“Any time, any day,You can hear the people say,That love is blind, well, I don't know but I say love is kind...” ~ Paul McCartney (Today's note is an excerpt from My Life in the Beats of Wax, an analog memoir...) Grand Junction had one primary record store, an establishment called Mazucca’s on Main Street [...]
“ The job of art is not to store moments of experience but to explore environments that are otherwise invisible. Art is not a retrieval system of precious moments of past cultures. Art has a live, ongoing function.” ~ Marshall McLuhan Well, what do you know, it's Labor Day once again here in [...]
“Some of our finest work comes through service to others” ~ Gordon Hinckley Help us out here. We've been brainstorming some various ways that the Dance First Association could expand and evolve and be a more valuable resource and service for folks in the conscious dance community, both for active movement facilitators and [...]
“A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.” ~ Truman Capote How do you help hold your community together? What's your method of connecting people? Where do you welcome new folks into the mix? "New normal" or [...]
“Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement.” ~ Aldous Huxley Are you getting enough movement in your day-to-day life? Have the shifts in our society caused a shift in your practice? What kind of adjustments have you made to deal with our evolving reality? Since our world turned [...]
“ Music is life itself ” ~ Louis Armstrong (more notes from a musical memoir...) In which a curious student befriends a family of fans. When the Bus Trip reached its end, we returned to Colorado and settled down. The idea of moving elsewhere never happened and to hear my parents tell it, [...]
“ You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not even know it.” ~ Jimmy Dean How do you define 'good fortune'? Is it something you can invite into your life at will? What is luck anyway? Mythology and folklore is [...]
“First, say to yourself what you would be; then do what you have to do.” ~ Epictetus Have you ever wished life came with instructions? Where are all the answers anyway? Would you like to have a "manual for living"? Well, it turns out you're in luck. Once upon a time way back in [...]
“I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do - the day after.” ~ Oscar Wilde Have you ever put something off for a later day? Postponed something until "the time is right"? Dare we say - procrastinated? There are a million reasons why one might choose to wait until a [...]
“I believe that all roads lead to the same place - and that is wherever all roads lead to.” ~ Willie Nelson A formative event in my adolescent years was a year taken away from school and spent on the road with my parents in a converted Continental Trailways bus. The "Bus Trip" [...]
