Monthly Archives: June 2013

Discovery: Blessings of Eros

May the words of love reach you and fluster your held self, The way a silhouette of breeze Excites a meadow. When you are touched, May it be the gentleness you desire, Your lover’s hands sending Each caress deep into

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Inspiration: Gravity

Why am I inspired by the weakest fundamental force? Gravity is how I connect and ground myself.  Imagining how my body interacts with it on a cellular level is how I create the centeredness and groundedness to do the type

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Meditation: I know about wind

She wrote, “I don’t find wind terribly interesting.” I didn’t know how she could say that. I twirled that phrase around and asked myself if I could ever make a claim like that. Not terribly interesting? Wind? This morning when

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Discovery: Karla McLaren and emotions

Karla McLaren changed my life 7 years ago with a book she wrote called Your Aura and Chakras. The practices she outlined helped me firm up energetic and emotional boundaries that had been weak to non-existent for most of my

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Inspiration: Douglas Dunn

“Modern dance is retrograde. It sees the complex body/mind as a temple to be dwelt in, lived from, revered. It says that any possible spiritual progress must emerge from an unembarrassed body. Thus we are un-Christian. We are not afraid

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Meditation: A Sunday morning

I’m puttering around the house, vaguely aware of a perpetual list of things to do. One thing done, another jumps up. Wash clothes, fold towels, walk dog, clean kitchen. I sigh. In between the lists and this breath I see

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Discovery: Sonic vistas

Earth is a Solar Powered Juke Box–Gordon Hempton Acoustic ecologist, it’s not a job you ever heard about at career fairs in high school. Thankfully the world is full of people willing to create work outside the career fair list

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Inspiration: Moving, not moving

“I am moving and not moving at all. I’m like the moon underneath the waves that ever go on rolling and rocking. It is not ‘I am doing this’, but rather, ‘this is happening through me’, or ‘it is doing

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Meditation: When does it end?

I have a problem with perfection. No, not even perfection. The idea that everything around me could be just a little bit or a lot better IF. If only. If only I had the money, the time, the strength. If

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Discovery: New ways to sing it…

You know someone owns the rights to Happy Birthday. That means every time you sing it, someone is supposed to make some pennies from it. They can’t yet make us pay ASCAP fees in our homes, but this is the

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