“ 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 [...]
“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, [...]
