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Monthly Archives: November 2015
Santa Hat : A Practice in Positivity
I took my Santa Hat out today for its maiden voyage of this year. It’s my thirteenth or fourteenth year of wearing the Hat at Christmastime. And already another year of learning the same priceless lessons: that being positive and … Continue reading
Posted in Inspiration, Kindness/Generosity, Soulful
Tagged Christmas, Connection, Dance, expansiveness, Inspiration, Joy, light, magic, playful, positivity, practice, prayer, quotes, Risk taking vulnerability, Santa, Santa Hat
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kiss at dawn
when the sun lifts these autumnal cloud covers to kiss woodsy foreheads like a nurturing mother like a tender lover you know you are home
Kindness, Kindness, Kindness
I think about kindness a lot. Kindness is redemptive, heartwarming, inspiring, infectious, transformative–whether we are its witness, donor or recipient. And we all know how a simple act of kindness can offer hope, light the way, save a life… or … Continue reading
Posted in Inspiration, Kindness/Generosity, Mindful, Soulful
Tagged be kind, caring, compassion, heart, heartwarming, hope, humanity, Kindness, magic, miracle, quotes, radiant, simple kindness, Transformation
11 Comments
trailing beauty
“Whatever may be the tensions and the stresses of a particular day, there is always lurking close at hand the trailing beauty of forgotten joy or unremembered peace.”~Howard Thurman
Posted in Inspiration, Mindful, Soulful
Tagged Beauty, healing, Howard Thurman, Inspiration, Joy, marsh, nature, outdoors, peace, positivity, quotes, remembering
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When Falling Isn’t Failing
I fall down a lot. Sure, many of my falls are intentional, a key part of my modern/postmodern dancing. But I also have a noteworthy number of unplanned stumbles, trips, totters. All of which have gotten me to think a … Continue reading
Posted in Inspiration, Mindful, Soulful
Tagged "Rising Strong", Brené Brown, compassion, courage, Dance, dancer, ease, failing, failure, falling, getting up, gutsy, Inspiration, Joseph Campbell, mindful, movement, passion, perspective, possibility and expansiveness, quotes, release, struggle, stumbling, success, tenacity, testing limits, vulnerability, wholeheartedness
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My (New) Santa Hat Tradition Begins
It’s November 2003 and I’m waiting. Waiting in a long checkout line of holiday shoppers at a huge store that sells bath and bedroom items. I am happy to be out and about with my twin teenage daughters on … Continue reading
scudding to possibility
the great blue heron swoops, sweeping a curtain of clouds from the newborn sky blanketing us with dawn and peers down from his roost as if to say: how will you paint this day’s nascence?
Posted in Inspiration, Kindness/Generosity, Mindful, poetry, Soulful
Tagged animal totem, clouds, dawn, expansive, great blue heron, heron, individuality, Inspiration, light, marsh, nascence, nature, new day, poetry, positivity, possibility and expansiveness, scudding, self, sky, spirit animal, sunshine, Windy
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Making It Work: Site Specific Dance Performance
Connection and commitment. Those are the two main takeaways I garnered from my dance performance last weekend. I have been working on a solo,”borderland,” inspired by my new environment of living on the marsh. In the piece, I am investigating … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Inspiration, Mindful, Soulful
Tagged artistic vision, betweenness, borderland, Choreography, commitment, Connection, Creativity, Dance, dance jam, flexibility, healing, heart, improvisation, Inspiration, make it work, marsh, movement, open, opennness, Performance, public art, quotes, site specific performance
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