Monthly Archives: March 2015

indomitable echoes of light

wrapping around and around and around again this world a necklace of joy luminous in its boundlessness, now putting my ear to the earthy heartbeat, hearing exquisiteness beholding the gleam surge in doubtlessness through all the clamor and distress joy and … Continue reading

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Growing Into More

My lovely friend, and supplier of endless inspiration, Angie, sent this quote two days ago. The succinct, spot on wisdom took my breath away and has become a new mantra. To help me remember, I added it to the “Walls … Continue reading

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We Are Dancing for Those Who Can’t

I don’t know when my dancing practice fundamentally changed–to include a conscious intention to dance for those who cannot.  Whether sidelined by injury, stymied by illness or stilled by persecution.  And even for those who wish they were dancing, but … Continue reading

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Because PASSION Is the Lifeblood of the Soul

Exhilarated! Vitalized! Transcending! That’s how it feels to be in my usual routine of dancing vigorously many times a week. Sure, I am also exhausted and sometimes sore.  Yet, oddly enough, when I am doing the highly athletic dancing I … Continue reading

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mermaid recollection

I hover on the thin edges of cocktail conversations blank niceties and litanies soul’s dank desecration, ribboning the filament of gold imagination, I perch with the hawk on clear, high branches quaff vibrations echoing nature’s dazzling sensations, diving deeply in … Continue reading

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Are You Doing Your Work?

Your “work” being your calling or your passion or your raison d’etre. Recently, I attended a rich discussion by a panel of gifted, acclaimed choreographers (Wendy Whelan, David Dorfman, Ronald K. Brown, Brian Brooks).  I was thrilled to hear their … Continue reading

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shining through the fears

They will tell you that you shouldn’t, needn’t, can’t, won’t. They will tell you that no one ever has. And that no one, certainly not you, ever will. They will whisper that you are too old, too young, too weak, … Continue reading

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river of heart

there is a river within all around weaving glowing love all play a part there flows a river within all around easing, flowing love in and out the open heart

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hero of possibilities

“All the possibilities of your human destiny are asleep in your soul. You are here to realize and honor these possibilities….” -John O’Donohue Who are you?   “Not all who hesitate are lost. The psyche has many secrets in reserve. … Continue reading

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Experience: A Window to Wonderment

“It is interesting how contemporary English has the phrase: ‘to have an experience,’ with the suggestion of possession….  In the folk culture of the Celtic Imagination, experience was not a thing to be produced or owned… [but rather] the focus … Continue reading

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