4:35AM

I was awake this morning.

I couldn't sleep. There was a cricket somewhere in the laundry room and it was LOUD.

hahaha

It sounded like a frickin choir!

That could be my next CD. "Choir of the Crickets."

I went outside. Listened to the sounds of the birds and the wind. I waited.

Slowly, the sun began to rise.

I got on my bike and rode down the street. The ducks were all hanging out on the road. Two of them were picking a fight.

Some of them were swimming.

I got down to the bridge along the water. I looked up and this giant ball of fire was in the sky.

I raced back to the house and grabbed my camera.

It was as if the sun was saying,

Wake up! Wake up! It's a new day.

No matter what comes.... It's a new day, and you're here, and you are ALIVE.

I couldn't help but smile.

So I unwrapped the gift

and

thanked God.

I just aired a new podcast episide on zentertainment talk radio, featuring Nora Ephron. She wrote my all time favorite movie "WHEN HARRY MET SALLY." She also wrote and directed "Sleepless in Seattle" and others. (Heartburn, Silkwood, You've Got Mail).

This was such a fun show for me, and I laughed while I put it all together! If you need some laughter in your day, check this one out! Nora has a very dry sense of humor, it's very New York, so of course, I love that.

She is talking about her life as a writer, and shares so many personal details of her life! She also gives you the scoop on how the scene came about where Meg Ryan fakes an orgasm in the diner. I laughed so hard. Listen in at:

http://www.zentertainment.org/podcasts.html

Just hit PLAY beside this podcast with Nora Ephron and you can hear it anytime.

She says that all (ok, not all, but many) painful events, can eventually be funny stories.

It reminds me of something that happened a few years ago.

I was in am ambulance headed for a hospital. I had an oxygen mask on, and couldn't really sit up and my heart was racing. I was dizzy. So these two guys about my age are the paramedics....

There I am in this state, lying there in the back of the ambulance, and suddenly I smelled this horrible STENCH! One of the guys had let a huge fart slip out!!! hahaha UGH

The other guy started laughing, and I sort of laughed but I couldn't really laugh with the darn oxygen mask over my face, plus the smell was gagging me out! (Even WITH Oxygen)! I thought, YOU HAVE TO BE KIDDING ME!

So then the guy who did it tried to pin it on me like I did it. Since I couldn't talk, all I did was lift up my right index finger and sort of wiggle it back and forth sideways as if to say..

"Uh Uh Uhh....You're not pinning this one on ME..."

They laughed. When we got to the hospital, the one guy was wheeling me through to wherever, and he apologized for what his partner had done on the way and for that dreaded smell. He was still sort of laughing though, and actually so was I.

I thought, Jo, you have to remember this one!

Have you ever been able to find a funny moment in what felt like a disaster?

poem and photo copyright Jo Davidson ************************************************ Sept 12 2007 Bliss is an east coast September on the water It is riding my bike as the sun sets and the herons and egrets play It is watching 50 ducks fly off into the sunset and wild geese glide by It is the beaver that crosses the street and the two rabbits that hop away It is the scent of autumn teasing me in the wind and the crisp air running its hands through my hair and over my body like a sexy sloooow song It is the voice in my soul that says yes yes yes this is Bliss. mmmm.

I hope you are enjoying this gorgeous September weather. I just posted a new show featuring best selling author Carolyn Myss. Some of her books include Sacred Contracts, Anatomy of The Spirit, The Creation of Health, and the new book Entering the Castle. Have any of you read her books? Any thoughts? We are talking about what it means to be a mystic, the difference between soul and ego, and how the movie "The Secret" is attached to greed. This episode also features music by Naked Rain. You can hear this show on the hear the show page at : http://www.zentertainment.org/podcasts.html Thanks for some of your notes regarding the Nora Ephron show! If you haven't yet listened to that one, don't miss it! I hope it will make you laugh as much as I did. (Especially all you writers out there). Let me know what you think. If you happen to be in NYC, check out a great small restaurant at 259 West 19th Street, called Elemental Foods. They just have a few tables. It is totally casual. The food is AMAZING. Very healthy- peace, jo

I just wrote a song called "Desire." I love the feeling of it musically. Although the song doesn't get into any of this- I wonder- What does desire cause us to do? To feel? It is underlying everything we do. How does it confuse us or torment us? Sometimes it makes the picture more clear, sometime more blurry. Sometimes it is part of love. Sometimes only lust. Other times it is related to greed and power. Even violence. This red-tail hawk had its own desire. I am sure this was not the squirrel's desire. Desire has many faces.....

Thanks for your personal letters and notes regarding the Carolyn Myss show. Please feel free to write me anytime with show comments, suggestions, or ideas. You can write to me at jodavidson@mac.com

I sincerely appreciate and value every letter I get. It means alot.

I love this week's new episode, and I hope you do too! I had so much fun editing it as well! Victoria Moran came out to my place in CT a few weeks ago and we recorded outside. Victoria is an author, international speaker and spiritual life coach who has written over 19 books including the best seller "Creating a Charmed Life." She has been on Oprah, had her own show on Sirius Satellite Radio and written for numerous magazines. .

Her newest book is called "Fat, Broke & Lonely No More!" What a title, huh? How did this title come about and what did she think when she first heard it?

Be honest. Do you ever feel fat? Broke? Lonely? What do you do with these feelings?

Are you hard on yourself? Do you feel you have to be perfect?

How do we push away what we want when we cling to it?

And here is an off the wall tidbit for you.....

Did you know that when a woman has sex with a guy, he stays in her aura for 7 years? (And maybe vice versa too).

Listen to my show with Victoria Moran and get some great tips on how to improve your finances, your love life, and your perspective on just about everything!

Just click here

http://www.zentertainment.org/podcasts.html

Let me know what you think-

Peace, Jo *********************************************************************

On another note, there has been a tragedy in Victoria's family since we did this interview. Please pray for her and her family! This was the letter she sent out:

On Wednesday, September 12, my husband and I were at the Los Angeles airport about to board our flight home. His phone rang, and it was his ex-wife giving him the devastating news that their youngest child, James, sixteen, had died. Some bizarre virus attacked his pancreas. He was at school on Tuesday, and Wednesday evening he was dead.

We are all devastated, especially William and his ex- wife Donna. I pray for the strength to support William over the months and years to come. I know this will be a long haul.

James was a remarkable young man. He was funny and always smiling, and although very much a regular kid, he was truly compassionate in a way you wouldn't think of in a boy his age. He visited us last month and as he left, he asked if I'd order him a Fat, Broke & Lonely No More tee-shirt. He wanted to advertise for me. He was a gifted artist and very active in the Social Justice Club at his school. He regularly visited homeless shelters and spearheaded his school's adopting a child in Cameroon. He'd planned to go to Guatemala this spring to help build a house for a needy family. He was not at all the super- jock/football-captain type, and yet over 200 of his classmates came to the fun.

There's a song lyric he repeated all the time and wrote at the top of one of his paintings: "I am heaven-sent. Don't you dare forget." I take that literally. His life was cut so short, but I believe he was called to do more in the non-physical world. He has already brought about great healing in his extended family.

If anyone feels so moved, a fund has been established in James's honor for the charitable work of his school's Social Justice Club which meant so much to him. Donations can be sent to:

Lorenzo Campanelli, Chaplain St. Ignatius of Loyola Secondary School 1550 Nottinghill Gate Oakville, Ontario L6M 1S2 Canada

(Checks can be made out to St. Ignatius Loyola Secondary School, with a note in the memo line "James Melton Social Justice Fund." Postage to Canada from the US is 59 cents.)

And if anyone would care to send a card or note to my husband, he is:

William R. Melton 400 E. 55th Street #17-H New York, NY 10022

And of course your prayers would be very, very much appreciated.

_Victoria ****************************************************************************************************

Please pray for Victoria and her family as they go through such a difficult time. It is beyond words. Sometimes I have wondered if prayers really make a difference. My life has shown me that they DO.

Thank you for being you, for being a part of zentertainment talk radio, and for your support and light.

Lastly, this week, do something that you have been saving for a special time. Use the "guest towels." Dress up in that outfit you have been saving for some special occasion. Serve your breakfast on fancy china instead of grabbing a coffee to go. Call that friend you've been meaning to call. Buy yourself flowers. Buy someone else flowers. Send a note to someone who could use an encouraging word. Today, right now, is that special day. Go for it!

Blessing you,

Jo Davidson zentertainment talk radio www.zentertainment.org

I have talked to Victoria a few times via email, and I am sure she would appreciate any notes you want to send. It's a hard time for her and her family as you can imagine. You can hear the interview I posted with her on www.zentertainment.org and I hope you have a chance to tune in. See the last blog for more info.

I got a few notes asking about my health. It is still ongoing. I am right smack in the middle of one of the worst herx reactions I have ever had. That is what it is called when you are taking antibiotics or something else to kill off bacteria/lyme or any organism, and you feel like you are dying along with the things being killed off. I guess that would explain why last night I had a dream that I died. I have been trying to emotionally recover from that all day today.

Creativity is pure oxygen and my creative spirit keeps me floating. My spirit is strong, and I have been diving head first into music and art to cope with this. Last night I wrote a new section for one of my classical pieces called "The Streets of Venice." I poured everything into the song as if I had tipped an entire pitcher full of liquid into one cup. It ran over the edges.

It is an emotionally intense piece. Notes flying everywhere.

Tonite, I grabbed my camera and went outside and was in awe of what I saw. The sky was drenched in thick clouds laying low over the water. The colors lit up the sky. The wind was sharp, crisp and the air smelled of aggression and angst and change. Something breaking. Autumn is like a death, and yet it is beautiful and it is a process in what will become rebirth. Spring. How could I not answer its call? GET OUT HERE AND SEE THIS it was saying to me. So my spirit ran to it.

I can feel autumn coming in on all sides.

I AM MEANT TO RECOVER. I believe that.

I lean into the beauty around me. My piano piece flies through my head. I watch the air change form and shape.

Sometimes I swear, I am not taking pictures. The pictures are taking me.