Phillip Coupal - Juicy Heart
Today is about Gratitude.
Be Grateful. There is a simplicity to my practice for the day. Gratitude, no less, no more.
Today I will be grateful and today, I will express my gratitude. Today will be simple as I practice an Attitude of Gratitude.
The Grateful JUICY Heart ❤
Trumpet Vine – Blossoming despite adversity – July 27, 2011
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Getting there is the fun!
I find that the building, the constructing, the ride there is what moves me and lets me flow. Side trips and excursions from the chosen path are always a plus!
Today I will enjoy the Journey wherever it goes.
Transferring from one blog tool to another… This one is new and seems to have a lot of features that I was missing in the former blog.
Transferring has been a challenge and a joy!
Today I will be curious… ❤
From a description of the work of American artist Grant Wood:
“very often people see something in it that reminds them of themselves”
I love to look at the Grant Wood print that is hanging in my gallery. The print is called “Spring in Town”. I often like to look at this print and see where i fit in, see what I am doing today, see how I can be all or perhaps nothing of what is in the scene.
I learn about myself from the reflections of myself that I see on a daily basis. From this learning I can choose to adapt, change, keep or discard, re-write, edit or record. Knowing and implementing choice can sometimes be challenging but as the young gardener in my print I am cultivating and from that cultivation the seeds I sow can be fallow or dry and others can flourish and blossom. In order for the garden to grow it must first be cultivated. Learning from the reflections of myself is a part of how I cultivate who I am.
Today I will look for the reflections of myself.
“Spring in Town” by Grant Wood as seen through a reflection – July 2011
Today inspiration from
e.e. cummings
i like my body when it is with your
body. It is so quite a new thing.
Muscles better and nerves more.
i like your body. i like what it does,
i like its hows. i like to feel the spine
of your body and its bones, and the trembling
-firm-smooth ness and which i will
again and again and again
kiss, i like kissing this and that of you,
i like, slowly stroking the, shocking fuzz
of your electric fur, and what-is-it comes
over parting flesh . . . . And eyes big love-crumbs,
and possibly i like the thrill
of under me you quite so new
A favorite…
thrilling flowers and man made an offering… Summer 2009
I live my life in widening circles
that reach out across the world.
I may not complete this last one
but I give myself to it.
I circle around God, around the primordial tower.
I’ve been circling for thousands of years
and I still don’t know: am I a falcon,
a storm, or a great song?
—— Rainer Maria Rilke
An inspiration for the day.
Like the rose with petals circling the core… the tower… the center. Layer upon layer and eternally opening to the seed, the heart.
Rose July 2011
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The JUICE today comes from DREAMING.
Resting – Preparing – Dreaming…
The next new adventure begins in this moment as I prepare and dream for the creation of an EROTIC TEMPLE.
The new adventure excites me to my core as another group of men gather to create and explore the connection between the PHYSICAL body, the EROTIC body and the body of SPIRIT. In this adventure of delight and mystery we will build a TEMPLE of EROS. Glad to be revisiting Wildwood and the grounding earthyness of the land and the expanding strength of the sky all above the snaking Russian River.
I love my work, my dream and the juice it brings my life and heart!
SNAKE – June 2011
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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
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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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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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