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Mikromusic – Niemiłość

Tim Baldwin & Dana Shellmire - Little Wing

recorded by Kenny Maggs during the opening set of my 2002 birthday bash at Nietzsche's.  We had first sung this together during an indigo girls' tribute show at Compton's After Dark, and I remember being blown away by the beauty of the harmony, and by the fact that I was a part of it.

Wild Horses - Tim Baldwin with Mike Maffei and Kim Kerns

The Human Condition is a weekly 10-12 minute audio series featuring me, you and a conversation about everyday experiences, made simple.

The human condition is defined as "the characteristics, key events, and situations which compose the essentials of human existence, such as birth, growth, emotionality, aspiration, conflict, and mortality".

Episode #15 covers pride, gender and orientation, focusing on the reason for Pride Month, Stonewall, the Pride Flag, history and several films and documentaries, terminology associated with the spectrum, including becoming involved with PFLAG & The Trevor Project. June is Pride Month. 

Resources:

PFLAG: https://pflag.org/

The Trevor Project: https://www.thetrevorproject.org/

Gender Spectrum definitions: https://www.hrc.org/resources/glossary-of-terms

Gender: The Spaces Between: https://www.cbsnews.com/video/gender-the-space-between/  

Gender Revolution: https://www.netflix.com/title/80186731 

Queer Eye: https://www.netflix.com/title/80160037 

POSE: https://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/pose

Queer as Folk: https://www.hulu.com/series/queer-as-folk-a9e832ab-e715-438c-bd62-fbc6acc961b7 

Milk: https://www.netflix.com/title/70100084 

Dallas Buyers Club: https://www.netflix.com/title/70275751

Philadelphia: https://www.amazon.com/Philadelphia-Tom-Hanks/dp/B000I9YV12 

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Peace,

Susan Marie

#16 The Human Condition with Susan Marie (What is Pride? Gender and Sexual Orientation)

Hona Costello - i've been gone for sometime | FREE DOWNLOAD


it leaps and bounds

love

climbing vines towards Heaven


zinging past stars, galaxies
meteors flashing
supernova stargaze falling embers


like a waterscape canvas
melting nightscape backdrop
settling upon blooms

springing forth
from each bud

 

an electrical buzzzzzzzzzz


resonating
a bumblehum
of drones
leaving the air
thick and heavy
like buttercream frosting.

If you look to the sky, you will see the energy
electrical lines quake and quiver 

a sonic boom
like static
traveling down one arm
to the fingertip
that touched Gods' own
on the ceiling of the Sistine.

Michelangelo knew about love.

Aboriginals knew.

They needed no speech.

They felt the Earth
pull their chests
outward
magnetic
a throbbing ache
of telepathic temple
told presence of
Mother Earth
God
Buddha
Muhammad
The Great Spirit
Yahweh

The bum in the gutter
has knowing eyes.
I bet you never took
the time to see.

Next 

         time
                  look 

                           closer

the iris
reflects

the freedom
of knowing
the same crazed stare
of a driven soul
escaping through 

tunnels of poetry
waiting to flood
the city streets
and drown 

the foolhardy.

The Genesis 


of an Apocalypse.  



© Susan Marie  

Thoughts While Sleepwalking

Miscegenation by Natasha Trethewey read by Christina Lux

Invitation written and read by Druzelle Cederquist

This poem is for participation in The Poetry Foundation's 2013 National Poetry Month initiative "Record-a-Poem." Gwendolyn Brooks is one of my favorite poets. This is my favorite poem. Read with hopefully the same vigor and love as she recited it. May she rest in peace!

"We Real Cool" By Gwendolyn Brooks - Recited By Christopher D. Sims

Section XVI from Dark Harbor by Mark Strand read by Mark Johnson

The Silken Tent by Robert Frost read by Gary Zmolek

I had the pleasure of speaking with Ray Manzarek from The Doors.

In this one hour live interview, Ray and I talk about The Doors, play live music, tap into his jazz and blues influences, various keyboards and methods and educate the public about his work as an author.

Ray speaks of Dorothy, his grandchildren, his life with The Doors, of Jim and Pam and of his own future.

Upbeat and lively, Ray and I were laughing and joking throughout the entire interview interspersed with a few of his most beloved Doors' tunes.

Take an hour with me, in tribute to Ray and listen for when he slides his chair back ever so slightly. That is when we begin to talk about cosmic consciousness.

My peace to you Ray, and also, to Dorothy.

© Susan Marie & Ray Manzarek 

One Hour With Ray Manzarek From The Doors

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"The Human Condition with Susan Marie" is a 10-15 minute audio series featuring conversations about everyday experiences made simple. The human condition is defined as "the characteristics, key events, and situations which compose the essentials of human existence, such as birth, growth, emotionality, aspiration, conflict, and mortality".

Broadcast Journalist, Author, Poet, LMHC, LPC, NYSCPS

Observer of transformations, social and personal, which I try to catch in poetry. 

Thoughts While Sleepwalking

Susan Marie

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