Divinity Rising: All Part of the Show -

This weekend – Friday, August 19, I’ll be do a quick appearance during Peak Summit Festival at 9 p.m. on the Bearnos stage, and then Saturday, 8/20 I’ll be singin’ a number during a drag show at Starbase Q at 6 p.m. Come out for this wild time, all proceeds go to a good cause:  Pagan Community Ministries!

This past Saturday, I was on Crescent Hill Radio for a really great interview! You can check it out in the archives by clicking here! It’s an interview about writing, poetry, how to market yourself, venues, and some of my work. Sheri Wright is a great host and also hosts a monthly open mic called Stone Soup on the last Sunday of each month at the Bardstown in Louisville, Ky.

And I’m super excited that I am the featured artist of the month on Tenacity Radio’s homepage! Check out a video montage and the interview that they did by clicking here!

Coming soon: It’s almost zombie time!! August 29 is the annual Zombie attack in Louisville. Genna Yussman, Austin Woosley and I will be at Role of the Die on Bonnycastle across from Cafe 360 to help you get zombified from 3 pm to 8 pm – Do not wait till the last minute to come down, there are 65 people RSVP’D on Facebook. Cost is $10 -$20 depending on level of degradation, coverage that you need.  The earlier you come the sooner. Better yet, you can RSVP on Facebook, and we will know if we need to add artists.

Listen to Divinity Rose and Karen Abbott, author of American Rose on State of Affairs

So, the zombie shoot pulled off without a hitch! I couldn’t have asked for things to go any smoother!!

Divinity Rose in her furry chaps

The preparation leading up to it was exhausting! I hosted Sub Rosa, the Gypsie Courtyard monday night  where we featured Ben Evans of Yert.com, who had hilarious episodes to share with us. In addition to that, we featured Mike Wright’s music and some talented acting by Jon Adams.  Some amazing filmmakers also showed up and shared some of their work,  and  it kept me out late.  I got just a few hours sleep before I had to get on the ball picking up items from sponsors and getting everything ready for the shoot. With help from Taylor, I was able to get it all done by about 2 in

the morning….So, I got about 4 hours sleep and then had to be up at 6 am to get out the door and pick up a couple more items such as the generat

or and Heine Bros coffee before heading to Lagrange. We arrived about 9 am and I didn’t return home until about 1:30 am the next morning, because of clean up and then dropping off equipment and items after the shoot. Needless to say, I was pretty exhausted.

Everyone on the set was amazing, though. I am so truly blessed to have had such a beautiful group of people on board. They really made the project a  HUGE success. Everyone had something beautiful and awesome to contribute.

Over the next couple weeks, behind the scenes videos and photos are going to show up here, but here’s one of Kri, Headdy and I gathering the items to transform ourselves into wild hearted fun lovin, zombie herdin cowgirls!

One of the reasons, I’ve come to a place where I was able to make this video and have such an awesome experience is because I faced my difficulty trusting others. Film is such a collaborative process that you have to be able to have faith in the abilities of those helping you and trust their know – how.  It was such an amazing opportunity to witness the power of a group effort with people who trust each other.   You have to let go of control and move with the day.  What is something that you want to accomplish? What’s something you have to let go of? How can you let go of control and trust in the vision for your life and where it takes you? Do you have problems trusting certain people or situations? What would you find most freeing?

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Love, light and blessings to send you through your dream as Divinity rises within you.

It’s true….In May, I’ll be shooting a music video for Doomsday Lover’s “The Dead Walk the Earth”… I’m super excited and so is the cast/crew – we could still use a couple zombies, if anyone wants to come out.  It’s a full day shoot during the week, though. I’ll be a cowgirl…and I will chase you. It could be fun….I will haunt your dreams for weeks. Like I said – Could be fun.

In addition to this great news, I’ve been asked to Emcee a film screening during the most awesome Peak Summit music festival! Derby City Independent Film Collective will be showing films on June 2o from 7 – 9 pm, and I will be  hosting! It’s bound to be great fun! Good music, indie film, and good people – at Saint’s in St. Matthews.

It keeps rolling, though – I plan on taking Divinity Rising, the web video show to the Mighty Kindness (give a ) Hoot-enanny! If you’ve not made it to this heartwarming and exciting annual meet of music, arts, local organic farmers, healers and other awesome groups in our community, YOU SHOULD join me! It’s FREE, has KID STUFF, GREAT music, and some of the kindest hearts you’ll ever meet I’d like to ask some of you questions on camera – At Willow park  in Louisville, Kentucky – Check out http://www.mightykindness.org

Later in the month, I am especially honored to join Karma Bums at Diamonds Billiards in St. Matthews for a night of mind blowing music and poetry and all around good karma – come partake, my peoples!!!! May 23 – Mark your calendars!!!!

Speaking of Diamonds,  are you ready?…. It’s a new home for Louisville Speak Easy!!!

And Speaking of the Speak Easy – it’s time for a NEW NAME!!!!!

There’s lots of reasons, but it’s an all around great opportunity to really give our gatherings a name that suit their magic, allure and sparkle

MONDAYS at Diamond’s Billiards, We’re kicking off Sub Rosa – The Gypsie Courtyard!!! Our gatherings at Carly Rae’s on Thursdays WILL continue (under the new name!)

We’re mixing it up with lots of new opportunities to celebrate local wandering hearts of art!!! I’ll be doing paid featured spots at BOTH locations, plus some other neat opportunities etc coming up

Come to the grand opening  May 11 ,  our first monthly showcase there! Let’s make it a huge deal and really start sending out some wonderfully awesome ripples in St. Matthews! I’ll have more on this next week!

And in June – Pick up a copy of The Highlander to read the article Danny O Day honored me with!

I hope that all of you are really enjoying your wanders of wonder….and with all this “Speaking of” let’s speak of wanderers. I’d like share my ode to wanderers. So many people get dogged on for being a wanderer – but would you play any game without first checking out your terrain, resources, strengths, and  collecting useful items? So, why is it a bad idea when playing the game of life?

What’s the good word? Give me at least ONE thing that is pretty awesome that has shown up in your life or that you have given yourself lately. How can you spread the contagious Kind Flu?

The last week has been an interesting one.  It’s been crazy busy with  lots of ups and downs.

First, let us go up, shall we?

I was able to shoot an experimental film with a friend for my poem “Keys to Broken Dreams” – it was a lot of fun and I’m really looking forward to seeing how it turns out.

Donavan is a wrestler, and he  was great to work with.   We shot at the waterfront park  near the Tumbleweed.

Donavan was a really good sport. The set up for this scene really took a lot of patience from him just laying there as we set up everything around him.

Cody was my assistant, and he did a great job.

My pal Norm (from last week’s video) was kind enough to let us use his apartment and mirrors for this  scene.

Now, everybody hold your hands up and scream as we take the roller coaster downward!

The brakes went out on my RV. I haven’t been able to drive it and won’t until they are fixed. My super mechanic has been too busy to be able to look at it.

Now lean back as we head up again: I have a friend coming to look at the brakes . In the meantime, I’ve been busy planning and have completed the cast and crew for an upcoming Doomsday Lover video to be shot next month. Oh yeah! Be prepared to be amazed.

And back down again: Due to the brakes being out and other circumstances, Cody and I missed Thunder over Louisville this year.

If you aren’t familiar with the term, it is the huge air and fireworks show that kicks off two weeks of Derby festivities every year. 7-800,ooo people turn out for it.

The fireworks last for half an hour, and the show is the largest in North America. Here’s just a small clip shot by my friend Anna A.K.A. Super Geek ( ohhh, she’s a super geek, super geek, she’s super geeky):

upside: To make up for it, we made our own personal thunder.

And terrifyingly downward: I was working yesterday on the computer when I heard Cody screaming outside like he was being attacked…I thought for sure a dog was mauling him. I ran outside to see what was going on, and I couldn’t find him anywhere… I yelled for him a couple times… Turns out he had taken his dog next door into the neighbors yard where Chase found a small kitten and picked it up in his mouth before taking off with it. Thankfully, the kitten was fine – just really pissed off…and with good reason.

Sooo, in the ups and downs where are you? Are you enjoying the ride? Where do you keep your focus? On the ups? On the downs? Or do you run around in a tshirt that says “bissfully unaware”?

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Hey! Ever wanted to know more about me? Here’s your chance! Glide on over to the Free spirit Blog to see the awesome and in depth featured interview Christian Rebel Author Marvin Wilson did on me and some of the new photos! Click the photo slideshow below to see all the new photos in the “Photoshoot” folder and the subfolder “Free Spirit”…These photos are by my favorite photographer viking Jim Battles.

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