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January 09, 2025Las Vegas, Nevada
After getting up and taking a walk to the gallery in the high winds I was like... I just can't do this. And, I do not have to. It turned into a low day just doing nothing. Processing what is happening in LA with the wildfires is depressing. I have played with the Traveling Piano on many of the streets and in the neighborhoods destroyed. I talked with some friends, got myself up date with this blog and... I am preparing for some Valentines Day fun for those living on the streets. I went shopping online for some pink Valentines Day fortune cookies with gift bags and ribbon and red foiled Hershey Kisses, stickers, etc... a little project of love always does wonders. Hopefully I can sell a few to cover the costs for everything. |
January 08, 2025Las Vegas, Nevada
It has been eight days since I looked at any news or on any social timelines. Today I folded just for some basic information about the Los Angeles wildfires. My empathy and compassion is draining. Of all the types of natural disaster I have been present for with the Traveling Piano, fire is the worst. Aside from the loss of personal possessions and memories, the loss of beauty, nature and domesticated land at its best, the personal emotional trauma created, the fear... all that is left is charred black remains that will take many, many years to get rid of let alone replace. I feel like someone who has lost their ability to walk. The Traveling Piano would help so much there but I am just too tired, have no money for a place to stay and I am not even sure the truck would make it there anymore. I must focus on what I can do here where I am. Put my energy and compassion to use here to help there, as we are all one and interconnected. |
January 07, 2025Las Vegas, NevadaIt has been a long time since exploring nature. There has not been enough time. Going to the movies, taking Mo to the park... there is sleep (lots) and work (some) and hanging in a no where zone of mindlessness (often). That is how the days have been going more and more as time moves forward. Thank God for all the good times past, all the nature I have been able to experience in life. Damm, there is not time now to even enjoy the 100,000 photos I took. What is most important is that I share them with others hence, the Traveling Piano Fundraising Photo Art Gallery Residency. I am posting today just three randomly found photos from the Traveling Piano in Alaska. 
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January 06, 2025Las Vegas, Nevada
As I work with the truck, when I come home there is absolutly nothing more I can do for the entire day except cook dinner for myself and Mo and maybe pick something up and put it away. I am still adjusting to getting up earlier, that may have something to do with it. When I am working usually, I have all the energy needed but once I stop my level drops to almost zero. I've been working to get to bed earlier. So much for the days of going to bed at five in the morning and waking up in the afternoon. That is what has always felt most comfortable for me. Now, for several days I've been getting up with an alarm clock!!! That is just so ugly, lol. But I need to be at the gallery before noon.
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January 05, 2025Las Vegas, Nevada
The nature of my mind is a desire to live in denial. I was bred to live in the denial of truth, the truth in spirit for the sake of authoritarianism, emotional immaturity and human manipulation and control. Most of my life has been spent learning to stay true to myself and working to keep my life living in that truth. I want to stay real with what is happening to our world and the horror about to hit us all, hitting us all right now. My challenge is to find the "real" joy, appreciation, gratitude and fun that can exist with the "real" horror that is consuming us all. I must allow others to deal in whatever ways are best for them. Danny, just stay in your lane and try not to cross over into there lanes with what works for me. Too bad we cannot all just be on the same page with support for each other. So many want to reject support, do not know they need support or choose dysfunctional support. |
January 04, 2025Las Vegas, Nevada
Mo and I took it easy today. There is no way I am going to push myself overboard with self obligation and expectation concerning my work. What does not get done will not get done. I am doing everything I can do. And I am not going to allow concern about what others think about what I do or do not do. My focus cannot be on accomplishing goals. It must be on living in the moment with joy and gratitude. Of course I want to get the photo gallery finished (if that ever happens) and I want to rebuild the truck and pass it on and make some money and have fun doing it and get attention and help to accomplish all that while nurturing the world with what I have to offer but, there are now severe limitations mentally, physically and emotionally in doing it all myself. What a balancing act my life is becoming!
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January 03, 2025Las Vegas, Nevada
Two guys from Zacatecas, Mexico got onto the piano seat today and that was just awesome for me as I was in Zacatecas, Mexico with the Traveling Piano back in 2007. One of my most favorite ways to connect with people is where they come from or live now as I have been to thousands of places in the northern hemisphere. As my ability to sweep people onto the piano seat wanes from my lack of energy, now I need to sweep them into the truck, give them the experience and then sweep them off the truck and into the gallery to hopefully want a photo? When I give someone or a group all my time and energy for like fifteen minutes they have totally enjoyed and they do not contribute via a photo well, I'm thinking to myself, what a fucking waste of time. It is disappointing. See... this is why everything has been setup the way it has been for the last eighteen years. I do not find out if people are givers or just takers. I give... then the exchange is done. I am not about selling myself or what I have to offer at this point in my life long career.
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January 02, 2025Las Vegas, NevadaI got my first parking ticket at the Traveling Piano Fundraising Photo Art Gallery Residency spot today. It happened when I got off the truck and took people inside to show the gallery to them. There is no way I can afford to pay for parking all day, everyday. You would think the city would give me the spot for all I have given to the community since 2016... ha,ha,ha... who would think that? Now I am on their radar. I did drive down the street to talk to the meter maid. She wrote off the ticket for me but set down the rules. What they do is come buy and take photos of the license plates and when a person slips up once... tickets are sent for all the times the license plates were not on record as paying. 
 There is no way I am going to pay for parking. There is free parking from 11am to 1pm from Monday through Friday for the local lunch crowd. That... is when I am going to be there with the Traveling Piano. It limits my time which is probably to my benefit so I do not wear myself out. I will be forced to pace myself. Even two hours a day may be more than I can handle five days a week. I'll just be there at the gallery without the truck. Too bad about weekends. It is what it is. Something will happen to help me run this fundraising showcase better as time goes on. It is just so slow going! |
January 01, 2025Las Vegas, NevadaThis is a low key New Years Day for me. Part of me wants to wake people up to the worlds doom and gloom of the coming year and then I thought, why? What purpose would that serve? If people were to take the reality to help serve them in the present moment that would be good but that would never happen. The majority would cling onto the idea of doom and gloom or just straight out reject... reality. Personally, I just want to create validation and reassurance for the worth of humanity. This is what I can do and this is what I want to project in this new year. I want to help create worth and self-respect for others. One way to help myself do this is to be done with reading the news. I've tried it before. Now it is imperative that I act with this response ability.  |