Ten in ONe 7-14-08: Give Me Back My Cage!

It is absolute faith that shapes us: "knowing" things are a certain way and feeling comfortable with our boundaries. When we go through a shift, we go through a lot of fear and doubt, because we are letting go of our previous faith and boundaries that we felt comfortable in as we learn to trust something different. We are leaving the confines of our previously known world and leaping to something new, finding ourselves "outside", somewhere new and floating in the unknown. We may have had rock solid faith in one religion and then decide to make a change. We may have had faith in a certain political party or a certain technology. For some reason, we began to become aware that this thing we had faith in or boundaries we were living within were not in our best interest or that the boundaries of said system felt more like a prison. Perhaps we experienced something that opened our eyes to some fallacy in our previous belief system. After that, we find ourselves experiencing one "earthquake" (Emotional, financial, physical, metaphysical )after another that allow us to step beyond the old walls (fears) that kept us.

After we leave the confines of that system, we find ourselves on a journey that draws us to exploring new parts of ourselves. So, after we've begun this journey, it is completely normal to feel wave after wave of fear or to feel lost sometimes, wanting to be back behind the wall and "safe" again. It's normal to panic and wish we'd never started the journey. It's normal to be unsure of anything for awhile. Then, it's important to take a real assessment and realize how far we've come in trusting ourselves. You will feel whole again. You will find strength and faith again. You have to clear out all the old boundaries and characters that you've set up before you can fully adopt something new and have that rock solid faith in it, but you will be able to find it again. Keep at it. Creative, artistic projects, writing, singing, dancing, and exercise all help greatly. You need a way to vent what you are feeling.

Seek to trust yourself and stay determined to have faith in your own abilities to create and give yourself the life you've been dreaming of. You are a magnificent creature, full of potential and magic. There is a bright light burning within you just waiting to shape the world around you. It's there. Sometimes you just have to break down the walls that are confining it. What are some of the amazing walls you've broken down in the last year? What kind of shackles have you freed yourself from? Where are you having trouble with the feeling of too much "freedom"? What kind of boundaries are you still living behind that keep you from Being all that you dream of?

Two: Coming Soon:

(current news with Divinity)

Lots of news this week!

Poetry Slam Competition - -I had the amazing honor to be a part of this amazing event by 30something Entertainment at Actor's Theater Louisville. It was a beautiful event and very well put together. There was so much talent in the room, and such a supportive sense of community. I can't say enough good stuff about what Everett and his wife Deborah are doing. Check out some of their future events at www.30somethingentertainment.com .

Short Film Contest Submission to Lifetime Channel - Over the past weekend, I made a short film titled "Birthday Wishes" and submitted it to the Lifetime Channel's "Every Woman's Film Competition", which has a grand prize of $5,000, a trip to NY film festival, LA film festival, and a meeting with William Morris Agency. Please stay tuned for news on how you can help me win! It has to go past a panel of judges first, then films that make it through will turn to online voting.

Calling kids of all ages! My first shipment of Snot, Bots, and Other Thoughts is on the way! I should have an all day kids event with book signing date for you in the next newsletter! It will be a back to school event.

England Based Group The Suffwaissii Named a song after me! It's called Kentucky Rose and you can hear it at www.myspace.com/therealsuffwaissii

Speak Easy and other Videos - Check out videos from the first Speak Easy party, of Ron Whitehead's poem "Never Give Up" and my poem "Letter from Goddess to Man" at our site www.louisvilleontv.com . There is much more to come for this site.

Our next speak easy party is Friday, July 25. Mark your calendars!Contact me for information on how to attend - divinityrose at gmail.com

A WHOLE NEW SITE and The Newsletter Widget: Check it out! I've overhauled my site in an effort to make it easier to navigate. Also, I'm going to start posting my newsletters on Associated Content and sending out just a summary to your inbox in an effort to make it easier to read, and to generate some money per click. By reading my newsletter on Associated Content, you help me make some money off it! Payment is per view, so everytime someone views the article, I receive payment. If you like what you read and think others might, too, please put my widget on your site or on your myspace page. Click "Get Widget" under the Current newsletter links widget at divinityrose.com. The code box will pop up allowing you to cut and paste. Please give me some feedback on this and let me know if you really prefer to just receive the whole thing to your inbox.

I've also added a "Services for Hire" link that has my resumes/experience lists. If you know anyone looking for a writer/producer/creative consulting, send them my way! Thanks!

Three: Rhyme and Reason:

Won't you help me die

so I can spread my wings and fly?

I don't remember how I fell.

So, come to me my others,

and break the chains I've forged so well.

Four: Show must go on

(news from friends, entertainment opportunities)

Open Mic at Gardiner Lane Heine Bros - July 15 - 7 - 9 pm.

Congrats to Jeff Gaither! - Local artist wins the St. James Art fair Poster Design Contest. Locally, you may have seen Jeffs art on cover of The LEO, Velocity, Louisville Music News, Wired, Louisville Music News, branding art and annual poster for The Forecastle Festival, The Kentucky Psychological Associations Heads-Up exhibit, or CD covers and/or shirt designs on one of the hundreds of bands he has done work for, such as Guns-N-Roses, Van Halen, Testament, The Misfits, The Undead, Hirax, The Accused, Agoraphobic Nosebleed, GG Allin, Insane Clown Posse, Municipal Waste and local bands Two Pump Chump, My Own Victim, Stonecutters and many, many more.
Jeff is a Louisville native, has been producing art for over 30 years, and is happily married with 3 children. Check out his art at www.gaithergrafix.com

Vote for Louisville band to play WLRS fest - My friends in the Band Nova Red are in the running to perform at WLRS. Please go to
http://wlrs.com/ and scroll down till you see the Concert Hookup. Just click the circle for Nova Red, and hit the vote button on the bottom. (you don't have to register)
Their myspace is www.myspace.com/novared

Send headshots/resumes for crew or talent for consideration for future projects. Send digital version to divinityrose@gmail.com . Email me if you'd like to mail a hard copy.

VilleRadio.com - A new Louisville based website with live local streaming music. Check them out for an opportunity to submit your tracks.

Art needed for Next Louisville Speak Easy - Artists may hang or display their art for sale at our monthly underground arts party. Art sold at our first event, and we're ready to showcase some new artists. We'd love to see your pieces displayed, but if you bring high dollar items, please also consider bringing more affordable pieces as well to increase chances of a sale :) There is no fee to display...if you do sell something and want to kick a little something our way, (art, money, gifts, favors) great! We'd appreciate it, but it's not mandatory. Contact me at divinityrose at gmail.com

Auditions for Hamlet - Louisville Repertory Company announces auditions for Shakespeare's "Hamlet". LRC will be presenting this classic with a twist, exploring how gender affects the Bard. Ophelia will be played by a man; Hamlet will be played by a woman. Sunday, July 27th, from 5-7pm Monday, July 28th from 7:30 - 9:30pm.
Callbacks will be scheduled as needed. WHERE: Thomas Jefferson Unitarian Church, 4936 Brownsboro Road, Louisville, KY 40222 NEEDED: 10 men, 5 women
SHOW DATES: November 6th - 15th, 2008 Auditions will consist of cold readings from the script. Please bring a headshot and resume' if you have them. A monologue is welcomed, but not required. For more information, you may call 502.561.1004 or email LRCTheatre@insightbb.com. LRC gratefully requests inclusion in any public announcement sections you may have. Thank you, Darren McGee LRC

Five: The Tightrope:

(a glimpse at the paths I currently find myself walking... )

I have no interest in political revolution. I am interested in personal revolution: a spiritual revolution. And by spiritual, I don't mean religious. To be honest, I don't really have any interest in revolution at all. I am interested in....transformation. We need transformation of thought.. For that...well...that leads to the transformation of everything around you.

I don't want to see and live amongst mindless zombies who are trained to destroy, or people who have snapped and war against anything and everything. Anyone can do that. I want to embrace true warriors who are strong enough to take the quest to brave the muddy waters of their own soul and accept the monsters they find within...... and give them the love they need to be shushed.
Six: Sideshow Snippet:

Snippets from journals

Self transformation is the only revolution that works.

So many feel as if they're not from "here" - Well, none of us are. We all began as a thought - a dream. But we're here for a reason - to create that dream - to solidify it and give it birth from the unseen to the seen.

I am a collection of thoughts, and the further I go within, sorting through them all, I find the one thought that started it all...and that thought is me.

We are all sacred containers of information that one being is collecting and storing.

We are the travelers. All exists simultaneously, but we choose where to go next - what we would like to observe next. We are. All that has been, is, will be or could be already exists simultaneously, We turn what could be (The unseen - spirit) into the physical realm (the seen) so it can be observed.

I am the gentle flower blossom unfolding in the middle of a raging storm, but I am also the raging storm.

Beasts released, they began to wreak havoc on my life - warring across the landscapes of my mind.

I release all I am trying to hold onto, the past, the future, even this very moment.

Seven: Cool Web Site of the week:

Fair Trade Ticketing site

Do you need tickets for your events? Try Fair Trade Brown Paper Ticketing or suggest it to friends :) The only fair trade ticketing service and with the lowest fee in the industry!

http://www.brownpapertickets.com

Eight: Ballyhoo!

Featured music of the week

"Bring on the change!"

Check out Daphne Luster!

http:myspace.com/gypsyswitch2

Nine: Magic Lantern!

Letter from Goddess to Man - Video I made for you :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ppc2b57MFY8

Ten: Grand Finale:

We are sparkling pools of life, shining peacefully in the moonlight, but the fish within us leap from one pond to another, disturbing the calm and rippling outward.

We are all such amazing bright balls of potential and it makes me so proud to see how you come back again and again determined to love, determined to keep going.

IT touches my heart so to see little ones, young and old, throw themselves back into the fray when beaten up time and time again, like sperm fighting to break through to germinate an egg. We toil long and hard to be born. Think just how much of creation had to toil and work together to accommodate you being here. What an amazing statement of how important you are to this collective. Thank you for being here with me.

Dream well, dream deep and may all paths lead you back to the heart.

(Sorry I missed you last week. I made five short films and participated in a feature length, and the site overhaul and changes had me swamped. I wanted the changes ready before I put out a new letter :)