Angels Ink - when Tim Finn sings - Music as Muse
Current mood: dreaming
Category: dreaming Writing and Poetry

For some reason i write better when Tim Finn's songs are playing. I think its the depth of his spirituality and his way of thinking. It has a dreamlike quality to it. Images of windchimes, moons, stars, sailing the oceans; daybreak, sunset, in the deep of the seas; boats, boys, lovers looking across, lovers finding; being lonely, being seen. And so the stories all inspire me. Sometimes when i write, words just appear as if written in angels ink, sometimes i change the words like changing from a swim ... togs to towel to top and suchlike; wet then dry, cold then sun-warmed once again. Lying on the hot soft sand, im squinting my eyes as im looking out, and the blues and greens of the sea lie before me and within me like a hammock underpinning me, i'm swinging under the pale blue tie-dyed sky. Together softly, fingertips reaching, we are moving and stiring the fairy weight clouds for hours and hours. We lie together, no work, no thought, no desire, no pain. Heated by sun, inner earth delivers us up, we're floating on the soft pillow clouds with a moments reprieve from the weight of the day; It seems like hours. That is what happens when i listen to Tim Finn's music. It takes my hand, it gathers me up and sings me away ...far away... that is where i was today.

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My Heart is an Empty Room - Death Cab For Cutie
Current mood: reflective
Category: reflective Life

I like the Death Cab For Cutie song thats playing on my front page because for me on this particular day, it captures a moment of reflecting on life -- a weighing up of what has been gained and lost in different actions in the persons life. I remember once a friend of mine, Dale, saying that for every action taken in life there is also a cost -- work out if you have enough for the transaction before you act. And you probably get something entirely different out of the song -- that is it's beauty (wink wink)

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The Man in the Muse
Current mood: artistic
Category: Life

The Man in the Muse


My muse is usually a man. Maybe that's something to do with yin and yan. Muse's inspire the songs, stories and creations that live mysteriously, magically & majestically inside and outside of you. Soon i will be writing about the transformations and revelations brought about by the people, angels, musicians and music that have breezed on by me through my life. 



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Story About Crocs, & the Fear of Dogs
Current mood: pensive
Category: Life

Story About Crocs, & the Fear of Dogs

Dedicated to Steve Irwin 1962 - 2006 Long long ago in a town far away high up in the mountains lived a little girl called Kate. Her mother used to take her bassinet outside everyday so she could watch the trees and kick and play. But in this yard in the mountains there was no fence; Grass and green and a forest were her immediate sights and scents. So the story goes that when her mother wasnt there, a dog came by, and leaped and barked and made her cry; and to this day she has a fear of dogs; a love of green trees but an extreme fear of these. _________ However it developed in the first place, the reality was that i used to scream if i had even a hint of a dog far off in the distance. From this, it wasnt very hard for me to develop a fear of all animals in some way: their unpredictability, their intention (from my babyhood experience) interpreted as a violent aggression. But that was until i saw Steve Irwin with animals. His face up close and personal with animals that could attack and bite, and he was stroking and touching and trusting them. I was fascinated. What it meant to me was the possibility that i could change my perception of the relationship between the dogs and I.  Bites and threats were a possibility yes, but also these animals could be companions and pets. Once in my perception they could only bite but now they could inspire love and touch and tenderness.  And so that is the story of how Steve the croc man influenced my life. Crikey !!!, perception is just a word , a thought, a feeling;  just an image of something ... and it can be changed :). K. xxx

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see Kara's Steve Irwin Tribute
Current mood: sad

My daughter wrote a tribute to Steve Irwin and i thought it was lovely.She met him well before fame did to. So take the link to her blog page here below...

Kara's Steve Irwin Tribute 

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Redefining Melancholy
Current mood: melancholy
Category: Life

It's a melancholy day, no doubt about it. Awoke looked at clock, and window, and wall, to the noice happening out there; beyond the wall somewhere way out there outside. I'm painfully aware of the inside and the outside today. Started with those waking thoughts that sometimes come when you think of everything you ever did wrong, said wrong, thought wrong. But I have learned very slowly to translate those thoughts into an action toward myself that i call gratitude. So for every wrong i can think of, I dare myself to match it with a thought of praise for myself. I think of everything good i ever did, every good i ever said, every good thought i ever had and somewhere inbetween is the reality of today, my day, your day

Love Kate xxx

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Change requires a passport
Current mood: energetic
Category: enlightened Life

Update on change because i havent abandoned the trek just caught a plane, then a train, then a bus, maybe hitched, and then stepped out at this town and taking a rest. Have often thought about psychological/emotional/spiritual development as being like travel. Dream, desire, plan, book, hop on for the ride, stop on the way if it feels like a cool place to chill, ask around where the next best place to go may be. This feels like a good place to stay awhile. I'm walking again here, finding new music, having visions of my childhood in the most pleasant way - like a slideshow of pleasure. Here is the sun of springtime. I'm meeting people here who live higher than most on a mountain where they can see more, where they live simply but have more and can see further; where they can advise me about the next great places to go. They live higher than consumerism and ego here. They live in clean air and in a community where people speak their feelings with kindness, and walk beside me and others and carry unused jackets & jumpers for me ( i am not cold here ). This is a good place to stay awhile. Tell you more about my travel trek and village and people later ....

Its that hour when i turn into a pumpkin if i dont get sleep.

Take care.. be true to yourself.

Kate(lightness) xxx

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Word Quality in Songs
Current mood: hopeful
Category: Music

short entry as its very late, had people over and they have left, its nearly 2am, mia the cat is sleeping, im eating chocolate and i am sleepy so the hope is that this blog will make some sense at all...

Having listened to many and varied styles and types of music on myspace in the past few weeks since i signed in here, i have noticed that often the music is superb in some way but i am finding, even with the very best musicians/bands, that the words are very often falling a little short of the quality of the music/melody (there are obviously many exceptions :) ! ). It's a shame because with only a little bit more content in the words, a little more depth, a little more cleverness ... not much just a little ... the songs would be even better. So this is my call to my much loved musos to pay a little more attention to the words before releasing the songs. Hope its ok for me to put that thought out there. It's my opinion having listened to so many trax of late that are sent to me. Maybe i shall expand on this thought at another time when i am more awake...

sleep well, dream well, dream brilliant lyrics :) and thanx to you all for the pleasure that you bring to me and others every day on myspace.

Be true to yourself,

Kate(lightness)

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Love
Current mood: calm
Category: Life

time for sleep ... one thought ...

I've been thinking that when misunderstandings happen that mostly people just want to be accepted for who they are. Often reactions come out of an insecurity in a person's past, experiences, personality. People arent usually going out of their way to be hurtful ... usually they are just being defensive because they dont feel accepted or are antiscipating rejection in some small way so are getting in first. Or maybe they feel that they dont have the personal resources to cope with the situation and so cut out of it instead of dealing with it. Surprisingly love can heal a great many things; Also reassurance can heal. Saying what you mean and not pushing that way down inside helps it not to build up into something its not, and something bigger than it is. Just Chilling out and letting a small amount of time go by often allows perspective to emerge. Think of something you like about each other and tell each other as often as you can. I mean in all relationships/friendships not just intimate ones.

the song line ~all we need is love~ is not entirely true but is more true i think than we imagine. 

till more, have a great day,

Kate(lightness)

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Today
Current mood: grateful
Category: Life

Today i cuddled my cat Mia close. Today i sat in sun. Today i ran in the rain to my car -I live in Melbourne :).  Today i colored my hair with honey and blonde ribbons. Today that beauty shop visit took 3 hours. Today i talked with friends about Steve Irwins so sad recent death. Today i watched the birds coming and going in the courtyard. Today i noticed even more new green leaves growing on the trees. Today i ate an apple as everyday. Today i giggled with my son and his girlfriend. Today i discussed with my daughter our visit to the Melbourne Zoo on Saturday. Today i was thinking of Saturday and which animals i want to see. Today i was thinking of an old boyfriend who used to love me. Today i read a very loving message from a myspace girlfriend. Today a lit a candle for her mother who is sick. Today i read a funny short reply from a myspace male friend. Today i prayed. Today i was grateful. How was your day ?

Kate(lightness) 

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