"It's just another manic Monday; I wish it was Sunday"...I'd say that too, but it isn't for me...plus, it's grammatically incorrect. So, I'll say I wish it "WERE" Sunday instead and honor my grandmother for sharing her wealth of knowledge with me.

Yesterday, is the date Magick died in 2004. He was my Russian Blue cat for 18 years. I loved him and not one thing has changed there accept time. What is cool is Mike, not the one to whom I married but the one to whom I dated...he sent me a fabo email reflecting Magicks love and even spelled it correctly...Magick. Do you believe in magic? Nice tune by the way too.

It is no wonder whatsoever yesterday's morning was so incredibably wonderful to me. My heart was with Magick and I did something he SO loved...watched the birds from the porch. He probably wished to dine on them too. 2 Lovebirds, a few Hummingbirds and birds of nature I know not doing the actual chirping of a song of beauty to me only as I sat on my front porch in the morning hours. Kinda freaked me out a bit. I shot a 25 second video with audio of the whole thing & it's posted on YouTube, Facebook & Tweeted a little about it. That's a first too. I don't "do" that shit in general. Why, because I'm too busy living the rest of this tune to write it all out to show I actually was here to sing it too. A song by the Young Rascals was playing in my head in the early morning and I couldn't figure it out the meaning of why it popped into my head..."it's a beautiful morning, I think I'll go outside for awhile...and smile...the birds are singing their song" and POOF....I go out on the porch I NEVER go out on to pretty much ever...clear off some cobwebs and a lot of nature's tree dew and I just sat their as a fan of the birds....not the Byrds....just beautiful birds. Hummingbird don't fly away, fly away don't fly away. And they didn't.

Anyway, I've not been a morning person in general and obviously have missed this visual and audible beauty from my porch for almost 2 decades in the morning. 

Well, so Morning has Broken.....and I'm not so I'm outta her. Later.

Peace Out

Leap Year—Go ahead and Jump February 29th, 2012

So, if Van Halen can kiss and make up...they're coming here in June 2012 twice....then why can't you with me? You know who you are. I'll spare the names and protect the not so innocent...that would be me of course, not you.

Leaping comes around every 4 years for the divisible by 4 years thing cuz Julius Caeser said so in...a...45bc....SO, they'll be no leaping for you toddlers or embryo's whom may be hanging around for 2100, they didn't leap in 1900 either...I don't 'do' math past Algebra 1...besides, I keep great time and that's all a drummer worth their weight in gold drumsticks needs. If you can count to 4 or 2 twice and repeat to infinity.....or even 25 or 6 to 4......you'll be in Chicago in no time. I'm pretty sure that was an SAT question once. If you'd like to make sure I'm not lying and need proof I can count...go to my website and download one of my tunes. They're still free until my management looks at my own financial statements.

Peace Out....


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Peace in the Eye of the Storm

EDITING....stage left....or maybe walk to your nearest exit? You know, I love viewing, processing and editing other bands live footage or even people's home movies/video...and frankly, it's pretty cool I do this really well; however, I LOATHE in every which way but loose viewing, processing & editing my own live stage performances. I absolutely LOATHE this and am unanimous in this opinion. Normally, other people are responsible for this in life and I'd get the final cut and say "cool or no way"...Well.....I'm "other people" right now. Ugh.....pugged....I am doing this and it is pretty cool. I'm following my own little ol' self & leading the way by living what I share with other people when they tell me they're afraid to do something they know they need to make happen. So, I'm living what I teach. I sure the hell don't & won't ever preach. I'm diving into this tumultuous wave with all blinders on and it's strange because I see crystal clear in the wake. I'm not remotely above water and am deep in the eye of storm. I'm moving with the storm though and taking the turns and dodging the hits as needed. I like this game. I play it well as long as I'm on key and okay with being the change when the key doesn't fit. That's it. Peace out

It's the time of the season for loving.....or Leaping through 2012

Peace, it's back by popular demand

Look Through the Window

What the world needs now, is love.....sweet love. It's the only thing, that there's just too little of......and how about we all just Look Through the Window....tell me what do you see? A beautiful planet......peace and harmony......Look Through the Window.......enter apropriate music here. Make it up if you don't already know it.

Peace Out as we slide into 2012

Peace Warriors

Help heal a single soul or a single spirit. "Gift yourself" right now. Give your time to a person, non profit or group whom will reap what you will give them donating your expertise. You only get what you give. Give yourself to help anothers life this season. Just do it.

LOVE ME LIKE A 2012 ROCK of all ages

Hey, shut up....don't lie to me...if you don't love me why don't you fade away? Ok, well....this little quip really works; don't say it out loud for cryin' out loud unless you're willing to live it. For me, it's a truth be known, not told. I continue to create what is needed along the path no matter which path I find myself walking, running, strolling, skipping or slip sliding away. Right now, I'm living the cliche' 'you can't pick your family, but you can choose your friends'. I have to add 'fans' to my cliche' I guess. Some of them through time, became friends.

The path still has numerous boulders to scale, jump, side swipe or smack right into in lieu of dodging some. I take them all on only when necessary. Sticks and stones may break the bones but boudlers can crush me if I let them so...I pick and choose the boulders on the path.

Surgeries seem to play roles like trips down memory lane I'll choose to forget sooner than later.....The whole "she's got a screw loose" thing is a valid thought. The screws loose in String Theory fashion are titanium....plates. The jawbone's connected to the tooth bone...the tooth bone's connected to the maxillofacial bone blah blah blah...It grew back with a bit of a bummer learning that takes time...like 1/2 a year.

Well, 2012... out here in California right now, it's sunny and warm like spring...hmmm, last year this same time we set a record in San Francisco's East Bay for rain fall. It hasn't rained in June since 1992 hence...Juneuary. My Z3's driver seat was filled with water when I came out from coffee to the car. I'll have to get over this surgery thing and find someone to seal the convertible top by the window with some silicone so that water doesn't drip in. It usually rains inside my house too. I've sat with the umbrella up and pots and pans on the floor catching the water as it falls. Right now, the tarps are keeping it dry inside here and am happy for this. I would love to have a real roofer do the job, but for now....money is not gowing on my trees that are taking over due to all the rain. Funny, it's good I love water, the ocean, walking in the rain on Siesta Key or Boracay getting drenched. The wood to burn in the backyard behind the pool is completely dry and stacked perfectly and covered with their own tarps with perfection....yet it rains in my car while I drive and it rains inside my living room but dammit....my wood is dry so I can fight fire with fire in my fire hazard property needing the landscape people. I've gotta find some money to pay these guys to make my place no longer a fire hazard. I just found out there are 2 previous Christmas trees in the very back of the property. I thought they had been discarded....that was the anwer when I asked those years. I can't even fathom how fast this would all go with a careless match. I don't smoke, it won't be mine. Putting this one on the front burner...no pun. I walked my property yesterday with intent to gather a bunch of the dead branches I could carry to burn in the fireplace during these cold rainy days for the next few. I've been extremely neglectful in this area of late.

My nephew or technically 1st cousin once removed graduated from High School today from Fishers High School in Indiana. I so wish I could have gone and had a ticket from the ticket I blew for his Eagle Scout badge ceremony. What a fantastic spirit this one. I'm so sad I couldn't make either work with the bombs going off last year and now the boulder jumping goin on this year.

Well, I truly do not know why I upkeep this Paper Blog Writer thing since last Century. Perhaps it's just that I talk to myself when there's no one left to talk to...people aks me why, why I do the things I do....Okay, I don't echannel Bobby Brown very well but hey, it's my preogative. :-P Maybe, I just like to talk to myself?

Thunder only happens when it's raining.....well, I hear that is true...but it does not thunder here, it just rains. No lighting strikes either. Now Florida is a different story and fits the first line. I've got a Twitter account with 4 people which is stellar in my book. I don't follow, I lead and hanging with leaders is fantastic period. Be a leader, always.

Peace out People...if you know my new phone # that began today January 1, 2012....then we're connected.

Peace and love out...

Ho Ho Ho---Go GIANTS

Full moon's obviously work very, very well for California and any wandering Giants spiralling ecstatically toward homebase right now. Ah hoooh Werewolves of London...huh, draw blood.......

Summer Breeze

This world is rocking more than rolling near July, 2010 in more ways than one

Jared & Zef: Fly High Freebirds

Wow, 3 months after Jared left this world on July 13th, 2009...I went to another "viewing" for my friend Zef Castillo. Both men had cancer; however, neither one of them gave up their spirit. Live our lives & stay impeccable with to our word no matter how tough or hard life may be at any given moment personally. This does not always go smoothly of course, but never give up...words like "can't &; no" don't need to gain creedence in any clear waters. Jared called me shortly before he died; he told me I was his pillar & that he could always count on me to be there for him. We were talking pretty deep about some issues and he point blank told me I can't give up. He said, "I know it's selfish, but then who will I have? You can't give up". Well, that pretty much put a hell of a lot in perspective right away. There is no way I take his or anyone else's perception of this strength lightly. I'm living my own advice I feel in life right now. It's easier said than done. There is always a way to create and live your dreams.... just "do it"....but man....This is so not easy at all. I know there is always a way to reach out and be there...even for yourself when that's needed..."Whenever you call me, I'll be there". Take the time and make the time. Do the right things while you are following your heart and reach out---not in...this is the power of love. It does not matter if others don't reach out or back to you. That's a perception that shouldn't carry weight like the proverbial albatross around your neck. Sharing your heart rather than closing it off brings smiles for anyone through the miles. Fly high like my free birds. I'm holding your love in my heart.... this really is a gift for me that does keep on giving! Never give up......

Peace and love out to you both...

The Peace Mission

Jared Edmund Raye Teigen,

You are 25 years old this summer of 2009. July 13th/14th, 2009...you left following your quest for peace. The day the first man walked on the moon 40 years ago July 20th, 1969 is the same date so many of your friends and family of friends gathered together & honored your presence in their lives held in Southern California. Both are equal in unbelievability that the experience even occured in our worlds.

Your favorite song when you were 5 or 6 was "California Dreaming"; all is how it should be. Whether you are with me in Phoenix, AZ or our altering Gaza Egypt dream, Amsterdam, Siesta Key, Fla or Denver, Co....you are simply forever in my heart and in my soul.....I will miss you, but "you" are very near. I will finish the (not done) song you gave me for Christmas "Behind Every Corner". You will always be my first born #1 pseudo son. Love has no limitations; let's continue The Peace Mission. Carry on wayward son! I love you with all of my heart.

Fleetwood Mac Unleashed Tour 2009

Awesome show. Songs played they've not ever played on stage before like "Storms". Lindsey was in rare form on guitar and vocally. They did a nice tribute to some Chris McVie tunes also who no longer tours with the band. If you get a chance to go....shell out the dough to see it. You would not notice this wasn't the Grammy year 30 years ago at all. Had fantastic seats...only show that compared in the last few months was seeing James Taylor at the Greek play for 3 hours with a ton of all stars making appearances. There's a reason all the acts from the last 40 years like the Stones, Billy Joel, Elton John, America, Tina Turner, Heart etc are still touring. Because they still rock. Not much music going on right now minus for example: Diana Krall, Alison Krauss with Robert Plant (Led Zeppelin). Well, Green Day has the #1 CD right now, but even they're a 15 year old band. Metallica is even touring & they're an "old" band at this juncture too. Music isn't dead if you just look around & listen for it.

Liked seeing the Mac back Wednesday night at Oracle Arena so much; bought a house the next day!

April Flower Shower Power?

It just got through hailing the size of very large whirled peas here in California and in two days it will be 80 degrees. I've not ever seen it hail here at all in the area in which I live. Weathering storms or Heights is just what the doctor ordered...either that or eat a few apples to keep them all away. Summer is around the corner and very welcomed. I love California; however, Siesta Key, Florida is always on my mind. I have seen it snow there a few times though.

Taxes were finito on time this year and Xmas cards actually went out in the year they were written. Wonders never cease...let it snow, let it snow, let snow. With the economical issues at hand; these truly were little itty bitsy spider miracles at work. Charlotte had a web long before anyone ever did.

Mark Costner Rocks On Water

Hello, thank you to all the people whom sent good vibrations to my cousin-in-law Mark through his 5 stages of cancer treatment. Again, his own Blog is beyondthatrise.blogspot.com

He has been given the diagnosis of remission now and cleared to "get on with his life". Thank you for using this forum to help a person move through their difficult journey. We all get by and move on with a little help from our friends and family.

Peace out and thank you

Biting Time while Biding it--Always Follow Your Heart

Here's a scoop to update those of you not receiving email from me right now: This is what happens when you don't trust your intution and assume people in the medical profession are qualified. I had a third surgery to fix the first "botched & ruined" ones in April and May on a wisdom tooth yesterday. So much for being wise. Such incompetence from two separate Endodontists is appalling. I will work much harder on following my heart in the future no matter what and get up and walk out of a hospital or procedure room even if it is embarrassing. I knew both times that these two surgeons were not qualified to handle what was needed. The second surgeon didn't know how to turn on the "new video" machine to view the tooth; the assistant had to show him. Being new to the office, wrote a pain Rx afterwards on a Friday evening wihtout having his name on the Rx pad. The pharmacy would not fill the Rx as it is illegal to write prescriptions unless your name is on the Rx pad. Aleve & Advil were very helpful though. After this comedy of bloops and blunders, I had a 3rd and final surgery yesterday and I won't be moving much for a few days. They say 'three' is a charm and this last surgeon definitely is just that. I am ecstatic to finally have found a qualified surgeon from my own generation who told me how "horrid" and "aggregious" both procedures were. The new doctor said it was if I'd been hit with a "shotgun".

This was very difficult but actually not as bad as the second surgeons antiquated brutality. He graduated Endodontic school when I was 2 years old. Age is not the factor here; however, these first two surgeons are beginning their 7th decade in life. I believe they had good careers; however, I question their sight. It is clear neither were able to handle new dentistry practicing (operative word) their old school thinking and practices. I had faith and trust in my surgeon yesterday; I did not at anytime have that 'feeling' with the other two during any moment....it was 'guesswork'....The 1st & 2nd surgeons both missed filling the fourth root canal leaving it open as if it had not been done allowing a raw nerve to be exposed. The surgeon yesterday said he found cotton in the gum-line left from the previous surgeon which was causing the infections in the tooth and sinus area.

A second root canal done on the same tooth and then another apicoectomy were redone in one sitting to get it over with...the skilled surgeon yesterday also removed the 'shrapnel' both previous surgeons left inside the rooth canal and gum-line. I am optimistic and trust this new surgeon's competence and skill. ALWAYS, trust your first initial feeling. ALWAYS!

Tucson or Two Son's in One "The Graduate"

Thank You For Giving

Wow, the answer my friends, is blowing in the wind. And you probably thought it was a 60's tune....or that Puff the Magic Dragon lives by the sea.....

FlOCK OF SUNSET-Siesta Key 2008

"Take 

Me 

Home" 

Melody

Peace out

Siesta Key, Florida 2008

Tank Yu Tumas Kyra & Clington @ FM107 in Vanuatu- You Rock On

Hello there. How are you all? Skiusmi, sori tumas, my Bislama is not gud yet. Lukim yu next September 2008 for your Fes Napuan Music Festival. Tata til then. To my United States friends and family of fans, I am recently home from singing on one of the most beautiful islands in the world called Efate Island in the country of Vanuatu located next to Fiji. My Producer/Manager and I were interviewed live on the air with Kira & D on Capitol FM107 in Port Vila, Efate, also the Country's most popular Pop/Rock radio station. Go "Fis". The goal is to return for Fes NaPaun next year which is a huge music festival I've been asked to return to play. The people of this country are remarkable and I am living a dream since I was ten to be able to be here and play for these wonderful people. Peace Out!

Vanuatu Living My Dreams

Halo Halo. Wow, what a trip this has been. The Rolling Stones said "what a drag it is getting old" and now they're all old. I wonder if the remaining Beatles feel the same about "will you still love me, will you still need me....when I'm 64". I'll research that one and get back to you as I've got a long time before that finding Melody's answer to that lyric. Music has nothing to do with age and those bands repetoire are proof in the pudding. I've only just begun this magical mystery tour and I plan to continue it as long as I am able to bring the music to the people. Thank you for all your hospitality Vanuatu. I will be back. Peace Out to you!