#shareyourvoice

[urlidk]

On June 24th, 2022, I was on the train heading to downtown Chicago with my Dad. We were both going to our first ever Dead & Company concert. But on June 24th, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Women of all ages were on that train, already gripping protest signs, ready to fight for their rights. I remember being unable to comprehend what this truly meant for women, but I knew the future was dark. Looking back, my memories of that train ride are surreal. Train hurtling through the outskirts of Chicago, protestors patiently waiting at the doors to flood the streets. Sadly, it was real life. The U.S. Supreme Court stripped reproductive rights away. It was official.

However, during the concert, Dead & Company displayed images supporting women's rights and abortion access on the big screens, and it planted a seed of hope within me that night. I mean, to be at a Dead & Co. concert is one thing, but to be at a Dead & Co. concert while also supporting reproductive freedom?! That is awesome!

Anyway, I am writing this today because it looks like Proposal 3, which guarantees reproductive freedom in the state of Michigan, is on track to be added to the state constitution. However, the votes are currently 55% yes and 45% no...this goes to show that every vote, every voice, every person matters in this debate! Share your opinion! Participate in the democracy that we have the privilege to live in! I am not usually one to share my opinion online, I never saw the point. But, the severity of the implications of the issue at hand and this community on Tumblr has encouraged me to take part and to take action, and I hope you do, too!

[soulreflectiontarot]

Today is a message about taking back your power and speaking what is on your mind. Please take only what resonates and leave the rest. The cards used are from The Oracle Of The Nile by Christine Seebold and The Soul Reflection’s Star Soul Universe by Nadine Swiger. . Today you will be called upon to speak up. For some, this may put you in a difficult situation. Speak from your heart and speak your truth. You can find your voice and your safe space to open up. It is time to be heard. Share your voice and other will be open and ready to listen. . . . #oraclecardsoftheday #oraclereadings #oraclereadingoftheday #oraclecards #findyourvoice #speakup #speakyourtruth #speakfromtheheart #followyourheart #setyourheartablaze #setyourheartfree #communication #throatchakra💙 #throatchakraopening #shareyourvoice #egyptianoraclecards #galacticoracle #starseedoraclecards #starseed #etsyoraclereader #etsyoracle #oracleofthenile #christineseebold @intuitivemediumchristine #egyptianoracle #starseedoracle #starsouluniverseoracle #soulreflectionoraclecards #nadineswiger #soulreflectionoracle #starsouluniverse https://www.instagram.com/p/CmMJp7lOaao/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[ponderingpalette]

🗣💫 Hear YOUR voice above the noise... #EchoYourTruth Why seek echoes when you have your voice? 🎙 Stop waiting for validation. Start BELIEVING in yourself. 🌟 #SelfValidation #OwnYourPower

👀 Look in the mirror today. Remind yourself: YOU are enough. 🌈 Your worth isn't in likes or comments—it's in how you embrace YOU. 🙌 #YouAreEnough #BelieveInYou

🔄 Watch, embrace, and share if this resonates! Let's amplify our voices, not echoes! 🔊💪

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Save this reel for days you need a reminder of your inner strength! 📌 And tag someone who needs to hear this today! 💌

#PhilosophyReels #ArtOfSelfLove #PoetryInMotion #Empowerment #SelfAffirmation #InnerVoice #NoMoreEchoes #InstaPhilosophy #InspiringReels #ShareYourVoice

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[sygil-loux-hq]

Was called to talk to my cards again, just in time for the full moon. Looks like im being told to not "put the wagon before the horse" kinda thing? 🌕 #workyourlight #oraclecards #answerthecall #innertemple #shareyourvoice #mysticalmangatarot #tarotcards #tarot #2ofcups #queenofswords #9ofcoins #knightofwands #thewheeloffortune #exjw #excult https://www.instagram.com/p/CS3IJ4Dridw/?utm_medium=tumblr

[vegasribs]

What’s the hubbub in Washington? Facebook used among all; Twitter and Instagram used among Democrats. There’s still ample opportunity and space for Americans to sound off their voices and share their beliefs!

[ahylen]

Step Six: Connect with your Voice. Share your story. My book has personal stories about navigating life with reflective questions and healing tools I used to move through challenges and find joy. #anevolutionarywomansjourney #shareyourvoice #writing #thehealmyvoiceprocess #thewritingincubator #integratethehealing #healmyvoice #seattle #baltimore #losangeles #sweden #womensupportingwomen #connectwithyourvoice https://www.instagram.com/p/B2g9HuYByum/?igshid=p105c4wwczz1

[loveus-0416]

Love, Us Project

The holidays became hectic and so the project was put on hold. Therefore there are still not enough submissions to begin the final editing and publishing steps. The project is ready to get moving again though! Please submit your letters, poems, art, etc. and share your voice! This could be your chance to be heard and possibly help give someone else the strength they need! Spread the word and let’s get the submissions coming in! And questions please don’t hesitate to ask! Love, KJ

[rosedalemike]

The Mood: Blog #13 “The Taco Tuesday Theory/updates”

    Very few people know this but Tuesday has been kind of an inside joke (...hence why very few people know this...) amongst the revolving door of Rosedale team members. "Wait until Tuesday, They'll probably reply on Tuesday...Follow up on Tuesday...ask them on Tuesday...hit'em up! For it is Tuesday" etc.

     I don't mean for this to come across as cynical, but Tuesday has kind of become the day where everyone is more likely to get things done. Based on nothing but statisticless experience, people are more likely to say "yes" on Tuesday for whatever reason. Humans are more willing to ignore all distractions and Crush It on Tuesday.

      Come to think of it, this is probably the same reason why there's $1 bowling on Tuesday. And movies are half price on Tuesday. And EVERYONE knows about Taco Tuesday! A little closer to home, In Canada, I remember a bunch of fast food places had "Toony Tuesday" advertised on their windows (a Toony is a $2 coin). These leisure-y businesses probably recognized drastic dips in sales on Tuesdays because everyone was too busy Crushing It to go bowling, watch movies, eat tacos etc. So they made Tuesday specials.

     I still haven't totally figured out why a day of the week has such significance as to why we perk up and Get Shit Done. But the most reasonable explanation would probably come from our counter-motivation to the general perception of weekends. Here's what I invision: Friday night is social/party night (ie.Tacos and Movies), Saturday maybe you'll beach/golf/mimosa (.../more tacos) or maybe you���ll get stuff done around the house during the day then more social events (like bowling...and tacos) at night, then Sunday is so chill that Chick-Fil-A is straight up closed (I know about religion, don't worry).

      But then why not Mondays, right? Well Monday becomes most people's time to just get back into the groove; they'll get some stuff done, ie. reply to some of the workaholics who filled their inbox over the weekend. I'd guesstimate that the average normy gets 20% of the amount of work done on Mondays than they do on Tuesdays. Maybe it's also because on Monday we're all simultaneously subconsciously thinking "I can watch that viral thing that Mr.Normy was talking about at the water cooler...I've got the rest of this week to get the thing done".

    Anyway, that's what generalization looks like from the guy who once assumed all dogs are male and all cats are female. So now that you're all in on my Tuesday theory (and know what a Toony is) I guess I'll try to finish out this here blog and give you some updates:

      Rosedale is still in the re-branding stage. I've been tossing ideas around with friends. Some like/hate certain names, other friends are on completely different pages (hating/liking what was liked/hated...if that makes sense.) But overall I'm still just trying to figure out what to do from a branding standpoint in general! Do I assemble a band finally? Keep the one man show going but give it a clever name? Have a couple different projects with different names (one with a band, one solo with video screens, maybe even one more chilled out piano/acoustic??) I feel like the name’s will be narrowed down if I can organize the overall brand plan first.

      I guess I've been more focused on writing songs (and parts for those songs) than anything. I've got about 30ish songs that I'm happy enough to keep working on. Many others have been scrapped but might make their way back somehow. So that has me juggling a lot of computer files and lyrics messaged to myself randomly throughout my days. It has been nice to focus on creating songs and recording demos as opposed to spending hours grinding away as a small time booking agent for a project whose name is nearly unsearchable.

      But yes, it is really time to buckle down and figure out what to do with these songs/project/name/podcast/YouTube ideas. So if anyone has any suggestions feel free to send them my way and I'll put them in the ever-growing vault of ideas. And I promise to start making some moves soon.

      Speaking of moves, I recently moved to San Diego and am currently living out of my trailer and a rehearsal studio in El Cajon. That has been a throbbing idea of mine since around the time I spent Christmas 2015 in Time & Distance's rehearsal room in Charleston, WV and edited the entire video for Written By The Artist. I've always wanted to live in SoCal since I started skateboarding at 12 years old. Now I'm 30 and I still love this scene so I finally just did it in the most cost efficient way possible and I’m glad I did. Big thanks to Vocal Eze for helping me make ends meet with getting down here for NAMM (namm is a big music trade show). It has been really fun working as an artist ambassador for that amazing throat spray and I’ve been learning a lot. Check out some of the #ShareYourVoice vids I make too!

      In the midst of all of that I got very show deprived from going to see the many great bands down here so I picked up some acoustic shows thanks to Nick from Mainsail. We've been accompanying each other's songs along with some covers - half-jokingly calling it "MainDale". I also started filling in on bass for Mainsail. Check them out asap they're great and super good dudes. A lot of big things to come for that band for sure.

     Then I randomly took a gig for Rosedale this Friday April 5th at Himmelberg's in San Diego (cus why not) so if anyone wants to see that it starts at 8pm PST this Friday April 5th. Rosedale is on last at 11pm so please stick around, tell some friends it'll be worth the late night. Here's the flyer:

     Mainsail has a show at Blonde Bar on April 8th which is also a headlining set. From there I'm driving 38 hours back to Toronto to re-import all my gear back into Canada and renew my work permit (as both my bond and permit expire April 12th). Not gonna be fun, but has to be done. I'm technically not aloud to work or bring my gear into the United States until my new permit starts (May 3rd). But Mainsail has some more SoCal shows in April that I might fly back for... or just help make BassDale tracks for. We're not sure what we're doing about that yet. I really need to figure out dual citizenship though. 

     Most of this + more was already covered in the @Palapalooza podcast I did on my bday. Here's the link for that. 

actually here it is:

     Shout out to Troy from Ready Set Survive for spreading his passion for music/new bands and having me and Mainsail Nick on that.

     One last update; I was working on video edits and mixing for a live hometown Rosedale show that I multi-tracked with Zedpromedia on my last tour and I was working off my 2T hard drive (because the files were so massive) and it crashed the other day while transferring that Palapalooza video onto it. I had so much on that hard drive (old videos, shows, pictures etc) and I've been trying to recover the files but it has not been very successful. I got most of them back with a $90 app but they're all re-organized and renamed or Corrupt and the sessions won't even open. The drive is still sitting about 90% full of files but I worry there's no way of getting any use out of it. Unless I bring it somewhere and pay a bunch of money for someone (that knows something I don't) to do their thing. Which I'm thinking I should probably do.

     I guess that's all the updates for now. What have you all have been up to? I really miss seeing friends at shows and hearing about what they have going on in their lives. So feel free to reply here or message me anytime even if you feel like you have NOTHING going on (we all feel that way sometimes). Any new music/Podcasts you've been listening to? Blogs or vids I should check out? And of course, the perfect band name for me?? Let me know! 

Thanks again to Vocal Eze and Westone and Ernie Ball for helping me out so much over this re-brand transition! I'm extremely lucky to have such great support from these awesome companies.

     I also wanna give one last special shoutout to an awesome fan/friend who has really inspired me to get back to writing these blabbering blogs. Mellyssa Woodward recently started a blog that exposes new bands via very interesting interviews. She was hesitant to do it because she wasn't sure if anyone would care. Then she just decided to do it for herself and I assure you that they are so good because she is right in her element with these! I think we can all relate to that on so many levels with the many ideas floating around in our heads. Just go do it for yourself however you would like it to be done! That's what Mel (@AssyllemNaej on insta and twitter) did and here's a prime example of how it can only do good for yourself and the world...and of course my favorite Georgia band, LIKE MIKE: https://notesonnotes.tumblr.com/post/183814739906/notes-on-like-mike

Thanks for reading! Hope to see you in San Diego this Friday night or sometime soon :) 

Enjoy your Taco Tuesday and GET’R DONE! If you’re not having any luck, TRY AGAIN NEXT TUESDAY ;)

[dacih9943717]

Daci Hughes’s The Poet X Discussion Post

Elizabeth Acevedo’s verse novel, The Poet X, begins with Xiomara, the novel’s protagonist, stoop-sitting, and listening to her neighborhood. It’s comforting to her, these noises, they are things she knows well, and has grown familiar to. She is someone who has had to grow more comfortable in her own skin, and with who she is, and has had to do to far too quickly. Xiomara talks about how because of her body, men and boys have been interested in her from a terribly young age, and she isn’t sure how to handle it. Her poem, entitled, ‘Questions I Have’, explains it simply.

And I get all this attention from guys

But it’s like a sancocho of emotions.

 This stew of mixed-up ingredients:

Partly flattered they think I’m attractive,

Partly scared they��re only interested in my ass and boobs,

And a good measure of Mami-will-kill-me fear sprinkled on top (32, lns 8-12).

 Xiomara is dealing with confused feelings and she is steadily growing, especially as the struggles of a secret boyfriend create a little web of guilt. She not only feels guilty about that, but also further on in the book, after her mother finds out about the boyfriend, and things seemingly fall apart. To Xiomara, there is no reason to use her words, according to part of the poem, A Poem Mami Will Never Read (In Translation).

How your lips are staples

That pierce me quick and hard

 And the words I never say

Are better left on my tongue

Since they would only have slammed

Against the closed door of your back.

 Your silence furnishes a dark house,

But even at the risk of burning,

The moth always seeks the light (234, ln 9-17).

 This was a poem that really stood to me. Not only does it come at a rather pivotal moment in the novel, when her mother finds out about Xiomara’s secret relationship, but it is also the moment when Xiomara discovers that there are really two options in regards to words. Her mother’s way of dealing with issues is to direct her words to God, and to everyone else, but when it comes to actually confronting the person she’s in conflict with, it’s harder for her to talk to them. Xiomara can be like that. But she isn’t. She stands up for her brother, and herself, and whatever else she wants. She is the kind of person who needs to be heard, and relishes in the feeling of being able to share that.

The Mic Is Open

---and the first line clicks.

I say it, my voice trembling.

I clear my throat.

I take a breath.

I begin the poem all over again.

I forget the comparisons.

I forget the nerves.

I let the words fill the room.

I let the words carry me away (279, lns 1-9).

 This is all too relatable a feeling; crossing the threshold of something that seemed daunting and terrifying, and being able to excel at it so well, that it almost doesn’t seem real. Xiomara is not someone who wants to hold back her words. They are a part of her that needs to be shared, and not oppressed. The words are where she finds her strength.

Discussion Question: Compare two poems that focus on Xiomara’s coming of age as a writer. What impacts her development as a writer? What does she write about? And why does she write about those things?

[belaymonkey]

LungForce Harrisburg Lung Cancer Awareness Month #LungForce #Asthma #LungCancer #LungForceWalkHarrisburg #1CancerKiller #COPD #LCAM #AmericanLungAssociation #ShareYourVoice @lungforce @lungassociation (at City of Harrisburg City Island) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bpu7nDKlU7s/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1io4009fvt49o

[ecogreenlux]

#tbt - Crowned CHAMPION at the Canadian Motivational Speaking Championships by Speaker’s Gold Agency!!! 🏆⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🚀💸🦋 This was the first time that I ever won anything major in my life and I went from being a $500 an hour amateur-speaker to a $5000 an hour pro-speaker studying under speaker coach extraordinaire Cathleen Fillmore. I was competing against 19 of the other top speakers in Canada, through a six-month elimination process with hundreds of entries and I ended up WINNING 60% of the vote via audience voting… The other 19 speakers split 40%. That day was the first time I shared my historic journey and personal story of overcoming drug abuse, gang-life, prison, the rave scene and turning my life around to serve at-risk teens who are going down the same painful path and life choices I made as a young person struggling to survive. Not being religious whatsoever, it was ironic that I was confessing my sins during my speech entitled ‘The POWER of CHOICE’ in a united church where the event was held with 500+ attendees. lol This was one of the best days of my life and I’m really proud of the razor-sharp focused accomplishment to this day. PLUS it was the beginning of my highly lucrative speaking career many moons ago! 🌙💫 Gentle reminder my friends; WE can DO, BE & HAVE ANYTHING we focus our minds/hearts/beliefs on!!! I am living proof of that. 👊🏻 #speakingchampion #inspirationalspeaker #motivationalspeaker #shareyourvoice #believe (at Trinity-St Paul's United Church and Centre for Faith, Justice and the Arts) https://www.instagram.com/p/CZPQTQ6Os_l/?utm_medium=tumblr

[godobe]

The “Share Your Voice!” workshop is one of my favorite things @expositionreview does—helping emerging writers from @writegirlla and @penamerica’s #DREAMingOutLoud program get published, including a couple in our upcoming issue! Read about the event here: bit.ly/ShareYourVoice21 📝 #editing #publishing #mentoring Posted @withregram • @expositionreview The best part about our #ExpoPresents: #ShareYourVoice workshop was inviting the @writegirlla and @penamerica #DREAMingOutLoud participants to submit their work to #ExpoReview for consideration in our forthcoming Vol. VI: #Hunger issue. We are so excited to publish some of their work later this spring! Stay tuned, and find all the details of our workshop here: bit.ly/ShareYourVoice21. #writegirl #newwriter #youngwriters #penamerica #dreamers https://www.instagram.com/p/COkyivoJQw-/?igshid=crtnq2i86zif

[saymysay]

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[loveus-0416]

Love, Us Project

We still need submissions to make this happen in our time frame! I’m hoping to start final edits sometime in January but still need quite a few more. I have probably received somewhere between 40-50 submissions but to really get something good out of this I am hoping ideally to double that, or come close to. So please share and submit letters, stories, art work! Let’s make this a reality and share our voices!

[marchforthmediacompany]

NEW PODCAST ALERT! 🤗😮😱 Today, I am so excited to share my recent interview with author/actress Kimber Leigh, author of the book Greta Gar-Bitch, in which Kimber shares her story overcoming abuse and extreme family dysfunction. Kimber and I talk about forgiveness, finding love, and always living in the light. Link below and in bio...Take a listen, and let us know what you think in the comments down below, or send us a message. Like and share if you know someone who would find this interview helpful or inspiring. . https://bit.ly/2Kqe9rn . . . . . #gretagarbitch #podcasthost #podcastmovement #podcastofinstagram #anchorfm #amazonpodcast #spotifypodcasts #applepodcast #authorinterview #indepdenentauthors #shareyourvoice #shareyourstory #marchforth #inspirecreativity #inspireothersdaily #healtogether #authenticlove #authenticlife #authenticvoice #energyiseverything #liveinthelight #spirituality_love #shareawakening #awakeningsoul #awakeningpeople #guestinterview #sharingstories #inspiringmessage #positivemessages (at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) https://www.instagram.com/p/CHxevu7HrKe/?igshid=1c9yfi18jptg6