Just that, people who inspire, delight, challenge or confuse me.
Well okay....I promised a treatise on love and "would you really want to date yourself,' (see below from earlier last evening). Though suddenly I'm not in the mood. Only enough to say...love lives in the 'big picture' and it need have no definition. It's a vibe which needs no boundaries, just space 'to be,' to [...]
I'm reading a small book with a big message given to me as a gift from my last intern, Erin, who worked with me throughout the spring at Carl House. I am currently busy with the day-to-day at Carl House, affording me the opportunity to work with and mentor the young women who grace our [...]
I love that. Every day. New. An opportunity to do better, enjoy more, to test my compassion, embrace my passion. Or in my case today...just float from moment to moment...no agenda, just free. Needed. Good. And here, a favorite artist of mine...Lovely Nina Simone. She says it so well. Close your eyes and just try [...]
It seems that my beautiful event venue, (Carl House), got in the crossfire of some misinterpreted blogging under my own pen, (or rather keyboard). A frightened bride misunderstood my post, (forgive me). I'm a fairly transparent personality, compelled somehow to share the ups and downs and turnarounds in my life, with the hope that I'll [...]
I don’t like small. I’m not attracted to ‘small.’ Small thinking, small efforts, small commitments, small dogs, ferrets or weasels. I feel like a giant around tiny people. I’m not a trinket person and prefer big earrings and bracelets that clank rather than tinkle. (However I was not an endorser of big hair in the [...]
I was drawn to absurdist and existentialist theatre in college. I couldn't completely wrap my arms around it, and that was part of the beauty, some of the fascination for me. I found Beckett's Waiting for Godot intriguing. I didn't understand it with my mind but I did with some other part of me. I [...]
I watch Bing Crosby movies. I love the dancing, the corny songs, the affected acting...I love it all. Cyd Charisse, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers....they rocked. Talk about disciplined artists. They made it look so easy and they had a class about them. I miss 'class.' And class to me doesn't mean dressing up or acting [...]
I can't sleep tonight, (it happens a lot), and find I'm wide awake remembering....images from past times running across my brain like a movie. There is a lot of great 'shifting' taking place for me of late...which frankly I relish. (I'm wondering if many of you are experiencing a measure of 'out with the old, [...]
I appreciate juxtaposition. I appreciate smarts. I most of all appreciate humor in all areas of my life. And oooh, did I need a laugh at this point in my day and at this evolutionary point in my business. There are a LOT of very talented people in the world. And yeah, I just wanna [...]
Years ago I stumbled upon a print of a painting by an artist I now love, Man Ray. Admiration of the Orchestrelle for the Cinematograph Man Ray (American, 1890-1976) Some thinking on the piece which I 'pieced' together online and just below, the song it inspired me to write nearly 20 years ago.....I can hardly [...]