Hi all!!!
Thank you so very much for all your views and comments and sharing. I am going to keep it coming!
I finished school, looking for a job and bartending. Have lots of interesting fun news and updates as well as projects that are awesome.
With so much going on, I need more time to update but life experience will add to the interesting life of divorced in your 20s. So many great things have happened and lots to share.
More to come!!!!!!!!!!
Will post more but as a constant promoter for the issues, events and music I love… here are a few
First – There is an upcoming show in Brooklyn this Sunday that is well worth checking out!
I always suggest buying tickets as early as you can for better seats.
plus Sharde Thomas
and the Rising Star Fife and Drum Band
Sunday, June 1
7:00 pm
Brooklyn Masonic Temple in Fort Greene (317 Clermont Ave, Brooklyn)
at the Brooklyn Masonic Temple as part of the 651 ARTS MISSISSIPPI DELTA HERITAGE PROJECT which is an awesome sound and space and the new sounds of the Delta which a New Yorker like me never gets the chance to experience and it is a great story so check it out and come get some southern culture. Check out the project too at www.651arts.org
Also, Ani DiFranco is coming to NYC (and other venues for her summer tour)
Wednesday
7/16/2008
United Palace Theatre
4140 Broadway at 175th St
New York, NY
Support Righteous Babe artist and righteous babe, Anais Mitchell
| Wed, Jul. 9 2008 8:00 PM |
| Rockwood Music Hall 196 Allen St New York, NY 212-477-4155 |
| no cover charge, free show |
She has the voice of an angel and political edge to boot – the show is free, check her out and support our female musicians!!!!
I encourage you to also join this groovy blog “GirlGroup” about chick rock and events for the NYC area and just news on artists. Join it now….
Back with more… school is out and I am doing my own thing!!! Oh right and that means from student, to graduate, to unemployed – right, and un-insured.
“welcome to
no amount of stoned makes you feel ok
welcome to
this year’s alone – brought to you by christmas day
welcome to
the darkness into which prayin people pray
it’s quiet here except for this song
now that everybody’s gone
but hey
least you don’t have to play along today.” Ani DiFranco
Who doesn’t love the holiday season? I am guessing many of us, or this is more of a New York City thing. Life goes by too quick to begin with. Although I am not Christian, I love having a tree and celebrating the holidays with family but the stress leading to it is major. Ever year it is the same story, weekends of stress leading to travel to finally enjoy a couple days with loved ones. No matter what focus my life has it is always the same thing.
This year school has run my life and needless to say, I did not even think of the holidays until Wednesday when school was out! Every second of free time was reading, writing, studying, working, or trying to find someone to work for me (waiting tables). Now I have one afternoon before work to finish shopping and go to work. The one thing going for me is a great holiday surprise for my boyfriend that I will reveal after X-mas.
But it was the same in the corporate world. I worked all the way to the end of the week and then had to get prepared to travel. I guess the only plus to that was shopping on lunch breaks but that was stress.
Is this overwhelming stress just me? Do we spend too much time forcing baking, shopping, preparing and stressing over what to do to make others happy. Then poof…it’s over. There has to be a better way to relax through the holidays and truly enjoy the meaning of them.
Last year I gave up and stayed alone in NYC to save money and work waiting tables everyday not having anything to do with the holidays. It sucked. I am reminded of an Ani DiFranco song shroud – along with the first quote – she spoke to me that holiday…
“ i had to leave the house of privilege
spend christmas homeless and feeling bad
to learn that privilege is a headache
that you don’t know that you don’t have”
My family never called and I was pretty bummed. Why have we, as a society, lost focus of the holiday… well, capitalism and wants but why can’t we look over that once a year?
This year I am going to the Blue Ridge Mountains to my partner’s family for Christmas. This will be new because it is about family and love and being together. I hope this all changes my holiday outlook. Today is his last day of work at the job we met at that made me very unhappy. He is going to concentrate on his own business and I am so happy for him.
Well – Happy Holidays!!!!
Wow, what a semester. I moved again. I am finally home and for the first time in a long time can breathe. I love Brooklyn and I am glad to be back and have a real home that is mine. I realize now how tough things have been and what compromises I have made trying to convince myself that I was happy. But it was tough and a change and I love the LES but I need my own place at 29 I am just not as able to be so transient. It was great for a transition time but I was ready to move on. So I moved in with my boyfriend this month and it is really what I have always wanted and never even known. I thought I had to live by myself for such a long time and join the Peace Corp and find myself but I am here. I am so in love I could not let this slip through.
I have really not kept up with this blog but I now that the semester is over, I feel like I have to be working on something, even if I should be shopping. The holidays are stressful because I find it hard to put a price tag on my love for people with gifts and there is so much to do after living schoolwork for the last few weeks. I am not religious but like the ides of being with loved ones without distractions.
School is hard and I don’t know how I did it without a calm work environment and I did have a major depression but it is clearing and all is well. My workspace is great now… I am writing right now with the sun streaming in from the bedroom loft windows with the cats swarming around my feet. I can see the BQE out the front loft windows and I love it. I would be able to see the statue of liberty if Brooklyn stopped this building!!!!!!!!! There is a 9 floor building in my way. I don’t want the Slope and the rest of Brooklyn to keep this over development. There is a great organization in regards to this, DEVELOP – DON’T DESTROY BROOKLYN … http://www.dddb.net/php/latestnews_Linked.php?id=108 – one the artists I support, Toshi Reagon is on the Board and I think it is a great org. Brooklyn is not supposed to be Manhattan.
Too much to update in one post, so I wrap up with what I miss about the LES –
- Blue Stocking – Best feminist bookstore I know and great events from poetry reading to book signings to live music… check it out! http://www.bluestockings.com/
- Panade – Stay away from Starbucks and get a great coffee and homemade pastries at a local favorite on Eldridge between Delancey and Broome. Great owner, fun atmosphere and supprt local business. http://www.timeout.com/newyork/restaurants/lower-east-side/3012/panade
- Teany – My favorite vegan treats and tea.
- Baby Cakes –healthy vegan treats and local business. http://www.babycakesnyc.com/index.html
- Toys in Babeland – Hey… gotta love your local feminist sex shop. http://www.babeland.com/about/new-york-lower-east-side-store
- Divalicious Chocolate – local chick business with a great chocolate fountain. http://www.divaliciouschocolate.com/
- Not to mention all the great music venues… Bowery Ballroom, Mercury Lounge, Cake Shop, Crash Mansion, knitting Factory, The Living Room and many more! Great place to see live music any night.
But I will take my new apartment in Brooklyn with the boy and the cats any day!
