"We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams."
The basic premise is thousands of people turn up in a public place, plug in their own iPods, listen to their own music and dance and rave for hours!
So if you know where Union Square is then you should come by Silent Rave night, here are the official instructions.
The prospect of raving like you really don't care about what other people think, with thousands of fellow dancers, is a bloody brilliant one I think you'll agree!
THE OFFICIAL START TIME TO THE SILENT RAVE IS 6:17PM, NO RAVING BEFORE THIS TIME!
Ok, my friends how cool is this? I realize this already started but i throught i would share with the world what the world comes up with! First a pillow fight and now this...
I will say though, i am not good in crowds so i probably wouldn't attend but i would sort of stand off to the side and silently rave all to myself. When i have my ipod plugged in, i am off in my own world anyway!
Tomorrow evening starts the 8 day holiday of Passover. I will be attending a seder at my uncles home (mom's bro). Now i know for a fact there will be absolutely no raw food for me to consume. They are not big on salads, in fact i cannot seem to remember a time when they served salad. So, what to do...i'm thinking of bringing my own but is that rude? They will so totally not get where i'm coming from with my raw eating. My cousin lives on Mcdonalds and some other unidentifiable meats. I certainly don't want to force my way of eating down their throats but i may have to educate them somewhat. So, next post i will talk more about the holiday of Passover.
I have a bit of a health issue lurking. It's concerning to me because i thought i was indestrutable. Damn, i run 5 miles and come home to a green smoothie! This shit isn't supposed to happen to me. Again, i will post more when i know more! Until then do not worry OK?
So whatever you are up to this evening, why don't you plug in, and dance a bit! The blogosphere (is that a word) is an amazing place, i love it so! :O)
I'll not write about how hard my 1 day juice feast was and is! I'll not write about my day out and about (because it's one of the unspoken laws of the universe).
I'll tell you about Colin Meloy's new album, which is consuming me.
I'll tell you about days out with friends planned for this week.
I'll tell you about the upcoming Passover holiday and my concern to stay fairly raw!
I'll tell you about a sister who makes me laugh!
I'll tell you that I'm not the "glamorous foul-mouthed posh person" of twenty years ago, but that *this* is better.
If you can't be right, be wrong at the top of your lungs!!!
I have been having an intense debate with an online friend of mine. He is very adament about something that i totally disagree with. Namely, dating. More specifically, finding your soulmate.
He is totally into the Myers-Briggs personality types. Let me give you examples:
Carl Jung's theory of psychological types says each person is "wired" with different tendencies and preferences. Some of us are extraverted while others are introverted, some are "thinkers" while others are "feelers", and so on.
Sure, its interesting, but i'll be damned if i would allow this one test to determine who i shall and shall not date and eventually marry.
He says:
"But the fact is if you look around in your own life you will see time after time that the people you connect best with are certain personality types. We are not going to agree on this because my J and your P think very differently."
And:
"Different skill sets for different people - different strokes for different folks. The IeNeFP would much rather learn by experience and having the date because they fear misjudging someone. How many dates have you gone on where the guys were complete disasters? Its your preferences to experience dating in a way that makes you feel more comfortable. Great! More power to you. Its my preference to experience it my way. Which is avoiding dating people who are not compatible based on gathering the myriad of clues that we each reveal about ourselves - intentionally or not."
I am so glad, i am not so close minded! I have to say here, if he is reading, that i respect his opinions and life choices, i just do not agree is all.
I tell him, there is a great big world out there with many diverse people. We sort of owe it to ourselfs to expose ourselfs to all sorts of experiences. Heck, if i ignored that article i came across on eating raw food, i may have never even started this blog and met the most amazing people on earth!
It's like one thing, leads to the next and soon you are so much richer for the experience and love that you find all around you. I worry that my friend will never find true love. Love that he so desperately craves. I try to explain to him that there are very different kinds of love.
Love of family, love of amazing friends, love of music, writing, running, eating, sleeping, gosh too much love to handle some days! I certainly wouldn't ask my running buddies to take a personality test before i agree to run with them. I can just see me with pencils behind both ears, whipping them out so they can take the test! And, what happens if they did take the test and we were total opposites?
Gotta tell you, that would throw me for a loop. Because, in all actuality, my running buddies ARE very different from me. But, this is what makes it so interesting. If we were all the same, what a boring world this would be!
I hope i didn't lose anybody here! I'm just trying to reach out and agree that while having things in common make for good relationships, how about a little diversity? I know people with cancer, that i can totally relate too, but i don't have cancer. It's just me, adapting to people's needs. I can listen, be there and be a friend to just about anybody!
So, lets all think about this for a minute. Pure food and wine is not the only restaurant in the sea! Diversity baby!! Let's eat kale salad, or not! Green smoothies yeah! No greens, good too! To dehydrate or not? Either way dude...sprouts, beastie boys, ipods, colonics, brazil nut milk, almond butter, iphone, blogs, what else folks? How about some carrot apple juice? Good conversation, therapy, starbucks, green tea, reading, reading, reading! Maca, MSM, i like it raw, do you???
Diversity my friends! Don't pigeon hole yourself into thinking there's only one way of doing things! Heck, i know people who run backwards. Now, if i did that i would fall on my butt. AOL, Gmal, Yahoo, who cares? Hip hop and rap!! Fuck yeah!!!
“Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would I'd never leave.”
I am very excited about this. I must share. I've heard about this group a while ago and saw the trailer young at heart a few months ago. I've not forgotten it and since shared the youtube videos with friends and family.
There is something so magical to me about these folks. The average age is 82. They are having fun and loads of it. Music is really the universal language isn't it? They are rockin and so adorable doing it! I realize this movie is a documentary but come on, doesn't it put a smile on your face?
Are they raw foodists? Who cares really. They are living the remainder of their lives doing exactly what they want to do. Singing, dancing and being happy with each other. This is life.
Tonight, i came home from a dinnner out and noticed in my buildings rec room, a ping pong table. A man and woman were playing a pretty vigorous game. Another man saw me and shouted out loudly, "sorry, no kids allowed". This totally cracked me up. He came closer and still said no kids. I laughed and was all like "hey do i look like a kid to you?" He laughed once again and said "OK, sorry no you look about 25.
I'm so not 25 but it made me feel good. He then proceeded to ask me to play ping pong with him. I needed to get home, but i just may play a game or two with this nice older gentleman. It's fun no?
Now, don't get me wrong, life is not all about fun. There's time to be serious and adult like. I get off on good conversations. Interesting people and exploring my world. Pretty simple, i don't ask for much.
April 15th is fast approaching and i promised my terrific hardworking sister a dinner at Pure. She totally deserves this dinner because she is working her ass off for tax season. It's long hours and she is under intense pressure. I do not like to hear this because mostly she is a mild mannered girl. So, dinner will give her the opportunity to kick back and relax with a delicious raw meal.
The CSL New York first ever meet up is happening May 3rd. I am so psyched about this. I have been working hard with Amy to make this the best possible event. Lots of people will be attending and i am so excited to meet everybody! The great and awesome Kris Carr will be there too! How awesome is that? Hey, my therapist said she would be into coming, but unfortunately she is going to be in Europe at that time. She said maybe next time.
My running has improved greatly. I am doing a virtual 10K on the 10th of May. Should be great. I am also thinking of doing a local 5K in my neighborhood. I'm not so much into racing anymore but these events give me the motivation to run that extra mile. I am "in training". And, i have the running clothes to prove it.
So, lets go see Young at Heart and cheer these amazing folks on. They rock and i'm a little jealous that they get to learn these great songs. Now, brain is hurting. I N.E.E.D T.O. G.O. L.A.Y D.O.W.N. Tomorrow, is another day!
Two elderly widows were watching the folks go by from their park bench. Ethel said, "You know, Mabel, I've been reading this Sex and Marriage book and all they talk about is mutual orgasm. Mutual orgasm here and mutual orgasm there that's all they talk about. Tell me, Mabel, when your husband was alive, did you two ever have mutual orgasm?" Mable thought for a long while. Finally she shook her head and said, "No, I think we had State Farm."
“The spring has sprung, the grass is rizz. I wonder where them birdies is?”
Kale is a leafy green vegetable that belongs to the Brassica family, a group of vegetables including cabbage, collards and Brussels sprouts that have gained recent widespread attention due to their health promoting, sulfur-containing phytonutrients. It is easy to grow and can grow in colder temperatures where a light frost will produce especially sweet kale leaves.
Kale is an excellent source of vitamin A, vitamin C and manganese. It is also a very good source of dietary fiber, copper, calcium, vitamin B6 and potassium. thats all
I will stop the technical jargon. No more, i say!
So, if your like me, and i know your out there folks...you will have consumed at one time or another a *drumroll please* massaged kale salad! Thanks to my good friend Anthony i have mastered the technique of massage. I think i can safely say, i can massage with the best of them!
It's really quite simple in technique and love. All you need are clean hands and an open heart. Oh, and some olive oil, lemons, sea salt and a big wooden bowl! Cut, or dice up to you...then add, then (here's the best part) massage away! You know, at first i was all like you've got to be kidding me!!! Massage a salad??? I was a bit perplexed.
Being an adventurous person, i decided to give it a go! I washed my hands, but then i thought once again who cares? The massaging commenced! Ya know, it felt kinda good, in a squishy strange way. The kale seemed responsive to me. Like i was molding it, exactly the way i wanted it to taste. I'm all like your kidding me. This is truly working! *note* you must, must be in a good mood to get the most out of your massaging! Seriously! Also, Chop at least twice as much kale as you want, because it will reduce considerably
I massaged my heart out! 10 minutes to be exact. The kale looked glowing. Glistening too! So, what i did was put the salad into smaller bowls to store away in fridge! I had 3 smaller bowls this sucker!!
I literally couldn't wait for dinner but i did wait because it was all the more exciting! I decided to add: hemp seeds, sundried tomatoes, olives and alfalfa sprouts, oh and a beautiful avocodo! All good, all fresh, all quite delicious!
Kale kicks ass! Kale rocks! Theres' so much more i could say, but i'm all like hmm i could lose readers if i go on and on about a simple green. Not so simple though if it makes me feel so freakin good!
SHOUT, shout let all your feelings out no matter how you do it you should never keep it down cause it will surround you and soon it will drown you
SCREAM, scream at the top of your lungs you'll bob so much harder and meanwhile you'll get life it's all around you, just stop and then it will astound you
Ok, now that i'm done with the videos, pictures and lyrics i want to get down to it! I've been thinking i need to do this. A shout out if you will. I am grateful to all of my new friends. Bloggers, raw foodists, CSL peeps, all of you! The love is constantly flowing, its there all of the time. I feel this. It makes me feel good. Good is a great way to feel. Isn't it?
There's so much to say here. I really feel as though i am a different person. Inside and out! First...since going raw...drumroll please!!! I have lost 24lbs. In 6 months!!!! Now, i don't know about you but this feels mighty awesome. I am not done. I want to lose more. 16 more. That will be 40 total. I can live with that.
I feel and see the difference in so many ways. My hair for example. The curls are just so bouncy and wild. I like wild. Soft too. My nails, they grow like the dickens. They look healthy. My mind, more clear and vivid. Lots of emotional detoxing going on. This is good on so many levels. Just ask my therapist. Music! It just draws me in! Cannot function without my ipod. Also good. I run! Not in circles i might add. Real running, 5 miles at a time. Endorphins kicking around in and out and all over. I see the sun rise. Every day...can you imagine how this makes me feel. To see the day literally starting right in front of me. Sweet!!
Then there are the days i spend in New York City. This city truly pulls me in. There is much going on in the city of my birth. Sometimes, i admit too much. That is the time i will find a quiet area, and yes there are quiet areas in New York..so i will find an area and just fall still. For however long it takes. No rush. No cell phone, no music, i block it all out and breathe. Then i reenter the city and continue on my merry way! It's just so easy now. Nothing bothers me anymore. Well, ok i'm human of course things get to me, but now i know how to handle these things.
I have so many opportunities and a few projects that i am so excited about. Everything is falling into place. Slowly, but surely its happening for me. So, here is my official SHOUT OUTZ to each and every one of you! I thank you for being there for me and loving me! I love you all more than ever!!
Q: How many psychologists does it take to change a lightbulb? A: Just one, but the light bulb has to WANT to change.
You say it's all in my head And the things I think just don't make sense So where you been then? Don't go all coy Don't turn it round on me like it's my fault See I can see that look in your eyes The one that shoots me each and every time
It has occured to me that at times, friends, relatives and the occassional stranger think i'm something that i'm not. A fake? A loser? A poser?
A poser is someone who tries hard to be something they arent. Usually, posers call other people posers because they are jealous that the person they called a poser is more skater/stoner/goth/punk/rocker/grunge/etc. than they will ever be.
Today, i was called irreverent! Courageous, straightforward, having mass appeal, but likely to offend. Challenging the status quo, rocking the boat. So, while this may sound bad, i think it totally ROCKS! I want to rock the boat. I want to feel courageous. Wait, no i am courageous! I tell it like it is. Never mean, but honest!
After Saturday's successfully raw event i have decided to embrace the lifestyle once again. I've been comsuming green smoothies this week for breakfast and they are awesome! I've been adding bee pollen to the mix so this should give me the boost i'm looking for. Plus, i've been taking MSM and Maca. Both excellent products.
The energy at this event was so palpable, so intense it just brought me to my knees. There is nothing like gathering 100+ people in a room together and all these people are on the same wavelength. Everything that was said or even not said resonated with these people. There was a connection unlike anything i've ever experienced.
I know i'm not perfect, nor do i want to be. I just want to live a life of peace and tranquility and yeah a bit of irreverence. I certainly don't want to conform to the way others see me. The people i choose to surround myself with just see me. No judgements or complaints.
I've been working on something recently. For some odd reason, when i am in situations where the potential is there for me to get upset or stressed, i do not remove myself from said situation. Instead, i let the situation upset me to the point of panic attacks. Ok, we all know, not only is this not healthy, its quite ridiculous! So, i am working very hard on knowing when to remove myself, hang up the phone, go to my room and close the door or just go for a walk!
I will not endure panic attacks for the rest of my life. Feeling like you might die at any moment is not a fun feeling. I have been taught some deep breathing exercises which help, but does not prevent them. Eh, i guess this is life. Even, sitting here quietly writing about it gives me a feeling of "Yikes, am i sharing too much?" "Will my friends here, still be my friends here?"
Stop it Michelle! I like to think of myself as an intelligent optimist. I am as intelligent as the next guy and believe me i work to be positive day in and day out. For me, i feel there is no other way.
Anyway, so Adele! I'm loving her right now and i'm pissed because her CD "19" will not be released in the US until summer 08. She's 19 years old and has the voice of an angel. Here's my wish: I want to be able to do with a pen, what Adele does with her voice. Create something that others want to read and enjoy. Not so much to ask is it??
Sure, I gotchya. New York, third-wave, feminist, college-educated, single and pretending to be happy about it, over-scheduled, under-sexed, you buy any magazine that says “body image” on the cover, and every two years you take up knitting for a week.
I am a jaded, no bullshit kinda gal with tattoos! I used to eat raw. I used to eat crap. That is all about to change!! The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up
with the rain.
Posts
