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Monthly Archives: September 2014
Personal Legend: Life Lessons from Dancing
“A Personal Legend is the reason you are here…You can fill your hours and days with things that are meaningless. But you know you have a reason to be here….It is the only thing that gives you enthusiasm….”~Paulo Coelho These … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Inspiration, Mindful, Soulful
Tagged aliveness, artist, authenticity, bliss, courage, enthusiasm, Inspiration, Joseph Campbell, legend, life lessons, mindful, movement, Paulo Coelho, personal calling, Personal Legend, quotes, risktaking, self, soulful, synchronicity, vibrancy
35 Comments
yeah, baby!
“May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children.” ~Rainer Maria Rilke
Posted in Inspiration, Mindful, Soulful
Tagged authenticity, Dance, flow, Joy, jump, mindful, movement, Ocean, passion, possibility and expansiveness, quotes, self, soul, yeah baby!
24 Comments
playful
loosen steel bars hey, look! a once rigidified mind can now CaRTwhEel! and sOmErSaUlT! rolling rolling down the hills of new, open souls’ stuck, stuck, stuck stuck … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Inspiration, Mindful, poetry, Soulful
Tagged alive, child, Inspiration, Joy, loosen up, mindful, movement, newness, open, playful, poetry, possibility and expansiveness, refreshing, somersault, soulful, vibrant
23 Comments
Transition: Life Lessons from Dancing
“….The music happens between the notes.…”~Isaac Stern For longer than I care to admit, I fell into the dancer’s common, seductive trap of focusing on the “big moves.” The “ta da!” moments. And paid far too little attention to the … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Inspiration, Mindful, Soulful
Tagged art of living, artist, artistry, being present, Change, dancer, dancing, ease, grace, Inspiration, life lessons, mindful, movement, Music, possibility and expansiveness, quotes, stillness, transition, Yo-Yo Ma
31 Comments
dancing in the streets
unexpectedly connecting watchers and the watched blend life, art an ever changing rearrangement: summer heat sizzles crowds peopling the tunes and fumes of a subsuming cityscape as we fall run, twirl, pause leap enthralled by enthralling: kaleidoscopic improvisation **Photo credits: Rich Davis and … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Inspiration, Soulful
Tagged city, Creativity, Dance, dancing in the streets, improvisation, Inspiration, movement, Performance, photography, poetry, public art, soulful
27 Comments
So, You Used To Be A Dancer?: Life Lessons from Dancing
“I can tell you used to be a dancer,” the well-meaning, sixtyish woman confided to me as we left the dance fitness class. “I could see by the way you moved in class that you used to dance.” Say, WHAT?!#? … Continue reading
Posted in Inspiration, Mindful, Soulful
Tagged alive, artist, authenticity, Dance, follow your heart, Inspiration, Joy, life lessons, meaningful, mindful, passion, quotes, self, vibrant, vitality
53 Comments
autumn spectrum
autumn leaves and lives summer memories transformed a deeper palette Thank you for the continued inspiration Rachael Charmley
mermaid murmuration
the call follow your heart yes follow your heart mermaids’ passionate rosary encircling as we spiral closer wilder deeper more into what is calling
Posted in Inspiration, Mindful, poetry, Soulful
Tagged calling, deeper, follow your heart, heart, Inspiration, mermaid, mindful, movement, murmuration, Ocean, passion, poetry, self, soulful, spiral, wild
21 Comments
A Blessing For One Who Is Exhausted by John O’Donohue
Originally posted on Soul Gatherings:
When the rhythm of the heart becomes hectic, Time takes on the strain until it breaks; Then all the unattended stress falls in On the mind like an endless, increasing weight, The light in the…
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critic: quit it!
excoriating critic slithering within such sneering and incessant din unnerves me demeaning every trepidatious embryo I roll onto the page, onto the stage he schemes to keep the world drear, dark: no art, how can I let him outsmart me? … Continue reading
Posted in Inspiration, Mindful, poetry, Soulful
Tagged Choreography, Creativity, critic, dancing, Humor, inner critic, Inspiration, mindful, playful, poetry, soulful, tongue twister, writing
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