A Muse's Daydream jill badonsky

I'm not really in New Mexico... this is an encore episode to go along with the theme in this week's Muse letter of seeing things differently but also finding the beauty in things we see as the same. It has the full script of the episode as well as some creative prompts and pretty paintings. You can find that here.

Voice of Antonio: Robin Brisebois
Music: Epidemic Sound
Engineered, written, and narrated by Jill Badonsky

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The script is here if you want to follow along.

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Some traditions need to be examined, and maybe modified if they're not fun.
Some of us would rather high-five than bow, some of us would rather blow bubbles in our chocolate malts than act too serious.

I had fun writing this podcast. I find when I have a dry spell, I just submit to the silly, the absurd, and once again, my creative childlike spirit comes out to play. Sometimes it results in something inspirational, other times, it's just a good time. It's Bea Silly from my first book.

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Don't quit your daydream. 
Daydreaming is the source of infinite creativity.      
Unlike any other form of thought, daydreaming is its own reward.  ~Michael Pollan
Daydreaming incubates creative discovery.      `Daniel Goleman
He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie. ~Anais Nin

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It's rainy here in San Diego. I wrote a poem and podcast last year about rain. I was in an Airbnb for two months because my bathroom was being renovated. It seemed fitting to send it to you again..


Here's the writing 
"I’ve been taking a masterclass from poet, Joy Harjo.  She says -- one of the elements to writing good poetry is listening. Everything has something to say. The trees, the sky, the potted plants on the front porch.
 
So  I started listening.
I was stuck in an Airbnb in hillcrest for two months and started listening.
And what I found is that if you pay attention closely, things are talking,  A LOT.  
The desk, refrigerator, the sink, the comforter, my robe, the fern  were all were chatting.
 The coffee pot was percolating in laughter, the heat was humming a mambo,
 the cabinets were complaining about crumbs.
 
Where once there was silence, there was  a cacophony of conversation…because I was listening.
My attention turned to outside the window where the talk was louder.
This Airbnb was on a busy street and the street was wet from rain.
Every time a car went by it said sssssssshhhhhsss,  which I believe was “yes”
Every time a car passed by on the wet concrete I heard the word “yesss”
When a group of cars went by one after another,  it was a flurry of yesess in a tag team procession.
The yeses came and went… nothing ssstayed yesss for long,   
The noissse evaporated into sssilence as sssoon as the cars …. passsssssed.    
So I asked the quessstionsss I wissshed were anssswered with yesss.. 
Will people ever live and let live? Will peace ever stay? Will the violence stop soon?
There was a sudden absence of cars. Silence, no “yessses.”   
Not too long after.  more cars came, but they didn’t say yes, …
They said, “wisssh … wisssh .. wisssh..”   
That’s what I heard as I listened to the cars driving on wet pavement…” wisssh “
A truck said, “Get out of my way”… then a bus said, “Same old routine, same old.. route, day after day.”
 
The rain came down heavier and it started talking, I listened… this is what it said:
Yes, is not the ansswer to your impossssible questionsss,  …. that’s just your wisssh,  
Peaccce can be elusssive,  …    lisssten closssely…   the carsss aren’t saying yesss…and they aren’t saying wisssh : they are saying thisss too shall passsss the rain, the darknessss, the conflict
[yes] this too shall passss,   carsss on a rainy street,   the thought you’re thinking,   the pain you’re feeling,
  thessse too shall passss, and then whatever comes next, that shall passss too.
 Listen to the peace inside of you."
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This was written in 2020 to help us get through, you know, that thing in 2020. But it's also relaxing for 2023 and beyond.

Embrace the Wabi Sabi

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This is a Re-re-release of the episode called Rain because it just feels like people need a little relaxation and reverie during this time where the contagion, politics and the threat of climate change is exhausting us. Plus the holidaze.  When I listened to it again, it seemed new, that's the nice thing about forgetting stuff. And it's raining in San Diego right now.

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A new Kaizen-Muse Creativity Coaching training starts in January. On Zoom.
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