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July 2008

Greetings.

The summer’s here and the time is right for dancing in the streets. And I hope you hold those wonderful feelings throughout the rest of the year.

The feng shui astrology is very difficult this month so I am going to offer several treatments. Please take the time to institute these treatments immediately and keep them through the first week in August.

My new feng shui book, Feng Shui Every Day, has been selling well and remains $9 for another week. I have sold out of my own two shipments and will order again soon. Order yours online now. This book is a clear, understandable dissertation on the permanent feng shui treatments you can do for yourself at your home. It does not replace having a master come to analyze your house but it does reveal many secrets masters keep hidden. This is a good month for real estate and Feng Shui Every Day should be your constant companion if you are purchasing or remodeling a home.

My long-overdue handmade book, body of water, is nearing completion. The letterpress booklet is ready and the short film is ready. The portfolio insert is ready and the individual items need only to be signed and numbered. The portfolio itself is still in process but if you want to reserve a copy of this limited edition at the pre-sale price, order it now from RoyAnthonyShabla.com.

For summer fun and travel, the most important remedies to keep with you are blessthebody.com Radiation Cleanse, Chakra Tonic, and First Aid. Don’t let circumstances spoil a wonderful summer.

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Feng Shui Astrology

This month is very challenging for illness and death, violence, lawsuits, and loss of money or robbery. The following treatments should be installed as soon as possible and be kept through the first week in August. This is not meant to instill fear or even worry but instead to give you the tools to be proactive.

In the Southeast, place four jars of water with six coins in each jar.

In the South, place seven bottles of water each with six coins.

In the Southwest, place a fountain (as long as its not a bedroom) or six bottles of water each with six coins.

In the West, place a five-elements treatment. This is an example of each of the five elements, wood, fire, earth, metal, water.

In the center, place three red candles. Light them three hours a day.

Once you place the treatments, bless yourself and your home. And forget about the forecast. This is a summer to enjoy.

For more information on these treatments, refer to my book, Feng Shui Every Day.

May the current Summer of Love, the Summer of Light, fill your soul with joy.

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Feng Shui Secrets

Feng Shui Every Day

is a simple, clear, practical book outlining the secrets of feng shui that masters will not reveal. In an easily understandable format, Feng Shui Every Day presents the information necessary to empower you with the ability to manifest wealth, romance, vitality, and harmonious relationships in your life. Read this book before purchasing or remodeling a home or designing a garden. It makes an excellent gift for realtors and real estate speculators, architects and contractors, decorators, or anyone who wishes to improve his life and release his spirit. You will not view architecture in the same way again.

Feng Shui Every Day takes the science of feng shui out of the Orient and the art of feng shui out of the Oriental style. This book is written for the Western home and the modern sensibility. Room by room, Feng Shui Every Day delineates secret information regarding the features of the structure and furnishings of a house that enhance or deplete love, money, health, creativity, and camaraderie. No previous experience or knowledge is required. With a short read, you can quickly begin changing your life.

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Roy Anthony Shabla

is a guru and healer who teaches ongoing meditation classes in the Los Angeles area. He is the founder of blesstheworld.com and designer of the blessthebody.com Spiritual Remedies. His private practice includes clients from all walks of life across the country.

As a feng shui master, Roy Anthony Shabla is regularly consulted in dire circumstances. His annual feng shui workshops and consultations in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Dallas, and other cities are greatly anticipated and respected. His personal combination of psychic reading, spiritual healing, and feng shui has changed the lives of thousands of people.

One aspect of his feng shui work is garden design. Roy Anthony Shabla has consulted on numerous private and public gardens in both the United States and Mexico. He specializes in peaceful and romantic garden oases emphasizing the placement of outdoor art.

His new book, Feng Shui Every Day, is quickly becoming a classic. It is available from RoyAnthonyShabla.com for the discounted price of $9 for this month only.

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fathers day

am just back from san jose. steve is doing poorly. very poorly. i will go back in two weeks ~ either to help martha or to bury steve. what a difficult time.

wifeys dear friend died of a brain tumor in san jose last night. what kind of coincidence is that? poor thing, wifey is beside herself.

cant get ahold of billy ~ hes in cedar rapids (iowa) where the flooding is twelve feet high... he has a house full of art... and his family is there.

i finished the feng shui book. its decent. i will upload some slight corrections sometime soon. i will have a class on feng shui on saturday but the time/place/event confirmation came too late to do a newsletter... and nobody is signed up for it yet... so it might be a sparse summer solstice...

the body of water film had more problems than ever. and since i was gone last week i wont see any changes until wednesday night. this has been going on long enough. elizabeth has been making slow but steady progress on the body of water book and will be finished with the inserts soon. but she will go to indiana or illinois or some godawful "i" place for a month and i will get even less work out of her!!! something needs to be completed soon.

i am beginning to translate poetry into chinese. i will try to meet this week with a translator to check my work. really, its amazing what lengths will i go to to not write my cookbook.

but i had a wonderful fathers day with my daughter. we had breakfast with my mother and mary then went to look for rabbits, fairies, and ducks. every crowd has a silver lining.

blog slog

well i havent had a chance to blog in awhile...

the body of water film should be done on wednesday ~ im so happy... the handmade book still needs a little more assembly...

the application to premiere the body of water film in australia is going fine...

am working on house of my heart... still in the writing phase...

writing a small feng shui book ~ should be very useful to people ~ hoping to get it done quickly...it can be updated easily in the future...

havent been able to get to gallery and museum shows ~ just too busy...

and elizabeth hasnt been able to work for me ~ her other clients have had greater needs...

and big jeanne, well i havent gotten a decent days work from her in i-dont-know-how-long!!! but she is coming later today to help with some spiritual remedies before she goes for surgery tomorrow... its always about her isnt it?!!!

i have seen a little of phil donahue talking about his new documentary on the iraq war... he should run with ted turner for the presidency! now that would get me interested in politics. poor obama has had to sell his soul to officially be a good man. now i feel bad for him. politics is the devil, like walmart, ebay, and tomatoes.

millie and i had a long-awaited date to go to amoeba records to look for music. i have been craving piano and erik satie, john cage, and thelonius monk will feed me for awhile. millie got sufi and soul music and we were pleased with our evening.

i havent had time to be much more interesting... either here or there! some day you will get a proper blog!

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its good to be home

ive been up in san jose for the long weekend visiting with steve and martha. a quick trip to chuck and stacys for the coconuts birthday party at fairyland in oakland then back to san jose. everyone doing well. a little drama with logan and joanne but they will find their way through it all. we played cards and i didnt lose! and i met their (l and j) daughter amber who may do some work for me animating some of my work. she is at school in laguna.

i didnt get to work on the new feng shui book i hope to have out for a workshop at the summer solstice... but i can work on it tonight.

the application for the urban screens exhibit of my film body of water is fine and in the works. final touches are being put on the film and should be finished soon.

meditation class tomorrow (wed) night in culver city.

i heard from bob ~ he read two of my pieces at the sunday salon and an encore was demanded. ive been asked to come myself to teach and read and whatever. bob is in salem now sulking in the rain and the weeds instead of building an ark.

and im back to it all...

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update

my short film and handmade book body of water are nearing completion. it is details and signing that are left...

as a command performance, bob will read a couple of my new poems for the film house of my heart at jeannies salon in mendicino this weekend...

tina at busters is proposing to stage my short play dear this summer... possibly with short films outside...

and i may be showing button paintings at an event next month at busters ~ we shall see what gets completed...

on the other hand, i still have not called armando to order the canvas for the jazz poem paintings...

and the karma cookbook is stewing in my head more than on the paper...

a new photo of me looking like emily dickinson or virgina wolfe is just posted to the website...

enjoy!

poets and writers

a dear dear old lady, vera hickman, took me while i was still in high school to the soroptimist house on campus at long beach state for the monthly literary club meeting. (as an aside, it is the old ladies of the world who keep societies balanced. they are the militant supporters of the arts, of social projects, of fairness and peace. it takes their efforts to balance the general inertia and apathy of communities at large, at least in the united states. sadly, vera died many years ago after i had been out of touch for quite some time. the world is certainly missing her.) the literary club at that time consisted of the more conventional poets and writers on campus and they would meet and read and discuss their work. after several months i was going alone to the meetings and making friends. at one point, someone suggested we put together a literary magazine. the general question was raised: does anyone know how to do this? i said i did. and so separate meetings for what would become "riprap" followed and i found myself at the csulb campus even more often. one night after a production meeting, a guy told me that some poets were meeting at a bar across the street from campus and asked if i wanted to go. the forty-niner. im sure he had no idea i wasnt a student in college but high school, that i was underage to go to a bar, that i lived with my parents in downey... i followed him into another world!

these poets were not sophisticated. two tables of mostly scruffy men sitting haphazardly askew and talking about anything but literature... this was a dark, smoky, delightful shock after leaving the riprap meeting where what was published had to be suitable for church. this was a beer club! and the beer was definitely an interesting aspect of it all. i knew what tap beer was ~ no high school is that isolated ~ but i guess i had never appreciated the fact of large pitchers of beer that seemed to appear on the table, spill on the table, disappear into the men... and someone put a mug in front of me and filled it. (a couple years later, when the bar began using smaller pitchers, the poets left for a different bar in protest!) i noticed that one guy, fred voss, didnt drink the beer from the pitchers like everyone else but instead went to the bar to get bottles of beer, one at a time, for himself. i asked him why and he leaned forward and said softly that that beer didnt taste good. i leaned forward and said, "none of it tastes good." young as i was, i knew you didnt drink for the taste. i guessed if you were, you would be drinking girlie drinks.

i was mostly a fly on the wall that night. since i wasnt a student, i didnt know anyone except the guy who invited me, i especially didnt know the teachers... but i quickly saw how this hive of bohemians swarmed around a particular queen... and that was gerry locklin.

gerald locklin was the center and the reason for the long beach movement in creative writing and the father of the long beach style of poetry. he remains its finest example.

i became friendly with and published gerry in several projects, both academic and private, and when i was kicked off the campus literary magazine a couple years later, he said, "now you can do what you want." (i began editing and publishing with vera and isabelle ziegler, a grand dame of letters, while i was still in high school ~ a proposition which both got me started with and removed from the literary group at the soroptimist house and riprap magazine). gerry only showed up at my apartment door at 2 or 3 in the morning a couple times, a bottle of cream sherry and a tale ~ both of which are now forgotten ~ and i never had a bad time with him.

but most stories from that time are forgotten...

i moved to europe for a couple years and lost touch with everyone. that was 25 years ago. now i just saw gerry and the circle of writers at gerrys retirement party in long beach and it was like being underwater, in a dream... i searched the memory banks for references to these people, grasping for a buoy in a sea of amnesia... i drank with these people, i published these people, i left these people behind.

but gerry himself and his work remain strong. he is still unpretentious, generous of spirit, and talented. he no longer drinks (for health reasons) but his personality was never predicated on alcohol. everyone else from that period was a shock ~ some lines had changed... waistlines, hairlines, laughlines... and some hadnt... the writing which was read as a tribute to gerry had the familiar voice of the past... (as a gift, i gave gerry a copy of child harold at the zoo ~ the closest my work comes to the long beach style.)

millie, my dear friend from that period who has evolved along similar paths to mine and remains close, invited me to go to that west coast writers tribute and retirement party for gerry. she looked fabulous and i cleaned up well. maybe we looked better (inside and out) than we did 25 years ago. there was a new group of young writers there, some the sons of our original group... ahh the deliciousness of youth, the vitality, the eager soul disguised as aloof , pretty in bum jeans ~ millie and i had a delightful time visiting with dave alvin and others of the old garde and enjoying the scent of the next... and left the evening reveling in the quirky justice of time and the undeniable cycle of karma.

best wishes gerry!

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