Y4 – Day 132 – The Cure 2016 part one

First row, Cricket Amphitheater in Chula Vista, San Diego, CA May 20, 2016 is where I had an epiphany as The Cure played their beautifully strange music. How can something feel so alive inside that dug out hole? It is now called the Sleep Train amphitheater, taken over by Live Nation, same people as at the Irvine venue at Verizon Wireless.

Connecting to even one person at the same time is refreshing but close your eyes and imagine having the talent and aura and generosity to reach twenty thousand souls at the same time, every night on tour, on an international level, no less. Stage presence is one thing, grabbing and holding your attention on every physical and emotional level is another. And…The genius of The Cure is clearly Robert Smith. He sets high standards for excellence in performance, making them even better LIVE than on a studio recording.

I leave you with this visual. The silhouette is classic.

We all know the sway of his musical notes even if you were not aware you were listening to his song.

The one and only Robert Smith reigns supreme in my concert book and has never, ever disappointed one single fan, always displaying an unending and diversified array of sound generated art.

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Y4 – Day 131 – Paradise 2016

The answer to the number of references to The Cure songs in my last paragraph yesterday is 8.

Yea! Forty four acres and a mile of beach!

Inside the perimeter of the Mission Bay shoreline lies the resort peninsula we are savoring.

Bayfront Barefoot Cafe has a rock waterfall that cascades into a koi pond with yellowfin tuna and a few small harmless sharks, as well as food and drinks. The bridge over the pond leads to the dock and onto a pier with rental water sports and boats.

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Caveman pizza delivers and is underground where the prior sand filled dance floor used to be. At night, everything is lit up and festive. Lights from across the water reflect on the surface and undulate, reanimating and sparkling the horizon. Looking up, the stars are aroused and inspired to come out and shine.

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Y4 – Day 130 – Off to San Diego -YEA!

I love Paradise Point, well, I hope I still do.

Bringing books, notebooks, prompts, fun reads, magazines, snacks, too many clothes and make-up, laptop, camera, i-pad, phone, fitbit and chargers. Taking incense, perfume, enough toiletries for three women and money. All should be well.

Just in case, they have a cute, darling everything store on the grounds and you can buy clothes, drugstore goods, food or any last minute items you forgot.

There is a coffee kiosk, pool, spa, mini golf, tennis, restaurants and acres of gorgeous trails with bridges, ducks, ponds and exotic foliage encircled by a bay.

When the chickadees were little and older actually, we would vacay there at least once a year or so.

Bonfires on the beach, s’mores and sea shell collecting are some of the highlights for me. The Barefoot Cafe, the seagulls and the lights at Christmas are probably the high spots for the kids.

I imagine the love of my life considers the down time, naps by the shore and the laid back atmosphere of just parking and never having to leave is his fundamental dream come true.

This time we are traveling and rooming with Cindi. Hopefully, our plans will pan out and she will be dog sat while we are applauding at the The Cure concert, tomorrow night. This will be our third time in the first row for this infamously crazy good moody music.

Love that cat. And how appropriate it is on Friday. I’m in love so don’t cry boys. This love song is just like heaven. I think we will be underneath the stars on a night like this and I will take pictures of you.

HOW many references can you spy? Tune into tomorrow for the answer.

Y4 – Day 129 – Believe in Yourself

What are you resisting instead of assisting?

I don’t care how old you are, you can do it but you may have to change your temperament and add discipline to your routine. Devour that in its entirety.

The goal is your purpose and mission of your life. According to Iyanla Vanzant, your goal is the WHAT of your life, the purpose is the WHY and your mission is the HOW.

So, what is your goal? Why this? How does it serve you and others?

Here is some inspiration.

Monarch Beach, Dana Point, CA

Sunday, May 15, 2016

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Y4 – Day 126 – Questions Still

At the Norton Simon Museum Sculpture Gardens in Pasadena, May 6, 2016DSC09724As I recounted yesterday, it is a known fact nowadays that sound has wave movements, called vibrations. We oscillate all the time. We send out thoughts, we feel certain energies.

Questions I still have (which just creates more pondering):

What makes the dominoes fall in a row so perfectly? What I mean is, how can every snowflake be different yet be a perfect geometric equation? How can petals on a flower be  perfectly numbered and how can a seed know what to do and who it is?

I know it’s genetics and DNA and we are Oh, so smart, but who or what or how or better yet, why?

I fear I will never know and that’s why religious or spiritually minded people say you have to believe, sight and answer unseen, unknown, respectively.

In my humble opinion, true faith is knowing that God (Good Orderly Direction) or whatever you want to call it, exists. Some sort of order makes sense to me but I must be too minuscule to comprehend or it is right under my nose kinda thing.

I have let’s say, for the sake of argument, the brain of an amoeba ( and no offense or disrespect intended to amoebas) and in relation to this GOD, maybe it is so expansive it would blow my mind up!

I hope when we die, our soul finds out.

And here is another question, where do I go when I am off daydreaming or spacing out? Where am I when I am meditating in the Theta range?

In Theta, we are in a waking dream, vivid imagery flashes before the mind’s eye and we are receptive to information beyond our normal conscious awareness. – Toolsforwellness.com

Y4 – Day 125 – Faith

I have faith there is some sort of Higher Order, perhaps a Multi Universal Entity,   one or many mathematical equations or some such that resolves, creates and completes everything.

The natural earth cycle seems to be circle like, spiraling.

We are arrogant to think the sun, moon and stars are just for us. There is so much more out there and around everywhere we can’t even see, but I am telling you, it exists. We only see 2% of electromagnetic waves and that is limited to color.

Like Dr. Seuss’s, Horton Hears a Who, there is a whole world in a speck of dust. I know a whole world exists under our feet, in the dirt that most of us never think about. It took horticultural classes for me to realize the magnitude of living organisms that call soil their home.

We have observed and dissected plant parts, theorized their evolution and studied their reproduction but where did it all start from?

Now scientists are discovering and measuring vibrations and waves of sound from plants – what every tree hugger, indigenous tribe, poet, metaphysical creative and ancient seer understood intuitively is that nature has its own sound, its own movement and now they are proving it true for the people who made fun of these sensitive, sentient beings.

I begin to believe in my own way, the truth really was always in me.

Click your heels three times, Cecilia.

Y4 – Day 124 – Split Open

I fear pain. I don’t say it but I think I fear death. What if there is no after life or whatever?

What does it all mean? I realize after reading Vicktor Frankel’s, Man’s Search for Meaning, life has the meaning you give it.

When you are an empath or sensitive, you feel almost everything and every energy out there. You can’t abide crowds, but pine trees and ocean waves soothe you (it’s the negative ions).

I learned to protect myself psychically because when you open channels, you become vulnerable. I believe in collective consciousness and other dimensions, but my left brain constantly argues logic with me. A lot of sparring goes on in my head.

What do you fear you can never talk about? It just may be what someone else needs to hear.

Y4 – Day 123 – Addict Thought

Why can’t I be addicted to exercise, housekeeping/management and eating only whole foods in moderate quantities?

Instead I am addicted to sugar, carbs, reading, lounging, Bravo and HGTV.

Well, at least I am a moderate when I cook, garden and write.

IMG_1261Rare coloring in sweet peas, from SLO Botanical Gardens heirloom seed collection. Fragrance abounds in our front yard!