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One of my fav performances ever. This was pure joy to create!
I was invited by to perform for their Q***r Pride event in 2019. This was the first ever Q***r-centered Pride event that was open to the public and co-sponsored by the City of Chicago - and held at the historic and beautiful Ping Tom Park in Chinatown. I knew I had to make a grand entrance and give all the girls DRAMA!
I asked TRQPITECA co-founder : “Can I come in a boat?” “Yes, we can make that happen.”
The costume I’m wearing here is made from reflective mylar, which I had used previously for another performance for the first Veteran Artists Triennial a month prior.
After I arrived on land, I did a lip sync performance of “Moon River” sung in Spanish (from Pedro Almodóvar’s film La Mala Educación), and then sang an original song I wrote, “Eternal Return,” (produced by ), which is about reincarnation and reclaiming your power.
“REMEMBER THIS WORLD IS YOURS.”
It was raining that morning, and the event was in danger of being cancelled. I was concerned but had faith that Mother Nature would come through for the children.
While I was in the Uber on the way to the park, I meditated. I connected to the Sun, the Sky and the Clouds, and asked them to part. I told the spirits that this was a herstoric day, a convening of powerful q***r artists, musicians, performers, and community, bridging connections and sharing space with the local neighborhood and the city’s general population, so PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, stop raining so we can all enjoy the day!
Sure enough, by the time I arrived to the park, the rain stopped. And it stayed dry for the rest of the day. The sun even came out a few times as you see in this short clip!
This event was only two years ago, and yet in many ways feels like a different lifetime. So much has happened since then.
Yet this remains, for me, and I’m sure many others, a truly magical day.
As q***r people our existence is defined in reaction against systems of power, control, and subjugation. It seems as a Sisyphean task until we realize that there’s an even greater system outside of it: Nature.
Happened upon this stunning garden on my way home and just had to share the experience!
(Full, higher quality video since the Live was a bit choppy)
Are you a multitasker? Something I’ve been working on during this Quarantine is moving away from multitasking, and (RE)learning how to focus on one thing at a time.
It’s definitely a challenge! I think we’re all aware that the internet and social media has changed our mental processing patterns so much, that fragmented thinking has become the norm. However, it comes at huge cost.
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”Multitasking undermines your ability to focus and produce, fatiguing your brain in the process... When you’re bouncing between several tasks, you’re actually forcing your brain to keep refocusing with each rebound, reducing productivity by up to 40%.
Multitasking undermines productivity, efficiency, and quality of life and results in several half-baked projects that leave you overwhelmed and stressed out.
Prolonged multitasking rewires the brain, causing fractured thinking and lack of concentration.“
- Bryan E. Robinson, PhD
”Chained to the Desk: A Guidebook for Workaholics, Their Partners and Children, and the Clinicians Who Treat Them.”
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I find that multitasking also takes us away from the present moment. In a way, it becomes an addictive behavior, always reaching for the next thing.
The Buddha may not have had the internet but they’d probably say the same thing about attention now as they did then - that these patterns of desire and wanting applies as much to the material realm as it does to the mental realm. We can be just as addicted to thought patterns as we are to physical items and substances.
What can we do about this? Simply, taking things one day at a time, one task at a time, one breath at a time.
I think it’s also important to recognize completion and begin to build a stronger muscle and preference for seeing things completed, rather than continuing to pile up more and more tasks on our to do lists.
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What do you observe in your own habits? How would you like to move away from multitasking? What are some ways you’ve found that help you stay focused on one thing at a time?
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