Happy Solstice and Fly Mama!!

Happy Solstice to all:):)
Wow This year has whizzed by!!
Solstice for me represents a homecoming of sorts..homecoming of my bird family!!

They all are assembled here, in moderate temperatures, eating all the bananas and papayas they can hold and still fly. They have been returning home since October (my window ledge) and a Palm tree few meters away where they will stay, warm and fed until March. Then one day they will be gone, those Baltimore Orioles, Summer Tanagers, House Wrens, will take off again to New York, Massachusettes, Tennessee, all points north in the USA..and we will miss them and we will sing this song..until they return in October 2025.
To the music “Fly Mama.” a song I co-wrote with our lead singer, Dennis D’Sauro (who sings it).. this is how I spend my Winter Solstice.. admiring the miracle that are migratory birds..all together again on my window ledge.


Maybe you have someone flying home for the holidays too:)
Here is the whole song if you’d like to hear it. Warning!! It’s very catchy:)
I wrote the music and the chorus (Fly Mama) 
and Dennis wrote all the verses and in this version sings it too. In another version, now lost,  I did a mean harmony on the chorus:):)
Enjoy and Happy Solstice…Happy Holidays to Everyone!!
🥰 🥰 & 🤗🤗
Karima💕

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Nostalgia Stars on YouTube

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Hi everyone,
well here is another small video from me (4mins) born from some music I was composing. When I was writing it..I heard “stars” and I heard “nostalgia” hence the name.
I will put the narration here below after the YouTube. 
I used my photos that still exist from the 70’s (many you have seen here) and I hope you will enjoy the overall look and feel of the film. Let me know:) Likes on YouTube are very treasured too:) Please watch in 4K and Fullscreen:)

Narration:

I need a night a desert night
so that the countless stars
may twinkle & shine

I need a couch
a cosmic couch
to travel me thruough time….

and I need a place
a desert place
so quiet and still for me
to remember
a special moment in my life.

The stage is set
I take my place
and await my own
personal planetary showing.

I lay back in my cosmic couch
transported easily outside
of myself.

Almost anesthetized by the
still night air,,the stars
now humming in my mind

Bring them on..those
images from the past.
they live in a cluster
a constellation of proof
of how we lived  that magic moment…

and early on we realized
we could be…
whoever we chose to be

Looking back
ahh the people were our stars
how we shined together in brilliant groups.
Some stood out and to this day
we rotate around each other..
Walking the dogs,
walking the baby
becoming iconic,,
without even knowing..
making history.
They’d write about us all some day

Families started,
lessons  learned & forgotten
Music and politics ,
Life was our passion
and we lived full throttle….

but  we always had 
the midnight  trail

above the Hollywood sign
to ride our horses
and lose ourselves on.

Karima Hoisan
December 17, 2024
Costa Rica

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Happy Birthday Gino!! Your Big 9-0

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Gino maybe 1992

My dear lifetime friend and fabulous designer and sketch artist who passed away on Jan 12 2020 would have been 90 years old today. 
As you recall I built a virtual world, Gino’s Butterfly on Kitely soon after his death on Kitely Virtual Worlds. Gino’s Butterfly Hosts Hypergrid Safari
Well Kimm Star a Virtual world creator and 3D artist saw Gino’s sketches and totally fell in love. She came to me recently and asked if she could use some of his drawings to stage a Fashion Show circa 1960 of Gino’s sketches at the OpenSim Worlds Fair 2025.
This is a big deal in the virtual world  and she is planning something so fantastic, I think Gino could attempt to return from the Dead to see it!! It really wouldn’t surprise me 🙂
I want to give you a sneak peak , a small teaser but the actual show will run from March 1-March 30 2025. It will be automated and it will be innovative!

“The OpenSim Worlds Fair is set to launch on March 1, 2025, and will celebrate innovation, creativity, art, technology, fashion, and education in OpenSim. This event, a year in the making, will unite the OpenSim community under one roof, showcasing the talents and achievements that define our world”

When Kimm asked me to go and see what she was doing,.I had no idea of what I would find..When I saw what she had done with Gino’s sketches… I cried..I could hardly talk and all I could think was, omg how would Gino have loved to see this day..his sketches turned into Live Models..who will walk the catwalk at the Opensim Fair 2025 !
Look for yourself..WOW! Through the magic of Kimm Star and virtuality!!  Happy 90th dear friend🎂❤️  Thank you Kimm!!

 

My Son and his two boys and I put flowers from our yard on his grave today:)
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                          “He flew from our hands”

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“Alchemy” by Karima Hoisan on YouTube

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Big Toad’s New Home

There ought to be a law for people having too much fun when they are trying to compete in an Annual  Video Challenge, like the one calmkate at Alchemy Aroused has invuted all to enter.
My video is more than twice as long as the specified length (3 minutes) and contains non -union  and non- human actors in it too. Still..here it is in 4K and very colorful in the holiday colors of the Christmas season.
I guess this is my contribution to that time of the year and hope you will enjoy a little family fun that hopefully makes people think a bit about intolerance.
You can find out more about participating right here Annual Alchemy Challenge
and if you are curious to see my entry….well here it is:)  Thank you Kate for inviting me to particpate and I will take you up on that lunch in Australia…if I win:) Enjoy

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My Place of Peace

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                                          At the Natascha Randt Memorial on Kitely Virtual Worlds

Music: Dance of Life Composer: Peder B. Helland Licensed by Soothing Relaxation 

My Place of Peace

Because I am an avatar
weightless, my body but a
pixelated illusion,
when I want to find peace,
I go to my virtual Memorial
floating in the images
of what was, but now gone,
I feel an acceptance, a quiet assurance
that all is as it should be…
and in the changing textures,
the floating orbs that morph their colors

in a space I created from my imagination,
revolving to the music
I float around and around,
in my place of peace.

Karima Hoisan
December  8, 2024
Costa Rica

 

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Oh Wow! My Interview is Live on Hotel by Masticadores!

Discover The Wonderful Virtual World of Karima

Please click the link and find out all my dirty secrets  hehe:) No really, I want to thank Michelle Navajas, Editor  for a wonderful job as interviewer and I am so honored to be featured today, in this way, on Hotel.
Please go and read and know a little more about what I do in the virtual poetry arena:)
If you comment here, please comment there too..and as you all know, I love comments.. It’s why I blog instead of fb:)

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Horse Dance by Karima Hoisan on YouTube

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                 The Picture is yours truly in her Horse Avatar” made in Second Life

So my muse surprised me again.
This is not the first time, but I wouldn’t try to second guess what she wants next:)
She sent me to Garage Band to work on some new music and she chained me to
the platform until I came up with what you will hear in this, my latest, YouTube.
It’s sort of a Latin/Jungle/Jazz thing, that grew very complicated but in the end..
I too approved of my muse’s choice.
I decided no poem, no narration, just let the imagery speak (and dance!) for itself.
Thanks to Dale Innis for digging up his old horse avatar from 2014 ( mine too) and galloping and dancing along with me.
It has a small story and hope you all catch it And……it’s only 3:45 long  which is
a record for shortness on my Channel.
Please watch in 4K and turn up the sound (that will delight my muse)
As always if you enjoyed please conside going “all the way” to YouTube
and slap a thumbs up on it too. Comments are like dessert for me. I adore them
Enjoy!!!

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Life Tides

     

Press Play for my spoken word to the music “Allure” by Chris Spheeris

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                                       Gifts from The Tide by Dale Innis AI Art

Life Tides
Have you noticed the tides in your life?
They roll in, bring you the good times,
bring you love and peace of mind;
the colors of the flowers almost make you cry
and then,
the tides shift, like clock work, like moon strides
and they roll out to sea taking it all with them.
They roll out, dragging with them,
the things you don’t want to let go…

There goes your health, getting further away from you,
and the water grows colder with foreboding
any moment it’s all going to go,
and you lose your job
and your peace turns to stress.
Your deepest dream sleep turns into
endless dreamless, sleepless nights.

Just when you think life can’t get any worse
The tides start to flow back in.
They surround your feet and they bring you gifts,
Hope floats on the spume, the breeze shifts;
the sunset is the best you’ve ever seen.
Just say thank you for all of it,
the waning tides that come and go
and the high tides that bring the good times.

The best thing to do is get weightless
and float out and in
in and out…
Just float as you go out and float as you come back in.

Ahhh just float on the tides and give thanks for your life.

Karima Hoisan
November 21, 2024
Costa Rica

 

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The Merlins On Holiday by Karima Hoisan

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Mrs & Mr. Merlin Dancing A Bolero

Hi Everyone!!!
Here is my latest video hot off the YouTube presses!!
This is an 8 minute, spin-off from the Cosmos & Nova Trick or Treating video, where The Merlins first appeared. Please Watch in 4K and Fullscreen The stars, Mr. & Mrs. Merlin were made by Wynx Works in Second Life and the ducks , as always by Vinnie Baxter. The music is my own that I composed on my Garage Band. Thank you to Dale Innis for his wonderful portrayal of Mrs. Merlin!
Thank you to James Ottobre for flower pictures used on their canopy bed and bedspread:)
Thank you to Second Life for my home sim, LINC Island, for the last 17 years, where almost all the scenes you see were shot.
LINC City was built by Natascha Randt ( may she rest in peace,) and it stands on an upper level of LINC Island.
As always these videos are for ages 2 to 102. Viewers outside that age group might not appreciate it as much:)
Please watch on YouTube and feel free to Like & Comment (and subscribe!) on my Youtube Channel. I am a very tiny but dedicated Content Creator:)  Your support means a lot

ENJOY!!!

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Weeping Words.

If I thought my weeping words could save the lives

of the innocents who don’t deserve to die,

I’d wake the world, words dripping from my eyes

and cry them out,  “Stop the killing… Stop the lies.”

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