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10 days – A SLICE of Life – Phillip and the Juicy Heart

Posted: July 16, 2011 in Art, Challenge, Construction, Inspiration, Marriage, Relationship
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10 days – A SLICE of Life – Phillip and the Juicy Heart

So the last 10 days have been all about travelling along with my Husband as he fulfills a dream and carries out a very edgy task. What he did was produce a play. A one act play. Sounds simple and the whole thing was simple as well as immensely complex.

For the last 6 months Tony has worked on all aspects of the production of this play. I have been there with him and been there to help, if needed, and stepped back to give him the space he desired, if that is what he requested. The ebb and flow within our relationship was a sweet prelude to the actual opening of the play. The OPENING was like taking a piece of living breathing flesh, a work of art and putting it forward, heart in hand for the world to savour and enjoy or take in and spit out.  The courage and fortitude that my dear husband has is astounding to me and an inspiration.

My job was to stand by my man as he lived his dream. He has done this so often for me that it was my pleasure to do the same for him. It has been my great joy to be with my Love as over the last 10 days we together have been inspired and excited, devastated and squashed, thrilled and scared, blissful and fatigued. Everything has been that which is what life is. To experience all of the all of LIFE is the inspiration of breath and the revitalization of actually living.

The past 10 days have been startling, surprising. I see my life spread before me and can know that there are parts good and parts bad. That there are elements of my life I want and desire and others that I do not care for. My knowing, having gone through all of these 10 days and the six months before is that the simple naive and chaotic joy of creation fills me with the force of life.

There were times in the 10 days that I felt 100 years old, dry, wizened and fatigued. This state I loath. And there were other times when I felt I was a new born, innocent and unknowing. This naive state, is where I adore being.

I slept well last night and dreamed and explored in unknow realms. What I discovered as I awoke was that if, over the past 10 days; IF, I remained naive and curious, I was okay, life was good and everything would go smoothly. I believe that the state of naivety, curiosity and chaos combined to have ne be on edge and constantly resonding, creating and being myself.

I resolve to strive for the naivity, creativity and to play in the chaos. These three elements naivety, creativity and chaos are where I find JUICE. Lots and Lots of JUICE!

the JUICY Heart ❤


The Radiance and Explosion of the Sacred JUICY Heart! – July 2011

 

If you want to know more about living in the Juice if life contact me at: phillip@phillipcoupal.ca

Keeping a JUICY Heart – Adapting and Moving ALONG

Posted: July 11, 2011 in Challenge, Coaching, Inspiration, Learning
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I have been stuck so many times in my life and I absolutely refuse to get hung up and stuck ever again.

Sometimes life can reach out and deliver a gentle tap, sometimes a solid punch and sometimes a big huge slap across the face. The slap across the face thing is kind how I feel right now and you know I am going to take it in and then MOVE ALONG.

Previously I would have moaned and groaned and wallowed in the dust. I choose to do radically different now, the energy is simply not worth going to that low defeated place. NOW, I simply revel in getting up, dusting off and getting back up on the horse and riding strong.

No matter what might be delivered, the tap or the punch or the slap. I am not going to waste my time, my life energy, whallowing, especially when I know, deep inside, that all of my life is worth fighting for, worth living richly and feeling fully, and totally worth getting up on that horse and riding strong.

Passion, Determination, Force of Will.

Today I am RIDING STRONG

❤ the Juicy Heart

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Keep Tightly Closed in a Cool Dry Place – Thoughts about this Toronto FRINGE Show

Posted: July 10, 2011 in Announcement, Art, Inspiration, Learning
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Sunday July 10th.
Great show again!
Some thoughts about the show.

It is stunning and startling how the drama and intensity of this 55 minute show leaves the audience shell shocked.

In that brief 55 minutes the steely determination and fluidity of the three actors playing Jaspers, Michaels and Gregory, 3 inmates convicted of murder, sweeps the audience with the ballooning of fantasy, blurred into the bleakness of the momentary reality of these three convicts. The three actors in this show are dynamic and do a spellbinding job of stirring senses and emotions.

This one act play brings forth the raw and disturbing feelings that come forward when: masculine and feminine roles, sexuality and gender become unbalanced and unresolved. The audience is witness to lying, manipulation, murder, ambiguous and blatant- lust and desire, prison cell sex games gone wrong. The spiraling of energy spun by the actors leaves the audience disturbed and shaken wondering what horror they have been a part of.

Spinning this dramatic energy, weaving the plots and fantasies and dreams of these three men. The actors are able to cast a spell over the audience that takes breath and sense away.

KUDOS to the ensemble and their innate and committed ability to work with each other and share the depths of themselves, creating a vivid and startling theatrical experience.

This show is well rehearsed and choreographed. The simplicity of the setting and lack of visual distraction make the witnessing of the horrific dreams and surprising fantasies even more compelling.

Another great show. A sleeper within this FRINGE Festival, a must see. Well worth the effort to get to Theatre Passe Muraille at 16 Ryerson.

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Agony and Ecstasy

Keep Tightly Closed in a Cool Dry Place – Curious Passion

Posted: July 10, 2011 in Announcement, Art
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Keep Tightly Closed in a Cool Dry Place

FRINGING  – Toronto Fringe Festival

Great Show Opening Night and another Great Show on Saturday afternoon. Looking forward to the Passion and Power at the show this afternoon. Come out and be MOVED!

Sunday July 10,  5:45 pm Theatre Passe Muraille – Main Stage, ensure your rush tickets by arriving at 5:15

Warning: Sexual Content, Graphic Violence and Mature Language

The Boy are HOT and the Men are a bit Queer.
Mommy gets killed and these guys show no FEAR!

Watch the Battle of Masculine and Feminine. See the manipulation, degradation and humanity that 3 men move through as they are Locked up TIGHTLY in a Jail Cell.

The Curious Heart very Juicy today

Prison Riot

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Keep Tightly Closed in a Cool Dry Place OPENING at the Toronto Fringe

Posted: July 8, 2011 in Announcement, Art, Flowers
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An Invitation across the Nation…

I am so happy to send this offering to you.

 

In sending you this invitation, I hope to help my husband Tony, ensure the great success of a wonderful piece of theatre that he is presenting at the Toronto Fringe, July 8th thru 17th. 

Don’t miss this! Opening Friday July 8th at 9:15 pm

 

Keep Tightly Closed in a Cool Dry Place by Lesbian Feminist Avant-garde playwright Megan Terry

Prison Drama – 3 men in a jail cell exploring, discovering their sexual identity, tweaking their masculinity, experimenting with their femininity. Witness these three men as they figure out their relationship and who will come out on top.

Keep Tightly Closed in a Cool Dry Place

Presented by Tony Dunn and Lift the Lid Theatre Company

Starring Guy Castonguay, Alastair Love and Adam Christie

Directed by Tony Dunn

Warning there is: Sexual Content, Graphic Violence and Mature Language

Opening at Theatre Passe Muraille  – 16 Ryerson Avenue – 9:15 pm Friday July 8th

The show continues:

Saturday July 9th at 4:00 pm

Sunday July 10th at 5:45 pm

Tuesday July 12th at 1:00 pm

Wednesday July 13th at 11:15 pm

Friday July 15th at 9:45 pm

Sunday July 17th at 2:45 pm

Tickets by phone at: 416-966-1062 or by the web at: http://www.fringetoronto.com or at the gate box-office at Theatre Passe Muraille Main space 16 Ryerson Avenue

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Check out what xtra Toronto has to say:Queer Prison Drama at the Toronto Fringe

Scroll down to Prisoner of Misogyny

Best Regards – I look forward to seeing you at the theatre

Phillip Coupal

a VERY Juicy Heart ❤

Agony and Ecstasy

Diving in Deep – July 6, 2011

Posted: July 6, 2011 in Challenge, Inspiration, Joy, Marriage, Trust
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Diving in DEEP with a JUICY Heart

Diving in DEEP helps me maintain a JUICY Heart. The excitement and thrill of going down deep, not knowing what to expect and being on the edge of the unknown is thrilling. For me this is like a Zip Line or a Roller Coaster. If I get on and get off and simply freeze in between, not breathing, not allowing for the experience, I will not enjoy or be a part of the experience. SO, I get on that Zip Line, ride that Roller Coaster and partake fully in the experience diving in deep, breathing fully and letting the experience move through my body. I might event laugh or scream or shake or giggle, cry or swear or be really messy. All of this expression is part of the experience part and allows me to be exactly how and who I am.  😉

I know and trust that the experience will carry me and that I am more me for partaking fully in all of the expereince.

Today I will TRUST and DIVE IN DEEP!

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❤ the JUICY Heart

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Heart full of Depth

 

PROUD to be gay – a man – JUICY

Posted: July 3, 2011 in Gratitude, Hello, Inspiration, Joy, Learning
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One never knows what will present itself.

I was so glad to be witness to all that passed in front of me today.

I was glad to see a man walk by with his husband. It took me moment to recognize him. This man I knew. I had been witness to him. I had been partner to him. This man had hurt me more than anyone I have ever know has hurt me. Even more than my father. Even more than those nasty boys in the playing field. This man walked by. His swagger, his arrogance as it has always been. This man walked by and as so many I saw today walked by as a stranger.

I digested the experience of seeing this manly, man. I wondered why I experienced him as a stranger. I was glad to know that my hurt has subsided. I was glad to know that this man, who had lied to me and belittled me and castigated me for being me, was nothing more than a stranger. I am most grateful and glad for me, my power within, my radiant light, my beacon to myself.  I realized that I knew that nothing this man had told me was true and that really all of who and what I am is held in light. Nothing of all of the shame and self loathing that this man had put on me so many years ago was real. Those pieces of shame and hatred were his. I was able to revel in my own JUICY self. Knowing that I am the man I am. I need not rely on the negative and depreciating words of another man to describe myself.

I was so very grateful to have my own joyful and delicious self to proclaim to the world as me.

Gay, Queer, Loud, Proud full of all the JUICY Creative Energy that is ME!

Today I will be myself!

❤ the Juicy Heart

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Sunday July 3rd PRIDE Toronto 2011

The JUICE today at PRIDE in Toronto

Posted: July 2, 2011 in Gratitude, Inspiration, Joy, Trust
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Giving…

The simple JOY of GIVING…

Giving JOYFULLY and with a WHOLE HEART. Giving until there is nothing left but JUICE

That was today and now I will sleep and dream and get up tomorrow and give again. There is nothing more or less, simply the charitable act of giving.

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Heart in Hand July 2011

 

 

“Keep Tightly Closed in a Cool Dry Place” and Director and Producer Tony Dunn feature in XTRA Toronto

Posted: July 1, 2011 in Art, Joy, Learning
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Keep Tightly Closed in a Cool Dry Place was featured in the June 30th edition of XTRA Toronto

A Prisoner of Misogyny

Agony and Ecstasy

The Agony and Ecstacy of “Keep Tightly Closed in a Cool Dry Place”

Prison Riot

Prison Riot – “Keep Tightly Closed in a Cool Dry Place”

All of the great publicity for the play has me ecited and very JUICY today!

❤ the Juicy Heart

 

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