“The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun” KING SOLOMON A QUAGMIRE The saying is that there is nothing new under the sun; and that therefore in one way or another, similar …
TO BE OR NOT TO BE YOURSELF: THAT IS THE QUESTION
The formula for being wanted- what is it? If I asked you what you think this formula entails, or what you think is common about people that are easily liked, what would you say? Maybe you would say that they are easy to get along with, or that they are the kind of people that …
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OTHER PEOPLE’S EXPECTATIONS: A NAUSEA
Today I shall get straight into it because I have a few minutes before I need to get into a meeting I am not as prepared for and also because the coffee is just kicking in. Yes, I am doing this at work. You should see how I am typing this with the most intent …
GOOD NEWS: MORE MUSIC. BAD NEWS: SAME OLD FEARS.
New year. More projects. More Singles. Higher heights of creative expression. Bet. IZABELug shall deliver. A lot of the questions from friends, fans and whomever is curious when it comes to a creative is, “When are you doing the next thing?” I am no exception to this for sure, and the questions usually concern whether …
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newsflash: life is pain, so tell everyone about it!
One of my favorite songwriters and musical expressionists in her song, South London forever sings this: “And we're just children wanting children of our ownI want a space to watch things growBut did I dream too big?Do I have to let it go?What if one day there is no such thing as snow?Oh God, what …
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THE GANZFELD AND MY BIG NOSE
"-unless I am myself, I am nobody" VIRGINIA WOOLF There is such a thing as the Ganzfeld effect. Ganzfeld is a German world that means “complete field.” It is a perceptual deprivation that is caused by exposure to an unstructured, uniform stimulation field. Usually, the result of this exposure is “seeing black”- an apparent sense of …
An Anchor for the Artistic Soul.
""Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life." Ludwig van Beethoven I've always had this theory; that while it is common and heard of to hear that life exists in "seasons" and "times" constituting the "ups" and "downs" and the plateauing in there somewhere, my experience of all those things has always …
A ROAD LESS TRAVELLED
"What I have learned from myself is that I don’t have to be anybody else. Myself is good enough." LUPITA NYONG’O I have in the past couple years of my life and journey been registering and perceiving notions I was taught, either deliberately or experientially to exhaustively dismiss with respect to being me; a girl, …
The Fallacy of non-existence
"Hallelujah! Every breath is a second chance." SWITCHFOOT The issue of my existence is one that is on my mind a lot more times than others. I do exist, and I know this. However, I find that sometimes I am afraid I do not exist, or have ceased to exist, or that something creeping up …
43 days, 1032 hours later
"Sometimes Making songs Feels like living to make songs And sometimes I get an uneasy feeling That I'm doing something wrong 'Cause nothing really feels like home And I just want to be alone Calculate the hours till the power in the well goes dry I'm watching as the stage goes black How long until …
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