1 Min Teaser For Saturday’s Fashion Show!!

Posted on May 14, 2025 by Karima Hoisan

Are you ready to make your avatar and go??
Let me know:):)

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Mother’s Day…Continuity

Posted on May 11, 2025 by Karima Hoisan

Today is Mother’s Day in many parts of the world, just not in Costa Rica (August 15th) but…
my daughter is in Brasil for her work and it is Mother’s Day there….so
I was inspired to make this little image showing our family’s continuity…..
mothers & first borns.:)
Happy Mother’s Day!! (5 generations of moms:)  Isn’t Life Amazing!!!

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Ahh Gino…..

Posted on May 9, 2025 by Karima Hoisan

                   Photo taken at the venue for Gino’s Fashion Show on May 17th

                                              Gino’s original  design for my dress

Ahh Gino….

Through the magic of virtuality
the strides made today in technology,
I stand once more by your side..
wearing your latest design,
off to somewhere
full of beautiful people
inside and out
outside and in..

And here we come,
light on our feet
full of charisma & charm
because we’re sharing the energy..
that makes us walk into the room
full of confidence, excitement
and….”Vavoom!!”

Ahh Gino…those were the days!!

Karima Hoisan
May 9, 2025
Costa Rica
*Footnote: Gino passed away in 2020
Our avatars were made by Kimm Starr 💕

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An Invitation to Gino’s Fashion Show & Party!!

Posted on May 4, 2025 by Karima Hoisan

Hi everyone,.. I am so excited to share three invitation styles to our upcoming Smash Virtual Event on Saturday, May 17th at 1pm pst.
It’s a reality!! Thanks to Kimm Starr (who made the invitations too) and Virtual Vignette & Animaster, we are bringing Gino back to lead a fabulous fashion show (catwalk & all) and party afterwards, on my world, “Gino’s Butterfly” As she says, “through love, community, and technology” this is actually possible. Gino’s legacy will live on and on.
If it’s true everyone who knew him in Real Life, loved him, well now hundreds and hundreds in the virtual life will  meet and love him too:)
I am serious, anyone who has a computer and would like to make an avatar and attend (It will cost you 0:) I will walk you through the steps on what you need to do:)
I am SOOOOOO Excited about this!!! Truly a dream come true!
Gino’s sketches will come to life, walk the catwalk entertain & delight!!

If you haven’t met Gino yet, just watch my video made for and about him.
Please watch in fullscreen, 4K and sound on:)

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Shinamatoon: “Pink Again”

Posted on April 23, 2025 by Karima Hoisan

                                                     Three best friends off on a mission!

OK.. here is something for all of you that think You have problems:)
Pure escapism..something that in small doses feels really good about now.
Little Ellie Elephant has lost her color and is now tan when, she all her life, was pink. That’s the sweet silly plot. To my original music (No AI used in this film) created on Garage Band, I invite you to see my first “Shinamatoon” a Machinima using cute cartoon avatars… avatars shot in a virtual world, no animation used. The video was filmed on Kitely Virtual Worlds on “Between The Night and Nowhere” built by Natascha Randt & me, scripts by Dale Innis. Chroma Key (Greenscreen) was done in Second life on LINC Island, A big special Thank-You to my Pisces Sisters: DzinWiz Babbii & Suzanne Moonintoog for joining me to play this little  tight-knit threesome.
Please watch in 4K and fullscreen!
Comments and Likes always appreciated here, there, anywhere:)

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A White-Winged Angel

Posted on April 17, 2025 by Karima Hoisan

                                                        Maki & My Father & Me

Please listen to my spoken word to the beautiful music by Peter B.Helland”Feelings”
(My yiguirros..our National Bird, singing in the background)

A White-Winged Angel

A white-winged angel slips thru the trees
“Come for me  please come for me”
“You took my daddy away in his sleep
now please take me, now take me.”

At eleven we still don’t know too much…
We look to our parents to fill in the blanks
but when the father dies and the mother goes mute
We read Edgar Allan Poe until we think we know.

Here in Costa Rica, tomorrow is a solemn day…
Few people drive their cars, all industry shuts down
A quiet like before Time pervades through Nature’s  scene
and just breathing is a meditation on life and death.
Just sitting in the quiet is like a waking dream

My beloved Maki, my cat of destiny was killed on Good Friday
in March last year, with all my family here, I could not cry.
I was so in shock, my eyes stayed dry, and forever more
they refuse to cry, I took the pain of his loss, burying it deep inside.

A white-winged angel slips thru the trees
“Come for me  please come for me”
“You took my loving Maki away from me
now please take me, now take me.”

My father passed away the 18th of April, sixty-seven  years today
and yet that preteen trauma is embedded in my memory
It forged my life, from an early age; it changed me..
and I am who I am, a poet since that time,
who still looks at life and many times just asks why?

A white-winged angel slips through the trees
“Come for me  please come for me”
“You took my daddy away in his sleep
now please take me, now take me.”

Karima Hoisan
April 17th 2025 (day before Good Friday)
Costa Rica

 

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My First Reading in Over a Year…Tomorrow!!

Posted on April 11, 2025 by Karima Hoisan

                The Guests Will Click on The Poster to Get a Copy of My Poems

Pearl Astor Winchester (how I love her name) came out of the blue one day a few months back and contacted me. As she says in her welcome speech (and I am quoting her)

“I first discovered Karima quite serendipitously through Facebook. The moment I encountered her work, it felt like a lightning bolt—something stirred deeply within me. I had long envisioned a poetry reading here in the garden, but wasn’t sure where to begin. And then, there she was—a voice, a vision, a muse.”

I went to her gorgeous garden venue at “Pearlmoor Abbey” and was swept off my feet. Her fine love of detail and exquisite taste, her talent for decoration and color combinations..really It’s maybe the most beautiful venue I have ever read in!🌹 I got into my dress for tomorrow, a Mexican Spring gown, and took a few pictures.. What do you think?


Wish me luck..I will make a new post tomorrow and let you know what it was like. I am indebted to my hostess, Pearl Astor for inviting me to read…
This is why I love Second Life!!  Where else? could this happen? She is in Asia and I am in Costa Rica and with her guests, from everywhere… we will all be together tomorrow:)
“Thank you Sister…I can’t wait!!”
I will include two pictures Dale took at the reading. It was wonderful and everyone had a good time…even me.. I got over my stage fright and just enjoyed myself:) There were 28 people all spread out, from all over the world  listening and interacting after each poem.


And here is my handsome date:) Dale!!
Love this shot of him:) (foto by Pearl)
Wonderful shot of the gathering (foto by Pearl)
Love her details!!

Plans to do another one in the future are already in place:)

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On and On……

Posted on April 8, 2025 by Karima Hoisan

                                                             Grieving Mother by nunmeister

On and On…

The War. The Greed. The Destruction. The Injustice,  now our daily bread.
If we’re not living these horrors ourselves every day in the flesh,
We are watching the scenes on TV.

Yet our world has turned its head and no longer sees.We can protest the rising prices, the governmental over reach,
but please do not forget a gentle people,  far away
being extinguished before our eyes.

Raze the ground, uproot every olive tree
profits are the endgame; life is so cheap.
Human beings like you and me, being cleansed
to make room  for a real estate boom.

Profits before families…
ambitious cruelty sits on the Throne,
Careful now, you too could be on a list
to be classified as not worthy to live.

Hope is buried somewhere out of sight
and complicity to plans of insanity
are our new reality.

Karima Hoisan
April 8, 2025
Costa Rica

*Footnote: Please press Play to hear my spoken word version.The music is “Fragile” by Sting sung by a children’s choir for the limited series, “Adolescence” When I heard this music, I knew soon I would write this poem.

 

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That’s One Big Iguana!!!

Posted on April 5, 2025 by Karima Hoisan

Shot This Morning on our Bird Feeder

It’s like having a small dinosaur living in our yard.
I think he probably hatched here many many years ago.
They live to be 12-15 years old and can live past 20 if they have a constant food supply
(Fruit trees) and high trees to shelter in….like we have here:)
Just sharing:) Here he is in action:)


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The High Life- The Wildflower Witch Family 1968

Posted on April 1, 2025 by Karima Hoisan

           Home Sweet Home on Santa Monica Blvd. Hollywood California 1967

Well it’s been awhile since I first mentioned MyRock ‘n Roll 60’s in Part 1 where I promised we were working on salvagaing a demo we did for Capitol Records in 1968. Part 1
Now in 2025 (and I really believe it was worth the wait) I can share with you our song.
It was pure Acid Rock and you can decide for yourselves if you think we were any good:):)
Turn it up and enjoy!! This is just the recording… not a movie.

It is a demo we made for Capitol Records in 1968.
It was  written by Dan Sverdlin our lead guitarist.
Vocals by Dennis D’Asuaro rhythm guitar and lead vocal
Tom Ryan, bass &  vocals
Donna Leviash (Karima Hoisan) electric organ & vocals
Bill Young drums & vocals
Recorded at Tower Studios on Hollywood Blvd.
Producer: Jim Yorty
Special thanks to Wave Mechanic, for restoration and mastering ©2025
and to Menubar Memorial for the collage of the group with lyrics and
thumbnail graphics.

Comments are very welcome.. Would love to know what you think:)

Lyrics:
“Nah nah nah na
Nah nah naaa
in a little dish”

I’m on the right side
of my own road
I can take you with me
do you want to go.
if I take you with me (lalalala)
Love you will know
The High Life
It is my Life.

No boundaries last forever
They’re only lines
The High Life has no borders
To be defined.
If you go with me
Life will stop being Time
My life
is the High Life.

Bridge:
(my solo 🙂
If you want to erase the lines
the altar is waiting, a love it provides
and you know that I’m on your side
With faith it will work out, so why don’t you try?

All freedom lasts forever
if you let it survive
But fear can lend no shelter
it can make freedom die

Die
Die
Die
(its all the same…it’s all the same…it’s all the same)

 

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