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November 2009 
QaR blogathon day 30 woo hoo!
Posted on May 15th, 2009
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tara
tara
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for May 15, 2009:
where would you like to go deeper?
what would you like to investigate further?
what areas of your life are calling you to explore more?
[ candy4u ]
What a brilliant question for today. This happens to be the last day of a 30 day QaR blogathon I decided to commit to with the intention of getting my creative juices flowing again. I find that showing up here for a daily reflection, is a great exercise for getting back into a flow, such a gift to have this opportunity for expression delivered in one's mailbox every day. Thank you Siona for providing the community with the Qar's, I absolutely adore this corner of Gaia. Also a VERY BIG THANK YOU to the gais in the blogathon gang, who took on the commitment to play along for 30 days. I've felt greatly supported & more so, very inspired by your blogs & your presence.
I came across this site recently, it looks like a fun place to go, at least virtually with all the stuff to click on. Try it out & imagine us going there for a lovely dinner & creative inputs, my treat ;-) I'm adding the song below, actually passing on a gift from Jeannie a while ago, that i've been humming along with quite a few times during the last month. Check out the bird & the bee, I find their way of expression to be very sweet & uplifting in between the more jazzy tunes I often listen to when writing.
Back to the question, I would like to apply the habit of writing daily in english, onto exploring my creative abilities further by committing to the assignments in the diving deeper group for one. The poets workshop also has an intriguing appeal to it, I would so like to learn how to write a decent poem. These projects have been on my wanting to do list for quite some time. I have been stalling, my lazyness keeps pulling me into the comfortzone of the QaR. It's so much easier for me to respond to a specific questione than going freestyle in english. And too time consuming having to translate from first to second language.
I'd also like to allocate more time to contemplate the QaR's. The times I've been doing that during the last month, has provided me with reflections I'm able to use in my personal process. My absolute fave area for going deeper & also an area that sometimes gets heavy & intense to deal with. I would really like for the flow of creativity that I've been tapping into again, to grow stronger & melt into other areas in my life where bursts of inspiration & lighthearted playfulness would be an über handy asset when investigating further.
The Bird and the Bee performs on Jimmy Kimmel Live
photo from flickr by Katie
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I keep forgetting that english isn't your first language - no one EVER forgets that spanish or french are not my first languages. I'm a bit envious. (Oh, and in Japanese I can name kitchen implements, say yes and thank you and cheers and hello. I think that would get me by.)
I'm so glad you like the bird and the bee. They've become a bit of an addiction for me, and the songs tend to bounce around in my head.
Thank you for inspiring the blogathon and for all your words. I adore your posts.
I sport a smashing Konnichiwa & the ability to ask for a phone card (rrrrhone carT) with japanese accent, an ability I picked up when working in a yha hostel in new zealand.. naming kitchen implements? that sounds like a handy trick to have up one's sleeve when the hired sushi chef get's lost in one's kitchen..how on earth did you pick that up? your multifacetted mind never ceases to amaze : )
Oh, I spent two years cooking only japanese food and shopping at a market where there were no english speaking people in a vain attempt to become japanese in spite of being six feet tall with red curly hair and blue eyes. It didn't totally work but I can turn out some delicious food. And name kitchen implements.
And if the sushi chef gets lost in my kitchen I'm locking the door and he's never getting out.
wow! cooking japanese for two years, I'm hopelessly devoted to sushi & not really patient enough to produce the kind my tastebuds & eyeballs require. I can assure you that if you were to pop by pretending to be japanese, I'd totally buy into it. And lock the kitchen door.
I'm actually glad sushi has become almost mainstream here in Buffalo. I don't have to learn a language to enjoy good food. The other day I was corrected for mispronouncing pho (vietnamese for soup) I attempted the proper pronunciation several times but couldn't get to make the o sound silent. Regardless, the pho was still very tasty. congrats on 30 in a row.
love sushi…hard to find here in the midwest..trips to the west coast will do…Tara thanks for the push and your great posts,hard to believe this is your second language. I enjoyed the play and it gave me so much great reading ….love :~)
tara - I also forget that english isn't your first language and I hope that someday I'll speak ANY other language besides english well enough for someone to forget that I even speak english. I'm sort of young yet. I think I'm going to take a real spanish class at the local college in the fall. I need the structure, apparently. I want to be a linguist when I grow up, maybe. and a photographer and writer and back-to-the-lander and singer and dancer and person-who-can-cook-a-meal-from-anything-found-within_bicycling-distance-from-current-location. hmmm. this might be the beginning of an answer to a “make up” blog from the blogathon days that I missed.
even on the days that I wasn't actually here on gaia, I thought of you and jeannie and bb and otter and it seems that the gaia community is a part of me now, as much as being a mom and a sister and a wife and daughter are a part of me. I think I like that.
thanks for being here tara. I realy value your presense and input and perspective. and I really do want to go for a walk or bike ride or see a concert with you one day. or even just eat sushi or drink tea togther. :-)