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Leap: Finding Meaning in Experiences That Are Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Posted in art, career, movie, New York City, work on January 12, 2012 | 5 Comments »

“And if that’s all you learned from 9/11, if that’s all you remembered, that: My God, you could extinguish life so suddenly, so unexpectedly, and it could happen to me, and therefore I should think harder about the way I spend my life instead of just wasting it. Now, it’s not going to teach you [...]

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Leap: Longfellow Shows Us How to Keep Our 2012 Resolution

Posted in art, literature, work on January 3, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

My friend, Col, posted A Psalm of Life by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on her Facebook page as 2011 drew to a close. It’s last stanza, “Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate ; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait” is such a beautiful sentiment as [...]

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Beginning: The Art Born of Life

Posted in art, career, choices, creativity on December 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

“If you want to work on your art, work on your life.” – Chekhov I spent a lot of 2011 in a mode of planning and personal development. At turns, I would get frustrated with what appeared to be a lack of progress, or at least a lack of progress at the pace I wanted. [...]

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Beginning: Make Your Own Funny

Posted in art, books, business, comedy, creativity, innovation, inspiration, invention, theatre on December 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

“Comics say funny things and comedic actors say things funny.” ~ Ed Wynn via Carol Burnett, Happy Accidents Over the winter holidays I started reading the wonderful book Happy Accidents, a memoir by comedic actress Jane Lynch. At turns the book is hilarious, heartwarming, and heartbreaking. Jane has the incredible ability to make people feel [...]

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Beginning: My Only Talent Is My Tenaciousness

Posted in art, career, commitment, determination, passion, theatre on December 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

“Acting doesn’t come natural to me. I’m very cerebral about it, unlike Joanne (Woodward), who is an intuitive actor. Acting to me is like dredging a river. It’s a painful experience. I simply do not have the intuitive talent. I worry about acting and constantly complain to myself about my own performance…and this doesn’t fall [...]

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Beginning: We’ve All Got Music

Posted in art, music on December 22, 2011 | 3 Comments »

“I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me – like food or water.”  ~ Ray Charles I saw this [...]

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Beginning: My Night at the Theatre with Martin Luther King and Aretha Franklin

Posted in art, courage, fear, inspiration, theatre on December 8, 2011 | 3 Comments »

“Well, I don’t know what will happen now. We’ve got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn’t matter with me now, because I’ve been to the mountaintop. And I don’t mind. Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I’m not concerned about that now. I just want [...]

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Beginning: Satyagraha at the Metropolitan Opera and What Gandhi Teaches Us About Being a Beginner

Posted in adventure, art, choices, courage, creativity, justice on December 7, 2011 | 5 Comments »

Upon the very strong advice of my friend and mentor, Richard, I bought a ticket to see the Metropolitan Opera’s final performance of Satyagraha (“truth force” in Sanskrit), an opera by Philip Glass that tells the story of Gandhi’s life in South Africa through the ancient Hindu text of the Bhagavad Gita. The Gita is [...]

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Beginning: The Spiritual Nature of Yoga

Posted in art, creativity, religion, yoga on December 1, 2011 | 2 Comments »

“Being ‘spiritual’ simply means being willing to look into the nature of life, to ask questions and to wonder, and to listen. It also means seeing art everywhere.” ~ Quang Ho via Daily Good I’m often asked by friends, family members, and students who are new to yoga whether or not they can do yoga [...]

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Beginning: Frank Lloyd Wright – A Reinventor For The Ages

Posted in art, creativity, design, discovery on November 21, 2011 | 2 Comments »

“Love is the virtue of the heart. Sincerity the virtue of the mind. Courage the virtue of the spirit. Decision the virtue of the will.” ~ The Organic Commandments by Frank Lloyd Wright During a recent business trip to Phoenix, I made a quick stop at Taliesin West – one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s most [...]

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