Happy October

This last week-end I played piano for
11 singers at their All State Auditions
and I had a really great time and all
the singers sang so beautifully.

I had one really unusual experience that I thought
would be fun to write about since it's been quite awhile
since I wrote anything on my blog.

Well, before I write about that experience
let me tell you about my experience of
playing for ASA last year.

Well, actually let me go back about 15 years
and tell you about what I thought would be the
last time I would ever play for ASA.

The auditions were in Berthoud that year.
I only had one singer to play for and that morning we got about
2 feet of snow. So Steven drove me to Berthoud and we got stuck
in the snow and someone had to get us unstuck and then when we
finally got to ASA they had cancelled the auditions.
That's how I remember it anyway. Maybe it wasn't quite like
that, but I said to myself I am never playing for ASA again.

So, last year when 3 singers asked me to play for them I said
no, I don't play for ASA anymore. But they didn't have anyone
so I relunctantly and grudgingly agreed to. Then, two days before
ASA I fell down and broke my pinkie and my first thought was
"Great! Now I don't have to play for ASA!"
So I called around to several accompanists
and no one else could do it.
Can you believe it?
I ended up having to play the auditions with a broken pinkie!

After all that, I decided to say Yes this year and play for ASA
and enjoy doing it and have a wonderful time. Which I did.
Except for my experience of playing the haunted piano...

Isaac's audition was in Room #4, a big room with a grand piano.
I had already planned to use the soft pedal on his Schubert piece
because the notes in the right hand were fast moving all the way
through and I didn't want to cover up his beautiful singing. 
So I soft pedaled.

And all of a sudden the notes I was playing in the left hand
were not the notes I was playing! They were dissonant notes
and the whole piece began to sound bitonal and very weird!
I kept looking at the keys to make sure I was playing the right ones
and I was truly playing all the right keys, in fact I didn't miss a
single note in the whole song. But it sounded like a horror movie.
And Isaac is amazing. He didn't let on like anything was wrong at all.
He sang beautifully while I was over there freaking out and I'm
sure making all kinds of weird faces. Afterwards I was informed
that when you hold the soft pedal down the keyboard shifts
the keys or something on the bottom half, so no one ever uses it.

I wonder why they didn't have a sign up to warn people?

Well, anyway, I came out of the room saying

"THAT PIANO IS POSSESSED!"

All in all it was a fun scary Halloween experience.


And now on a totally different subject
here is a picture of my new journal
which I got at the same garage sale
where I got my harmonium

Good timing because I am now
memorizing the Ganesh Chalisa

What is really cool is that The Hanuman Chalisa fits perfectly
with the melody for my Monkey Song and I love  to sing it that way

So now while I am learning the Ganesh Chalisa
I am putting it to the melody of my Elephant Song

Today is October 28 and
guess what wonderful thing
happened 3 years ago

Our Dear Sweet Fairy Cat Koyuki
came to live with us

Happy October to You

I Love You
Zoe

My New Harmonium

 

A few weeks ago I told Steven that when I
have memorized the entire Hanuman Chalisa then I
want to buy a harmonium so I can play it
while I sing the Hanuman Chalisa

I finished memorizing it a few days ago
 

We were looking at harmoniums on ebay
yesterday morning when I got an email
from my friend Lauren saying that her
husband had decided he didn't want to
sell any of his harmoniums right now
so when I told Steven that he said
well I'll find you one on Craig's list
 

So he looked on Craig's list and there was a
harmonium for sale at a garage sale in
Boulder for $175 and the sale was only
going to be one day (today) from 10-2
 

I looked in my cash box and I had $178
 

So we drove to Boulder, got to the

garage sale just a few minutes after it opened,
walked in and saw this beautiful harmonium,
fell in love with it and said we'll take it
 

Just another example of how
magical life is
 

Two Magical Synchronicities

 

 

We were hiking the other day
from Bear Lake to Glacier Gorge and
as we started out I looked at the time
 

it was 10:16

When we got to Bierstadt Lake
I looked at the time
 

it was 11:16

When we got to Glacier Gorge
parking lot I looked at the time
 

it was 12:16

I thought, Wow that is so unusual!
I wonder what the significance of those numbers is?

Later that afternoon
Steven found a fountain on Craig's List
(we have been looking for the perfect one

for several months)

When I saw the fountain I immediately loved it
even though it was well worn, and needed
painting and a new pump

It has 3 levels and each one
has 16 raised ridges

That's the significance of the three 16's!!

We brought the top half home first and
within just a few minutes of setting it up
in our Sandalphon Circle I looked out the window
and 3 baby deers were checking it out!

Here's the other magical synchronicity

This morning I was outside singing
my Sacred Animal Songs by our little waterfall
and when I finished I set my iphone up
and made a video of Nuthatch Song

I was hoping maybe a little nuthatch
would come along to be in the video

That didn't happen but one did
sing along near the end

I came inside to pick my
Sacred Animal Song of the day
so I could make a piano video
of it like I have been lately

and...

Can you believe?!!

Nuthatch!

So instead of making a piano video
I just used the singing one that I
had just made :)

 

 Nuthatch teaches us grounding
and to have faith in ourselves

Being grounded simply means
we are fully present and
focused in the NOW moment
experiencing peaceful awareness
connected to All that Is
and in the Flow

 

Here is what I wrote in my journal this morning

 

Breathe

 

Life Loves You

 

This now moment is how

life shows its Love for You

 

Breathe deep breaths of Love

for this NOW moment

Love Youself deeply through

your Love for this now moment

You are here now
and You Are LOVE

 

Happy Magical Day!

 

I Love You

Zoe

 

Golden Turtle Path Thoughts

 

Breathe deep breaths of LOVE
You are such a beautiful
radiant angel

Feel the Golden Love
that shines so beautifully
forever through YOU

Breathe deep breaths of LOVE
Everything is flowing in
divine perfection

Breathe Deep Breaths of Love
and Solstice Stillness Magic
Beautiful Blessings

May all the LOVE you
give return to you brighter
than it was before

Everything is magical

Breathe deep breaths of
loving to be here

Breathe deep breaths of
loving yourself

Breathe deep breaths of
loving everything exactly as it is

Breathe deep breaths of
loving your radiance

Breathe deep breaths of
loving the magic of
being here now

Magical things are happening all around

Let the magic flow
within you and without you

Let everything go
but LOVE

Be Open
Be New
Be Radiant

Love All the ways
You Shine your Light
and Love Yourself for
Shining it so Uniquely

The more JOY You can find
in the moment where You are
the more JOY will flow to You in
every moment and the greatest
blessing You radiate to everything

Breathe deep breaths
of thankfulness

All is working out perfectly
as it always does

Every day is
a miraculous journey
of Love and Joyful Beingness
with Magic everywhere you look

Breathe deep breaths of Love

Love the moment you are in
with all your Beingness

Your radiant presence
here now brings light to
this present moment
in all universes

You are a wonderful being
and life loves to bring you
magical moments
just to see you light up
in gratitude and wonder

Have fun being in the
magical flow of now

Breathe deep breaths of
gratitude and love

Divine Love breathes you in
every moment and Angels are
always with you ready to help with
anything when they are called upon

Life flows
Ever changing
Be Joy here in
the magic of Now

Everything beautiful is flowing to you

Simply keep your heart open and rejoice
in the magic of every now

Breathe deep breaths
of thankfulness
for beingness

Breathe deep breaths of Love

Open your heart and
have fun being you
in every moment

When your heart is open
magic loves to pour in
and through you

Breathe deep breaths of love
and thankfulness for changes

Remember to be
thankful for everything
and flow with the changes

Breathe deep breaths of LOVE

Everything is perfect
and perfectly flowing

Breathe Deep Breaths of Love

Breathe the Magic of
Being Here Now in these
very Magical Planet Earth Days

Keep Creating
Laughing
and
Loving Each Other

Breathe Deep Breaths of Love
You Are so Perfect Exactly as You Are
This Now Moment is filled with Magic
You are a Magnificent Creator Being
Have Fun Being You
Divine Love Breathes Us
We Are One

Remember that you can do anything you want
if you just take little steps
one step at a time

You Are Divine
Love Yourself so much that Divine Love
pours out from You and touches Everything

Have fun in whatever you do
Let your love pour into everything you do
and pour into every thought you think
Shine Shine Shine
Life is Glorious
and every moment
is perfect

Enjoy the changes in yourself
as you flow along
Breathe the magic of
this now moment
and celebrate that you are here now
to love everything
and be love
in all the ways
you enjoy

What you look for
is what you see
See magic
everywhere
in every
thing

Breathe

Love yourself so much
and love this moment so much
that millions of loving thoughts
reach out and touch millions of stars
and so much light shines that
everything in all universes is
blessed by your love

Simply be present in this moment
filled with Love for All
Everything is perfect
and nothing matters
Breathe deep breaths of Love
knowing All is Well in All Universes
and Life never ends
Breathe deep breaths of Golden Love
and watch the magic flow

Breathe

Love the flow of changes
in yourself

Just as the weather changes
everything changes

The Love You Breathe
is present eternally
and Loves All
that changes

Breathe Blessings to All
and enjoy the Magical Moment
that is Always Here Now

Let every day bring new transformations

Let each moment fill you with Joy
as you fill each moment with Joy

Love the flow you are in
as you joyfully adore
each now moment

Every flow of Magic entertwines with
every flow of Beauty creating
Beautiful Magical Now

Magic pours from the words I Love You

Become the magic of LOVE

Flow with the magic
of letting everything be new

The Universe gives you gifts and
every gift is an opportunity
for transformation

The Universe loves you
and all the thoughts of
everything you want
gather together in beautiful
swirls of love to bring you
your heart's deepest
desires

Let yourself be transformed
into Love and Light by
simply loving the present moment
and saying Let There Be Light

As your heart is filled with Light
everything you do is a blessing

Breathe Love and Light
into your heart
It surrounds everything you think of
with beautiful golden Light
bringing miracles everyday
and magic every moment

Keep making little changes
everyday as they occur to you
and big changes will naturally
evolve in the flow of Love

Enjoy the flow of
Magical Changes

Bring yourself totally into the present moment
appreciating all you see and hear

Appreciate who and where you are
in the flow of Now

So many new wonderful gifts
are flowing to you

Open your heart

Give and receive

Magic flows in you
through you
and all around you

You are the magic

Everything that comes to you
is a gift of magic
from yourself
to yourself

Breath deep breaths of
Love and Well-Being
for All

The Love and Calmness you breathe
blesses all and flows into
the magical creation of
happy outcomes
for all

Divine Love breathes you

Fill this moment with
the magic of Divine You

The breath of gratitude
and appreciation you breathe
in this now moment
surrounds all you think of
with beautiful light of rainbow love
and joins the blessings of angels
to create magnificent new
blessings of Joy to flow to you
from you and through you
always brightly shining
well-beingness and
magic of Life

Love the changes
You are the changes
Every change is an opportunity
to flow higher and happier
as you let go and
simply spread your wings
in the Joy of
ever changing Now

 

 

 

Peter Kater

 

 

About 3 weeks ago Peter Kater followed me on Twitter

and I thought wow, that must be a different Peter Kater than

the one who plays such beautiful music on the piano.

But after I followed him he sent a direct message saying

 

Thanks for the follow!

Are you making your own music?

http://goo.gl/ZyhsT

 

This link took me to his facebook page.

Cool! It WAS the real Peter Kater!

Of course, I immediately "liked" his page

and followed him on facebook.

 

Then I tweeted him this...

 

Thank you for following me Peter ♥♫*~♥

I've always loved your music and went to

one of your concerts in Boulder

 

And he favorited my tweet!

 

I was so touched!

So I looked at his other tweets and saw

that he had just given away 2 free tickets to his

inhome concert coming up on July 13 and

the winner was one of my online friends!

 

So I looked on facebook to see if that was

the same Rae Jensan that I knew and it was!

 

So I messaged Rae and she said she

has been to several of his inhome concerts

and highly recommended them to me,

said that I would really love it.

Well I thought it would be cool to meet Rae

in person at Peter's concert so I got a ticket.

 

As it turned out, Rae wasn't able to go

to the concert after all, but that's okay.

We'll probably meet at another one

of Peter's concerts someday.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Steven said he would take me and drop me off

then go to a movie or something. He loves Peter's music too

but felt shy about going to something so intimate

with people he didn't know.

 

When I was trying to find something to wear I

decided my cat dress would be perfect but the

only shoes I had were crocs so I was planning to

go to Goodwill to find some new shoes.

Then I got an email from Peter saying that

dress was casual and everyone was asked to

leave their shoes at the door.

I was so happy to hear that,

it instantly made me feel more relaxed....

 

Well, Saturday night was very magical!

It only took 45 minutes to drive from our house

to Peter's and that was all back roads and no traffic.

Peter met everyone at the door and shook their hand.

 

I said "Hi, I'm Zoe, Rae's friend!"

And he said "I love your socks"

 

I headed for the front row because that's always

my favorite place to be at any kind of concert.

Peter walked in with his tshirt and jeans and bare feet

and made us all feel at home, then started playing

his beautiful grand piano.

The music was so beautiful I could hardly breathe.

 

Peter said no applause please,

but in between songs people could comment

or ask him questions.

 

 

 

I was too spellbound to say anything.

The music took me to another world

and brought me back again transformed.

 

The last song he played was Espresso and it

was probably the most amazing musical experience

I have ever had. I told him so.

And I bought his Piano CD

which is a collection of his most requested

and loved piano compositions.

 

 

 

After the music was over I enjoyed a glass of wine

made a few new friends, then Steven picked me up.

He had had a great time at the movie!

 

Life is always bringing such magical gifts.

 

 

 

 

Peter Kater

Thank you for bringing your beautiful gift

of piano music to the world.

And thank you for seeking me out

so I could be there for your

magical inhome concert.

 

 

Love, Zoe

 

Happy New Moon

 

Magical things are happening everyday

Well, first of all there was the 8 foot long snake skin I found.

And there was a another 7 foot long one right next to it!

These are bull snakes and they aren't poisonous.

They like to go over to my neighbor Lisbeth's

and eat her chicken eggs and occasionally

come over to visit us.

A few days after I found the snake skins

Lisbeth got a picture of the snake in her duck pond!

So that was cool.

I had a little fun and made this snake skin clock.

And now we have the 2 snake skins lying in front of our windows.

I painted our house number on this rock

to put by the driveway. Do you see the elephant?

What was so cool about that was that I went looking

for a rock, thought this one would work fine, then when

I started to paint the numbers I saw the elephant on it.

The reason that is so awesome is because my name

means elephant in Japanese :)

Otis played Linus in the musical

You're A Good Man Charlie Brown

and I went to all 3 performances.

He was so fabulous!

 On the 4th of July we went hiking in RMNP,

one of our favorite hikes...the loop going up to

Alberta Falls and then coming down Boulder Brook Trail.

We saw so many beautiful waterfalls and I made

short videos of them and put 2 of them on youtube.

 

 Here's a cool picture of Remi and me

 

And here's cool picture of Oona

 

 

I Love You

Zoe

 

Sostice Eve (this is not a sonnet)

If I had a written a sonnet to

put on my blog today it would have

started out like this

I called the sherriff's office to complain

about my noisy neighbor Chainsaw Wayne

 but

I have decided I've written enough sonnets.

I wanted to learn how to write sonnets so I did, wrote many,

shared, had fun doing it. And now on to the next thing.

Today is the last day of spring and it has

been a most magical spring just like spring always is.

Well just like every season is and every day is too!

But anyway, today I feel new.

Maybe it's the solstice energy.

 But I think it's because something was resolved.

 Here's the story....

Yesterday, I was sitting out at our peaceful waterfall writing

in my journal and then singing my Sacred Animal Songs

like I do every morning. I love the mornings so much.

Around 6:00 I go out in the woods to my

Sacred Mountain Lion Yoga Circle and do the

5 Tibetan rites that I have been doing for over 20 years.

It's so quiet and peaceful in the mornings here where we live....

UNTIL 10:00  AM 

when Chainsaw Wayne starts up

his noise next door. I get all my morning outside

stuff done so that I can be through by 10:00.

Anyway, so I was sitting out there enjoying the

peacefulness when all of a sudden in the middle of

my singing, I couldn't believe it, that horrendous

LOUD truck brought a load of wood to deliver.

This is probably the loudest most annoying sound

I have ever heard in my life. I don't even know what it is exactly...

some kind of crane or sidewinder that picks trees up and

lays them down in their new spot.

I was soooo upset because it was only 8:30 and I should

have had another 1 1/2 hours of peace and quiet.

So I came inside, slammed the door, and turned the Gypsy Kings

on so loud the house shook. This is my escape and the only way

I can deal with the noise and with my anger.

Play Gypsy Kings and dance away all my frustrations.

Then I feel a lot better.

So anyway, I had just noticed the other day that Wayne's big sign

by the Eagle campground for firewood said call or text.

Text, hhhmmm.

So back to the quiet waterfall singing.

The first thing I did was text Wayne Chainsaw and say

"Why is this noise going on so early in the morning? I am

going to have to file a complaint because I just can't

take this loud noise in our quiet woods anymore"

So I called the sherriff and talked to a nice lady

about what steps to take and then she put me on hold.

After being on hold for a few minutes I decided it was

time for me to meet Wayne face to face. He's been my

neighbor for 2 years and we've talked on the phone several

times to work things out about the chainsaw but never

met in person so the time had come.

So I walked up there and knocked on his office door.

We talked and we set some new hours that we're both happy about.

The new hours for chainsawing are weekdays 9-1 and 4-6

with no chainsawing on the week-ends.

And if anything is going to be outside of that schedule

he will text me. And if I'm not going to be home I will text him

and he can chainsaw as much as he wants to

whenever he wants to.

So we worked it out!

Yaye!

 

 

 

 

Happy Solstice

I Love You

Zoe