{"id":760,"date":"2010-08-13T10:27:52","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T17:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/?p=760"},"modified":"2010-08-13T10:27:52","modified_gmt":"2010-08-13T17:27:52","slug":"im-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/?p=760","title":{"rendered":"I’m Alive"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dearest Readers,<\/p>\n

Today I will be performing at Arts in the Park<\/a> here in our fair city and I’d like to share with you the piece I’m going to present.<\/p>\n

It’s a spoken-word number called I’m Alive <\/em>and it was one of the first authentic performances I gave back when I was walking through stage fright at the beginning of my professional career.<\/p>\n

Here it is:<\/p>\n

I’ve scaled a mountain\u00a0clinging fingers to wet rock wind howling threatening to blow me off the side \/ end me up like the sheep fallen down below \/ ribs splayed open bleached by the sun \/ petrified organs and hide now leather\/ \u00a0long white hair blowing in the breeze…<\/p>\n

I’m alive.<\/p>\n

I’ve been hit by a car on my bike SMACK POW didn’t see it coming in the night \/ bright headlights \/ BANG I’m in the air \/ SLAM I’m on the hood \/ THUD I’m on the ground…<\/p>\n

I’m alive.<\/p>\n

I’ve been taken by a stranger held in his clutches \/ his dirty hands and dirty things he did to me \/ RUN \/ so I ran \/ he let me go…<\/p>\n

I’m alive.<\/p>\n

I’ve met bears — I said bears<\/em> — that’s with an ‘s’, kid \/ walking down a logging road \/ five grizzly bears, kid \/ one breaks away \/ comes down the ditch \/ up the ditch \/ to face me down back me up \/ I backed up \/ our spirits touched \/ eye to eye…<\/p>\n

I’m alive.<\/p>\n

I’ve jumped out of a plane \/ 2800 feet \/ falling flying with the wind in my ears \/ peace beauty ’til I landed exactly NOT like they’d spent the 8 hours teaching me how to \/ OMG \/ both my legs are broken \/ but they weren’t…<\/p>\n

I’m alive.<\/p>\n

I’ve been trapped in a hole \/ 3 years old told, “Don’t go down that hole!” \/ climbed down \/ got stuck \/ fire engines \/ po-lice \/ traumatized parents<\/p>\n

I’m alive.<\/p>\n

I’ve taken drugs laced with rat poison \/ bleach \/ bought off the streets \/ WHY?<\/p>\n

I’m alive.<\/p>\n

I’ve been in car accidents \/ planes that nearly crashed \/ relationships with violent men \/ UGH<\/p>\n

I’m alive.<\/p>\n

I was born \/ I was given this gift \/ this life overwhelming \/ this blessing \/ this hope<\/p>\n

I’m alive.<\/p>\n

The contents of our wallet \/ the size of our house \/ the cost of our car \/ these things \/ do not make us \/ who we are \/ we’re rich without a penny<\/p>\n

We’re alive.<\/p>\n

We’ve got blood coursing through our veins \/ pumping muscles and a heart working hard<\/p>\n

We’re alive<\/p>\n

We got lungs \/ cleansing breath \/ is the Life Force Giver \/ we receive<\/p>\n

We’re alive<\/p>\n

You’re alive<\/p>\n

I’m alive.<\/p>\n

Inspiring Message of the Day: <\/strong>It is so easy to forget that I am <\/span>alive today. I will do my best not to take this Immense Gift for granted. I will rejoice in my aliveness!<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dearest Readers, Today I will be performing at Arts in the Park here in our fair city and I’d like to share with you the piece I’m going to present. It’s a spoken-word number called I’m Alive and it was one of the first authentic performances I gave back when I was walking through stage…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[576,580,578,816,325,817,581,577,579,317],"class_list":["post-760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-arts-in-the-park","tag-bear-story","tag-im-alive","tag-inspiration","tag-inspiring-message-of-the-day","tag-motivation","tag-parachuting","tag-spoke-word","tag-stage-fright","tag-walk-through-your-fear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":761,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760\/revisions\/761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}