oh! do i owe a hundred thank you's to my sister for all her help, love, support
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sat 22nd, 5-7p my poetry book release
and mag time frame show at coffee beans & bistro
all the traditional work, effort to prepare, set up, make sure it looked nice...
5pm. no one there. heart ache. panic. sister w/comforting conversation
5:10 mom, dad, aunts & uncles traveling in from a distance, beloved sue
oh! patti & james..
5:15 beautiful mary re -sight for my concerned eyes
5:17 new mommy friend from school...
5:21 not sure i have the whatever it takes to energetically perform for 7 or 8 family/friends when i was hoping to perform for all of them plus 20 or 30 strangers
5:30 debra knox, kathy cordova & friends, two cherished souls from saturday salons in livermore, catherine teeter..
DEEP gratitude for every family member, friend, friends of friends and those couple of strangers
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felt great to put the word out: "i'm still makin' mag time frames everybody! BUT.. AND.. that's not all!..." and i was so excited to show off my instant art empty canvas frames for children; my personalized name/word/quote boards and new designs for my staple mag time frames plus, as always, my create-your-own kits.
even more exciting for me this time out though was this opportunity to read my poetry -from my personally designed, hand-stamped/embossed beautiful fish book
i opened with this true story:
in our early 20's my sister and i used to go dancing at black angus here in pleasanton. the rules, have thankfully changed since then, but back then, the proper etiquette was to wait for a handsome man to come ask you to dance before going out on the dance floor
torture for two girls who loved to dance but suffer for patience.
without having any serious conversation about it, telepathically, in that sister-to-sister secret code of communication we've established, we agreed it was a stupid rule.. standing around waiting for someone to ask you to dance when all the great music was pumping through the night air
and so we just got out on the dance floor by ourselves and busted a move, as they used to say.
didn't stop there. we ended up having such a good time by ourselves, that eventually, she took to dancing on top of the 4ft speaker on the left, and i took to dancing on the matching 4ft speaker to the right. we made our own stage! danced the night away.
no longer needed anyone to ask us to dance -although it happened with some frequency and we rarely said no.
and i'm so grateful we have and we share this spirit. not waiting around for someone else to kick start our good times. we could have potentially missed out on a lot of good times, a lot of good music, a lot of good life and soulful exercise
but we didn't.
and it is in this spirit i self-published beautiful fish. i have queries out, proposals out for my memoir and some other writing adventures. but in the meantime, i hear good music playing right now
don't want to miss out waiting around..
keep finding speakers to stand and dance on while i wait for a handsome publisher to come ask me to
sign a lucrative contract.
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thank you so much, every single one of you, who attended my reading & mtf show! thank you for your time, attention, every purchase and kind word!
my books sold out, with three on order
and my passion for creating mag time frames -hot as always
