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"Can I have this dance? Shall we take a chance?
Oh, to long and pine, oh, to search and find
It's a do-si-do, it's a toe to toe
Plant a money tree, grow a love so free
And if I should fall so deep and true
And if I should fall so deep
May it be with you
Golden vest judge
But we don't think much
'Bout what went or came
Only what remains
And if I should fall so deep and true
And if I should fall so deep
May it be with you
Periwinkle rose, and each day we chose
Haven't known you long, kept it sweet and strong
Write a poem or song, but you can't hold on
To what's come or gone, only what's begun
And if I should fall so deep and true
And if I should fall so deep
May it be with you
May it be with you
May it be with you"
"With You - A Sweet Little Love Song" by Valerie June
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wF5Gu4QeMZQ
Katie loves to just love and to be loved. She keeps it simple as does this Katie.
We don't need more then that.
"But we don't think much
'Bout what went or came
Only What Remains"
I simply love you for who you are Ms Parx...thank you for loving me the same...
- Katherine XOXO
This is another of the 124 pictures of 148 I had up that Flickr's servers ate for reasons unknown. A team of 6 spent three days there finding them all for me. The jouranl with each it gone - the song, the story...but the image remains and I can speak of it still as I put it back into where it belongs - in my own memories proper.
In this memory, I was dating Bevvie at the time. She was an up and coming DJ while I was plying my trade and still lower rung, but I knew who she should talk to and talk to she did. She got into better clubs. She was also picked up and taught by a talented girl and practiced, practiced, practiced!
Bev and I LOVED cuddling each night and listening to her sets when we could that she had uploaded to the web for all to enjoy. I would try to find unique and romantic places to listen to them again with her - like my hot tub with a built in web TV ;-)
I could pick out as she did her changes with her mixing and she loved that. She is probably the best scratcher in Second Life now hands down. You wanna work a bassline? She will MAKE the bassline and then rework it into magic... live...
We did part ways, but we are still friends and she is simply one amazing DJ. I am happy for her success. She deserves it.
She was a nice girl. She still is. I miss those intimate listening sessions though, but here is one as a wonderful memory :-)
If you hear Bevvie is playing a venue in SL? Go see her live. You wont be disappointed!
With love and Admiration,
DJ k8e
xoxo
This wonderful pic is from the 124 Flickr lost pic list earlier this year, so I am forced to rewrite a narrative for it.
Kelly and I split late November 2021. I was down and out, but dressed to the nines and went to a set DJ Minka played. She's an incredible DJ. Amazing. She was the perfect tonic for me.
Minka pumped out a spectacular techno set which blew us all away but then...started dumping the club full of particles - the right kind. They filled the club and made you feel...whole.
I got release, redemption and I felt freedom. I also met future gf Tree there that night (shudders), but that's another story for another time.
Always go see Minka. She cured what my soul ailed from.
Be of peace all.
Namaste
- Katherine
"When marimba rhythms start to play
Dance with me, make me sway
Like the lazy ocean hugs the shore
Hold me close, sway me more
Like a flower bending in the breeze
Bend with me, sway with ease
When we dance, you have a way with me
Stay with me, sway with me"
- From "Sway" as sung by Rosemary Clooney
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLO4QHvsKJk
My Katie whispered on late into the night and sashayed her way into my little burlesque club, "The Red Rum Revue" for a quiet visit with our family who had gathered there.
Soon though, it was just her and I upon my stage's historic "Round", dressed only as we were but dancing closely together, arms wrapped tightly around each other as the music started to play from the jukebox by the bar.
We exchanged sweet nothings, soft thoughts and gentle reassurances to each other as we stayed close together, just slowly swaying, softly kissing and just... being together,,,
Our time with each other may be limited by circumstances beyond our control Ms Parx, but our time together when it happens is magical and I feel "at home" so much with you.
Sway with me Katie...
Stay with me Katie...
Let's always let the music start to play to dance our worries away.
Quien sera el que me quiere a mi
Quien sera, quien sera
Quien sera el que me de su amor
Quien sera, quien sera
- Your Katie XOXO
This is one of the 124 of 148 pictures Flickr's servers ate last spring for unknown reasons. Flicker spent three days using 6 people to find all my lost pics, but the text, music links except were all gone...
My memory is problematic due to RL mental health trauma. Posting my experiences and feelings on Flickr was a good way for me to document and remember how I was feeling then. Now I have no context for many of the pictures - that memory is void other then knowing I took the picture.
This one is at least cheerful...I have a pod of Sea Otters that swim off my boat launch and they didn't mind me floating along with them. I did find the song that went with it "Float On" by Modest Mouse. It's a warm tune and this lookslike it was a warm memory, so here you go. Float on my friends...love you all.
- Katherine xoxo
The song:
"Here comes my happiness again
Right back to where it should have been
'Cause now she's gone and I am free
And she can't do a thing to me
I just wanna dance the night away
With senoritas who can sway
Right now tomorrow's lookin' bright
Just like the sunny mornin' light
And if you should see her
Please let her know that I'm well
As you can tell
And if she should tell you
That she wants me back
Tell her no
I gotta go"
From "Dance The Night Away" by The Mavericks
Ms Katie Parx has been a near and dear friend to THIS Katie for some time now. She has not been just a good friend, but she is a shoulder, a supporter and a deliverer of reassurance.
For months we have been going on friend dates as our times permit. We both struggle with some RL things which can prevent one or both of us from making it to meet for them, but we are ok though with that as we both understand how it is and know we will see each other soon enough! Maturity prevails!
Each time we go out, we talk, we dance, we explore.
Each time we stay in, we talk, we cuddle and we care.
She's been a fan of the Red Rum Revue for ages now and indeed has her own Reserved Seat! Madame Katie's Orders! Every show! She does her darndest to fill that chair! Her lovely daughter Amy is one of my amazing dancers! :-)
I have smiled with glee though every time the cutest blonde Neko known as Pretty Katie comes into my little burlie club. I blush in RL as I hug her in greeting in SL. I have liked the prettier of the Katies - her - for some time now as more then a friend, but we have had such a lovely time together as friends and our RL's so unpredictable that I never thought more then friends possible...
Until last week...
Also I didn't want to mess up a wonderful friendship...dear goddess never ever...
Apparently Ms Parx had similar sentiments that have grown with mine over time together and this last week I threw chance to the wind and just asked her on a "DATE date" as I laid on her shoulder, enveloped in her caring arms.
She said "I would love to."
Then giggled. :-)
It just has developed slowly, naturally and lately - lovingly. We still have our RL challenges, but we make up for it with our talks and times together. We will go with the flow and love that it is slow.
I can now vouch that she INDEED gives THE BEST cuddles in SL! Her daughter Amy was right! I think it was the cuddles that gave me the courage to ask.
With you, I just want to dance the night away...
Know you are loved and cared for Pretty Katie. Very much.
- The Madame Katie
It's been a long haul for me since September 2023. I lost my wife here who was my fiance in RL and who also took my RL best friend with her with no explanation why.
I had emergency surgery a month later to take out a pesky and overfull gall bladder that was caused by stress. Becca - my ex - is to blame for that.
A month after that, at Xmas, my RL family left me behind - all of them - because I am trying to be myself in RL. Thankfully I have a chosen family who loves me better.
I am accepted, cared for and loved by the chosen family. Family doesn't have to be blood.
I had to push a longtime friend out in late December because they hadn't been a friend who I called "sister" in SL for a long, long time and I had found they had purposely lied and sabotaged my friendships with others. That...betrayal...stung.
Jan 7th, marked the one year anniversary of the premature death of my SL and RL Auntie Moriah.
I miss her to the moon and back.
I nearly had a complete mental breakdown on January 8th, 2024 because of all that had happened and was beyond mentally exhausted. Sadly I know what a mental breakdown feels like. I've had four since 2013.
I had to then immediately leave SL for two months and disengage from many things in RL in order to recenter and be peaceful.
I was in survival mode.
I still continue to fight in the courts for long overdue justice for myself and others. It goes slow and drains, but fight on I will.
May 1st marked the 2nd anniversary of my father's sudden death. I miss him so very much.
I had elective surgery May 14th which went well and my Chosen Family was there for to support me. The recovery of course drains me, but it does go ok. I am thankful for that.
My CPTSD and Fibromyalgia continue to play games with me, but I have been fighting back against them HARD with some victory. I will win someday.
I have to.
I am so very, very, very tired. So very worn out yet again.
I wish not to have feelings and feel so drained...
I fear going into SL alone lest I get hurt. It's become a phobia. The world that let me escape stress now causes anxiety and fear. All the trauma and hurt over the months at the end of last year and this year.
Sadly, in SL, very little joy.
I have to fight back though. It is MY world after all and others should not be allowed to destroy it and hurt me.
I let Katie sleep there on her own as she is always protected in her little hidden getaway. she also has Hobbes, who is a very handsome and brave tiger.
It gives me relief in RL knowing she is ok, so then I can sleep in RL. It's also a way to expose myself to SL safely and eventually come back. I have world building to do that awaits me.
This photo was taken last spring when my Fibro pain was at it's worst - when everyday, I would feel like all of me was literally on fire.
When I felt "overexposed".
I meditate in both worlds so that I may try to find peace and center...Katie does it when I do it.
This pic was one of 124 eaten by Flickr servers last Spring - shortly after this pic was taken - but they found them all after three days of searching, just the stories, my journaling and the music with them was gone...I have lost part of myself permanently that way.
This picture is now repurposed to show how I am now as it is the way I am again: Worn out and overexposed to many things.
Try to find peace. Love you all.
- Katherine Marie McAuley
Overexposed Glowy Chick
Namaste...
"When you wish upon a star
Makes no difference who you are
Anything your heart desires
Will come to you
If your heart is in your dream
No request is too extreme
When you wish upon a star
As dreamers do
Fate is kind
She brings to those who love
The sweet fulfillment of
Their secret longing
Like a bolt out of the blue
Fate steps in and sees you through
When you wish upon a star
Your dreams come true"
"When You Wish Upon a Star" by Cliff Edwards
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEWowjC2dSk
Life lately in my electronic world has been...wonderfully quiet...soooo quiet...serene even....
No drama queens, no dumpster fires wandering in to my life. No Narcissists, insecure gaslighters and women who can never let go. No, instead it's been people who act their age and most importantly:
People who love freely...
Many of them...
My dear Katie Parx is still away often and poor Cynthia can't be on for awhile due to RL, but I still get to speak to them through Discord and they love me simply and freely as I do them.
The Parx Family has been kind to me and although I am not one of them, they all accept me in and care for me as their partner/mother/grandmother Katie Parx is: loving people. Simply so as well. I know why she loves them so much.
My sister Toni and my Twin Felina have their own clan - the Starflares. They intertwine with the Parx family not only through me, but other ways as well. It's been good to just go flop on their couch in a cuddle and pile, be goofy, watch TV and just...be...
I have friends here who take care of their RL struggles outside in RL so they don't bring them here. I always have a shoulder for them and they for I as they are all mature, love SL and their friends and family in it openly, honestly, simply and most importantly - maturely
For three years I have been inundated with walking dumpster fires, narcissists, liars, deniers, schemers and some of the most insecure gas lighting people you never want to meet.
They are all gone now. The bad girls. GONE gone. Now? Now I wish and hope it is back to how I loved SL before: simply.
I get to be me again, DJ wildly, take photos everywhere, flirt like mad, explore SL with fun friends and run my little burlie club.
I get to sail my boat.
I get to sleep peacefully with Hobbes.
I get to love freely...simply...
I wish it would last....dear Goddess please let it last...I want this world to be my freedom once again and not a place of fear and hurt...it is too beautiful for that.
So here I am, with Hobbes as he is a very Brave and Handsome Tiger, on top of little pink and white tear drop camper, parked on the Parx estate and just...gazing at the stars above me in SL and wishing...
Wishing upon those stars...
I hope my dreams come true. All around me do too.
Love you all...
Katherine Marie McAuley
Starstruck Little Prairie Fae
Bisou Bisou to all of you...
My burlesque club - The Red Rum Revue - had a successful and fun show Saturday night with an amazing turn out of faces new and those faces I love dearly and hadn't been able to see in some time...there was a very special familiar face in particular in the crowd...
Katie Parx, my beautiful Neko girlfriend, was back :-)
Katie, like me, has RL things which prevent her from being online when she wishes at times. Tonight though, she was able to clear the decks to watch Amy, Felina and myself perform. Amy just happens to be Pretty Katie's daughter. :-)
We pulled out all the stops...all three of us...and had a great time. So did Ms Parx!
After the show, when everyone had gone, my dear Katie was tired right out, but spent a precious amount of time just holding me to her...her fingers playing in my blonde locks, sitting cheek to cheek, kissing softly sometimes and sighing happily as we spoke occasionally in caring tones.
I missed my girl...It had been so long and was so wonderful to have her in my arms again and for me to be in hers. I had tears of happiness flowing in Real Life as well as a beaming smile to go with it.
Her and I have irregular schedules that we often can't dictate, but sometimes the stars will align and we are in each others arms again. We play it by ear.
We simply love each other and love being together when we can. No complications, just caring for each other when opportunity presents.
We love being loved and to be able to love.
We made tentative plans as we kissed, coddled and cuddled each other, plans we can do at an opportune chance to meet when the stars align again.
I love my beautiful, blonde haired Neko who simply loves me in the same way that I love and adore her.
Life is too short for complications of the heart and relationship. Luckily we share one big heart and are of relaxed means and moments with our relationship
Be of peace Ms Parx and know you are so very, very loved.
Je t'aime mon belle fille.
Je t'aime...
- Your Katherine, always...
xoxo
Another photo from the Beyond Reality room at Frameless, London. The artwork was forever changing but this Salvador Dali image caught my eye.
A blue rose, photographed in Hyde Park, New York in the garden of the Vanderbilt mansion (it overlooks the Hudson River). The rose is actually very red, of course, and I used a curves adjustment in Photoshop to convert it to a color-infrared look. Please visit my Photo Tip of the Day blog for daily tips on shooting and editing. Copyright 2009 www.jeffwignall.com. From the gallery Beyond Reality.
So I couldn't think of anything to do today so I just put a few pictures together that were lying around and this is what I got =P
All of my equipment is falling apart...I'm not sure where the battery charger was put, the tripod is about to break, and my favorite lens is broken =[ But my pictures won't be of the best quality for a while, oh well I'm still going to keep taking pictures because nothing can stop me! Haha.
It is so cold outside. It's the middle of october and they're calling for snow TOMORROW. Yeah. For those of you who are unclear of chicago weather, yes it's unpredictable but it normally doesn't snow until november. Gahhh this is gonna be a long winter.
Oh well...I'm off do start working on the mountain of school projects awaiting me.
Title is lyrics from Whisper by Evanescence...Oh how I missed this band =]
And much better on black.
wedding dance, the bride.
My eyes saw just a glittery red veil hiding her face - the camera saw through it. To me it seems miraculous!
Created for Textures Only ~ Competition #122
Original image with thanks to Mad Cow NL
Many thanks to:
= (hand) Rubyblossom
= (texture) Nancee_art
= (texture) Pareeerica
Young Stars in the Rho Ophiuchi Cloud, courtesy of NASA APOD.
Brushes from www.obsidiandawn.com
I found this manhole cover near the Eiffel Tower in Paris and loved the shape and design of the cut-outs. The cover was, of course, dirty brown, so I shot it for the pattern and then brought it into Photoshop where I played with both gradient mapping and hue-saturation tools to alter the colors. No rhyme or reason to the technique, just played with various combinations until I found something I thought was striking. From the Beyond Reality Gallery on my site www.jeffwignall.com. View the Original Photograph.
This is a two part photograph: part reality and part Photoshop. The silhouette of the statue was shot in Paris near the Eiffel Tower (it's just across the street next to a bridge on the Seine). I stripped the dull background away in Photoshop CS3 thinking I might replace it with an out-of-focus scene from Paris. But while playing with the statue shot, I was also creating patterns in Photoshop and decided to marry one of the patterns into the background. Putting the pattern in the background was simple. First I selected the background (using the marquis tool at a high setting) and then used the "paste into" command to paste a copy of the pattern. The pattern is actually a close up of a bison hide (on a living bison) that I shot at a prairie reserve in Iowa. I used the hue & saturation and some other tricks to create the false colors. There is a basic tutorial on using Hue & Saturation on individual colors on my site. The whole thing only took about 10 minutes but I kind of like the idea that this is a shot of a statue in Paris on top of bison fur. You'll find a few more abstract things in my Beyond Reality gallery on my site. Copyright 2008 Jeff Wignall.