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Human Liberty Around the World Symposium

Human Liberty Around the World is a Club Symposium that identifies, logs, and encourages the discussion of key principles and documents that promote freedom in the modern world. It is established at this time, in September 2012, because so many in the worldwide Global Village have…See More

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Cave of the Winds the ghost of the cave

Oct 17, 2012

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Winter Planted

"Oh shoot! I forgot to photoshop out the dog leash. that's ok. I've been listening to more music recently too - I have Pandora. Also, I've been composing music. My stuff is really weirdass. I composed a piece (Fruity Loops software) in…"

Sep 18, 2012

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Cave of the Winds the ghost of the cave

"Ok, I'll check out your link. Hey - I forgot to name the picture correctly. This was indeed taken in The Cave of the Winds here in Colorado -- I contrasted the "eye" of the "monster" on the left - and he's staring at -…"

Sep 18, 2012

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me 3 2012 don't

"Hi!~ It's my left eye, duh! I'm facing you as you sit there at your keyboard. Ha! Thisis the picture I have on my Facebook banner. I did have to lighten my iris a bit. My eyes are gray/blue, just not quite that light, darn it!"

Sep 18, 2012

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Winter Planted

"This reminds me both of ambient music I've heard and my ventures into more abstract imagery presented in Tarot. You know how it is. The filters that affect our artistic vision are always changing and tend to lean towards what we are studying…"

Sep 18, 2012

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Hometown:: Colorado Springs

Relationship Status:: It's Complicated

About Me:: Art, Education, Film, Music, Reading, Romance, Spirituality, Wellness, Writing

More About Me and My World: My website is www.droppinglikerubies.com, or Julianza, Inkling. I was able to make it myself! There, you will find art, poetry, music.
I have recently started a group I'll post here: For now, it's the following:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ElegyInternationalAgainstAnimalAbuse -- please, please check it out.
It has taken a long time for me to assume or to presume the label (or yoke) of the general term "artist." But alas, it seems appropriate.Maybe a WA (wannabe). I believe that being an artist has not so much to do with the actual creation (s), as with a certain way of seeing, of perceiving, or processing. I am, first and foremost, a writer; also first and foremost (the heck with logic) a composer, and secondly, due to its magical gift of more instant gratification, a visual artist. I have degrees in English and Philosophy.
I love a good movie: my current favorites are Dogville, The Sweet Hereafter, The Sea Inside, Phantom of the Paradise, Insomnia (and anything else Pacino), The Man Who Fell to Earth, A Beautiful Mind, and anything Woody Allen. I also love movies based on the works of Jane Austen. I almost never like big office hits. I like independent movies, Sundance winners. Politically, I am left of left. I know the globe is round (I guess that is redundant), but I stretch to an infinite leftward horizon, without becoming "right."
I began journaling at age 11, composed my first musical piece at 9, and took up painting at 40. I adore so many composers, it would be silly to make a list; the same with poets and other writers. Perhaps my favorite song of all time is Leonard Cohen's "Dance Me to the End of Love." I read voraciously. I am interested in the social sciences and in the terrible place to which we are headed as a people.
Romance? It is exquisitely important, and I am attempting to survive and heal in a very long marriage full of both joys and sorrows. I do not know what the outcome will be. I am spiritual, in a way, but not religious. Art is my God. I both love and hate technology. I am convinced that immortality is right around the corner, which will change everything, including art, and as it is right around the corner, this says something about my incredible lack of timing. I would have liked to have been born today.
I have an irrepressible desire to go to the Pacific Ocean, specifically to the Big Sur coast, if only for a while. I have been compromised in health since spring of 1987. My life is a roller-coaster. I am an ideopathic insomniac. Never knowing if I will sleep or not, I have to carpe diem when the deims arrive. On Sunday nights, if well, I perform my poetry to the background of acid-rock-jazz. I am past co-VP of a wonderful, thriving poetry group, Poetry West. Also past Salon Co-ordinator. Currently I am doing publicity.
I am originally from Louisville, Kentucky, growing up in Atlanta, Georgia. My father was a quasi-celebrity, a writer, journalist, book-writer/publisher, and editor of Atlanta Magazine. My mother was an art major, and became a free-lance interior designer, but mainly raised family. She is as funny, creative, and brilliant as was my father.

Website:: http://www.droppinglikerubies.com

Favorite Music:: Mailnly classical, too many composers to mention; Leonard Cohen, some jazz, Enya

Favorite TV Shows:: Don't watch much: fomer favorites: Northern Exposure, Chicago Hope, Law & Order, What's the one with Mandy Ptimkin as detective?, still love Star Trek: Next Generation, Judging Amy...Fave movies at this time: Dogville, The Sea Inside, The Sweet Hereafter, Insomnia, Phantom of the Paradise, The Man Who Fell to Earth (some of those quite old).

poem

My Dead Father in the Basement

My mother banished him to the basement
so he could be the slob he was, as in
leaving a magazine beside a chair
or cup on a surface where,
catastrophically, it could leave a ring.
So cold down there, I remember --
No portable heat back then, said
he was fine, that cheery lie.
Lovely space, really, he with his typewriter
which he managed with two fingers only --
professional journalist, author of books.
Typed faster with forefingers than I
with ten slaves. Books all around him,
a gorgeous sloo. Was trying to quit smoking.
How to function without a smoldering lung?
Recurring dream. He's in some deep deep
basement of tall tall building, white,
or just a one story, basement below basement
dropping boxes of hell, with no fire.
Him and manual machine, tapping tapping
like a blind man's cane. He surfaces
once in a while. It's allowed, eerie, unknown
for how long, how long until he dies again.
Surfaced, neither here nor there.
Then he's gone again. White walls.
White paper. White father.
Nothing slovenly, tinged with living.
My mother's dreams all come true.

Julianza Shavin

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Recent posting on my site/poetry/not music

Hello folks: My daughter got The Poetry Show (a half-hour radio show) posted on my page, but it lists as a song. It is not a song, but I don't know how to change its description. It is an interview (very small part of whole) and original poems read on December 14. I hope that you enjoy it. The music is not mine, but the radio station's intro.

Posted on January 2, 2009 at 6:20pm — 2 Comments

POEM: HOW TO EXPLAIN SUNDAY AFTERNOON

How to Explain Sunday Afternoon

I've never been able to explain the pall

of childhood's Sunday afternoons:

breakfast first, with the runny omelets

our father made only on that day,

then Sunday school and afterwards,

because it was the other religion's sabbath,

everything worth doing shut down.

Back then, there was tv only, or radio,

and nothing that catered to a child;

thus, you were left with family and the dog,

every… Continue

Posted on November 20, 2008 at 3:00pm

poem In the Pet Store

In the Pet Store

I saw a tiny rat, alone,
quivering in a cage,
“He's shaking,” I said. Is he cold?”
“No,” said the man, “just hungry.”
“Then why not feed him?”
“Oh, there's no point.
The snake will be there soon.”

Copyright Julianza Shavin 2008

Posted on November 20, 2008 at 12:11am — 1 Comment

Poetry: APOTHEOSIS

APOTHEOSIS

The milk-faced man stares on the waves

thinking, "saliva," repulsed.

The wind itches his embarrassing places

the gulls collicky newborns, rude.

Vaguely needing a urinal

he ruminates bluely

on the confluence of ketchup and blood

recalls dreaming a coin-sized kitten

named Lucian consigned to a drawer -

precious and persistently missing.

Cats have always made him feel safe

for a second.

He considers the… Continue

Posted on November 19, 2008 at 1:37pm

Black Snow

Colored Pencil "You Could Be So....If Only" by Julianza Shavin

BLACK SNOW

My beautiful mother, white as cream

pushed the apple, a strange giant nipple

towards me, and I bit. It was so sweet.

They say tiny men with big heads set me

on a mountaintop among wildflowers

and visiting deer, in a greenhouse

where I should have wilted but did not.

The white-armored knight slipped a kiss like… Continue

Posted on November 19, 2008 at 1:19pm

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At 5:45pm on May 10, 2013, Dr. Baron Joseph A. Uphoff, Jr. said…

At 1:17am on September 5, 2011, Daniel de Culla said…: Julianza, Ying and Yang on the floor of the Rainbow¡

At 2:36am on April 13, 2011, Daniel de Culla gave Julianza (Julie) Kim Shavin a gift…: Red Ribbon
I remember You. I adore Yr Verb as do you know. Kisses and Blessed Be¡
From the Gift Store

At 2:23am on April 11, 2011, Author-Poet Aberjhani said…: Julie I would say that you just did get the word out. Congratulations! It would probably also be a good idea to post a blog with the book cover, a poem from the book, and a link to where folks can purchase it.

Aberjhani

At 2:17am on December 22, 2010, Aberjhani said…

At 4:24pm on September 7, 2009, dave cox said…: HI JULIE JUST POPPED BY IT'S BEEN QUITE A LONG TIME SORRY
HOPE YOU ARE WELL STAY HAPPY.
DAVE.

At 2:15pm on May 31, 2009, Daniel de Culla said…: Hello Julie. You're Yes. I adore You and enjoy yr Poems. I really feel them, more than You could possibly imagine.
Here's a Poem :

SNOW DANCER

I am azamed at switch the goods
Before so apostolic
And now so different
To one’s mind.
Are you, my milk tooth
A passion-flower nun
Or an old maid
Married with god
With might & main?
Are you making use of decoy
“Snow Dancer”
As an appropiated graphic
Without mincing words
As other persons do?
Show Dancer
You’re a Sweet Nothing
A Cold Nothing
As the Mildewed Show
But pretty when the Earth
Is in White¡
I remember that when snowing
It was to the liking
of You Girlfriend & Me
To piss on the Snow
And to do cartoons, ha, ha.
You drawed with my Dick
And me with Your Tongue-lips.
And we together singing
laughing
Dancing, singing
All around:
“Snow Dancer
Is the same to say
“Peace is a Piss””.
Do you know
Do You see:
I like Women too much, Mimosa
More than another Cheeky-Monkey
Of our Specie.
Yr waps’ nest
Make me to take flowers
And have one’s fling.
I taste Your female orgasm
Melting into snowing tears.
To kiss the Angel’ s Lips
Is my Eucharistic
Made to measure.

But now, oh¡ oh dear¡ poor me¡
My toucher-balls
Doctor Uric
Says that for the blame of age
I have to do
An operation for prostate
And just in due curse
I’ll don’t be able
To bring to light
My brilliant point
Measured one’s lenght:
It will break
The liquorice root
The sweet breads.
But yet, still
Being so fucked
I’ll see how well
You dance in the snow
My Snow Dancer.

-DANIEL DE CULLA

At 1:07am on May 6, 2009, Sage Sweetwater said…: Hi Julianza,

Yes, In answer to your question about broadcasting a message to all of the members, I think if you will go to your box here to write a message, there is a place to check on your friends list to whom to send the message to. Check all of them. And then write your message and send. We will all receive your message in our email. I have missed you. I don't get here too often anymore. My professional wriiting business keeps me busy 16 hours a day. CTI is still the greatest! Have a great spring J....Love and Sunshine to you.

Warmly,
Sage

At 11:08am on January 19, 2009, dave cox said…: disposable angels:
lovely words i thought it was great.
stay happy
Dave.

At 2:33pm on January 9, 2009, dave cox said…: hey great pictures .

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