“ il meglio è nemico del bene (best is the enemy of the good).” ~ Voltaire Do you like deadlines? Or do you prefer finishing things on your own schedule? How does pressure affect your creativity? Remember the old fable about the guy building a boat? The story goes something like this. A [...]
“ To have another language is to possess a second soul.” ~ Charlemagne Do you ever feel like you need to put yourself on the spot? Why is it that being out of your comfort zone once in a while is actually a good thing? What's your method of gaining trust and respect [...]
“ Rock and roll has probably given more than it's taken.” ~ Charlie Watts (more memories from A Life in Vinyl) One of the ways that I earned money to save up for my first stereo was by babysitting for a family that lived just across the road on a cul-de-sac near the [...]
“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Heard from any old friends lately? Is your favorite so-called 'social media' site or app down? Any mixups or crossed-wires in your communications? Well, there has to a scientific explanation for [...]
“ Showing up is not all of life - but it counts for a lot.” ~ Hillary Clinton Do you ever find yourself immersed in a project? What is it about making and creating things that's so compelling? Why are some of us humans so geared towards building stuff? It all starts with [...]
“ Creativity is intelligence having fun.” ~ Albert Einstein So, you have a weekly newsletter and you're at a loss for words. Some 437 weeks of coming up with new and engaging topics, and you start to think, "Is the well running dry?" It's a creative pursuit, and you've managed to turn it [...]
“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 [...]
