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Le parfum du temps suspendu

Friday, June 4th, 2010

l’ideal: l’Heure Bleue (c. 1912) Le parfum suggère et impose à la fois le souvenir de celle qui le porte… pour une femme élégante, tendre, à la sensualité secrète. Brassée de fleurs suaves et délicates, enveloppée d’un souffle poudré, s’envolant vers des notes orientales, L’Heure Bleue, parfum fleuri, aromatique et très romantique, peut être qualifié de véritable chef-d’œuvre, de monument de l’histoire de la parfumerie.

La fragrance
Oriental Floral. Attachant, émouvant, envoûtant. En tête, la fragrance nous emporte dans la fraîcheur de la bergamote et l’audace de la note anisée. En cœur, l’accord œillet et le néroli nous grisent ; un peu de piquant, un peu de fraîcheur et beaucoup de sensualité. Le fond, oriental et poudré, est le plus troublant et donne à L’Heure Bleue ses effluves suaves : note poudrée d’iris et de violette, note gourmande de vanille, de benjoin et de fève tonka. Le parfum, enveloppé d’une chaleur veloutée, prend une texture si douce et si envoûtante que l’on sentirait comme un voile de soie sur la peau d’une femme.

I also like insolence: une violette triomphante

pondering dolphin moons, daring acts and the wolf as my power animal

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

This is code. One person will know what I truly mean. Ideally, she would respond asap. In the mean time, what is a blog for if not for to ruminate? I did a lot of research around Mother’s Day - Sunday. It was like a dream pushed me.  Dreaming takes on importance once one pays attention. My dream teacher is Robert Moss. Reading Nancy Drew was a good intro to dreams and coincidence reading, short of superstition. A few months ago, on my way to Mosswood Hollow to study with Robert Moss I did shop at Paul and Sandy’s esoteric store in Kirkland and found Password to Larkspur Lane so I recently revisited Nancy. Anyway, all this research did lead me to classmates.com and so I wrote my life story there re VPHS. It was fun. Not as dramatic or heart wretching as writing my life story as myth during Robert Moss‘ last workshop at Mosswood, but still fun… another take on reality… other takes are the most enlightening…

No one knows me from an art or drama class at VPHS - why not? I wasn’t in any! (woulda coulda shoulda) I was working at Sears Roebuck at the Orange Mall to make money to keep up with the Joneses of the OC. Of course I love my European trips I paid for myself at the age of 17 and 18 (hey that was paid vacation), and they formed me wonderfully. Now at the age of 40 -something I am doing what I would have done had I been in tune with moi - painting and taking improv. Using my business skills from 10 years in hotel mgmt, MBA at MIIS, 10 years in Internet/hi tech for fundraising for artists! Julia Cameron might raise her eyebrows and I do too sometimes but its up to me to keep my own art practice alive, and I do. Yes I’d like to meet “the one” and maybe I will. Maybe he looks like Russell Brand and has his smart wit… And I live bilangue thanks to BA French at SFSU and Institut pour les Etrangers Aix-Marseilles. Yeah that was me roaming around the art department in awe, not getting a clue yet… And I still have my green thumb from the Sears years.

I Love Improv - Who Knew?

Thursday, April 30th, 2009
Half the time I write improve … well there you go.

Improv improves life. Every week I get a therapeutic level of laughter in the first 10 minutes and it just goes on for hours. I may not prefer to roll on the floor as the human prop as the Ocean, but I could take that on. The possibilities are limitless.

Like I tell my sister and my therapist, Improv is like 2nd grade or 3rd, before cliques and serious crushes. Mostly everyone was invited to a birthday party then. We play games together involving running, moving and being it. When is the last time you did the hokey pokey? And we did it again in NIA! Hokey Pokey 2x in a month!?!

Every week I am surprised. I hear the game and think the instructor is kidding. But he is not kidding that I woud stay still and let another person move my body while I speak a scene with another person speaking a scene while being moved by someone … and the scene is “secret agent” or “farm.” Or the game is he said she said: I talk, give stage direction to scene mate, scene mate talks, gives scene direction to me. Wait, is that a game? Here are the secrets but they only work when you do them http://www.unexpectedproductions.org/living_playbook.htm

It is deconstruction! In action! What is will? What is a prop? What is story?

The array of ways to say yes or no is infinite.

It is light and deep. It is sponaneous. It is storytelling. Improv is a fleeting essence of living.

Why I am a fan of Janice Dickinson

Friday, April 17th, 2009

First heard of Janice Dickinson for her 3 books of autobiography and dating advice. Then her story was so preposterous that I thought ‘”ha!” but I never heard of her’. Yet of course I was not a glam magazine reader, nor a Top Model or Reality TV watcher. I am a fan purely because I so enjoy Janice’s books and sense of humor. And, now that I see them, images of her herself and her. She is the perfect model. Models must transform, transfix, and transmute. Models take on personas with feeling. Models embody _______. Fill in the blank. They embody you, yourself and you actually. I painted to a model once who told me that in every painter’s painting of her she saw the painter. The model was the vehicle. Janice Dickinson is also a perfect body, the way she was born. Highly conscious of her fleshy alterations, she is no longer that way. She is still perfect though, being fake (see book 2 of similar title.) Overall, I am a fan of Janice Dickinson because of her sense of humor about life, striving in life, finding and keeping inner peace, accepting one’s self and that “you’ll never lunch in this town again” (note omission of word ‘eat’) name dropping that Janice brings forth in her books. She makes me laugh and she’s nice to look at. I admire her drive for sobriety. What more could you want as a fan???

A blank slate sans tele

Friday, March 6th, 2009

Dream week ends are meant to mix it up, re-center, and find the true path again amidst the work-a-world daily grind that comes to prevail. My Dream week end was only last Sat-Sun and it came time to hit the sordid stories of the tele: murder, mayhem, atrocity, as tho that is my re-centering. So, the little buggers are gone. I took the cable box in this morning. Ended it all last night on Paris Je T’aime on On Demand (quel surprise). What a find for a beau souvenir. Despite the crowning gem, it was addiction. Like addiction, little gems kept me hooked. But, to keep watching was to crush my hopes and dreams. Oh, a little story at the end of the day seems fine. But, zonking out on my chair more than once it became 3am. And what did I have to show? A painting? A short story? Anything more than that bizarre vicarious TV crush on the men from Numb3rs?  Nope. I’ve seen every episode of Sex and the City. That job is done. Can’t find any more free Californication. So, sanity said make room for your own storytelling. Why make it sit in the back seat? The sheer volume of commercials was the tipping point. Au revoir soccer le foot les samedi matins. Au revoir ChezMaupassant. Bon jour choc de culture sans TV.

Bliss Soaps - great gifts!

Sunday, February 22nd, 2009

Lilac, jasmine,  rose

Chocolate cherry, butter pecan, cream

Not to eat, it’s soap!

Love this shop on Broadway, Hours 3-10pm

http://www.blisssoap.com

Pecha Kucha Volume 10

Thursday, February 19th, 2009
I’m having a ball curating this Pecha Kucha - Thanks to the arts leaders and artists who will be presenting! My old fans know this is RadioNet energy of “what is going on.”
~ Sheila

Bacon and Tomlin

Monday, January 26th, 2009

“No matter how far you deviate from reality, you need the discipline of subject.” Francis Bacon (painter) (Sylvester interview)

“Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.” Lily Tomlin
http://www.lilytomlin.com

NIA - my favorite dance

Sunday, January 18th, 2009

what a fine way to wake up your body & mind

http://www.niaseattle.com