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small potatoes

“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will … Continue reading

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Grace Is A Rainbow

Grace.  I think about it a lot.  As a dancer, of course, but also as a human being. Grace is a funny and amazing thing.  People talk about it a lot, yet often have trouble defining grace.  Grace is often … Continue reading

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Kindness Is A River

You can see her through the glass doors, at her checkout station, waiting patiently. Because of the store’s lighting, her figure appears a little shadowy, but no deficiency of some light bulbs can dim the glow of her soul. When … Continue reading

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How Not To Get Freshly Pressed

~Write about dance…especially modern or contemporary dance…because it’s your passion and it’s beautiful and you wish to slather all of that deliciousness around ~Write about mermaids, magic, kindness and expanding our sense of possibility ~Throw in some poetry from time … Continue reading

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small potatoes

I am a mere droplet in a bucket a teeny tiny minnow in a grand ocean, I am a blip a hiccup in a rippling eternity yes, I am very small potatoes this limited and flawed (sometime fraud) spud: ephemeral, … Continue reading

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S T R I V E

of course, there are the times we don’t want to just can’t who’s to say if they are fewer than we believe? but the instant there is an inner glimmer we pounce we spring into the day embracing a newborn … Continue reading

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Burnishing Gold: The Space Between Us

“We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.”~Herman Melville Ah, yes. That ineffable … Continue reading

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Kindness + Us = Everything

“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.”      ~ … Continue reading

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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

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Vulnerability: Life Lessons from Dance

“To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength.”–Criss Jami** Every time we perform dance in front of an audience, we make ourselves vulnerable.  I know this full well from experience, … Continue reading

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