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The present Not a line one can put a mark on easily described I keep the fire burning.  Fan the flames & tell of things transforming Acts of improbabilities Acts of opportunism A decisive dance of daring Of the undutiful A collection plate of profferings Rage fury fight still igniting discontent Of the gold and glitterings Of the want to be better thans Forgettings of We'll abide with thees Of climbing roses Where does it lead? A leash on the heart on the path of wisdom? Seiza Janice Slater (c) 1980 photo: Janice Slater (c) 2015 Blue Mountains NSW Australia

I've also some exciting news to share with you that I'm now a guest Curvie on Curved Radio so do tune in as they stream all over the world! TUNE IN to listen to not only the tracks I love but all of the other WONDERFUL CURVIES from around the globe! Thank you for honouring me, CURVED RADIO with the chance to share my love of music not only with fellow Curvies from around the world but with you the fab listeners! Written by the Curvie Crew. Janice Slater (Australia) :  is one of those giants on whose shoulders the Australian music industry stands.  Her long and distinguished solo career informed and inspired generations of women who followed. Over her glorious career she has also sung with and supported many of the greats including The Four Tops, Billy Preston, Lesley Gore, Lou Rawls, Sammy Davis Jnr, Shirley Bassey … the list goes on and on.  She has been a mentor and teacher in theatre, film and music, was the vocal coach for the Australian movie...

Dear fellow readers and bloggers.  Apologies that I don't get a chance to visit here often enough. I do think of you and hope all is well in your world. As I'm mainly concentrating on my music 'ARTERIAL FLOW' links as follows; my focus keeps returning there and there are only so many hours in a day but one of my intentions is to attempt to type up some of my writing at least daily!  No mean feat!  I've always written but I'm not published but am looking for outlets but the main focus is still my music.  I'll share some new tracks and links with you all on the post after this!  In the meantime, here is a wee poem written some time back which I've just edited today!  I hope you enjoy FROG! (I hope to find an image to follow) FROG! Frog uses her hands to grip hold of something. Frog leap frogs to her destination. Frog is smiling. Frog knows how to sit very  still and be in the moment. Janice Slater © 2015 http://www.nimbitmusic.com/arterialflow...

Dear bentenlaughing friends. I hope you enjoy Arterial Flow's new collaboration with gifted Brazilian singer/songwriter ERLER PINHO Some months back I invited Lee to translate our song Strange Day into Portuguese. Arterial Flow's "Strange Day" beautifully reinterpreted & translated by Brazilian singer/songwriter, ERLER PINHO . Arterial Flow members live on distant shores from me so it's an often slow process in developing tracks.  We rely on goodwill and our shared love of experimentation.  After ERLER PINHO translated Strange Day he then added a vocal to our original track. I decided it required a new treatment especially for him.  Kirk Kadish brought it magically to full realization and included my original backing vocals!  Thanks again Kirk & ERLER.  I love the final mix. In the new year I hope to do an interview with Erler so that you can learn more of his own formidable music as he's a great singer/songwriter .  Cheers from the ...

Like stormy nights lightning strikes zig zag movements running across the sky my dance is my drawing (excerpt from I am a dancer: janice slater (c) 1990's) Drawing: (c) & courtesy of Jacqueline van Leeuwenstein. Arnhem, Nederlands

Welcome bentenlaughing readers!  Thank you for arriving here! I live in the Blue Mountains of Australia & we're experiencing unseasonable weather but (currently) I'm not complaining....winter's can be bitter here!  Nonetheless it's a red alert for what may be up ahead. I apologize that I've not posted consistently over the last twelve months but now I'm back on track! Benten is still at the helm of my little boat!  We sail across calm & stormy seas and  along the way; I hope to gather more stories to share with you and any gleanings I discover along the way on the nature of change! I'd also like to continue to share with you my (albeit) brief interviews with artists, singers, writers, musicians, and healer friends. For instance; I've been creating a series of soundscapes with Kirk Kadish, and Jack Clift, my two cherished New Mexico based musician/composer friends and soon we'll have tracks for you to download via Nimbit. Ha...

Artist and Art Historian living in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, Sherrye Lantz is an internationally known artist with works in private and public collections in the contiguous 48 states as well as Europe, Australia, and Turkey. She has won numerous awards throughout her career for intaglio printmaking, drawing and painting. She was included in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Biennial of Prints and Drawing, exhibited in Virginia Celebrates Women in the Arts: Minds Wide Open, she received the 2010 YWCA Women of Achievement Award for Arts.   Janice:  Sherrye you've been creating artworks for a variety of mediums over a number of years.  Sherrye: Yes Janice, I have worked in different mediums beginning as a printmaker and moving to painting luckily finding joy in all. Janice:  Recently I viewed a couple of very playful photographs you'd taken in Paris, perhaps in the1980's? Can you share with us the context of the images. Sher...