Randoms and Performance!!!

"You may find that you are attracting people to you like moths to flame. You have an opportunity to make new friends, form new associations, and you can take a leadership role in a group, association or club..."

Hola! I'll be dancing on Saturday! come check it out!

A contemporary dance performance to "Hello Dali," an original composition by A. Paul Johnson of the Apollo Project After three solid season concerts at the Historic Asolo Theatre and an artistically busy year, Fuzión Dance Artists has been invited to collaborate with A. Paul Johnson and the Salvador Dalí Museum. This will be the first time that all three organization have partnered up to bring music, dance, and visual art to life in one space. The performance will take place in the back of the museum in a small intimate space where the dance artists will transform the performance space into a multi-media experience with projections, lights, costume, props, and to the sounds of A. Paul Johnson. A. Paul Johnson's original score is inspired by 11 Dalí's paintings which the dance artists have been studying and using as inspiration for the "Hello Dalí" performance.Saturday June 27, 7:30PM AND Sunday June 28, 2:00PMSalvador Dalí Museum1000 Third Street South, St. Petersburg, FL 33764http://www.salvadordalimuseum.org/Tickets $15 adults, $10 students, For reservations please call (941) 345-5755

*** Museum opens an hour prior to performance as part of the event.....Audience members will be encouraged to visit the museum an hour prior to the show to familiarize themselves with Dalí's work and life story***

The Invitation by Oriah Mountain Dreamer

The Invitation

It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living.
I want to know what you ache for
and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing.

It doesn’t interest me how old you are.
I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool
for love
for your dream
for the adventure of being alive.

It doesn’t interest me what planets are squaring your moon...
I want to know if you have touched the centre of your own sorrow
if you have been opened by life’s betrayals
or have become shrivelled and closed
from fear of further pain.

I want to know if you can sit with pain
mine or your own
without moving to hide it
or fade it
or fix it.

I want to know if you can be with joy
mine or your own
if you can dance with wildness
and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes
without cautioning us
to be careful
to be realistic
to remember the limitations of being human.

It doesn’t interest me if the story you are telling me 
is true.
I want to know if you can 
disappoint another 
to be true to yourself.
If you can bear the accusation of betrayal
and not betray your own soul.
If you can be faithless
and therefore trustworthy.

I want to know if you can see Beauty
even when it is not pretty
every day.
And if you can source your own life 
from its presence.

I want to know if you can live with failure
yours and mine
and still stand at the edge of the lake
and shout to the silver of the full moon,
“Yes.”

It doesn’t interest me
to know where you live or how much money you have.
I want to know if you can get up
after the night of grief and despair
weary and bruised to the bone
and do what needs to be done
to feed the children.

It doesn’t interest me who you know
or how you came to be here.
I want to know if you will stand
in the centre of the fire
with me
and not shrink back.

It doesn’t interest me where or what or with whom
you have studied.
I want to know what sustains you
from the inside
when all else falls away.

I want to know if you can be alone 
with yourself
and if you truly like the company you keep
in the empty moments.

Palm sugar!!!

Ok so...I found this cool new product. COCONUT PALM SUGAR!!!

Which in case you don't know is....

Coconut Palm Sugar (nam tan bpeep in Thai, arenga spp, or jaggery in India) is a coarse brown sugar with a distinct caramel flavor and is less cloyingly sweet then cane sugar. Originally made from the sap of the palmyra palm (borassus flabellifera), it is now generally made from the sap of coconut palms. The juice from the sap is collected and boiled in water until the water evaporates and the sugar crystallizes. This coconut sugar is lighter and milder in taste then palm sugar. Its intense caramel-like flavor is an integral part of the Thai taste profile, certainly, worth the effort to find and buy it. The darker color and stickier sugar are preferred.
Also palm sugar can be added to herbal teas to treat sore throat, colds, and congestion.

COOL FACTS !!!!!!!!

Palm sugar is just 10 calories per tablespoon and 3 grams of sugar

VERSES

Regular Sugar which is 46 calories per tablespoon and 12-15grams of sugar

Honey is 64 calories per tablespoon and 17 grams of sugar

The ever popular Raw light Agave Nectar is at 60 calories and 15 grams

Soooo.... Palm sugar wins out for me as a sweetener that is natural, low sugar, low calorie and freaking awesome in nonfat Greek yogurt!

It also as medicinal uses...

It has the power to liquefy phlegm from the lungs. It is also profusely used in treatment of sore throat when dissolved in boiled concentrated milk. Musicians use it on a regular basis in combination with other medicinal spices and herbs.

The Taste:

Mild brown sugar like with a light coffee hint.

WHERE TO GET IT AND THE ONE I USED:

Any Whole foods or Organic market. You can order it online as well.

I found mine at Whole Foods in the Thai section....

Coconut Palm Sugar Jaggery

By Thai Taste

Things that kinda suck about it:

The packaging. It comes in a cute round container but inside it is sealed in a plastic bag. So when you open it, it is best if you dump it in it's round container and be prepared to get sticky, because it is in it's wet gooey form. You also have to keep this version in the fridge.

All in all Coconut Palm Sugar equals yum! However don't confuse it with straight up coconut sugar...they are not the same.

All for now...

xo