. All of us children brothers sisters mothers fathers friends lovers husbands wives.
i can only see us united. i can only see us as being the same. I can only know us as being branches of one tree.
STOP FIGHTING YOURSELVES - AND THE WAR INSIDE ENDS> THEN THE WAR OUTSIDE ENDs.
Don't you remember - WE ARE THE WORLD
You can make a difference everyday......
There is enough for everyone. There IS ENOUGH for EVERYONE!!!!!
Give everything you can to others. Be kind to everyone. We are ALL Royal. Be willing to not know. No one is right. There are as many ways to do something as there are minds as there are people. Give a loving Hug to someone. Say kind words to others. Share your money, your food, your possessions, your ideas, your time. Do it out of love. Do it for free. Be inventive. Do it a new way!
Be kind. Be honest. Live by your word. Be there. Be here - NOW.
Make a new friend. Pet an animal, hold a child, smell a flower, plant a tree, Plant the seeds of consciousness in your own being.
Give it all. Stop worrying about what you are getting back.
and remember that I love you.
Monday, October 22, 2007
Musical Inspiration
I have been getting a lot of emails, and inquiries after performances about where my musical inspiration comes from. To begin, thank you for asking! It feels so wonderful that people care, and are touched by the music.
I think this is a huge topic - one that could fill a whole book - so I will comment on this one on an ongoing practice - till I am left with nothing else to express on the matter. And feel free to email questions for me to answer.
In the process of writing a song - I usually have no idea what I am writing about. I also paint, and this is the same way that I start a painting. I am guided by many things...Overwhelming emotion, is one-so lets start there.
When something has happened in my life that I feel with intense emotion, it wells up in me, and I find that pouring it into music is a beautiful way to express it. I have intentions that I live by as part of my personal spiritual practice that color my viewpoint. These intentions help me to create music (and art) that aims to uplift and inspire.
Listening to what seems to be "out there" these days -(there is so much anger and negativity in music, with no real kindness or resolution for something more) I really wish more artists would step up to their own greatness, and help others to do the same.
I have known people from every possible upbringing - and I can tell you, it certainly seems that the human spirit can overcome anything - and achieve anything. So I think its a cheap lie to use an excuse of poverty, or living in ignorance as the reason for all this ugliness. You have only to reach back in time, and you will find numerous examples of great people who have come from very little.
So what I am saying is that our INTENTION - creates our reality/results - in whatever we are endeavoring to create.
When I write, I start from the place I am in at the moment. My humanity. My troubles, and fears, and doubts, and concerns - and I hope that the song will lead me to a place of realization, release, and perhaps an answer. I intend to give a gift to the listener. An offering - that requires me to drop my "self" or "ego" - and reach into the universal consciousness.
I recommend silence, stillness, meditation, raw vegan living, simplifying your life - in order to attain these things. They have other benefits as well. More later on those.
And please be aware that this is an ongoing practice, a craft. Its not about getting somewhere, or achieving something. You can achieve anything - but great songwriting, and artistry has a much different focus. A higher purpose. A deeper reality in your living being.
I just want to say, that as an artist, To other aspiring and currently creating artists - we are designed to be ultra-sensitive. To feel and hear and sense and smell and taste and know things in a very heightened way - that most people like to belittle when you are "ordinary" and praise when you are "celestial" aka a "star." Be kind to yourselves. This world doesn't yet understand. But you do. And you are not alone. Trust your inner knowing. And create community with others who resonate at the same frequency. And hey, I love ya!
Oh - and we are all "stars"
I think this is a huge topic - one that could fill a whole book - so I will comment on this one on an ongoing practice - till I am left with nothing else to express on the matter. And feel free to email questions for me to answer.
In the process of writing a song - I usually have no idea what I am writing about. I also paint, and this is the same way that I start a painting. I am guided by many things...Overwhelming emotion, is one-so lets start there.
When something has happened in my life that I feel with intense emotion, it wells up in me, and I find that pouring it into music is a beautiful way to express it. I have intentions that I live by as part of my personal spiritual practice that color my viewpoint. These intentions help me to create music (and art) that aims to uplift and inspire.
Listening to what seems to be "out there" these days -(there is so much anger and negativity in music, with no real kindness or resolution for something more) I really wish more artists would step up to their own greatness, and help others to do the same.
I have known people from every possible upbringing - and I can tell you, it certainly seems that the human spirit can overcome anything - and achieve anything. So I think its a cheap lie to use an excuse of poverty, or living in ignorance as the reason for all this ugliness. You have only to reach back in time, and you will find numerous examples of great people who have come from very little.
So what I am saying is that our INTENTION - creates our reality/results - in whatever we are endeavoring to create.
When I write, I start from the place I am in at the moment. My humanity. My troubles, and fears, and doubts, and concerns - and I hope that the song will lead me to a place of realization, release, and perhaps an answer. I intend to give a gift to the listener. An offering - that requires me to drop my "self" or "ego" - and reach into the universal consciousness.
I recommend silence, stillness, meditation, raw vegan living, simplifying your life - in order to attain these things. They have other benefits as well. More later on those.
And please be aware that this is an ongoing practice, a craft. Its not about getting somewhere, or achieving something. You can achieve anything - but great songwriting, and artistry has a much different focus. A higher purpose. A deeper reality in your living being.
I just want to say, that as an artist, To other aspiring and currently creating artists - we are designed to be ultra-sensitive. To feel and hear and sense and smell and taste and know things in a very heightened way - that most people like to belittle when you are "ordinary" and praise when you are "celestial" aka a "star." Be kind to yourselves. This world doesn't yet understand. But you do. And you are not alone. Trust your inner knowing. And create community with others who resonate at the same frequency. And hey, I love ya!
Oh - and we are all "stars"
Sunday, October 21, 2007
Juice O' The Day
Hey! What if instead of ice-cream trucks that feed our friends/kids/neighbors/family crap made from sugar and puss and blood(uh, really its true - go read about whats really in your milk and you'll turn vegan in the blink of an eye) - what if we had Juice Mobiles! I thought of it earlier this summer, and so did this adorable girl - (cant remember her name) - and she was out in McCarren Park with her truck today - juicing away. I told her that I was so grateful, that I really live on juice, and wondered what they would do in the winter. She said they were gonna hang their hats. I suggested going south to Miami. Everyone needs fresh juice. So here's the recipe I learned today -its fabuloso - juice away, and think of moi!
I dont know the proportions - so I will make 'em up...
Oh and organic fruit is always better!
Sunday Creamsicle Delight
for 12 oz cup
1 - 1.5 Pear(s)
1-2 red apples
handful of skinned/seeded cantaloupe
1/2 to 1 lemon (skinned)
1/2 inch-1 inch of ginger
Juice away and drink up the goodness.
lots of love to you
Ko-Shin
ps - I found her link
www.myspace.com/greenpiratenyc
I dont know the proportions - so I will make 'em up...
Oh and organic fruit is always better!
Sunday Creamsicle Delight
for 12 oz cup
1 - 1.5 Pear(s)
1-2 red apples
handful of skinned/seeded cantaloupe
1/2 to 1 lemon (skinned)
1/2 inch-1 inch of ginger
Juice away and drink up the goodness.
lots of love to you
Ko-Shin
ps - I found her link
www.myspace.com/greenpiratenyc
We rocked this town!
The show was freakin' awesome tonight. Thanks to everyone who came out....and for the rest of you procrastinators - get up off your couches! You are missing out on living breathing musical creative spiritual inspiration! Stop dreaming and start living!
I sang 2 new songs - "Far Away" and "Flowers From the Field"
OPEN was so tight!! Louisa Bradshaw is such an amazing performer. I felt such a huge release dancing and shaking my head and singing along to her fabulous punk-rockish music. check her out:
www.myspace.com/louisabradshaw
One of my new favorite artists and friends came out to see us tonight. She's in a word - amazing - check her out Mi Armstrong :
www.myspace.com/miarmstrong
www.listentomi.com
I sang 2 new songs - "Far Away" and "Flowers From the Field"
OPEN was so tight!! Louisa Bradshaw is such an amazing performer. I felt such a huge release dancing and shaking my head and singing along to her fabulous punk-rockish music. check her out:
www.myspace.com/louisabradshaw
One of my new favorite artists and friends came out to see us tonight. She's in a word - amazing - check her out Mi Armstrong :
www.myspace.com/miarmstrong
www.listentomi.com
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Get up off the couch and come to my show!
I have a show comin'up this weekend in Williamsburg. That's in Brooklyn, NYC!
You know what! Get up off your couch, turn off the TV - and get on over to Pete's Candy Store. My music is the candy. Its Sunday October 21st @ 8pm. You can go to www.petescandystore.com for more info/directions. AND this is a double feature show - with O.P.E.N playing right after moi! It would be so nice to see all of you. Dont hide behind your laptops. Show me the love.
:)
Besos,
K
You know what! Get up off your couch, turn off the TV - and get on over to Pete's Candy Store. My music is the candy. Its Sunday October 21st @ 8pm. You can go to www.petescandystore.com for more info/directions. AND this is a double feature show - with O.P.E.N playing right after moi! It would be so nice to see all of you. Dont hide behind your laptops. Show me the love.
:)
Besos,
K
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