How do you “show up” to your ambitions? Most of us have this fantasy in our minds of this great ambition that is so far out of our line of vision that it might as well be a fairy tale. Nobody really has a path there, and if they do, it probably won’t work for you. If we try to be a part of some 12-step program that leads us to our far far away dreams, we will probably relapse at some point and then forget we were ever a part of a program. Zhena Muzyka tells the story of her dreams and how she fought to achieve them against all odds in her book Life by the Cup.
Opportunity knocks for everyone. We just have to show up, as Muzyka writes.
“By showing up you are taking an action, and actions are what bring results, whether or not you are competent yet in something. A thousand ideas come and go in our minds, but the ones we actually make a move toward are the ones that pay off, even if we don’t know exactly how to get it done,” Muzyka teaches us (36).
Zhena Muzyka Presents “Life By The Cup”
“Life by the Cup is a true story that stretches from single motherhood and hard times through unique personal success. Pour a cup of tea, open to the first page and find a friend who will teach you: Your hopes are a form of planning.” — Gloria Steinem
sign her 2014 memoir and highly acclaimed self-help book Life by the Cup (Simon and Schuster) at Ventura College H. P. Wright Event Center on Day Road near Telegraph. We’ll be sure to have a seat for you if you join the Facebook Event Page here.Zhena’s website states that “As an advisor, author and motivational speaker, Zhena Muzyka turned her passion for tea, belief in herself, and love for life into a successful career helping women realize their dreams of business ownership. Drawing from the depths of her experiences in turning her background in aromatherapy and talent for blending tea into the multi-million dollar Zhena’s Gypsy Tea®, Zhena inspires her audiences with energetic messages about entrepreneurial spirit, empowerment, and social and environmental responsibility.
Zhena embraced her rich Ukrainian Gypsy ancestry, relying on the teachings of her Gypsy grandmother to help her alter fate as she sold tins of her custom tea blends from a small cart on California street corners when her infant son needed a life-saving kidney operation.”
Let It Snow!
McGee Creek Crooked Forest November 2014 photo by c. gwendolynalley
“Oh the weather outside is frightful
but the fire is so delightful
and since we have no place to go
let it snow let it snow let it snow!”
(Read on to learn how!) Read more…
l Taggart; open mic follows the featured reader, and we will be reading in the open mic. Sign-ups are at 7:15pm. On Dec 4, LA’s Suzanne Lummis features. Among her many accolades, Suzanne Lummis won the 2013 Blue Lynx Poetry Prize for her latest collection of poems, Open 24 Hours. Her poem “How I Didn’t Get Myself to a Nunnery” is in the November 3, 2014 issue of the New Yorker 11/3/2014; read and listen to it here: www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/11/03/didnt-get-nunnery.Cheers to Nat’l #ZinDay W Nov 19!
Today is Zinfandel Day! How do you plan to Zin? Here are more than a few ideas!
Just in time for Thanksgiving and other holiday feasts, it’s National Zinfandel Day on Wednesday, November 19, 2014. 2015.
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Simpsons Blazing Guy VS Burning Man
SURVEY: Attitudes on Tech and Poetry
Buttons from Robert Peake on Vimeo.
My friend the poet Robert Peake continues to amaze me. Read more…
The Simpsons Go To Burning Man 2014
What else will the Simpsons discover at Burning Man?Will Lisa come play chess with Reed in the Dome of the Space Wanderer?Will Bart crack jokes on stage of the Big TV–or light The Man early like Paul did in 2009?Will Marge ride in Critical Tits or the Naked Bike Ride?Will Homer be another middle aged overweight drunken spectating shirt-cocker– or will he be a participant, perhaps joining Halcyon to scoop ice cream in Pink Heart?Will they be staying in Kidsville or over on K street or will they crash a party at First Camp and hang with Larry Harvey and Grover Norquist and Dennis Kucinich?
How To Keep the Sea Free of Debris
Hosted by Thomas Morton and originally aired in 2008 on http://VICE.com, in this documentary the Vice crew sails to the North Pacific Gyre, an area in the ocean with such an abundant collection of floating plastic material that it has been dubbed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, and gained a reputation for being a Texas-sized “island” made entirely of trash.
The crew discover for 
themselves that while this island is a myth, the truth is far worse — far more disgusting, and far more challenging to convey: Read more…
8 Chardonnays from Oregon’s Willamette Valley
fall for Oregon Chardonnay…
Each Tuesday in November at 6pm PST, join me and a dozen or so other wine writers on Twitter for #WineStudio where we will be exploring the “renaissance of Chardonnay” in Oregon’s Willamette Valley located just south and west of Portland.
Not everyone knows that there is more to Oregon wine than the Willamette’s famed and lovely Pinot Noir. And not everyone appreciates
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An Epiphany on Dia de Los Muertos
An Epiphany on Dia de Los Muertos
if ever you desire to plant a tree for me
please make it a sycamore
or some other soft leafed tree
one with foliage that unfurls in spring
twisting twirling gals
who dance in green flannel gowns
a tree who shades
laughing picnickers
children with olives on their fingers
lounging longing lovers on the lawn
grandparents who feel the edge of time
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