more advice

(i cloud, you cloud, water cloud…) Certain advice just has a way of staying with you. You recognize it: “Yes. TRUTH.” Never to be forgotten. Well, ideally. As in the pity party (you recall?). So, this next piece of advice…

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interrupted

Whenever I get interrupted, my first response is, “Oh no!” But inevitably, I’m glad afterwards. And I never can guess why. When I was hanging my show in DC, there was a fire in the building. “RONK RONK RONK” –…

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words

… we put things in words and don’t much notice how they have altered that bit of the world for us forever. (Susan Rethorst, A Choreographic Mind). Susan Rethorst is talking about dance. But she could as well have been referring…

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show’s up!

Title of show: 13.8 Billion Years Ago 13.8 billion years ago was the Big Bang. So much time has passed and we are as restless as ever. We may seek calm, but, as the Buddhists say, “our wild horse mind”…

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full reaction mode

Do you know how, every once in a while, something catches you, really catches you sideways/unexpectedly, and you react? Just react! You are in full reaction mode. Gotcha. Well, this happened yesterday and it caught me off-guard. I was so…

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vagus nerve

(cleaning up all the hooks, re-stringing them on new elastic) I was talking to my online group today about Thupten Jinpa’s book, the Fearless Heart, in which he talks about compassion. He notes that in the western culture, the whole…

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okay already

You recall way back when – when you were in school and you were looking forward to recess? Or the end of the school day? And then, you realize, man, I have another class? You know, that kind of structure…

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