Why The New Agreement?

This is the 8th blog in the series about the new peaceful harmony agreement I am proposing that humanity live under. The series started on March 24th. With the process in place, the bridge constructed and the goal in sight, it is important to state the reasons why the new agreement is important so the vision of the agreement can take form.

Aside from my mind being bored of the same old same old history repeating itself, I feel that as long as I am being woken up on this planet, I would like to have more fun. And the best way for me to have more fun is to have more people to have fun with. Given the turmoil in the world and the stories in the news being played out I feel limited in that.

So I’m calling for the new peaceful harmony agreement, with the bridge in place for transition, to be approved in Heaven and on Earth so that this wonderful, extremely fabulous mind of ours can generate all the beauty it was created for. Then it can be even more impressive, which it likes to be, and stay busy for eternity with its new assignment.

Blessings!
Laura

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Writing The New Agreement

This is the 7th blog in a series about writing a new agreement for humanity to live under. It started with a blog called, “Permission”. You can read from there to get the gist of what is going on here. The new peace and harmony agreement still allows for many of the same activities to take place on Earth, but the activity will be defined differently.

With the bridge in place to help create a new mindset, the Source of new information can come in as part of a natural flow process. It replaces the need for fear as a survival mechanism with the reality of joy as the over-riding principal. Words will be formed in new structures that reflect the harmony of life as not being “a problem” anymore.

Complaining will be replaced with calm understanding. Humanity will no longer be subject to the mind’s childish temper tantrums. The mind will grow up into social maturity and responsibility. Love will be defined in truth rather than as manipulative dysfunction and what is now known as evil will be transformed.

Blessings!
Laura

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Getting Across The Bridge

It’s of value to continue the conversation about being on the bridge that was discussed in the last blog in order to get across the bridge. What makes the bridge entertaining is when new ideas come in. Suddenly driving in traffic is a time to be relaxed and in prayer. It’s a great time to be kind to strangers when someone needs to change lanes.

The gifts that show up around unexpected happenings are fascinating to watch as they unfold. A computer glitch leads to finding new information and resources that make everything technical work better. The need to make a phone call to take care of something leads to a new connection with someone that is invaluable to your life.

The interesting thing about getting over the bridge is how different conversations are with people in your life. There are countless opportunities to express a new mindset everyday. The mind can be thoroughly engaged as it is redefining and renaming everything it sees, thinks and imagines. It truly is Heaven for Type A personalities.

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On The Bridge

This is the 5th blog in a series about creating a new agreement for humanity to live under. The first one is called “Permission” and you can read them in order from there to “get” what this is about in context. In working out a new peace and harmony dynamic, the mind is going to start on a new adventure in defining and labeling life.

The mind is very useful at engaging in activity. It is such a fantastic processor of information that it will make up stuff that isn’t there just to keep busy. It likes to run at high speeds. If it isn’t stimulated enough it will conjure up illusions so it has something to do. It has gotten so accustomed to doing this that it no longer knows what is real.

The mind doesn’t seem to know where it is. It lives in its illusion because it likes the energy of what it creates. The mind is addicted to fear and pain adrenaline. The trick here is to give the mind a set of parameters to work with that it will find interesting. So I propose that a challenge be brought to the mind to transform what it generates into love.

Blessings!
Laura

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The Bridge Is Superposition

A number of years ago I attended a lecture that was being given by a group of scientists on quantum mechanics. I didn’t know what quantum mechanics was, but the ad got my attention. I still couldn’t describe quantum mechanics or anything else in physics very well, but a few things I picked up in the lecture totally rocked.

One thing I learned about that night, which was the best for me, was superposition. Superposition is the state of being that an atom is in before it is observed as positive or negative. Once the atom is observed, whatever the observer perceives is what the atom becomes. Isn’t it funny how life is like that? If I think it’s good than good it is for me.

So in continuing the task of writing a new peace and harmony agreement in humanity, superposition can be used for the bridge. Here’s how it goes…If, instead of observing things as we have always observed them, we could stop for a moment and let another idea come in. Then we could observe what the peace and harmony agreement is.

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Designing a Bridge

This blog is the 3rd in a series about creating a new agreement for humanity to live by. The 1st is called “Permission”, the 2nd “Bridge for a New Agreement”. Today I’m going to talk about designing the bridge that is needed for us to transition from a good vs. evil dynamic to a peaceful harmony dynamic without any opposite.

The bridge needs to provide a stable framework to move from. It needs to reconcile conflict and introduce concepts that are desirable for people to participate in. The basic premise of good vs. evil has given us some extraordinary circumstances, many of which are valuable. I propose that a peaceful harmony dynamic can provide us with more.

More happiness, more abundance, more progress and more ease. These are the fruits of a peaceful harmony dynamic. The mindset of a peaceful harmony dynamic placed over the good vs. evil dynamic shifts the nature of the result. It produces a resolution that leads to further growth. So the bridge needs to bring the peaceful harmony dynamic mindset in.

Blessings!
Laura

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Bridge for a New Agreement

My last blog questioned the agreement that humanity has been under to manifest fear, poverty, corruption, war, crime, hatred, greed, betrayal and pain. It seems to me that the agreement has been fulfilled and a new agreement now needs to be made. After all, who can deny that humanity has mastered all of the above stories for thousands of years now?

When a contract has been fulfilled it will sometimes just continue to stay in place until the expired contract is cancelled. I believe it is time for us all to cancel this expired contract. I personally am tired of the whole thing. I’m tired of what I’m reading in the news and what I’m hearing people say. I think we can do better than this. Don’t you?

So while a new agreement is being formed, it seems that a bridge is necessary to support the transition from a dualistic good vs. evil dynamic to a peaceful harmony dynamic without any opposite. For anyone whose mind is on the verge of a “Yea, but” response, I’d like to remind you that at one time it was “known” that the world was flat.

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Permission

It seems that somewhere, somehow, someway permission is given to people in the world to do things and I wonder how it is given. I’m talking from the perspective of “As above, so below”. If you’ve never heard the expression, it’s a spiritual concept stating that as things are in Heaven, so they are on Earth. When a person comes up with an idea on Earth, does it happen when Heaven gives them permission for it to happen?

Forgive me if I’m a little out there on this but hang with me for a moment. We have certain laws in place here on the planet that are intended to maintain structure, order and balance. I believe Heaven is similarly structured. It also makes sense to me that while we have agreements and contracts set up on Earth, there must also be contracts and agreements in Heaven. We are inspired by what creates us.

SO my question to “what creates us” is…What agreement are we under in humanity to manifest fear, poverty, corruption, war, crime, hatred, greed, betrayal and pain? I’d like to have a look at that agreement and see how it came to be implemented here on Earth. I’m just curious. I’m wondering what the purpose of that agreement is, who the beneficiary is, and if I can now have permission to make it null and void.

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Honoring The Heart

It isn’t always easy for me to know or understand what I do or how that impacts someone else’s life. I do know that when I show up with kindness and compassion, (intent on being helpful), honest and loving some amazing things happen. It sometimes takes awhile to see, but when I see it I’m usually in awe of how little I do has to do with me.

I just got off the phone with a friend who I hadn’t spoken to in almost a year. When we were in touch, she was going through some rough stuff. I don’t think that anyone who lives a life here gets off without dealing with hard lessons and challenges. I know I’ve had plenty. Quite a bit of what I see today is the result of what I learned having difficulty. I’m interested in learning through bliss.

The good news is my friend’s life is really much better for her now in so many ways than how things were last year at this time. What was nice was that she wanted me to know that a lot of our conversations helped her make important changes and she was very grateful for the time that we had spoken about things. I’ve noticed that when I deal with someone in a way that honors their heart good things always come out of it.

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Laura

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Las Vegas Airport

I was in the Las Vegas airport during a lay over on my way to Tucson. I’ve only been in the airport in Vegas. I’m not a gambler. I’ve taken enough risks being an artist so I don’t get a thrill the way some people do when they gamble. Most of my life has been a gamble so I had to go beyond living on the edge. For me, if I have some extra money to blow, I’d rather go to a spa and get pampered.

What amuses me about the Vegas airport is that the only way a person can get to their gate at the terminal is to walk by banks of slot machines. I know because I walked past the slots and had to backtrack to get into the boarding area. After I sat down I noticed this short clip of music playing over and over and over and I just wanted the chord to change. Then I realized it was coming from a slot machine someone was playing.

I was hoping the person would win or something so I could hear a different sound. It wasn’t really meditative. I made a comment about it to a woman sitting next to me and we just laughed. Her husband likes to gamble and she doesn’t. He doesn’t understand the thrill she gets from shopping. He said being in Vegas with her was like being with a corpse. I told him it was good that they could accept their differences.

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Laura

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Sis' Meliss Family Salad Dressing

Usually salad dressing isn’t something I would write about, but I was in Whole Foods and there was a girl named Melissa giving out salad samples with the dressing she makes and it’s one of the best vinaigrette dressings I’ve ever had. It’s made with 3 kinds of vinegar. It’s called Sis’ Meliss Family Salad Dressing and you should try it.

Melissa grew up eating this salad dressing. It’s a family recipe. She has a few varieties that she is getting ready to start manufacturing. The one she was sampling (you can buy it at Whole Foods, hint.) is good for garlic lovers. I like that it doesn’t need to be refrigerated because vinegar is a natural preservative and no artificial ones are added.

I like being able to identify ingredients on a product label without having to have a science degree. It just seems right. If you’d like to get Melissa’s really good salad dressing, or just feel like sending an email to congratulate her on her quality business venture into food manufacturing, sismeliss@hotmail.com is where you can write her.

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Laura

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One Year Ago Today

It was raining and cold last year on March 20th last year and it’s been raining and cold today, March 20th, 2006. I know this because it was last year on March 20th that I brought home these 2 little white female baby rats from a TV shoot that were going to be snake food or left for dead in the cold rain in a canyon. There names are Carole and Nicole.

It’s amazing how attached I am to these little girls, who are now my babies. I never considered having rodents as pets, but these 2 rats are incredibly loving and sweet. They are full grown now and have developed their own personalities. Carole is more athletic and likes to run on the wheel a lot. Nicole won’t even go inside of it.

A friend of mine told me that once you start feeding something you get attached to it. I’m not sure about that. I was given a mouse 6 months ago that needed a home. Her name is Sasha. She is a field mouse and isn’t quite sure about the domestic thing. She was rescued from a cat’s mouth. I’m not all that attached to her like I am to my rats.

Blessings!
Laura

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The Question Mark

A few years ago, I heard someone say that it’s a good idea to wait for the question mark when listening to someone talking about whatever is going on with them. It was explained that waiting for the question mark was a good way to avoid trying to give unwanted advice. Sometimes people just need to be heard and aren’t asking for advice.

It isn’t something that I have been great at remembering to do. But a friend of mine reminded me that Sagittarius people think they know everything. Being a Sag girl, I have that trait. When I hear someone complaining or venting, my inclination is to try to find solutions for them. My head says, “Why else would they be talking to me?”

I was able to wait for the question mark in a conversation today and it made the conversation easier and more pleasant. When there was a pause and a question hadn’t been asked, I asked a question instead of commenting on anything. Then my question was answered. This happened several times and it was really nice to listen.

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Laura

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LA Rainbow

Today I saw an LA rainbow and it was spectacular. In Telluride, rainbows are fairly common. I even saw a lot of double rainbows when I lived there. LA doesn’t get a lot of them, or at least I haven’t seen many if they do. This one swept across the whole sky and it was vivid. I love seeing the colors in a rainbow. They always make me smile.

My favorite song about rainbows is from a musical called, “Finnian’s Rainbow. It’s called “Look to the Rainbow” and the chorus says, ‘Look, look, look to the rainbow. Follow it over the hill and the stream. Look, look, look to the rainbow. Follow the fellow who follows a dream’. I like the imagery of that.

I was with my hairdresser when the rainbow came out. It was after he had cut my hair and we had walked over to another store. It seemed like a good omen to me. I have a gig tonight at Universal Bar & Grill in North Hollywood. Seeing the rainbow today made everything I was happy about seem even better. I love nature and all her beauty.

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Laura

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St. Patrick's Day

When I went into Whole Foods it took a minute to realize why the people who worked there were all wearing bizarre green hats, shamrock antennae, and different kinds of green shirts. It looked very Halloween until I remembered it was St. Patrick’s Day. I did put on a dark green jacket this morning and I’m not even Irish.

When I lived in Chicago, the river was dyed green on St. Patrick’s Day and a lot of the bars served green beer. It was a big party then. It probably still is but I’m just not around it anymore. I do remember one year I put green mascara with glitter on my eye lashes. Guys that were drunk really tripped out on that. It was funny.

Wednesday night some friends of mine were eating shamrock shaped sugar cookies with green sugar on top. I went for the strawberry whipped cream cake. I’m not big on food coloring even though it can make desserts look really pretty. I love how for every holiday all kinds of things show up in stores that help make the celebration more festive.

Blessings!
Laura

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Thank You For Smoking

I just got back from the premiere of “Thank You For Smoking”. It’s a brilliant satire film about the tobacco industry’s lobby. Everything about the film was entertaining for me. It was so well done. The art of logic in how to win an argument is displayed with such humor and grace, it’s poetic. It’s a film that could be studied in school just for that.

The writing really struck home for me and brought back memories of my political science days in college. Listening was critical in bringing someone over to my side in an argument. I remember once there was a guy in my class that had a bull headed attitude towards the cold war. I didn’t disagree with him. I just thought he was closed minded.

I spent the better part of an hour arguing his points until I convinced him that the opposite of what he believed was correct. After he agreed with me on that I told him I thought he was right in the first place. He was really mad and asked me why I had done that. I told him he wasn’t acknowledging the other side as valid and I thought that was limited.

Blessings!
Laura

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The Ides of March

I did a search on the Ides of March to see what I could find because I had no idea what the Ides of March really means. I found a site with some information and what it says is interesting. Basically the Ides of March just means March 15th. Here’s what www.infoplease.com posted in an article written by Borgna Brunner…

The soothsayer's warning to Julius Caesar, "Beware the Ides of March," has forever imbued that date with a sense of foreboding. But in Roman times the expression "Ides of March" did not necessarily evoke a dark mood—it was simply the standard way of saying "March 15." Surely such a fanciful expression must signify something more than merely another day of the year? Not so. Even in Shakespeare's time, sixteen centuries later, audiences attending his play Julius Caesar wouldn't have blinked twice upon hearing the date called the Ides.

The term Ides comes from the earliest Roman calendar, which is said to have been devised by Romulus, the mythical founder of Rome. Whether it was Romulus or not, the inventor of this calendar had a penchant for complexity. The Roman calendar organized its months around three days, each of which served as a reference point for counting the other days:
• Kalends (1st day of the month)
• Nones (the 7th day in March, May, July, and October; the 5th in the other months)
• Ides (the 15th day in March, May, July, and October; the 13th in the other months)
The remaining, unnamed days of the month were identified by counting backwards from the Kalends, Nones, or the Ides. For example, March 3 would be V Nones—5 days before the Nones (the Roman method of counting days was inclusive; in other words, the Nones would be counted as one of the 5 days).

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Happiness Is...

I don’t know if I’m dating myself here, but I really like the Charlie Brown song, “Happiness Is”. The first line is ‘Happiness is 2 kinds of ice cream’. I have a friend who has asks me what flavor I am when he emails me because my last name is pronounced cone. I don’t know why that makes me laugh, it just does. Today I was chocolate mint.

Basically I’m into happiness because I like to smile, feel good and have fun. It’s such a drag to have problems. I’d rather just have things to take care of that need my attention for the moment for how ever long that is. And it’s much more amusing to have no idea how anything is going to work out and just do whatever can be done than to get frazzled.

Sometimes it’s a matter of me finding just a little tiny thing that I can start with that opens up the door to finding massive solutions when something needs to get done. It can be as simple as asking a question, making a phone call, or getting online. When I was younger I wasn’t all that concerned about what I was doing with my energy. Now I am.

Blessings!
Laura

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Living In LA

What’s great to me about living in LA is that there is so much diversity. I can hear 4 different languages being spoken in the same room and meet people from all over the world who came to live here. I can be by the ocean, in the mountains and in the city all in the same day if I don’t mind driving a little bit.

I love that I can buy things for very little money or a great deal of money any day of the week. It makes life so convenient. It’s easy to feel rich when I can go to a store that’s priced right for me and walk out with fabulous clothes, furniture, gifts, and food anytime I want to. And there are plenty of places I can go just to have fun.

It’s really a gift to live in this city. There are lots of places to work, wonderful people with amazing energy to work with and long lasting friendships that just get better with time that show up where ever I go. It’s so cool to connect with people here. Living in LA is really the best for an artist. I can create the life I need with everything there is here.

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Laura

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A Declaration

Lately I’ve been seeing that there are no accidents in my life. I’ve also been learning to trust my intuition about when to do things and when not to do things. There are times when it takes very little effort for things to start happening and other times when a bull dozer couldn’t move anything. Things happen when they are supposed to.

While I used to think that I knew how things were supposed to be, I’ve realized that I have no idea how things will come together. When I was injured in 1998, I made a declaration of sorts, for myself, that I would be better than I ever had been and would be given a great opportunity because of where the experience would bring me to.

I had no idea that I was in for a lot of dark days that felt horrible and that I would be dealing with a major health crisis for 5 years. But the result of the experience has made me better than I ever have been, on all levels. My life is filled with so much love and so many amazing moments because of the person I am today. So my declaration came true.

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Laura

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Colors

A friend of mine told me to wear lighter colors. She happened to meet me on a day when it was cold and I was wearing a black wool sweater and a dark brown leather jacket with black boots and a long snake skin print skirt. It made an impression on her because I still hear about it. She apparently was wearing dark colors at one point in her life.

So now I make sure to wear light colors, especially to contrast, if I wear any black. It also has me looking more closely at what colors other women are wearing. It wasn’t something I was even paying attention to. Now I’m even looking to see if women wearing lighter colored clothing look happier, are married and if they’re nice to people.

I know that colors do affect people’s mood and colors are used in some alternative healing modalities. I’m looking for happy colors to buy when I’m shopping for clothes. If someone tells me they like a color I’m wearing I make note of it and buy more of that color. When I wear red I usually get feedback that it looks good on me.

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Laura

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The Bedtime Shema

An orthodox friend gave me a prayer book, called a Siddur, to look over for the weekend. It’s the Sabbath so having something holy to read is a good thing. I live in a Jewish orthodox neighborhood, so I know quite a few very observant Jews. Most of what is in the Siddur is pretty foreign to me. I wasn’t raised with much religion in my family.

One thing I found in the Siddur that I like is the Bedtime Shema. The Shema prayer is the cornerstone of Judaism. “Here O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One. Blessed is the name of His glorious Kingdom for all eternity.” Jews love God with all their heart, with all their soul and with all their might. That’s very true in my life even without religion.

The Bedtime Shema has a lot of prayers in addition to the standard Shema. There is one that puts 4 of God’s angels around a person and the Presence of God above their head. I bet I’d sleep much better with angels surrounding me and having the Presence of God above my head. I think I’ll try that out and see what happens.

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Laura

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Comfort

I’ve noticed that my main priority in life is comfort. I think it’s been my main priority my entire life, I just didn’t know what it was called until more recently. When I’m comfortable, I’m at peace. I’m happy, satisfied, balanced and gentle. When I’m not comfortable, I get busy trying to get back to comfort and fix whatever is “wrong”.

Most of my discomfort in my life was caused by thinking something was wrong. I’ve realized that my thinking something was wrong just made me uncomfortable and didn’t mean that anything was wrong at all. I just wanted things to be different than they were. Just because things aren’t the way I want them to be doesn’t mean they’re wrong.

So now if I ever find myself in a place where I’m uncomfortable my first question to myself is, “What am I thinking?” which is quickly followed by, “What can I think now that will make me feel comfortable?” Sometimes it’s better if I just stop thinking if I’m not thinking about what makes me comfortable. Then I can relax.

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Fun

I was filling out a questionnaire about my personality. I would think by now I wouldn’t care about that stuff, but every so often I get these things and I can’t resist seeing what the answers show. When I got to the part about what I do for fun, I realized that things have changed over the years. Fun for me now isn’t what it used to be.

Fun is having dinner with a friend, seeing live theater, going to the store, getting to meditate for awhile and not having anything scheduled in particular. I used to think someone like me was boring. Maybe I’ve just mellowed out. Fun used to be going to rock concerts and going to big parties. Now I like sweat lodges with ceremonial drumming.

It’s pretty cool how in the same lifetime it’s as if I’ve lived many different lifetimes over the years. Some things haven’t changed and are still just as fun as when I was a kid. Eating ice cream, getting an order of french fries with any meal, and spending time with flowers and trees still lands a happy smile on my face and puts me in a state of wonder.

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Laura

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Kosher Meat

My friend is orthodox, as in Jewish orthodox, and she told me that it’s important for my soul that I eat kosher meat. She said it would make me feel better because of how it’s blessed. There is a special procedure that is followed when a kosher animal is used for food, how it is treated when it is killed, and how the meat is cured.

I was turning her on to vitamins and other lifestyle changes for her goals, so I told her I would go to the market she recommended and buy kosher meat from now on. I’ve eaten kosher meats before and I liked them. I’ve done so many things to improve the quality of my life and how I feel, so eating kosher meat is something I can add into the mix as well.

As promised, I went to the kosher market after I dropped her off and got a rib eye steak and some hamburgers. I had the steak and I did feel better when I ate it. I was more peaceful for some reason. I don’t know if it was because she told me I would feel better or that the animal was blessed, or if there is something to it. I just know I liked it a lot.

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Laura

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Rain

It’s been raining here in LA. I like the rain. It’s peaceful to me. I’m not talking about major storms, I’m talking about the kind of rains that clear the air and wash away the dirt on my car that I haven’t had time to worry about. The sound of rain is relaxing to me. It’s easy to stay home and rest when it’s raining outside. It reminds me of being with family.

My fascination with rain started when I was a kid. My Dad used to like watching rain storms and we would go out onto the front porch to watch the clouds and the rain fall. Lightning storms were cool, too. In the Midwest there were a lot of thunderstorms with lightning. We used to count how long it’d take after we saw lighting to hear thunder.

When I was a little older, my Dad and I used to fly airplanes together. Flying through rain showers and cloud layers was like being on another planet. It put me in another dimension and put me in a more alert state. It’s more relaxing to be on the ground in a rain storm than it is to be flying an airplane. A lot can happen in the air.

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Laura

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Including Others

I heard a man talking and he mentioned that it takes no courage at all to exclude others, but it takes a tremendous amount of courage to include others and welcome them into your life no matter where they are from or what they are about. I agree with him. It’s easy to include people I understand and like who I think will like me.

It’s not that easy for me to include people in my perception of myself and the world who are living out a totally different reality than I am, especially one that may not be all that friendly. I also find that the language barrier I run into when I’m not dealing with people who speak English makes it even harder. Even if they seem nice, there’s not much to say.

While I do my best to be accepting and patient in my life, I find that my own limitations and ideas about things can make including others challenging. I’m a person who focuses a lot on spiritual principles and I do make an effort to be aware of what I’m thinking and how I use words. When I’m around energy that is harsh, I tend to back away.

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Laura

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Surrender

I don’t know if you’ve ever noticed that there are times when energy in the air is so heavy it just doesn’t matter if there are things to do, laying down is the only option. Usually in those times there are a lot of people who are sick with the flu or colds of one variety or another and have to stay home. I just stay home as much as I can.

For me, I would rather rest than be sick. With an arsenal of garlic gel caps, vitamins, green tea, and amino acids I can keep most viruses at bay provided that I keep my activity level to a minimum. It’s in those times that I just surrender to whatever I need to do. It’s amazing how much can wait when I’m doing only what is necessary.

It’s during these times that I really understand my priorities. It’s not a matter of how I would like things to be, it’s a matter of what, realistically, I can do. When I'm having to surrender to the forces of nature, of circumstance, and what drives me, life gets pretty simple. I’ve learned that there is no use in fighting anything or anyone. I work with what’s going on.

Blessings!
Laura

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Sound Quality

I played a gig at Universal Bar & Grill last night. There was a jazz band playing a set before I was scheduled and they were really good. They stuck around to listen to me perform. After my first song, the bass player, Benj, asked if he could adjust the sound a bit. I said, “Sure”. He said my vocals sounded muffled.

He moved some knobs, checked the levels in the room a few times and within a minute or so he had the sound adjusted and it was great. It was the best sound I’ve had since I’ve been playing there and it really made a difference. There were so many things I could do vocally and on the guitar with the PA that weren’t happening before he did that.

After the set, I wrote out a little map for myself so I’ll know how to get the same sound set up for when I play the room again. Benj showed me where the levels were and what he did so I’ll be able to get better sound in other places, too. His friend said that once Benj got the sound right, he really enjoyed my music and what I was doing.

Blessings!
Laura

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Plans

I’ve heard from more than a few people that God laughs when we make plans. I don’t know that God is laughing. I just don’t think my plans affect God much. This world was in existence a long time before I ever showed up here. Who am I to say how things should be? What do I know? I just want to feel good about myself and my life here.

I do my best to not think so much, although that may seem hard to believe given how often I write about stuff. If I start deciding that things should be one way or another I’m usually headed for frustration, disappointment and I get lost. If I don’t have any idea about how things should be I usually end up in gratitude and receive many, many gifts.

There are a lot of spiritual people in my life who are guided by an inner voice that directs them in how they think and what they do. It’s good for me to be around people like that. My heart is very calm and peaceful when I’m around them. I don’t know what the results will be in my life with what I do. I know I feel good when I do what’s in my heart to do.

Blessings!
Laura

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Press Release

SINGER/SONGWRITER, LAURA COHN ASKS HER NEWSLETTER SUBSCRIBERS TO SEND HEALING PRAYERS TO SHERYL CROW

In her “BE KIND TO STRANGERS” section of her newsletter, Los Angeles based singer/songwriter, Laura Cohn requested her readers to send prayers to recording artist Sheryl Crow. After reading about Crow’s recent breast cancer surgery shortly following Sheryl Crow’s break up with Lance Armstrong, Cohn wrote, “Either one of those on their own is tough enough, but having to deal with everything involved in those circumstances in the public eye has got to be surreal and very hard…It’s important for her to be surrounded by healing light now.”

Laura Cohn’s “BE KIND TO STRANGERS” newsletter item started at the beginning of the year. It has received a warm response and her readers have sent prayers to a variety of those in need including an 8 yr. old cowboy who suffered serious injuries after being thrown from a car in a rollover accident and a chimpanzee named, Sammy, that had been abused and is now at the Wildlife Way Station in Los Angeles. “Our little cowboy is back home now and doing much better. He’s looking forward to riding his horse again. And Sammy, the chimpanzee, was just moved to a new living space with 3 girl chimps. I heard that he’s a lot happier now”, said Cohn.

Cohn stated that she created the column because she believes that it is important to experience kindness from strangers and to be kind to strangers. “I never know when I meet someone what the purpose of our meeting is and what our meeting is here to create in the bigger picture”, Cohn explains, “Connections that happen are meaningful and important and opportunities can come in abundantly when we are kind to others.” Cohn named the prayer space “BE KIND TO STRANGERS” as a twist on “Don’t talk to strangers”, a saying that she was raised with. You can sign up for Laura Cohn’s newsletter at www.LauraCohnMusic.com.

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About Laura Cohn:
Growing up in Highland Park, IL, Laura Cohn was a creative performing artist. Her parents enrolled her in flight training and she became a private pilot at 17. She began writing music after she graduated college. Many performances, live radio shows, air play of her songs on radio stations, community television show tapings and recording sessions brought Laura through Colorado and Arizona before landing her in Los Angeles, CA. She is currently performing around LA.

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