More of My View

Here is an old, rusty, wood cabin that ian about 20 yards from the deck I am laying on. Something about those old wood cabins always makes me stop and think. I wonder about whose hands built them and what they used them for. And really, how do they get left behind?

What a Beautiful Life

Here I sit. With this view in front of me. Buddy to my right and Sammy to my left. Somewhere in the picture, is my husband, quietly fishing. Cat Stephens is in my background, along with the chirping of birds at sunset and the breathing of our tired dogs. Tired from a day of swimming, exploring, playing, living.

Tomorrow is our one year anniversary and I say this with utter confidence: this is one of the most peaceful and complete moments I have ever felt. If only I could capture the serenity and simplicity of the very minute and save it for later...

Success!

Note to reader: the below post didn't mention Coby as being in the picture. That is because when i wrote the text I didn't know which picture I would pick from my cellie.

My first mobile blog

Including Buddy and Sammy, of course.

Sunshine, Sunshine

 

"Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand-and melting like a snowflake..."

- Marie Beyon Ray

 

"One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful."
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
Austrian psychoanalyst

 

"We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 

"Some men go through life absolutely miserable because, despite the most enormous achievement, they just didn’t do one thing—like the architect who didn’t build St Paul’s. I didn’t quite build St Paul’s, but I stood on more mountaintops than possibly I deserved."

- Lord Thorneycroft

 

"Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."

- John Wooden

 

"Your circumstances may be uncongenial, but they shall not remain so if you only perceive an ideal and strive to reach it. You cannot travel within and stand still without."

- James Allen

 

 

"People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success."

- Norman Vincent Peale

 

"Activity and sadness are incompatible."

- Christian Bovee

 

"You are what you think about all day long."

- Dr. Robert Schuller

 

"Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret - curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of all is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable."

- Walt Disney

Support the Revolution

 

I have had the honor these past months of getting to know some of the coolest guys around. A group of artists and their label Alien 8 Entertainment. As a matter of fact, without those guys, my dream of recording a rap song would have been just that, a dream.   These guys are my homies (that's right, I said it)!  They have encouraged me to not only step outside of my box, but leap from it.  Because of them, I not only recorded my rap song, I performed it as well. 

 

 

 

 
"The First Meeting"

 

Marcus and J Moon are the business end behind Alien 8 Entertainment, Drizzy D.R.O & Tre Gottie (Rap Government) and J Grubbz are just a couple of their artists. Together, these guys are truly inspiring, encouraging, positive, unique and most of all TALENTED!  Their passion and drive for their music and it's promotion is nothing less then riveting.  Being around these guys, listening to them speak about what they do and what music means to them is sheer excitement. 

 

"Drizzy D.R.O., Cin-D-Z & Tre Gottie"

If you haven't already, please check out their blog for more information: http://www.alien8ent.blogspot.com/ 

Listen to the music & spread the word!  Be a part of something.  And I promise you this: 

Listen, Live, Breath Alien 8

and

You too, can be a part of this revolution!

All my love, Cin-D-Z

.5 Things

I know I know… this blog needs some music! So, in an effort to provide my visitors with not only something to read but something to hear, I am trying to figure out a way to upoload my rap song so that we can listen to it. Don't worry. I'll have it all figured out soon enough. However, before your mouth starts watering in anticipation of my uploading my live performance. You can forget about it! No way! That was a very special treat for only those who were in attendance.

A Better Place - Please Take a Moment to Read

My brother, Chris, is only 25 years old.  And yesterday, one of his good friends and former roomie, Zach McNutt, passed away after battling cancer for a couple of years. 

Life is precious and far too often, it can be too short.  A lot of times, it just doesn't seem to be fair or to make any sense at all.  I think though, that somehow, there has to be a reason for everything. 

Zach is a good man and a great friend.  I am thankful to have him known him, and even more, I am thankful of the friendship and inspiration that he is to my little brother. 

I know that Zach is in a better place today.  It's a place with no pain and no sickness.  A place full of love and light.  A place of happiness.  A place where he can once again breathe.  For that, I am thankful.

 

Getting Started On My Two Things

I just ordered my new bongos.  They are LP Matador Wood Bongos in Blazin Red.  And they are very pretty.  I can't wait to get them.  My thought process is that hopefully, they will help me develop a better sense of rhythm.  This should help me when writing and performing.  Funny, I know.  But, I need a good and positive hobby.  And I want it to be something that I can take ownership of.  I had so much fun recording my rap song, but it really taught me how hard it is to be a rapper.  I at the very least, would like to get to the point where at least I sound decent...