"I am done with my graceless heart/so tonight I'm going to cut it out and restart"

It's no secret I love music. It's also no secret that I've been known to listen to songs on repeat, with the volume up. Songs have always found me when they are supposed to, a few weeks ago Florence + the Machine released their sophomore album. Considering her first album was more than spectacular, she set a high bar for number two. Not only did she bring it on Ceremonials, she killed it in ways only she knows. That f*cking voice. Haunting, in the best way possible.

The release of this album at the tail end of my Bikram Yoga challenge was exactly what I needed to take the challenge to new depths. Tomorrow, 11.11.11 I will finish my challenge and will no doubt take some serious time to reflect, to dance and to sing. More centered and more grounded than when I started. My weekend will be spent by the water, grateful.

P.S. - This video totally makes me want to have a masquerade party...more to come on that for sure.

This is what it looks like to Occupy

An aerial view of Zuccoti Park in New York City, on Sunday, October 16, 2011.












Occupy Wall Street's Working Group Schedule. This is what a revolution looks like. We are organized.














Eve Ensler participates in the Women's Caucus meeting, discussing how to raise the voices of women in this movement and how particular economic crisis disproportionately impact women.





Geraldo Rivera shows up with Fox News to report on the "demands" of Occupy Wall Street.




















The wash line at the kitchen.

















The Kitchen, food for all from the kind donations of strangers.

















DeLaVega tells it like it is, as always.













My new favorite library, "The People's Library"
















100s of books for the occupiers - take it, read it, pass it on...











and the unions show up in force!!!

Let the beauty we love be what we do.

There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.

~Rumi

Dance, when you're broken open.

Dance, if you've torn the bandage off.

Dance in the middle of the fighting.

Dance in your blood.

Dance, when you're perfectly free.

-- Jelaluddin Rumi (13th century)

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

- Mark Twain

"Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it's not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't; it's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere."

---Barack Obama

Have You Ever

"Have you ever stared into a starry sky?"

It's pretty much all I want to do. I also don't so much mind the lonely wandering in the woods - it's usually the wandering that's the best part!

More lyrics


Most recently just about everything in my life is telling me to continue with the "HDT" approach I've thrived for the majority of my life - or at least since Ms. DeRosa's American Literature class, that was a good 17 years ago.

I've been feeling like I need some trees, no schedule, etc. all the things that I always say I need :). My pal Rob Brezsny agrees with me on this, at least this week.