Musing Interruptus

Hello and welcome to Musing Interruptus. Today we visit the fortune teller. I’m excited. This is going to be fun! Who doesn’t want to find out what the future has in store? By the way, clairvoyants are not to be confused with futurologists. I’m talking about those with the powers to magically see what’s to come, our oracles, and precogs; such interesting people prepared to create a bridge between...

Welcome to Musing Interruptus. Thank you for clicking, thank you for listening. As we go down the rabbit hole of thoughts surrounding experience, betrayal is not one easily avoided. There is an internal betrayal, which I won’t go into right now, and an external betrayal. This is today’s topic. Betrayal can only exist when you trust a person or group with information or resources, thus giving them...

Welcome to Musing Interruptus. Setting boundaries is complicated. There are seriously invasive practices colleagues and supervisors think are ok. I’ve gotten work communications vía WhatsApp on Wednesday at 10:30 pm and Sunday at 1:30 pm from an Entity for which these are clearly not office hours.  Depending on the work, or the project, there are justifications for communicating at odd times....

Welcome to Musing Interruptus. Thank you for clicking, thank you for listening. Are you intrigued? Me too. What do you mean this is toilet? Exactly what is toilet? Who or what gets qualified as toilet? I’ll tell you what. It is my worst fear. This is the phrase I most fear in terms of rejection. For instance, someone might walk into my house and see my paintings and go straight passed wondering if...

Hello and welcome to a very personal Musing Interruptus. Thank you for clicking, and thank you for listening. There is a certain magic about first times, a hype, markets and celebrations have been created around them. Truthfully, you have to do something several times to be any good at it. But that wouldn’t be a good selling point, would it?  Today on Musing Interruptus, My First Time. I have...

Hello and welcome to Musing Interruptus. Thank you for clicking and thank you for listening. Tis the season to be traveling or hosting! Company is coming! And you know what that means… clean, clean everywhere, clean until you feel there is no corner revealing human existence. Seriously, no cobwebs, lint, dust or stains behind the dryer or the refrigerator. Flip the couches! Dust the books. We have...

Hello and welcome to Musing Interruptus. It goes without saying, I have had embarrassing moments. And you know what, writing about embarrassing moments is fun and yes, a little self-deprecating, but let’s laugh together. Alright? Since the human experience is experienced generally , it means, it probably happened to you, too. For instance, who hasn’t developed deep feelings for a Twitter account?...

Step right up! Step right up! Welcome to Musing Interruptus! Another week, another swing! A swing and a miss or a hit!? What will it be? Summertime is the right time to play games, go to amusement parks, and break out the slip n’ slide. Does that still exist? Today on Musing Interruptus, Summertime Fun or Don’t Sweat the Lines… it’s the time of the season… As a child, summertime was almost as magi...

And then there was silence. After the hum and the roar. Once the cataclysm had its final rumbles. It was quiet again. The invasion was over. Retreat was completed. Leonor was the last on the field. She was the last woman standing, surrounded only by fog that covered her ankles. She didn’t know if her blood pressure was playing tricks on her perception. Was the fog real? Had that actually happened?...

Welcome to Musing Interruptus. Thank you for clicking, thank you for listening. Have you ever made a wish and had it come true? Like magic? All you did was ask, and you did nothing to set events in motion. Today on Musing Interruptus, It’s Cosmic, Baby… Sometimes not getting what we wish for is a blessing in disguise, that means that what we wanted was not going to be in the best interest of all i...

Welcome to Musing Interruptus. I’m so happy you clicked and are listening. I’ve been wanting to do this with you for a long time. Let’s take a walk together. I love taking walks, either alone or accompanied. What a great way to connect and flow. I woke up cold with the familiar smile on my face that beats me to my thoughts each morning. It was raining. I think this is the first rainy morning of th...

Welcome to Musing Interruptus. Thank you for clicking, thank you for listening. Today, there are people with whom we feel more at home with than others, from one moment to the next, you know there is a before and after that person. I’m going to tell you about one of those instances, the moments leading up to it, and 15 years later. It was the weekend of June 30th, 2007. My best friend knew I was b...

Welcome to Musing Interrupts. Thank you for clicking, thank you for listening. You know what is great about comedians? I’m going to tell you a couple of things. I also want to go over some principles of comedy, mind you, this is purely from observation, so I may be wrong. Come closer, pull up a seat, put your feet up, and let’s talk about it. My first love was the first boy who made me laugh, with...

Welcome to Musing Interruptus. Thank you for clicking, thank you for listening… I’m going to take you on a little trip. It is not comfortable, it is not sweet, and it does not end well. Let’s do this together. I’ll take your hand while I talk you through it. Open to a room bouncing with kinetic energy, product of every single object residing there. A man and woman are talking about declarations of...

Welcome to Musing Interruptus. Thank you for clicking, thank you for listening. I’ve been thinking about success and failure. All or nothing. Making it big or watching it all fall-through. Being courageous doesn’t me you are free from fear. Doing something scary can be h alf the fun . Other times, it takes courage just to dream it, let alone work towards it. The word towards stems from the 9th cen...

Welcome to Musing Interruptus. Thank you for clicking, thank you for listening. There are memories that I will take with me to the ends of my life as I know it. This is one of them. The day I was much too satisfied with myself. There is nothing quite like the feeling of sheer happiness after conquering a fear or facing adversity. Even if it was all in your head, the whole time. The exhilaration of...

Welcome to Musing Interruptus. Time expressions contextualize. Two years ago, last Friday, and May 12th. 23 hours ago, since last we spoke, 1983. Today, 20 years after Lorena’s grandmother drew from her experience on the Foundational Elements, Lorena returned to the patch of earth, molten green as she remembered it, where she knew she could feel her. She needed those frail arms and hands to stroke...

Welcome to Musing Interruptus. Thank you for clicking, thank you for listening. My greatest aspiration as a child was to be cool, fully knowing it wouldn’t mean anything if I called myself cool. I had to earn it. I would have to get someone to say it. Kinda like a Beatlegeusse, Beatlegeusse… Beatlegeusse …. thing. I knew that cool people looked and acted a certain way. At 7, The New Kids on the Bl...

Welcome to Musing Interruptus. Thank you for clicking, thank you for listening. I was watching House of Cards on Netflix. Patricia Clarkson plays Jane Davis,  deputy undersecretary of commerce for international trade. Apart from the skill and eccentricity, she brings to the role, she gives a voice to one of the most interesting characters of the whole series. In my humble opinion… humblest of...

Welcome to Musing Interruptus. Thank you for clicking, thank you for listening. I had a dream or was it a movie? One of my bad habits is falling asleep with the tv on. This can make for dreams with excellent production value. The thing is… that information leaks into your unconscious. The sounds, perhaps the feelings the sounds elicit, can change what we were meant to dream. Dreams are a way of de...

Welcome to episode 13 of Musing Interruptus. Guess what, it is Friday. I’m feeling it. I’m feeling something. But that is not what I’ve popped in to tell you. It’s Musing Interruptus and I am so happy to say hello, good morning, good afternoon, or good evening. How’s it going? What’s going on over there, on the other side of this? Thank you for listening. After traveling, I can attest to being sha...

Welcome to Musing Interruptus. However young or old, there is nothing quite like the anticipation of a trip. Traveling renews energy, it wakes up areas in the brain that seem to hibernate. Most likely, our minds need to protect ourselves from the drudgery of the mundane repetition of that which we cannot stop doing. From breathing the same stale air every Monday to brushing our teeth after each me...

Welcome to Musing Interruptus. What is more delicious for a masochist than the exquisite anguish of unrequited love? Or love just out of reach? What can be more delightful for a daredevil than feeling a death rattle? Today on Musing Interruptus, the things that make us tingle with anticipation and excitement. But first… I have to give a big hello and thank you for clicking and listening to everyon...

Welcome to Musing Interruptus. After a brief hiatus of writer's block, I am overwhelmed with ideas. Writer’s block is a terrible ailment. I thought I would never imagine anything, ever again. Terminal writer’s block. It wasn’t so. And that is all I have to say about that. Now, I want to write about desire, seduction, and feminism, I want to write about true love among friends and family, the fragi...

Welcome to Musing Interruptus. What a difference a day makes. Can you think about all the changes that happen in just one day? Some are fundamental and life-altering, massive changes that shake you to the core. Other changes might be imperceptible, soft, gradual… not necessarily less life-altering. Today, it is all about perception and the awesome power behind it. How wonderful a problem can be un...