Serious Blues at the Luna Star Cafe with Pappa E....

The pre Basel ART buzz has begun

Shows-a-plenty, the ART walk was blessed by delicious weather and all that is new and is risky and is fun! is found in the Wynwood section of Miami. This area once predominantly working and lower income Puerto Rican is now alive with ART and the beautiful people who love to adventure into the unknown to catch a glimpse of what’s fresh from the inside of the mind of genius.

Bruce Grayson, ART space at 167 NW 25 Street, Miami in the Wynwood Arts District, a Miami-based artist, got it right. Directly on the art walk and not to be missed but just be prepared to smile. Of the many, many people I watched entering the gallery at last night's Wynwood Gallery Walk, very few did not smile when they saw what was being displayed on the walls of this triangular venue.

The triangle is a symbol for life, creativity, creation, ascension, manifestation, illumination.

People watching is enjoyable to me I see it as living ART. The small thought process you can just imagine you’ve just witnessed crossing people’s minds by you can the subtle ways facial expressions change if you look closely at people's face, eyes lighten up lines crinkle around them or mouth or how your think you might believe you know how that person is feeling about what they are seeing…is intriguing to me. Working on gut and/or instinct with careful observation you start to avoid dead ends in people and places that take you nowhere. We can see so much when we really observe and try to see a person. "I see YOU" from Avatar the movie.

Allured over to the ART gallery by the groove of the steel drums playing on the sidewalk these unsuspecting patrons of ART gingerly step into the space unaware of what they will find. Don’t we all love the discovery of ART? Blessed are those who see ART in everything. To see the facial expressions shift, lift, lighten, come alive, giggle, and smile was a gift because isn’t that what life’s really about? The ART of finding joy in all things. It is an ART because it is a skill to be practiced and refined. The ART of living, well.

“Are you an artist?” was one of the question of the night, I paused before answering, “I’ve exhibited work in an Wynwood art gallery this year, does that make me an artist?” I embrace the title of ARTist just not the label. I’ve refuse to a create business card for myself, because I do not want to limit who I AM or who I AM to become. The graffiti like name on the big, stiff, glossy 3x5 flyer your holding is my email that’s what you get if you ask me for a business card. I watch for people’s reactions to this business card, at first they’re not sure if they want to hold on to it but it’s too big and it would be rude to just drop it. If it were a traditional size business card they would pretend to look at it and dump it right in their pocket or bag to be tossed out later. If and when we speak some more, they at this point, have confirmed that they have decided it is important for them to keep it so now they figure out how to store it (usually folding) so when they need to contact me (and they will NEED me) they look for the big flyer card. 

A big business card from the woman with the big smile and big ideas who believes you’re a big deal… now that’s ART.

It’s been a long time, baby

The idea behind becoming a yoga instructor was to fulfill a dream; similar to that of “running away to join the circus” my life’s fantasy back up plan was “I’ll teach yoga”. Ha! To begin a yoga practice, to build a discipline takes dedication, time, effort, thought, motivation, dealing with aches, pains, traumas, and then there’s the baggage you already know about that yoga is going to bring out eventually and money. I would market my yoga practice as the best form of therapy out there. I would tell people forget the anti-depressants and doctors who prescribe them and medicate with yoga. Seven weeks into my yoga practice and already a-ha moments and epiphanies are common, depression is not, compliments on how my body is changing are common, anxiety is not. This is all good however in the process I’ve neglected my writing discipline - not so good.

Talk, that’s what its about now. Listening. Understanding. The set up the pitch, the slam-dunk. Conversation, communication on a grand scale: the web, via The Jorge Rodriguez Show in a way never really practiced before auditory and visual. Sounds like radio right? Right. Sounds like TV right? Right.

Sounds so familiar to us but there's a twist. You can watch and or listen whenever you want from a long list of devices like a smart phone, or a computer or in the near future built-in to your car’s sound system or connect your ipod to your car’s system. In other words what we are sitting on is the ability to be in a lot of places (across the globe) via many devices (computer, smart phone, ipod) on demand, so you can watch/listen at your leisure and I’m on it! Hhhhmmmmm

I’ll give you a second to let that sink in.

OMG the future is here and I’m in it! Next we should be seeing men going to work in jet packs and self dog-walking tread mills. I hear a them song...“Here’s comes Jorge Rod-rig-uez, Monica, his co-host” oh, the adventures to be had and you can come along and play along in your virtual world. Thanks to reality tv because the worlds of the mass media have beat us down to the insane level where entertainment comes in the form of a voyeur to other people's lives. So, "the Situation" is I get to play in the clubhouse called So Flo, a radio/television station run by a gang of jaded radio professionals who don't give a fuck ("You can't tell me what to say anymore Mr. programming director!") and are now in control. Who let the dawgs out, who? who? And I
get to meet awesome people, musicians, artist, famous DJs and really crack up over all the crazy opinions and jokes we make and shared. All of which of course will live on forever and ever, or till the end of the internet. Is that what internet lovers say, “I’ll love you till the end of the web, baby?"

You might be thinking,"so what?" but the so what is that this is all new to me, a new career, a new field, a new kind of success or a new kind of failure? WHO KNOWS?! But it is a new kind of FUN! The power of laughter, to heal to change the vibration to lift a spirit is amazing. Laughter and at yourself it stops the aging process. Failure is not an option. The negative is invisible, non-existent with zero importance because I choose it that way.

I feel a sense of responsibility. I feel a sense of whollyshitness. I feel so lucky. I feel like such a rebel. cool smile. I feel like a vanguardist. knowing smile. And I fell as if this is only the beginning. BIG SMILE. I feel as if a volcano of information is about to erupt and I’m going to be shot out into the sky to ride on the crest of that wave. The purpose for all of this to be happening will be known and right now all we have to concern ourselves with is setting ourselves up for the discovery, by being explorers pioneers, mavericks, early adapters. How do I know this? I don’t but there’s more to do with this station, this technology and the ability to broadcast globally from Jorge’s clubhouse than we are presently aware of. I imagine like learning to play a piano, right now we are unaware of how much better the sound will be when both hands play.  These days lots of hands are coming together, sometimes they miss at high-fiving, but so what? So much momentum is building, so much talent is being exposed and so much fun is being had life’s purpose to share, love and grow is real. When it comes together like this, on its own it, must be ones true life path unfolding.

What an awesome present moment.