AM I THE SAME GIRL : SWING OUT SISTER

HUMAN BODY : EXPERIENCE FORTY-TWO : CHRISTINE TRZYNA WRITING WORKSHOP

 

This exercise was created after a hilarious experience I had recently.  I was with a group of women, most totally unknown to me, ranging in age from mid forties to seventies, and one of them accused another of them of farting.  Soon we as individuals and a group were either laughing out loud or repressing ourselves from doing so. Some of us had ordered old fashioned bean soup with lots of carrots and ham and well, there was a lot of witnessing about digestion, food allergies, and farts. Telling a friend of mine about this, he said, "But it's a natural body function."

So, those of you who are following along on my Christine Trzyna Writing Workshop here on Google Blogger, may want to write - be that seriously or with a sense of fun - about the HUMAN BODY.

Are there natural functions you are uncomfortable with or are you a beast?

Don't let me repress you!

Christine Trzyna

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LOVE HURTS : GRAHAM PARSON and EMMYLOU HARRIS

IT FEELS LIKE RAIN : JOHN HIATT

TO BE PUT THROUGH A TEST IN LIFE

 is to have a TESTIMONY.

I HAVE LONGED TO MOVE AWAY by DYLAN THOMAS

I Have Longed To Move Away

by Dylan Thomas

I have longed to move away
From the hissing of the spent lie
And the old terrors' continual cry
Growing more terrible as the day
Goes over the hill into the deep sea;
I have longed to move away
From the repetition of salutes,
For there are ghosts in the air
And ghostly echoes on paper,
And the thunder of calls and notes.

I have longed to move away but am afraid;
Some life, yet unspent, might explode
Out of the old lie burning on the ground,
And, crackling into the air, leave me half-blind.
Neither by night's ancient fear,
The parting of hat from hair,
Pursed lips at the receiver,
Shall I fall to death's feather.
By these I would not care to die,
Half convention and half lie.

THE AMAZING AFTERLIFE OF ANIMALS by KAREN A. ANDERSON : CHRISTINE TRZYNA BOOK REVIEW

When my dog died I looked at a lot of NDE (Near Death Experience) YouTube videos and ordered some books in to my local library branch... This one was worthy of note taking.

From my notes:  

A new life as an energetic being: we look to them like glowing orbs of light but recognized as us...

Energy goes where your attention goes....  If you encounter obstacles you're on the wrong path.

Clairalience is the psychic ability of smell...  (And we know how dogs have such a tremendously greater sense of smell than we do.)

Animal can reincarnate in another type of animal...

"Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened"  -Anatole France

After a while, the animal will not be strongly around you. Their soul evolves. They may help other humans or animals cross over or prepare to reincarnate or merge with group consciousness and have their own spiritual path...  They may no longer be on the Other Side.

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I always hope my dog will be waiting for me but I always acknowledged that she had her own spiritual path and also had ancestors and also children.  I thought that she might have been assigned to me and that someone else was calling her back as well.  

One day when I was dog sitting I proceeded to comb out the other dog's hair first and then my dog's hair.  I set them both down on the floor and proceeded to put my grooming equipment away.  Then I noticed that the two dogs were united in looking up at something or someone invisible to me.  They were looking up at the same angle. This was not at a door or window but towards a wall that had a small children's chair below it.  The chair was where the home owner left leashes.  Because my dog was getting frail and nearing fifteen, I anticipated that she might now have a lot of time.  This was a few months before she died and one of the "signs" I later thought.  Was a previous owner coming for her?  Or perhaps a deceased friend of mine?

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AM I WRONG : ANDERSON .PAAK and THE FREE NATIONALS

YOUTUBE CONTENT CREATERS QUITTING YOUTUBE : OPINION BY CHRISTINE TRZYNA

eI don't so social media.  Blogging can be social media but I turned the comments off on this blog long ago and rarely comment on other people's blogs.  I simply do not have the time to be all and do all.  I've put a great amount of time into this blog as well as some other projects I've worked on.  I hope other people will benefit a bit from my Writing Workshop posted here or enjoy the same music I do, but other than that, I do this blog for me.  To me it's like a scrapbook.

I walked in - late because there had been no prior notice - to a speaker at a library who was talking to a room of hopeful content creators who were determined to get as many hits as possible with as little dedicated time as possible.  I mentioned I blogged and the speaker pretty much laughed me out of the room.  "You still blog?" he said, with ridicule.

So I spoke up.  I said that I did so and that I never had done it for hits, but because I love my subject.  If just a few benefited from my work, that as good for me. 

I listed to a number of fairly recent YouTube videos of Big Shot content creators who are quitting. They were burned out.  They were unhappy with Adsense.  One woman in particular exhibited her anger and explained blow by blow about how her Adsense payout jumped around; she had taken screen shots.  Her complaints were dealt with by someone in another country who could only follow a script and not her complaints.  Many said that they had lost the love of the process or their subject was no longer of interest.  I admit to some anxiety when I feel that I have not posted as often as I would like because, as they say, "life is what happens to you while you're busy making plans." However, I also think that  a feeling of obligation to my readers when it comes to creating content has also been good for me, keeping me writing, keeping me thinking, and especially allowing me to express myself beyond my real-life relationships.

A major problem for the serious YouTube content creators is that the shorts have been prioritized. I find them distracting.  I'm the person who likes long episodes of deep concentration and hunts for videos on subjects that interest me that are longer.

I have long felt a concern when it comes to copyrights.

I feel that musicians and artists are always getting ripped off.  I seek out videos to post that do not have ads, comfortable for me is the long ago start up spirit of contributory and no charge.

But I benefit by being able to listen to songs I remember or discover without an investment in purchasing.

The chronic ads get to me.  I have never bought anything because of an ad that comes interrupting a video.  

Recently Google/YouTube decided I was male based on the music I was listening to and pitched ads for me also for erectile disfunction-type medications. I had a laugh with friends over that.  I have also discovered "oldies" I never knew about and have honed an appreciation for some newer artists.

I think the urge and need for hits in order to monitize, YouTube video creation as a chore rather than a joy is what has gotten to these content creators.  

I think they do need to move on and others will try to take their place.

For the viewer, YouTube video watching can become an addiction.

A decade or more on a subject is a whole lot.  Let's say goodbye to them with sincere well wishing.

Christine Trzyna

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EVERYDAY I WRITE THE BOOK : ELVIS COSTELLO

I USED TO BE KING : GRAHAM NASH

FEMME FATALE : TRACY THORN

UNDER THE MILKY WAY : THE CHURCH

SO IT GOES : MAC MILLER

THE RAIN SONG : JIMMY PAGE AND ROBERT PLANT