“Summertime,and the livin' is easy...Fish are jumpin' and the cotton is high.”  ~ George Gershwin Here's to hoping your living is easy this summer. When you walk outside and the air feels like a flannel shirt turned [...]

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever”  ~ Mahatma Gandhi (further adventures of a musical youth...) During my fifth grade year, my parents made a decision that would [...]

“A body is living art. Your movement through time and space is art. A painter has brushes. You have your body.”  ~ Anna Halprin What are you doing with your life? Who are you being? Why are those [...]

“Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth”  ~ Muhammad Ali I've got a slightly different Monday Love for you today, sort of a cross between an invitation and a request. As [...]

“The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we CAN imagine...”  ~ J.B.S. Haldane What's your relationship with mystery? How do you approach the great unanswerable questions of the universe? Do you ever [...]

“ Just as one can compose colors, or forms, so one can compose motions.”  ~ Alexander Calder Have you ever heard of The Boho Dance? No, it's not the latest conscious movement modality, far from it. We're talking [...]

“Growing up, I have discovered over time, is rather like housework: never finished.”  ~ Lois McMaster Bujold (Please enjoy these further recollections about growing up under the influence of vinyl) "In which a curious youngster discovers that [...]

“Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.”  ~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Do you remember Middle School? Or maybe it was called Junior High, like it was for me. Those years in [...]

“If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse... but surely you will see the wildness!”  ~ Pablo Picasso So last night we were having a party. Nothing special, just a few friends over [...]