thankfully i work well at mach speed. Because, right now, that's necessary.

Things at the art studio are going well. We really just need a working shower, and then we'll be good to rock. Tonight at open mic we had a lot of new people--which is great. We got a band to open for first Friday for us, and we're going to do the hip hop show later in the month. What I want is for graffiti artists to come in and just take over the walls. Because we need to strip them and sand them and repaint them anyways. So I just want them to tag the whole open space--the stairway, the lanai walls, the backyard walls. That would be Great. Capital G great.

Work is good--thankfully I have a lot of work. But, wow. I have a lot of work.

Sometimes I wonder how energy flows. (Complete change of topic, by the way.) There's this guy that comes by the art space and does a lot of extreme Energy/Buddhist/Neo-type presentations. I try not to get into the religio-philosophic realm with him, for several reasons that I don't feel like listing. But tonight as I was leaving open mic he called me back, and said he was full of energy and wanted to pass it on to me. He put his hands on my shoulders, and after a short while he withdrew them and told me that I was full of love. My heart chakra, he said, was basically overpowering. Thumping. I almost felt like he didn't want to continue touching me because it was overpowering. He never said that, though.

But he did say something about me being fierce. I told him that, in everything I choose to do, I'm always fierce. I love fiercely, I'm fiercely loyal... He said that he could tell, that I'm like a tiger. And I realized that he's the first person to use that word for me other than myself. That he felt that the seat of my soul is in my heart. That even though everyone calls me peaceful, there's fire in my veins. And he saw it.

I guess I just wonder how all of these human souls are connected. Why I feel my "radar" go off when far-away friends are in tough spots, why my mom and I call each other at the exact same moment, why people are drawn to each other... Just the general turning of the world, all the things we can't explain. That's what I'm thinking about tonight.