Embrace me…
You Sweet Embraceable You…
Oh! the romance of it all! To be in the arms of your loved one.
Taking each other close and making that contact.
This is powerful stuff.
Sure we are referring to the touching and kissing,
and intimacy shared between lovers.
But the embrace happens quickly sometimes, and more often,
and publicly. Read More
“We are trying to End the War” Show Part III of Post View and the 92 Days of Sorrow Featuring:The Machine Gun Disco Dance of the Wild! 92 days of sorrows… is nothing compared to reality!Everyone went up in arms! and January was not even half way over! It hurts and it is so sad for the families left behind… What can we say? We feel for you? What a disappointment! It could have been my son… brother… father… spouse. Read More
Ivanhoe Artist Newsletter: June 2006
IAM aspiring to great heights
And so I dream about it…
But what good is a dream if I don’t decipher it’s meaning?
Surely there is function behind the form!
If we don”t contemplate it, we lose the chance for understanding something in ourselves.
Certainly for Jacob it took some time to get hold of his dream.
And for thousands of years holy men, scholars, philosophers and poets
searched for the meaning of the concise description that says so much to us all…
Imagine Jacob – in the dessert – alone, with not much more than a rock for his protection. He has this comforting dream where he finds that God is beside him.
Funny how he sees the ladder in the dream and angels… ascending and descending…
Yet his Lord is at his side in the dream and he recognizes the place he stands as a holy one!
Painting by Joe Muti
Wow! Could the message be that simple?
It is hard for us to believe this with all of our earthly problems.
We try to live with love in our hearts in the spirit of the truly inspired,
We try to be in the here and the now! But it just gets away from us sometimes.
And then comes another moment where we feel it once more!
And I want to shout about this because as promised to Duckie and all of her friends in the mosh pit that Saturday:
We lived it! Pure inspiration and wholesome fun!
No Drinking! No Drugs! Just 100 thrill seeking teenagers! and the rest of us, right here in Paterson!
Six hard-core bands, crammed in … no chairs, no food! Nothing more than the music and their positive energy!
Our Angels – moshing and screaming up and down Spruce Street!
Letting us know that it is here and now! and how grateful they were that we gave them the chance!
This is Divine Inspiration… and I AM so wanting for our next infusion!
And though we have naysayers constantly trying to trip us up…
We ascend and stay grounded on our own turf! Here and Now!
Join us and feel the spirit!
Experience our June Open “MiKe:”
Explore “Jacob’s Ladder” in our Music, slide show, poetry, art show…
and feel the vibe we conjure in our sanctuary.
We are here to cultivate that “Divine Inspiration” so you can take it with you whereever you go.
And thank you Duckie, Shari and all of your friends for giving us another great event that is still with us days later…
Come out for a 6 week drumming workshop in July – August.
On behalf of the IAM,
I am yours truly, Christine
Come out to our regular Wednesday night meetings 7:30pm.
The Ivanhoe Wheelhouse is located next to the Burger King Parking Lot on Spruce Street in Historic Paterson New Jersey.
Call 973-278-4019 for more information.
Look for these bands on myspace.com and at The Ivanhoe, whenever possible!
Set in Silence
Blades Don’t Need Reloading
A Dying Declaration
Speaking of Silence
Sacred Hatred
Swinging for Dear Life
WOW!
The VVinterizer VVintergroove Extender Show
Not to be confused with your average pornographic slip of the tongue
And what ever happened to Shubert anyway? He died of syphilis at 31. He lived a short life but he was a prolific composer Most of his music was found a hundred years after his death, spread throughout the attics of the wealthy Venetians who patronized him. He did not live to know the magnitude of his influences. But he wrote profound works that we continue to relate to, What is a wedding without the “Ave Maria?” Why include this in our email? Who wants to think about such angst when life is already so difficult? Read More
Love, If you see me don’t pass me by I need somebody or else I’m gonna die And Love, If you need me Just call and I’ll be there there is no sorrow That both of us can’t share*
It’s Culming! It is always coming like waves, it is a continuation… The call, the coming, the pull, the calming. It frees you and imprisons you simultaneously and you have to have it. Yes another Don Kommit concoction… What does it mean? And why does it hold any meaning at all in this form? Why do we care? And why does everything have to take so long anyway? Like life for example… It seems to move so fast in some ways and at the same time, it drags on. The banality of our everyday duties can make it unbearable. We try to work peacefully each day and it goes on. But we can be well fed, have tons of cash and nice people all around. We can have sex, drugs and any other earthly pleasure… and without true love, we are empty. So we wait and we rush and when we get it, we hope that we’ve fixed it in time so we can feel it in our souls forever! Oh! There is happiness and finally peace. How sweet love can be… So why don’t we appreciate it when it is shared and why don’t we share more of our own? After all, we grow it in our souls. We are born to love and be loved! Still- people reject love rather than receive it and live without its pleasures rather than give it… How can anyone be cheap with it? It is free isn’t it? No doubt it is precious…. and rare… I know… It requires sacrifice. There is the rub… And oh do we pay the price! And yes, there are those who are just not ready for it… Wow! It is not to be taken lightly at all because without it we truly are finished: our purpose enslaved to the drudgery of the material world… Thank God for LOVE! And thank you love, for letting me love you! Love! It is yours! It is always coming if you recognize it. Culming, Calming, Cumming, in every heartbeat, rising with each breath, filling us up, greater and deeper than the sea, more mysterious than the night sky… the greatest gift continues to arrive!
LOVE! Come out to our next open Mike and see what we are talking about and bring home some Ivanhoe LOVE to spread around! Let us fill you in on our progress: the piano, our 501C3… And stay tuned for our next show!
“Secrets in Bloomers” The Flowers and Underwear Show!??? Hey! Don’t shoot the messenger! But if you need more information go to: ivanhoe-art.tripod.com/ Yours Truly,Christine