Author: dcmenzies
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While I was in Busy Making Plans
The sun had just set when I arrived at Roxy’s, a cozy little campsite in the heart of Slab City. The Steward of Salvation Mountain had recommended it to me, and I was eager to see what all the fuss was about. As I approached the hearth in the front of the camp, I saw…
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Grow Up
These hurdles and greater and greater leaps become of the utmost importance! They keep me young again, they keep me growing, and they stop me from “growing up.”
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Reinventing My Perception
How should one walk? What is the appropriate period of time to make eye contact with someone on the streets of Seattle? What body posture lets people know that I know what I am doing? What vocal qualities come off as confident? What are mannerism which are prescribed to be masculine? What clothing suggests that…
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Elevate Yourself
The space above spans six stories high to a ceiling skylight offering a flood of light on the interior of the WeWork space, where one of my friends go to get his work done. WeWork Motto: DO WHAT YOU LOVE An intention space for people to commune for industry and art and where personalities collide.…
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Leveling up
Knocking over speakers during entrances. pants falling down at the most perfect timing, wobbly harpsichord legs, 15 passenger van being towed out of grass by an opera singing elementary school choir director with her friend Jorge, Maniacal laughing, Craving Mexican always, Innumerable smiling faces And personal growth -Some highlight of 2019 NOISE tour There are…
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Palm Springs
Probably the gayest place on earth. The kind of place were you walk into a thrift store and the mens section is 3 times larger then the women’s section. The kind of place where Mariah Carey and Cher are played in restaurants. The kind of place where Listerine is in the gym bathrooms. Also its…
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The Death of Ideal
2018 you are dead and with it so much, you changed me and I hope it was for the better. You started with the greatest therapy theater could allowance. “Falsettos” I learned that exposing yourself and your flaws and vulnerabilities is a leap of faith full of fear and contemplation but on the other side…
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My Feet
So I put on my shoes of peace with really good arch support because I have an Achilles heel that need some tending to and sensitive skin that needs attention.
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Amusement in Seattle
In a city such as Seattle one is inundated with a plethora of wonderful enchantments and muses and sometimes they come so swiftly and greatly we cant appreciate it. We haven’t set intention with it, done it, and climbed the mountain to the muse were we learn and grow. Instead there is a ski lift…
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Appreciating Color: Lessons in Diversity
Me and my director talked about our proud heritage while trekking back from Seattle to Bainbridge Island on the Ferry; hers being Ukrainian and mine being Scottish. We talked about the contentedness we felt to our ancestors, what lives they lead, what trades they were known for, and our common global ancestral beliefs. It brought…
Duncan Clark Menzies 