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  1. Let’s try this again.

    01.01.2011 by Shannon

    Starting over in 2011 with (near) daily posts. This year I’m resolved to organize my blogging life. Condense. For simplicity, here’s a link:

    Posted to my performance blog.

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  2. A Little Morning Freesplashing

    12.28.2010 by Shannon

    It just so happens I am alive again.

    I woke up this morning, and realized I was not, as initially anticipated, dead.
    (I had started to get this picture. Maybe my life was over? No, I just needed a new bed).

    (more…)

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  3. This is an intention

    12.20.2010 by Shannon

    To return to my original intention. More to come.

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  4. Halloween Freewrite

    10.31.2010 by Shannon

    I don’t understand. This now this now. I love you I love you I love you.
    (more…)

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  5. Freewrite on a Rainy Sunday Night

    10.24.2010 by Shannon

    Oh, hello dear Self!

    Thank you for existing. Without your existence… I couldn’t be here. (more…)

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  6. Home is.

    09.21.2010 by Shannon

    Unedited Freewrite with Kate: 09/21/10

    Topic: Home is…

    Home is where the heart is. Home. That word sounds nice. Sounds warm and soft and sacred. I want to be there. This is not home. Well, I don’t know. It almost felt like home, felt like a place I could make home, or maybe was home – last week when I was walking in the dusty earth with my leather worn dusky cowboy boots kicking up microcosms of sand spitting into the earth dusty dusty all the way till (more…)

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  7. Yes, love that, too

    09.17.2010 by Shannon

    I love it all.
    I love color and I love darkness. I love light and I love form. I love yoga. I love breath. I love working. I love naps. I love sending an email at work, and writing “cheers!” at the end of it. I love helping people. I love doing quality, quality work.
    I love hot tubs and early mornings. I love the blessing of friends. I love MY friends. I love meditation and sitting in the grass. I love bugs! I love the cat, even when she meows and wakes me up. I love peanut butter and bananas. I love struggle, and the knowledge that releasing into it can bring growth. I love humility.
    I love driving home. I love roadsigns. I love coffee, especially when you have a special mug. I love spiders and I love cowboy boots. I love relief. I love crying. I love, love, love laughter.
    I love my small hands, and eating cereal, and very simple moments. I love even my cubic at work, and powerpoints and pointless meetings. I love center.
    I even love my own bullshit. I love that it makes me human, and imperfect, which reminds me that I’m perfect, jut so. I love others peoples bullshit even more! I love seeing people as people and how varied and rich they are. I love that color between yellow and green.
    I love this moment, and everything in it. I love my parents, and my losses, and my gifts, and the deep privilege I have to be able to pass on love. I love gratitude! I love mashed potatoes, and I love music, and I love a smile.

    I LOVE green tea.

    (I love acceptance, terrycloth robes, and ginger. I really, really love dancing)

    I love falling.

    I love letting go.

    I love clarity.

    I even love the confusion that started it all.

    I love exactly. The way. Things are.

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  8. Letter to Kate 2

    09.15.2010 by Shannon

    Dear Kate,

    Good morning. At your suggestion, I downloaded an emoji app for my iPhone. It gives me a strange, child-like joy now when I text. Be prepared for copious expressive, colorful little icons being blasted your way.

    You can exist if you want to. You also get to choose how many times per week you take a shower. Just like you decided that you’d like your toes a blueberry color, because you just wanted it that way, you also may decide other things, just because it pleases you. There is no one/thing else but you.

    Please show lots of love to the person to whom I show lots of love. In case you are over there in Boulder, CO with a look of confusion on your face, I will explain: I mean you. All parts of you, please. Every corner and shadow, please. They are the extra special parts that have energy to them.  All lovable.

    I am very impressed by your peaches and chocolate and cookies pictures, and even more impressed with the culinary creation I know you and Robin are over there manifesting. I don’t blame either of you for thinking many of my dinner concoctions. It’s probably true that mustard and relish on tomato stew is odd. However, I really do urge you to try my newest dessert: on toast, spread 1/3 butter, 1/3 tahini, 1/3 lemon curd. I’ll even make you a slice!

    That’s all for now. I’ll go sit in the sun now. Be seeing you soon.

    xoxo.

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  9. In Service of Love

    08.27.2010 by Shannon

    Two of my friends are getting married tomorrow. I was asked to officiate the wedding. I’ve been blown away at what an honor this has been!

    Which is why I ask all of you readers to not tell anyone that I just now finished my wedding speech(!) The wedding is in 17 hours.

    I always say: creativity works best under pressure.

    ///
    When M. and G. asked me if I would officiate their wedding, I was blown away with what an absolute honor it was. I think I can speak for everyone here today when I say that I feel so lucky to be in M. and G.’s life. But getting to officiate wasn’t just an opportunity for me to get to show M. and G. how special they are to me, but it gave me the opportunity to be part of creating love.

    They showed their love by asking me to do this, I got to show my love by saying yes.

    So, because I was so touched, I went about doing research. I was not about to mess this one up. (In fact, I’m still hoping that.)

    I asked a friend who has officiated over 50 weddings with her husband how she comes up with the perfect way to honor each couple. She said she sits down with them, and asks them about their values, and has them think about what they want their marriage to look like.

    “Every marriage is wildly different,” she said. “There is no one right way to do marriage.”

    So I sat down one night with M. and G. and asked them:
    “What’s important to you, and do you want your marriage to look like?”

    “Family. Community. Supporting each other’s growth as individuals. Being independent, but making something that is better than what either of us could do on our own.” That’s what they told me.

    Creating something that is more than what any of us can do on our own. That is the gift. And love can take many forms: family, friendship, community, or marriage. But no matter what, it is something bigger than ourselves, more than what we could create with just our little will. Right here, in this moment, look at what we are all creating together.
    An expression of love. We’re all part of it.

    I think it’s really clear that Melissa and Genaro are two amazing individuals who are full and complete in and of themselves. But it is in their choosing to be together, that they create something even more amazing. A sum that’s greater than its parts. The gift they give each other is not just a gift of themselves; it’s the opportunity to create love, every day, for the rest of their lives.

    So today, you both get to show your love by asking. And you get to show your love by saying yes. ///

    (Congratulations, M. & G. I love you both.)

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  10. Letter to Kate

    08.21.2010 by Shannon

    Welcome dear friend Kate,

    I am glad you are following your destiny. I am glad I can help you do so in my small way. You are taking steps into thin air, and having faith the foot-stones will appear. Admirable. I salute you, and support you.

    Thank you very much for the delicious meals you have been generously cooking for us. I loved the eggplant goulache, even though you thought it was strange. I’m glad you went with me to hip-hop dance, even though you left to run around the lake. Hip-hop is not for everyone, especially when The Lake calls. I’m looking forward to going to the farmer’s market with you this morning — perhaps there is kona coffee, perhaps there is magic tinctures from Rupam, or perhaps only organic chard and tomatos — and once I finish my wedding speech and work on my BURST script (yes, I am procrastinating by writing on my blog), we can go.

    A sidenote to last night: I concede that I do, in fact, exist — but I also stand my earlier notion that I, in fact, don’t. Next time you pinch me hard enough to bruise in order to prove my existance, I will either evaporate the pain in the eternal flame of No-Place where nothing can reside as it is beyond even consciousness (I insist: there is not even Oneness) — or I will punch you.

    Yin and Yang.

    Remember: there is always time to “Advance” (to, as you like to put it, squeeze California’s golden juicy balls) — but for now: rest. Be in No-Time. There is nowhere to go, and nothing to do, but be in California. She can be an amazing healer. Let the next step come when its ready. It will appear, you will know it, and you will step–

    I love you.

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  11. Sometimes Sense is Nothing More Than a Fraction of a Dollar — A Poem in 5 Lines

    08.14.2010 by Shannon

    Sometimes Sense is Nothing More Than a Fraction of a Dollar

    Sense
    Is rarely a thing of any sense
    More likely,
    Total Serendipity, Randomness, Just-Because-ness–
    Just like this poem

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  12. Just a Million Gasshos Tonight

    08.11.2010 by Shannon

    If you ever hear me complain, please know that it is not real. I mean, the frustration being experienced, by my future self, I’m sure will be quite real. But it’s also not.

    Not real at all.

    In this moment, I am so in love with living, that I do not know how I will ever, ever begin to pay back whomever is responsible for this… this– existence. I am completely dumbfounded as to how I got so lucky. I am lying at the bottom of a soft, soft bowl with soft, soft golden light bouncing against me at every move. My heart sings. My heart sings. My heart sings.

    Thank you. All I want to do, with the rest of my life, is somehow find a way to spread this love to everyone. I hereby devote my life to passing on the Love that has been given to me, that is given to us all, daily, infinitely, eternally.

    What a sweet blessing to let go.

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  13. Dear Existence,

    08.03.2010 by Shannon

    Thank you.

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  14. What’s in a Name? [A Letter to My Blog]

    08.02.2010 by Shannon

    Dear NKS,

    Oh, dear. My sweet little blog of half a decade. I feel like it’s been… too long. With all this madness around producing BURST, I haven’t had a lot of time to just… write. Plus, this little identity crisis I seem to have started. It’s a very (more…)

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  15. Saying Yes

    07.25.2010 by Shannon

    Today I did a little Sunday-improv action with Upright Citizens Brigade over at Pan Theater.

    It’s funny how I enrolled in the Level I improv class back at the new year just to “keep myself from getting rusty” while I had to take a little performing hiatus while I started my new job in January — and have ended up taking six, now, improv classes and workshops, from traditional improv games to long form to Action Theater.

    (more…)

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  16. Doing the Two-Step

    07.21.2010 by Shannon

    When it comes to “progress,” why is it always two steps forward, one step back? When they say “life is a dance,” I didn’t know it would be so tedious.

    (And my inner dance partner has two left feet. How many times do I have to tell her to just feel the goddam rhythm before she stops stepping on my toes?)

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  17. I’m Sorry, But…

    07.18.2010 by Shannon

    …we have for far too long been undermining ourselves.

    Yes, the world is full of beautiful, talented people. But we are beyond comparison.

    We are at zero. Not one. Not negative one: zero.

    Neutral. Incomparable. Singular. Is.

    You are a beautiful, talented human being. I am a beautiful, talented human being. What are we waiting for?

    I realized tonight HOW MUCH I judge myself. The world is tainted through my eyes. When will I throw off this oppressive delusion? There is absolutely No Thing standing in my way… Except for me.

    Why do we hide our light? We must step bravely forward to do our service, to fulfill our duty–which is only to become what we are, to be our Is-ness– to ourselves, and then the world.

    There is so much potential for greatness! No question. It is guaranteed. We have ten billion suns inside of us, and it’s mind boggling how we are able to fight that for so long…

    Sometimes an entire lifetime.

    I don’t want to fight anymore.

    I just don’t understand what we’re waiting for. What I’m waiting for.

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  18. A Prayer (w/ Some Help from St. Teresa of Avila)

    07.15.2010 by Shannon

    What are we to do, my Beloved, if we are not willing to undo everything for you?

    I stumble, and I blunder, and I fail.

    I could repeat this a thousand times.

    But here, in this moment, I know that I am doing all that I can.

    And all that I can do is understand that I can understand nothing,   and trust-

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  19. BURST in Santa Fe & ABQ

    07.12.2010 by Shannon

    The Railyard Performance Space in Santa Fe is confirmed for a production of my solo performance BURST the weekend of September 10th/11th! Venue and dates have changed! Sept 17/18 and 24/25 at the Santa Fe Performing Arts Center.

    Also, got confirmation that I’ll be performing a condensed version of BURST and co-hosting an improv workshop as the “keynote speaker” at the Consumer Wellness Conference in ABQ September 29th/30th.

    More info by and by.

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  20. Back for Some Magic

    07.08.2010 by Shannon

    Some great things are afoot: it looks like I might have an opportunity to bring my solo performance BURST back to the Land of Enchantment for a little more New Mexico magic.

    I’ve been nominated to perform BURST as the keynote speaker at the only peer-run consumer wellness conference in ABQ. I should hear back on that by the end of the week — cross your fingers!

    I’ll also be working and staying in Taos for about 3 weeks, and am looking into venues there and in Santa Fe as well. I figure I will throw possibilities out there and see what sticks.

    New Mexico has always captivated me, and remains an incredibly pivotal place. Somehow, when I’m there, beautiful things emerge, productivity flowers, and my bones settle in a dusty calm.

    An incredibly deep and grateful bow to those who are already making this happen!

    Will keep you updated,

    .s

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