Divinity Rising: All Part of the Show -

It sure has been an intense changing of the season….A real whopper. Everywhere around and within me seems to be a return to feeling: a real purging energy.  I look at myself and many around me and see a lot of hidden feelings surfacing to be faced. It seems that what we are feeling is a push to be real. We are in the midst of a “realing”.

How real are we? Are we being true to ourselves? Are we being real with ourselves and others? What are we hiding behind? My inner child stands within me pointing at different things,  screaming “BULLSHIT” and waiting impatiently for me to toss those things out.

Are you feeling the Realing?

In the crazy swirl of stuff going on, I find myself in a push of growth, progress and surging forward….sometimes, it’s hard to remember to take time to be still when you’re in the middle of such momentum.

When it all backs up, it’s got to surface somewhere, and it surfaced with a waterfall of emotion Saturday. I took a day to really let myself feel and boy, what a feeling. I must have spent a good five hours in tears. I needed it, though. I find that I have a huge need. We all do..a need to be real…a need to be clean…

When’s the last time you took time to do some serious cleaning?

Speaking of being still, Sub Rosa mentalist (who also performs Zap Hypnosis) Joe Riggs was in a car accident this past weekend. It’s amazing, and I’m so grateful to still have him in our lives. He was hit by a semi going 70 MPH..it hit him, spun him ’round, hit him again, causing him to spin out across five lanes of traffic before hitting a wall.  I’m amazed and pleased to announce that he will still be at the show tonight at Diamonds.

Check out this video of him at our show at Sub Rosa: The Gypsie Courtyard at the Tequila Factory

Also, I had so much fun at our Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves show. I was most pleased to be surrounded by Gypsies! Check out this belly dancing by Adrar Al Badra caught on tape by Michelle Bishop

I danced the night away. I miss dancing.  It was a very happy night for me, indeed. Surrounded by belly dancing, pirates, leather working and princess bride references!! Hurray!

Short update this week…I’ve got a lot in the works and can’t wait to spill my guts about it all, but that will have to wait… In the meantime, I hope you are all releasing the feelings welling up within, so you can be clear and ready to go for the new and exciting things on their way into your lives.

Thank you for being here with me.   I need you.

Well, I’m am super pleased to announce that the development of Diaries of a Godling is underway.

Character development, design and sounds.

Sub Rosa continues to grow and pick up new places to gather. This is super exciting for me, because I am able to give some of the opportunities to others as I move forward with Diaries of a Godling.

Yesterday, I spent the entire afternoon with the very talented Mathieu Blake Wallace to produce this special gift.

Calling All the Magical People

Hope you like it!

(Don’t forget you have to come over to www.doggeddreamcreations.com/divinityrising to see any pictures or listen to the Music! – Also – spread the call for Magical People – send this track to all your friends / family through facebook/twitter/bookmarking!)

Man, Things have been rolling right along, and I’ve found myself faced with an array of new opportunities!

It seems that the onset of fall ushers in a great opportunity to take stock of the last year.  Taking a good look back allows us to see how much of our dreams have manifested.

We began Sub Rosa in July 2008.  It has grown from an event in a loft apartment once a month to an awesome continual opportunity with 6-8 shows per month  at several different venues. In addition to that, after a year of showing off, we’ve been in mentioned in 5 different media outlets in just a couple month’s time including, this great article about me by Zach Everson on Louisville.com! Check it out by clicking here !  BANG! ZOOM! POW! We are super heroes!!!! hehe.

*Insert Best Super hero pose here.

About the same time that we began Sub Rosa, I started playing around with Tony Minzenberger in adding music to my writing. He put a western sounding riff behind “The Dead Walk the Earth”, and I knew I had to make a cowgirls  vs. zombie  video for it. We recently released/premiered that video at Sub Rosa: The Gypsie Courtyard at our monthly themed showcase – To do it up right, we had all sorts of zombie goodness, (Read past posts about it). About 200 people showed up specifically for the event, and there were somewhere between 3 and 500 total throughout the night including the venue traffic.  It was a wild time indeed!

Wish you could have all been there!! Here are some photos by Jim Battles -

If you missed it. We’ll be screening it again in November. Also, I’ll be releasing some video of that soon.

Speaking of video, we went to the Zombie Attack on Louisville for the first time this year. It was amazing! Hundreds of zombies get together and trek down a main street in Louisville, rocking city buses, attacking victims, and attracting streetside onlookers….Check out this hilarious video of a guy from our group being attacked. He came to dinner with nothing left of his clothes!

Sub Rosa continues to roll on, too! I am so proud of everyone who has become of a part of making Sub Rosa such a successful entertainment collective!  I love all you crazy gypsies! You’re all so magical!  We have several shows coming up this month:

Family Friendly Show at The Great Escape on Bardstown Road – Saturday – September 12 – The Stand, Revenge of Ricky Williams, Darshwood, Joe Riggs, A Face painter – 10 am – 5 pm

The Tequila Factory – Nick Payne, Fire dancing and play by Laurel Fleurry & The Great Baldini, Magic by Darshwood, Mentalism by Joe Riggs 8 pm – 2am

Gypsies, Tramps, Thieves – Music, Pirates, Gypsies, Belly Dancers, Robin Hoods, Ninjas, Pickpockets – come celebrate this themed event at Diamonds…

Sept 25
Sub Rosa at Psychomania/Quarantine Haunted House – Belly dancing, firespinning, magic and more as people wait in line to enter one of these two haunted houses. Mention Sub Rosa on this night to receive $2 off entry. Also, look for original music and more from Louisville’s SubRosians on the soundtrack playing overhead throughout the season there. – Oct 2

With all this crazy stuff going on, I still found time to go and be involved in a film gig out of town that may lead me to spending some time in Los Angeles coming up. Even more exciting than that? I have begun development of the first Diaries of a Godling performance! Diaries of a Godling have been in the making for a couple years. Stay Tuned.

Also,

Last month, I was fortunate to attended a screening of Louisville filmmaker John Paul Rice’s first feature film, ONE HOUR FANTASY GIRL

It is an amazing story of redemption and how anyone can make a choice to stop creating hell for themselves and instead create a life of their dreams.

The film is based on the true stories of runaways from the Midwest who found themselves in Hollywood working as “fantasy girls” while trying to make something of their lives. The story origins came from a real-life girl posting on Craigslist.org who acts out any fantasy a guy wants for $150 an hour as long as there is NO sex or nudity and is 100% legal.

READ my review along with many others who have enjoyed the film HERE

The film is now available to watch on Amazon’s Video On Demand (for $1.99 rental/$4.99 to own), Netflix (queue) and soon to be released on iTunes.

For info, videos, press and more, visit the official site: ONE HOUR FANTASY GIRL

That’s right! We’re premiering the Zombie/cowgirl video: The Dead walk the Earth.

We’re releasing it with a huge bash! So, here’s the info

Diamonds Pub and Billiards in Louisville, Ky

3814 Frankfort Ave

The undead rise and take over the Sub Rosa: The Gypsie Courtyard!!!

The Dead Walk the Earth!!

Thanks to some awesome hearts of art:

NO COVER CHARGE! NO COVER CHARGE! NO COVER CHARGE!!

August 28, 2009, the undead take over Diamonds Pub and Billiards for the world premiere of “The Dead Walk the Earth”, a video Doomsday Lover musical farce  written/produced/directed by local performer/producer/writer Divinity Rose along with the help of some friends from the gypsie courtyard.

In honor of the release, we’re throwing one heck of a party, and we want you to celebrate with us!!!

Music by Ok Zombie

Art by Dick Starr and Matt Goodlet

A huge fashion show on the  Zombie Catwalk with a half zombie puppet host

fashions by Rachel French of Venom Miss Designs and fx by Rev Jesse Meyer of Forgive My Sin Productions, and Jeremy Atkins: hair by Rebecca Edwards.

A casket ride simulator from Psychomania Haunted House.  Get in and take a ride… (from 8 – 9:30 only)

Give aways to best zombie costume in audience! (judged by Fx artist: Bill Wieger – Species, Powder, Blade, more…www.billwieger.com)

Give aways include:

Autographed Zombie Novels by several authors including:

Autographed copy of Zombie Survival Guide and World War Z by Max Brooks, and samplers of his new book The Zombie Guide: Recorded Attacks, which you can now pre order from Amazon.com.

Empire by David Dunwoody

Dead City by Joe McKinney

Zombies!!! The game from Twilight Creations

Makers Mark Dipped Mason Jars for the first 50 through the door.

Meet and network with several  Great Fx artists for the Zombie Walk the following day!!

$5 Zombie Drink Specials!

Sign up for open mic slots and to walk the catwalk ( in your own zombie get up) goes out at 8 pm – show starts at 9 pm…

The video was shot in May at Little Big Horse Trails in La Grange, Kentucky.  It’s a musical representation of the poem “The Dead Walk the Earth” by Divinity Rose.  Many local Louisville and Lexington hearts of art were involved in production: Mike Wright, Steven Norm Matthews, Kristoffer Rommel, Danny O Day, Ben Wood, Erika Rivertree, Rod Adams, Ed Black, Taylor Woods, Ken Cravens, Megan Kaleher, Roni Jonah, Rev Jesse Meyer, Toni and Rhyan Sprague, Cody Austin, Will Cravens, Jacob Goldberg, Tony Minzenberger and The Sirens (Kri and Headdy).

photo by Will Cravens

As most of you probably know, this blog is about following my trail as I create my dream in the hopes to encourage you as you do the same.  I’ve found a  big part of that process to be to apply the things I learn and to use all the resources at my fingertips.  In addition to that, learning to treat your passion like a business can help you make tons of progress, but it’s a fine line to not let it become a soul sucking monster.  How can you find the balance?

Squeaky CLean Fun

Well, I’ve been super busy forging my new partnership with Chris Rachel Oseland of Palmyran Rebel Events. We are two geeky girls   who are making a huge effort to really push preconceived boundaries of success….Being in promotions, production and performing really requires us to be able to wear many hats – Going from business meeting to costumed weirdo in zero seconds flat.

We needed a break from the heaviness of our meeting today, so we went in search of balance and stepped outside the restaurant we were meeting at to have some Iphone photo fun! As we ran around taking photos and releasing all tension as we got ridiculously silly, I came across a moose – and I just knew I had to tame this wild and majestic beast.

A very influential person in my life, Sharon Fountain (of Performance Development Corporation and president of the National Association of Self Esteem) has a wonderful analogy in which she uses the moose…. a dead moose actually.   She uses a moose on the floor in between two people to represent something that can keep two people from communicating. The moose represents some issue between the two that neither wants to deal with. So it lays there. The people step over and around it, but it’s still there and eventually begins to stink and taint their experience.  Until the moose is dealt with, things will continue to become more and more unpleasant.

This is also a great way to think about issues within ourselves that keep us from hearing our inner guidance and allowing our dreams to communicate to us on how to achieve them. Many of us love to hear the positive feel good stuff of spirituality that promises us a purposeful life, but (as one of my songs say)  following our dreams means confronting our nightmares.  We have to deal with the moose.

I’ve outlined the steps  to this in interpretive photo dance!

Step one: (sadly I did not get a photo for the first step).

First step is seeing the moose and realizing what it is. I did this today by coming to a screeching halt in the parking lot of Lynn’s Paradise Cafe, lifting my arm to point and screaming “MOOOOOOOSE!!!!!!!!“.

I recently realized that I’d put off admitting some things from my life had made me sad and that it was okay to be sad about them. There were some things about myself I’d been refusing to see.  They recently came to light, and I was willing to take a deep breath and say hello.

The first step is always the hardest!

Step Two

Be willing to take on the challenge of the Moose! It may be that you’ve gotten a bit out of shape like me. First step is to believe and decide that regardless of your current shape, you CAN tame the moose! Begin it! The first step is always the hardest!

Although I saw a moose in some areas of my life, I put off making the first step to dealing with them for quite some time. Once I made the first step, I was committed and the process was in motion.

Maybe this wasn't such a good idea after all?

Step Three

Keep Going. You may not be able to see the progress that you’ve made while in the midst of trying to overcome the moose; you may feel all turned upside down at times, but you are actually getting somewhere. Don’t get stuck, and remember you can turn around if you find yourself a little  off course.

I’ve done a lot of work within the last year, and sometimes it feels like I’ve gotten no where, or find a new thing rising up within  me to deal with. Then I take a moment to reflect on how different my life is in comparison to three years ago and I am tremendously proud of myself.

holy cow! no moose! I'm on a moose!

Step Four

Don’t let fear stop you. Just take a moment to reflect and look at how far you’ve come.  Have faith that you are almost there.

Although I see many bright things on the horizon, it doesn’t mean that I don’t daily deal with the temptation to fear or doubt. Forging a faith strong enough to move mountains takes daily practice.

aww, I love you, moose.

Step Five

Learn to love the moose. Oh that’s right. I said it.

I recently had the revelation that spirituality wasn’t about removing the items from yourself that you don’t like or refusing to let them come to mind, but rather learning to embrace and love ALL those parts of yourself – including the moose -  how? by dealing with them of course!

Step Six

Claim VICTORY as the wild moose rider you are!  Ride that moose with all the pride you can muster. It might not go away, but now you know it for what it is, have learned to rise above it and can ride it like a pro when it comes around

I embrace what comes my way to deal with and allow it to surface when it needs to, but am more experienced in ways to work with it instead of fighting it.  For example, I found certain things trying to haunt me/accuse me, so I imagined little gargoyles for each of them that I mentally patted on the head while cooing things like “Awww, do you want some attention? Poor little baby needs some love”.

What kind of  Moose have you been hiding from? What lies in your past that you have not ever admitted, dealt with? What are you refusing to see about yourself? What nightmares are keeping you from the realization of your dreams? What kind of silliness can you begin to help you learn to ride your moose?

Don't sulk! Be a rebel and sneak on to the ride it anyways!

Voices may always rise to tell you that you’re not good enough, pretty enough, strong enough…… Don’t let any voices tell you that you’re not tall enough to ride the moose.

IIIIIIII DID IT!!!!!!!!

If you’re not ready to tackle the moose yet, don’t forget to take pride and joy in tackling some smaller beasts within your life first as you work your way up.

Yes…We did a lot of laughing today.  Please tweet, facebook, ping the moose! Share us with your friends, family and loved ones who might also enjoy a laugh…Help your loved ones ride the moose, too!

Don’t forget, if you are getting this via email, you have to come to www.doggeddreamcreations.com/divinityrising to see the photos!

Well, not quite.  But they are coming right up!

(don’t forget you have to click over to www.doggeddreamcreations.com/divinityrising to see photos/video)

I’ve been so insanely busy I haven’t been able to make a post in a while, so there’s going to be a bunch packed into one here…

If you missed it, the courier Journal ran a short bit in the Friday features about yours truly and Sub Rosa: The Gypsie Courtyard

Today’s news: RAIN! Lots of it! What a strange 24 hours it has been. The energy at Diamond’s last night was crazy strange and tense. There was a slow start to the night, followed by a few fights.  The full moon is in full swing. We’ve never had fights there before.  Then, I awoke this morning to what sounded like explosions. A HUGE thunderstorm was underway – monsoon! we had 6 inches of rain in 90 minutes.  When it let up, I left mys tudio to set off across town to pick up the kiddo.

Everywhere I turned roads were closed, or rivers had sprung up, blocking roads with unmeasured amounts of water. Those who dared try to cross them found themselves stuck. In other areas, cars floated down roads.  I worked through the city like a maze, turning here and there when I’d come to a blocked road.  I saw one car floating but completely submerged under an overpass with just the tip top of it sticking out above the water.  I finally mazed my way to a road leading to the expressway that was not blocked but was full of awful traffic.  The expressway in the direction I needed to go was complete stand still for miles and miles, so I and others backed down the ramp and headed the other way …I went all the way around the city and found myself where I needed to be.  Loaded up on groceries, picked up the kiddo, and am now holed up at a friend’s catching up on pc stuff instead of the meetings that were planned for today.

Whew! I am so grateful and blessed to be safe, dry and with my kiddo!

Coming up: We are releasing “The Dead Walk the Earth”, our musical zombie farce, on August 28. This premiere party is goign to be something you don’t want to miss!!!!

Here’s some highlights:

A catwalk zombie fashion show with designs by Venomiss Designs, make up by Rev jesse Meyer.

A zombie puppet  who will be co-hosting with Ed Black

Fright Night Film Fest will have a table set up

OK Zombie is our featured music act!

Horror artist Dick Starr and paintings by Matt Goodlett

A casket ride! A simulator built by the folks at Psychomania Haunted House

Giveaways by author Max Brooks (author of Zombie Survival Guide)

Zombie Drink Specials

Scotty and Bobby out on the back deck!

With that, here’s some great photography by Will Cravens from the cowgirls/zombie video we’ll be releasing

That’s it with my news for now, I think. I hope you’re all doing well and that your dreams are unfolding in beautiful ways. Be sure to update me

In addition to all this excitement, a dear friend of mine has been doing pretty well in a music competition:

please help  him stay at the top in the  contest: He’s a beautiful shining light, and his music deserves

You can vote TEN times for the song “Empower” by Tribe of Eden in each category!!!!! EVERY DAY!

here’s how you can help him:

Here are the steps one needs to take to join KIAC as a listener (it’s free) and thereby be able to vote. You will have 10 votes/day in each of the categories my song EMPOWER is entered — ROCK and HARD ROCK/METAL. The plan is to use ALL 10 VOTES for EMPOWER, in each category, once daily. That’s what will give me a fighting chance.
STEP ONE: Create a KIAC User Account
a. Go to this address – http://IACmusic.com/SubmitUser.aspx . Fill in the blanks and submit. TaDa you are done!
STEP TWO: Vote for BRY!
a. Once your KIAC User Account is active, you will see a list of destinations within KIAC at the top of your page – Signup, Login, Charts, Stations etc.
b. Click on “Stations”
C. On the “Stations” page you will find a list called “Contest 2009″
d. My song EMPOWER is entered in the “2009 Hard Rock/Metal Entries” and the “2009 Rock Entries”. Click on one to vote for EMPOWER in that category, then when you have cast all 10 votes for EMPOWER go back to the Stations page and repeat the voting process in the other category.
e. Let’s go through voting for EMPOWER at “2009 Rock Entries”. Click on it!
f. You will go to the 2009 Rock Entries page. Once there, notice a little icon under the word RADIO on the upper right part of the page. It says “sort by # of votes”. CLICK ON IT!
g. Now you will see all the songs in the contest, arranged by how many votes they have. If I do well, you will always see my picture and the song EMPOWER at or near the top of the list!
h. Vote 10 times for EMPOWER and you are done. Then return to the Stations Page, find the Hard Rock/Metal station and repeat the process.
i. You can do this once every 24 hours, but I’m not sure when they measure from.
THAT’S IT! These instructions will make it simple for your friends to go through the process. Once you have your own User Account, voting in both categories takes about 5 minutes/day.

Seems the heads on my camera need to be cleaned, so no video this week. I’ll be back with some out takes next week, hopefully.

So, I recently had the pleasure of participating in a contest known as the 48 hour film project. If you’re in the Louisville area, come and see our film at Village 8 Theaters – Thursday at 9:15 pm -get tix here! Get them early! they sell out before showtime usually. Come and vote for our film as Audience Favorite “Loba” (which means “She-wolf” in spanish).

If you’re unfamiliar with this source of both stress, elation and a weird time dilation due to lack of sleep, check it out here. I had no idea that something like this would end up leaving me a little changed.

On Friday night, we sent a couple of our team members down to draw our “have tos”. These are the things that HAVE to be in the film to prove that we did it in 48 hours.

We drew the genre “Film de Femme”, which means it has to have strong female leads. We drew the character “Bert or Bertha George, the gardener” , the prop “A 3 ring binder”, and the line of dialogue, “Just tell them Joe sent you”. All of these things had to be incorporated in the 4-7 minute film we were about to create. From the time we drew these items (6:30 pm), we had 48 hours to write, develop, cast, shoot, edit and turn in.

Sadly, we were 5 minutes late.

However, we produced  a great short film!

I wrote the tale based on the native american legend about how we all have two wolves within us.  To make it very short: One is all about giving, joy, harmony, the collective, while the other is angry, hateful, selfish.  I played the role of an insane killer who thinks she is a wolf and shares this legend with the psychologist who has come to the asylum to meet with her.

Everything was so rushed, worked smoothly, but I had little time to really think about what I had written, where it had come from, and how it felt to play this role. I was just going with the flow..and lots of mocha.

Saturday night came along and we all settled in to watch the raw footage… I was frozen solid as I watched it. It really opened something up within me, and my performance terrified me.  I have to say that is was really hard to watch.  Seeing myself look so insane left me feeling…well, disturbed.

Why? Because in the past, I have been the lone wolf that wants to be a part of the pack.   Unaware, I’ve found some pretty ugly thought patterns running amuk within me, and this just said “you can’t hide from that anymore”.

There’s one line in particular that really stands out. “She wants to run with the pack…she does..but there’s just too much pain. She can’t trust them. .. So, you see… she hates what she longs to become.”

And another producer/actor in the film, Matthew Blake Wallace, and I really found the timing for this film spoton: we’d both already come to points in our lives where we didn’t want to be lone wolves and are learning to be part of a pack.

So many people say “I hate the rich”… I don’t need a  life partner…This or that company is awful…so on and so forth…yet inwardly dream of having money, love, and all the stuff they perceive as good…yet harbor ill feelings towards those that have those things.  So, if we harbor those feelings – how can we ever expect to acheive those things?

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Who is this Faith chick anyways? The chick that can carry me is my new hero.

In all seriousness, it’ s been a year packed into the last couple weeks. When the engine in the Rv died, I decided I would have faith and trust where I was led. Within two days, a miracle occured!  Someone that I met in a bar two years ago found me on facebook and added me as a friend. He saw my status about finding alternate transportation and offered me a car! (FOR FREE!!!) It was such a blessing!  So, back on the road, I”ve been able to keep to the schedule of getting Cody involved with summer day camp, and keep the Show going! Speaking of shows, Sub Rosa: The Gypsie Courtyard has really been growing exponentially every week! It’s so amazing to see so much local talent coming together to make it what it is! Check out the recent interview that I didabout Sub Rosa and my other projects on Derby City Film Chat by clicking here.

I’ve really been finding a new found trust and faith in what Spirit has spoken to my heart. Everything that I have needed has come into my life with record speed lately.  I was speaking with a friend about it last night and it really comes down to a few simple steps.

Ask.

Surrender.

Be Willing to hear the answer.

Be Still enough to see the answer.

Receive.

Follow.

When we approach life in a state of surrender and service, we find our cups running over with boundless blessings to help us accomplish our goals.

I’m in the process of getting my video camera cleaned, so I have not made a new video for this week. However, I wanted to share a video I made of my friend Ulysses Jess Sandidge in  my RV before the engine died.
Enjoy!

I also wanted to share some random quotes from this last month’s journal, as I haven’t done that in a while.

“It really is great to be reminded that all that exists is this moment and we choose in every moment which way to travel with our thoughts.”

“Who am I to hold back anything? I am human and our purpose is to give to each other.”

“Strobe light sky with lightning.Mother nature gives it to me hard and fast in quick spurts. The rain is coming down.”

“The seeking soul will find a hole from one place to another in search of what they wish to know.”

“I look back over the journey I’ve taken – the trials, the tribulations, the rites of passage – and I realized: I asked for it. I asked for it all, and here I am something new, but still me.”

“Here we are in Heaven, surrounded by beautiful people.”

“Don’t trade your soul for a pebble

Or play games with that ole’ devil

Just stay true to your heart,

and you’ll win right from the start.”

“This past year has really led me crawling, clawing my way to creating my own boundaries – to close down to being an individual again – full of my passion, full of me. For I am a world, and what I allow into this world changes me.”

“Sometimes, I cry.

When I take a look at what you said

And hear the ghosts within my head

and realize I don’t have a bed,

Sometimes, I cry.”

“The first step to life, is to realize you’re dead.”

“What we are at our core will ripple outward into our life.”

What about you? What miracles have you noticed in your life in the last year? How have you grown? What revelations have rocked your world?

Leave me a comment, and share this post via facebook, Twitter, etc.

The good news is…. I’ve finished the first of the behind the scenes videos from the zombie/cowgirl shoot.

Hurray! It was tough editing it down – Taylor did a great job really catching the entire day, but I’m trying to keep all my videos under ten minutes, so I tried to keep to the funnies.

So, Here’s the video! Enjoy! (don’t forget – if you’re reading this in your inbox, you’ll have to come over to the blog to see the video at www.doggeddreamcreations.com/divinityrising

On another note, I’m mourning the engine of my RV. The engine locked up last night on my way back from taking a load to my new studio.  So, we had it towed back to it’s parking space at the studio. I’ve got a mechanic looking for another motor for me at junkyards, but I’m waiting to see cost on that.  In the meantime, I’m looking for a cheap alternative vehicle.  Poor poor Rv. It was quite an adventure in itself! The engine locked up while we were on the expressway, so I’m very grateful that we are all safe. We also noticed a cracked manifold, so it may just be time to say good bye to this RV.

There’s not really a whole lot I can do right now except try to be still and listen.  I find that moments like this are a great opportunity to reflect and check our inner road maps.  So, I’m maintaining faith that all works out for the best and trusting that all works together for good And, I’m enjoying getting the new studio set up.

On the upside, the Gypsie Courtyard events continue to do well and are growing.   They’ve been more fun than I ever hoped for, and I’ve really enjoyed the last couple weeks.

When following your dream/the path you feel is laid out for you, it’s pretty troubling when you hit road bumps. However, seeing these road bumps as opportunities can really help you learn to fly over them.  What difficulties are teaching you to maintain your focus this week? How is your faith and trust being tested  in your ability to make everything work for your benefit?

Leave me a comment…let me know I’m not alone. Share the video with a friend or two. Give me a hug.

Thanks… I needed that.

This past weekend, I got to take a MUCH NEEDED mini vacation out into the woods of Lanesville, Indiana. We were very blessed to be able to spend the day at Steve’s Fun Farm, a great day trip from Louisville, Ky.

It did me so much good to get out and have some fun with the kiddo and friends, and just being in nature really helped recharge my batteries. It was my frist time paintballing, and I can’t wait to go back!!

We had so much fun and got so many great moments on camera, it was really hard to edit it down, but go me! I got two hours of footage down to 16 minutes.  Even more exciting: I got a great song from Lotus Blake to overlay the video and it really was perfect! It’s got me super excited about this Monday at the Gypsie Courtyard because Lotus Blake is the featured music act. We’ve got some other exciting stuff going on this Monday, too.

Steve is such an amazing guy! Go stop in and tell him Divinity Rose sent you. They’ve got super reasonable prices on activities  and camping!

Check it out – (if you pay attention, you’ll catch my birth name)

Divinity Rose:Vacation and real name revealed from Divinity Rose on Vimeo.

We’re going to go camping up at Steve’s Fun Farm again in a week or so. I’d like to have a big camp out with great music around the fire….. Who wants to go? It’s only about 20 minutes outside of Louisville. Let me know if you’d like to go – I’m thinking leaving Friday June 19 afternoon, coming back Saturday afternoon  (because I have to host the indie film night at Peak Summit at Saints Saturday night – come see indie film at 8 pm June 20 at Saints in St. Matthews)

What do you do to relax? Where’s your favorite spots to get away?  Find a way to feed your soul this week and recharge….There are lots of way to do it regardless of time, money or anything else you think might be stopping you.  Even pampering yourself in your own backyard can do wonders to recharge you for the coming week.  DO IT!