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Intrepid: Life Lessons from Dancing
A living room. A town green. A Zoom screen. A sand bar. A list of random nouns? Nope. To keep dancing this past year, these have been my “venues” for teaching, rehearsing and performing. As I prepared to teach class … Continue reading
Welcome: The Priceless Gifts of Hospitality
Originally posted on Sirena Tales:
“Dining with one’s friends and beloved family is certainly one of life’s primal and most innocent delights, one that is both soul-satisfying and eternal.”~Julia Child Julia’s wise, evocative words have been echoing for me lately…
Gift For A Stranger
Today, I delivered some cookies I had made to the local soup kitchen in time for the lunch service. I’ve done this a number of times since we moved here and plan to make it a more frequent practice … Continue reading
Mending With Light: Santa Hat Chronicles
After a rocky day, I get up, grateful for another go. Hopeful. As I clear dishes from the table, I decide to glance at the newspaper, which I have held off on lately. The spate of suffering and hostility staggers … Continue reading
Posted in Inspiration, Kindness/Generosity, possibility and expansiveness, Santa Hat/Christmas, Soulful
Tagged Christmas, compassion, Connection, expansiveness, hope, Inspiration, intention, light, Love, make it better, meaningful, mending, positivity, possibility, quotes, Santa, Santa Hat
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When Time Falls Away: Ah, Transcendence!
I had not planned to go to the studio today. Then the morning fell apart in a cascade of cancelled plans after a long drive and a return through multiple construction delays. Very minor irritations, I know. Still leaving … Continue reading
Bliss Is Our Compass
Taking stock of a summer of creative projects so that I can determine how to move forward, I flounder. Falter. Which step to take, in what direction? It feels discouraging to scour the landscape for a path and find none. … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Dance, Inspiration, possibility and expansiveness
Tagged artist, bliss, compass, courage, Creative Process, Creativity, Dance, expansiveness, follow your bliss, Inspiration, Joseph Campbell, luminous, meaningful, moonglow, path, quotes, sculpture, struggle, tenacity
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Still Dancing
In Dani Shapiro’s marvelous “Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life,” she shares a classic anecdote in an artist’s life. Her friend, who is a notable sculptor, is asked at a dinner party “…if I was still … Continue reading
The Glow of Flow, or Optimal Experience
“….[T]he best moments in our lives, are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times…The best moments usually occur when a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile….”~Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi … Continue reading
Musings from the Marshlands: When One Way Doesn’t Work….
…another will. The enormous great blue heron feeding close by on the marsh has been reminding me of that important heron wisdom. One of the things heron teaches is that when one way doesn’t work, another will. The heron draws … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Dance, Inspiration, Nature, possibility and expansiveness, Soulful
Tagged Adaptability, animal wisdom, artist, Creative Process, Creativity, Dance, failure, heron, Inspiration, keep going, marsh, meaningful, opportunity, possibility, pounce, quotes, resourcefulness, spirit animal, tenacity
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More Vulnerability: Life Lessons from Dancing
Being in performance mode again last week highlighted for me that ever present, and often loathed, human condition: vulnerability. We human types are constantly “exposed to the possibility of being attacked or harmed, either physically or emotionally.” Yet, we often … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Dance, Inspiration, possibility and expansiveness
Tagged artist, Brené Brown, Choreography, Dance, discovery, fallibility, frontier of the self, Inspiration, life lessons, meaningful, movement, passions, Performance, Performing, possibility, practice, risky, shame, taking a leap, uncertainty, vitality, vulnerability
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