Stormy Seas

Hi Everyone, I'm going to post my famous 'quickie' today, because I have to leave to teach music in five minutes.  I wanted to let everyone know I'm still alive!  "I'm still breathing!"  Busy, busy, busy with a ton of left brain decisions to make.  I did paint this quickie small acrylic painting this weekend, and I've been working on new lyrics for a couple of new songs and the B section for an instrumental piece.    I'll be updating my art site - www.lauriemillermodernart.com soon within the next two weeks, since I have about 20 new miniatures to add.  I'll post more this week.  Have a nice day!  xxoo Laurie

From Beyond

Hola. Yet another long day starting with playing bass for hire on a recording session. I snuck in a little yoga (to my video tape),
and about a two mile jog. I taught some lessons and then worked out at the gym with weights. My goal is to get into top shape before I video tape my bass solo songs, hopefully by August I'll be ready. My son has been more than kind and helpful in posting my student's videos to youtube from the June 13th recital which I held at Avamere Rehabilitation center. I'm going to try to get eight hours of sleep tonight. Blessings to all. Nighty night! xxoo

From Beyond
From beyond
Into the night
I see the sights deep
Within my yawn
Days flying by
Not knowing why
Experiencing a
Forever sigh
From beyond
Into the night
Copyright 2010 - LAM

Whizzy Whiz

Howdy. Okay, I'm ready to fall over, so I'll make this quick. My first day off from doing both teaching and gigging in five days. I only taught for nine hours today. My nervous system is shaking and I have an early recording session before more teaching tomorrow, so I'm going to bed. Nighty night. xxoo

Whizzing Wizard
Whizzing wizard
Whiz me a special wish
A wish of happiness
Of course for everyone
And a selfish wish for me
Enough abundance
That I can afford to sleep
For a week
Copyright 2010 - LAM

Creative Harmony

Hi Everyone! I hope you are all well? My sleep pattern has been thrown way off lately, and I think it is due to my cold medicine. I've been falling asleep around 4, 5, or 6 am, and then I only sleep for a couple of hours before I wake up. My cold is getting better. I just have that wonderful nagging cough left. I taught a ton of piano and one violin lesson today, thus is my inspiration for my blog posting tonight. Hopefully I can read a little bit before passing out tonight. My friend Carol gave me the 'Eat, Pray, Love' book by Elizabeth Gilbert over two years ago, and I've been stuck in India, which is the middle of the book,
for sometime now. I really want to finish reading the book before the movie version, staring Julia Roberts, premieres.
Nighty night. xxoo

Creative Harmony
Creative harmony with intention
Lay your ego aside
Return to your melody
Reorganize your leading tones
Make sure they are compatible
With their corresponding chord tones
Listen carefully
Again and again
To see if this is the sound
You want to send
Into the universe
Listen to the music
Forward and reverse
Edit your tune carefully
Shifting a measure or two
Add in a 6th, 7th, 9th or 13th
Be at peace with the harmony
You created today
Copyright 2010 - LAM

Koala, Koala

Hi Everyone. I fell asleep before posting last night. Cold medicine with antihistamine hits me fast. I watched the movie 'Impromptu' the other night. The movie illustrates the affair of George Sand and Chopin plus it depicts how artist of the 19th Century lived. I find the movie very inspiring to my artistic soul. My blog posting for last night/this morning (I'm allowing a little cross over time period) is inspired once again by my paint wipings. Another Rorschach test if you please. When I was looking at my smudges of discarded paint, I couldn't get the image of a koala out of my mind. Besides teaching everyday, and then gigs four nights this week coming up, I'm focusing on getting my larger artistic goals in three different areas of the arts (music, painting, writing) organized and implemented. Off to my busy day. xxoo

Koala, Koala
Koala, Koala
Sitting in a tree
What are you up to?
Eating Eucalyptus leaves?
Koala, koala,
We have so much in common
You are a solitary fellow
And I wish I lived in Australia
You sleep during the day
And then you
Chew, chew, chew
Your nights away
We both have slow metabolic rates
And we rarely go out on dates
We both were hunted
Almost to extinction
But now we are
Healing and returning
To full function
Copyright 2010 - LAM

Dark Before Dawn

Hi Everyone. My inspiration for tonight's blog posting is my friend Susan's name for her coffee, 'Dark Before Dawn.' I taught lessons today and then I played a gig about an hour away from my house in Maple Valley, WA with the band Brainstorm. My arm is super tingly and numb tonight. I still have to reschedule my follow up blood test clinic appointment, since they double booked me. Ah state compensated health care: clinics with no real doctors, only nurse practitioners, and you could be standing in their lobby bleeding to death and they would schedule you an appointment two months out. It is almost 3 am and I need to get up in a few hours for another long day of teaching, so ..... nighty night. xoxoxo

Dark Before Dawn
Dark before dawn
Quiet before song
Peace before chaos
Right before wrong
Conflict before resolutions
Problems before solutions
Fear before faith
Prison before freedom
Down before up
Depression before hope
Dawn before dark
Dark before dawn
Copyright 2010 - LAM

First Tulips of Spring

Hola! Well, it is 1:30 am. Yeah, this is the earliest I'll be getting to sleep in quite a while. Can't wait, so, yeah, another super duper quicky. I taught some piano and bass lessons today, and I noticed my first tulip in my front yard. Thus, my creative inspiration for my blog tonight. Nighty night. xxoo

First Tulips of Spring
First tulips of spring
Performing a
Coming out dance once again
Flapping
Petals in the
Gentle breeze
Completing their duet
With professional ease
Coloring our world
With visual pleasure
For one and all to see
Copyright 2010 - LAM