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In several genres, Ocean's songs showcase her vocal and songwriting range, some in soft rock, some Latinesque, and some R and B, others soulfully cosmic, some rad Trance Dance House music, instrumentals for soundtracks, and sassy rap and pop tunes too!

Ocean creates music that is transformative, her hypnotic vocals and ethereally beautiful sound in several genres provides cross-over hit songs for film and TV, performance and the CD or download-buying audiences of the world. The mutli-talented artist whose voice ranges through the octaves is a world traveler whose interest and love of other cultures has embued her music with a world feel. Exotic beats resound, world melodics that showcase her unique vocals and poetic lyrics enrich Ocean's songs

Ocean, singer, also writes songs and produces music. From trance/dance hypnotica to r and b grunge funk to smooth world jazz, the quality of her talent has brought comparisons to Sting, Robert Plant, Jimi Hendrix, Sade, Evanescence and others. 

Ocean is an author of fiction, non-fiction and poetry, as well as a lyricist, has a great interest in preserving our environment and in using her talent to spread compassion.

Her fascination with history, anthropology, psychology and mythology inform her lyrics and writings with a cosmic feel, and Ocean has penned a paranormal romantic thriller in the vein of Emilty Bronte and of Stephen King that is ready for 

publishing houses.

Ocean's upcoming CDs are in pre-production, and one is a trance/dance CD, one, a rustic Americana, another is of surf songs, one in the world smooth exotic jazz genre, and the other all ready to go into the studio is an inspirational CD with mesmerizing meditative and cosmic songs to elevate the soul.

Writing and Writers- Article by Ocean

Writers and Writing - Article by Ocean

 Most of us write something on something. Even if it’s raging graffiti or just angsty scribblings of expression or even stick-figuring to let your feelings vent most of us write. Even to stab at the ground with a twig is writing. Or even air writing to trace the stars at night. We primates are fingery and holdy about things in our fingers and our fingers are the routes out from the triggers fired off in the brain, so… don’t let anyone tell you he or she doesn’t write. We all do.

 And even before “writing” was invented, we wrote and talked and these noises and vocalizations somehow meandered through eternity fueled by our emotions and found a way out through those limbs down to the old fingers and the famous opposing thumb. Alphabets aside, thinking in words and pictures are the same thing since words stand in for both emotions and for pictures for places and events and for imaginary worlds and airy inventions that haven’t found creation yet.

 Writing is cool, essentially.All animals do it but maybe not as formally as we do.We’ve compartmentalized ourselves into a neat little package of beliefs that are unsubstantiated where we’re always the center of everything. The other animals sit around and wonder at it, I’m sure.

 Anyway, they all express themselves to. Throwing coconuts down onto a meanie’s head is as much writing as is a headline of the New York Times. Head-butting just as much writing as War and Peace.  And a crow squawking on a fence is as much writing as is 50-cent giving out with diatribes as is the Guernica as is Woody Guthrie twanging as is Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises.

 Degrees are the only difference and I just mean – open your mind and notice what a weird thing writing really is, and how cool.

 That a feeling can find it’s way to being into the mind and clothe itself in a made-up picture and into a thought and into a word and into a way to communicate that word.

 Writing is the way out of a lot of things. The pen is mightier than the sword and so many wars and revolutions have been started with just a little written dynamite that the power of the word really speaks for itself – and loudly. Or softly.

 Even though people who never learn to read have way better memories than those who learn to depend on written words, reading still bestows a wealth of experience – a way of mind-reading and time-traveling and understanding that few of the ones who still don’t know how to read would not envy.

 To wield the pencil is to hold power in one’s hand, but to make abstract symbols on paper come alive is quite another thing. The magi among us, the shamans and shamanesses like, for instance, Toni Morrison, who’s captivating power of words ensnared me when I first picked up one of her books somewhere and read only a few lines can literally create worlds through words. Words that  literally climbed out of the page and coalesced into a vine, a living thing, strung with colors and images and wound themselves around my mind and my soul. She is a master.

 There are only a few real masters in, of, any element, and their charisma and skill is well beyond that of ordinary mortals.I want to commend them here. To honor and applaud them and to turn you onto them. Beware their wicked spells, because they really are capable of awesome things.

 Something is at work in our universe that grows out of a certain type of fecundity of spirit. Great writers and other artists have this and it’s far more than mere talent. And works have their own lives to lead. They express themselves. Who knows? Maybe they choose their own vehicles and not the other way around. It certainly feels that way at times.

 I like to write songs, but really, I compose music, and the melodies just sort of create themselves - they just appear in my mind.  And the lytics, too, sort of create themselves and I merely give them expression. Writing is fun on subjects I enjoy, and I don’t include myself in this secret tribe of shamen, by the way, and I advocate it for everyone. We can’t all be geniuses but thankfully we can all enjoy their artistry. I’m going to have this page for links to writings and info on some masters I really admire.

 I’ve gone into other worlds and have been transformed by the magic of many of these writers, so…I’d like to share the secrets of their existence with you. Some are ultra-famous still, others more obscure. I may not keep up with every writer on the new horizons but whenever a book falls into my hand, or an article, and when it begins a life of its’ own, unbidden, I know I’ve stumbled again upon a magician, so..

 I have so many favorite authors – too many to name, but I’ll spotlight a few here. Some are enormously known and some need to be recognized more.Every life is an adventure, and some of these heroes of mine led amazingly interesting lives. Without that sense of adventure, who’d want to read their ideas anyway ?

 The tedious lists of people writing even best-sellers who know absolutely nothing about life don’t interest me any more than do the makers of recipe films or music. In this day of blogdom, everyone writes who can grab onto a laptop. It’s no great feat to string words together in imitative ways or through formulas learned at school.The geniuses still exist, though, who can stir the blood of people seated in easy chairs.This gift is still a marvel, and I’ll focus on the ones I think should be applauded as I continue to find more heroes to exalt in this little Pantheon of mine.

Would you like to know of a great place to post your own writings ? Articles, blogs, and promo on your novels? Visit Novelist, and create your own pages!

It's Only Valentine's Now, So Why Am I Already Having Spring Fever ?

It's in the cosmic atmosphere.

I can just feel it.

Spring is on the way !

Even when, as I usually do, living in the tropics or in the sub-tropics at least, a type of Winter exists, but it's really more than whether the weather has behaved well or not, more than the cold factor - it's our planetary connection to the seasons, to the turning of our own orb, to the placement of the moon - at night, now, I can hardly sleep - the full moon has been reflected in my pool outside, and the double glow of moon and mirror has been so intense, plus the countless reflections of the sea, just outside - I sleep with the curtains drawn - I must know the night sky and the stars are in view - has made the most beauteous flourescent violet light !

So, just lying around and sighing, like some Romantic poet, has been my reaction of late, to the impossibly gorgeous days, with butterflies flitting around each other in circles, couples, in love, talking intimately, no doubt, about how wonderful life is, and newborn leaves coming in, and night-blooming jasmine spreading its' irrepressable charms through a perfume that lures us outside just to breathe it in heady draughts ! What must it do to the moths ?

Night and day, the spells cast by the early Spring is almost too much to bear !

Errands ? Put 'em off!

Chores ? For bores !

Just lying in the clover, gazing up at fleecy clouds is enough - for now.

Soon, the reckless, tumbling tumult of full Springtime will arrive, and even at a far off coast, I'll be thinking of the roar of mountain streams, rushing down through valleys and meadows of tender wildflowers, strewn in enormous blankets, along Colorado's hillsides, of buttercups emerging in wild fields all over the South, of Nesturtiums covering my homeland of California.

I miss it all. Does God use his power like I would ? Does He walk, unnoticed, among each and every country, enjoying His every flower - every field - every tree in blossom ?

Travel is the best we'll ever do. Traveling, and remembering.

Appreciate every day !

As my eldest Brother has reminded me - count the handsful of seasons you have had, and will have, if you're lucky. 

They're very few.

Enjoy this one !

Wealthize by Ocean http://www.Wealthize.com

Wealthize by Ocean http://www.Wealthize.com

Wealth comes in many forms.

For instance, I always feel so rich when I am surrounded by my rescued pets.

And I recall times when, as a child, I had wished with all my heart that 
I could have pets that could be indoors, and as many as I wanted.

I am very wealthy with pets, which makes me very wealthy with love.

Most of us are very wealthy with many things – like, someone I know 
is very wealthy with perfumes.

Some are wealthy with cars, with tools, with collections of all kinds.

Some are wealthy with a beautiful abundance of trees right outside.
Others are wealthy with shoes, or books, or with popularity, or with long, lovely hair !

Lots are wealthy with art supplies. What ? We can go to any store and find 
them for a pittance, you might say, but think of the days when so many artistic 
and struggling geniuses abounded who would almost have sold their own souls 
for some good art supplies.

When you learn to slant the angle of your view of life to include all you 
have and have had, you’ll find that you are – and always have 
been – wealthy indeed.

Even the Pygmies of the Great Forest in Africa - who own next to nothing in actual items - know they are very lucky, and very wealthy. They consider themselves children of the forest itself, 
and pride themselves o n acting in harmony with their provider.

Can you imagine someone of the Western nations saying he or she was the child 
of the plains? Of the swamplands ? Of the mountains ?

Besides hippies, I mean. And Native Americans. And sages and mystics and cosmic people.

Of course, any bohemian worth his or her salt agrees with this. And others. 
Any surfer will agree that he is the child of the coast and the sea, for sure.

Why not adopt this feeling, this claim, that you are lucky – that you belong in a world of abundance, and that you were born with wealth and will o nly live in wealth no matter what.

One o nly has to recognize it. It really is – for most of us in the 
West, at least, true.

One should never compare o neself, except to find gratitude for o ne’s 
position.

The attitude of gratitude we hear about is the surest way to happiness and 
contentment, therefore, to confidence, a feeling of safety, and the ability 
to succeed.

Don't you feel richer already ?




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Ocean Blog

I'm a music artist who loves to endorse healthy, eco magazines like this one where I'm on the cover:

I'm also delighted to be instrumental in showing people how to get healthy by going vegan!

An interview with Ocean is featured on Famousveggie.com in their Celeb Interviews section, and here is a link - Ocean on FamousVeggie

I love to contribute my talents in order to help - I think it's the essence of happiness, and I adore being healthy, being vegan, and being compassionate.

I'm posting here since I already have a quasi-political blog I was asked to keep at Ecoize.com, named Ocean's Ocean, and I also do the Mermaid Blog, which is a fantasy tale ( and connected to an epic trilogy I have written called The Mers ), and this one is various musings, ideas, moods, and so on, so it's fun !

I like to think of ideas to help people, as I do on sites where I contribute articles on everything from living eco to helping animals (including us), vegan recipes, my own travel adventures, on being a musician, being a fan of classic films, being in love with history, into anthropology and other cultures, art, design, illustration, stories, and writing, among many other interests.

How do I find the time to follow so many interests, I ask myself. And I know that only because I'm vegan do I have such energy!

I don't do just one thing ever - for instance, I have two books I'm writing now at the same time! 

Also I am doing a series of paintings on a certain theme for a show.

And, of course, I do my music very often - meaning I produce tunes I write, and/or sing somewhere.

I have a real interest in making life better for everyone (of all species),  and every place, than it would have been if I had not been born.

Other Ocean Magazine Features, some Ocean Interviews etc. :

Click here for Ocean Magazine Features and Articles 

Ocean Poetry

Cover of Mermaid Tales by Ocean, a Book of Sea Poetry

(Artwork by Ocean)

I have several books of poetry:

       Ocean Poetry

The above is a collection of sea poems, some heavy, and some light in theme - many, spiritual, and many, basic, sensual, and descriptive.

From Ocean's Grief Poems
(And Visit Ocean's Grief Site For Those Who Have Suffered Losses - And If Your Loved One Was Your Pet, Visit OurSunny.com)


And here is a new poem, in a different tone:

IT SNOWED TODAY

  - OCEAN

IT SNOWED TODAY

MORNING-TIME

FROSTED WHITE FUZZY GLAZE

OVER FACE OF SUN

SHINING IN STREAMS

LIKE NEW TESTAMENT PAINTINGS

OF GOD’S LIGHT, ILLUMINATING

HARD BORDERS ON CUMULUS FRAMES

IT TOOK MY HURT TO ANOTHER PLANE

AND I REMAIN

HERE AMONG QUIET GHOSTS.

I WISH THAT THEY’D DISTURB ME.

MY DOGS, SLEEPING NEARBY 

SNORE -

THEY KEEP ME- SAVE ME

FROM THE HARSH THINGS,

THE TRUTHS THAT I AVOID

THAT I AM IN

DESPITE MY CHAGRIN

THAT I AM LOST - HERE

WITHOUT 

YET I MADE THE DECISION

TO STAY 

TO MISS THE  WARMTH

TO FEEL THE GLOOM

TO HAVE THE ROOM

TO MOURN

I have been in mourning for a few years now, for someone very close to me.

I am not always sunshiny, and sometimes my poetry is the best way to vent feelings of loss.

I had gone to a place, in a Northern clime, where once I had lived, and was reminded what Winter really is.

I feel for all you who are experiencing the extreme cold - whether of the weather alone or from the loss of a loved one.

Here's another sad poem:

GONE- POEM BY OCEAN

ALL CHANGED

FOREVER, NOW

MEASURED NOT

BY LENGTH 

AND TIME

BUT BY WHEN YOU

WERE HERE

AND WHEN YOU

WERE NOT.

GONE, NOW,

BUT NOT

FORGOT

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Sites I Love

Among the slideshow pix below are some logos I've created for sites I love and endorse, and some I contribute to, like Ecoize.com and Veganize.com.

MermaidBlog.com is where an actual Mer transmits information to me, and I obligingly relate it to the world.

Joining TheMermaid.Net will allow you to join with me and other Merophiles in getting updates on oceanic and Mer things. The Mers? Well, naturally, they're the type of fish who live in the waters of our world, and whose physical resemblance and size - but for their tails, that is - remind us of ourselves, and with whom we have the shared idea to save our Planet, Sea!

This Blog

Just ideas, thoughts, and meanderings. I keep a fantasy blog here: http://www.MermaidBlog.com, and this one is just light and musy, as in just musing.

I'm a hyper-creative, meaning that I love creating in many ways, almost every day.

Music is my soul - I mean - it's the one thing I reverence doing more than anything else (except for saving lives, as in my animal rescuing - that's the height of existence and spiritual ecstasy, just to know that my presence has caused an innocent being to live) - and music is so close to me that I literally weep in gratitude that I'm allowed to make music.

Nothing else of all I create does that for me.

I also write a lot, and books and stories just seem to pour out of me like music does, easily, with no effort at all on my part.

I'm not sure why this happens, but it's cool unless I'm busy - then I have to put a song on tape or stop and get out my portable typewirter or laptop for writings.

Artwork is something else I enjoy, and it's not as intense an activity for me. I do it mainly because others love what I do so much that they've clamored and fostered and encouraged me all my life to create paintings, drawinga and whatever.

Ocean

I'm a singer and a songwriter. I also produce, write, and create artwork.

A vegan, I'm into love for all beings, and I volunteer to help rescue wildlife, as well as rescue domestic animals, aside from us humans, since we're domesticated, although we don't like to think of ourselves as tame.

We're more than corraled, branded, and owned, actually.

That's why we all adore images of wild horses, adopt logos and other emblems signifying freedom and primeval states, etc.

I'm under no delusions about it.

My name was given to me at birth, and I know I don't have much in common with the body of water, except that I love to surf/swim/be near it, etc.!

Speaking of wild horses, and tame ones:

Ecoize

I love to write thrillers, and I adore scary movies. I write what I like, and I'm very into twisted plots and weird characters.

I also write books on vegan food, health, spirituality, and on other subjects, like on historical figures I like to explore.

When I'm doing music all the times, it's great to switch to artwork or to writing - I always have the means to write with me, as well as to do music - that is, nearby - an usually a little recorder helps too - but the main thing I adore doing is helping, and I like to help someone every day - whether it's walking the beach to throw shells that have little critters inside back into the sea that have become stranded, or by posting on websites where people are looking for some sort of information I can provide, it feels great to help!