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Monthly Archives: January 2014
Bless the Artists
“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”–Pablo Picasso I haven’t been able to create much lately. There’s been sufficient “dust,” along with weightier matter including the recent loss of my mom, to tap out my available … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Inspiration, Kindness/Generosity, Mindful, Soulful
Tagged Ann Patchett, Art, artistry, Artists, beauty music, blessing, Creativity, Dance, Generosity, gratitude, Inspiration, Joseph Campbell, loss, meaning, mindful, quotes, Reading
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Movement: Prodigious Healer
I am deeply sad to write that my mother passed away unexpectedly several days ago. I am still in shock from this enormous loss. I have not been frozen precisely like this before. Frozen in the grief and shock of … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Inspiration, Kindness/Generosity, Mindful, Soulful
Tagged body, body memory, Connection, Dance, death, grief, healer, healing, Inspiration, Joy, loss, meditation, mindful, movement, passion, shock, soulful, spiritual practice, transcendence
40 Comments
dance without a plan
my ancient bathrobe and I sit fuzzy here in the cold yawn of a wintry dawn refusing to brighten when presto! on the radio the blues come on spin their shadowed magic to lighten the dramatic mood, my ancient bathrobe … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Inspiration, Kindness/Generosity, Mindful, poetry, Soulful
Tagged alone, Creativity, Dance, Inspiration, Joy, kitchen, mindful, movement, Music, poetry, radio, soulful, spontaneity, the blues, winter, winter blues
14 Comments
Something To Live For: Life Lessons From Dance
Sometimes this passion for dancing seems like madness. Take this morning. Heading out early into the cold, discouraging day, I slipped repeatedly on black ice, tweaking an old injury. As I scraped my car’s frozen windshield and then entered the … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Inspiration, Kindness/Generosity, Mindful, Soulful
Tagged challenges, Dance, flow, Generosity, Inspiration, Joy, life purpose, meaningful, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, mindful, movement, optimal experience, passion, positivity, quotes, soulful, still point, transcendence
26 Comments
song of a lighthouse
if I stand here steadfast will you stand here by me constant and unyielding before a thrashing sea? if I shine here brightly will you shine here with me beaming beacons radiant buoying engulfed fleets? tho the winds do howl … Continue reading
Posted in Inspiration, Kindness/Generosity, Mindful, poetry, Soulful
Tagged buoy, Generosity, Inspiration, light, lighthouse, mindful, Ocean, poetry, radiant, resilient, shine, soul, Steadfast, uplifting
12 Comments
reverie at sunset
how strange it feels and lovely just to sit here for five minutes not washing soiled dishes lounging lazily by the sink not folding or fixing anything or anyone nor mending a heart (except, perhaps, my own), listening at long last to … Continue reading
Posted in Inspiration, Mindful, poetry, Soulful
Tagged Beauty, Christmas tree, Inspiration, light, meditation, mindful, nature, parenting, poetry, reverie, sitting, soulful, splendor, stillness, sunset, tea, wordless
16 Comments
Mindfulness: Ballet Class
Ballet and I go a long way back. Fifty years to be exact. Ballet was one of my first loves. That magical mixture of form, beauty, self-expression, creativity, imagination and, of course, movement–ahhhhh. As the lyric from A Chorus Line … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Inspiration, Mindful, Soulful
Tagged artist, Ballet, ballet class, Beauty, Creativity, Dance, imagination, Inspiration, mindful, movement, passion, Performance, soulful
19 Comments
glittering
there is a something certain, unnameable catches the light (in your throat) both soaking and casting accepting and asking will we join? the something playful, untameable a glimmering the possible unknowable magic that it exists even as it, dancing, ineffable … Continue reading
when the dancing stops
Theme when the dancing stops the light in your deep room dims can’t pedal enough *** Variation when the dancing stops your deep room dims, shrinking you can’t ignite the light /// when the dancing stops you, not treading hard … Continue reading
Posted in Inspiration, poetry, Soulful
Tagged dancing, darkness, depression, haiku, light, movement, passion, poem, poetry, sinking, soul, theme and variation, thirst
9 Comments
Forget Resolutions, Let’s Live 2014 Like It’s The Circus
Here is a feast of gorgeous inspiration from the lovely Tamina’s Turn to ring in 2014…and ROCK IT! xo
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