“Be in love with your life – every detail of it.” – Jack Kerouac
“Do not be timid about your actions. All life is an experiment.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We cover the universe with the drawings we have lived.” – Gaston Bachelard
Feeling a little stiff in my neck, I headed to Pat Guyton’s Pilates Studio in Boulder, CO, on Saturday afternoon for a Franklin Method Workshop on “Imagery for A Healthy Spine,” thinking of improving my 9-5 M-F life that is spent primarily chair-bound staring at a glowing rectangle.
I had experienced Franklin Method work through a series [...]
I believe that life is our life’s work – and that is one big art project of integrating the experience of being human from the center of your energy body, how you body forth into the world, and what changes your interactions can make where you meet the world.
This is part of my creative conspiracy [...]
Just how powerful is art? Can art change the world? From Simon Schama’s Power of Art:
“This is not a series about things that hang on walls, it is not about decor or prettiness. It is a series about the force, the need, the passion of art …the power of art.”
When it comes to cultivating the ebullient empire of you so you can body forth with your work in the world in-line with your vision, you must remember that you are an artist. Artists know discipline.
Artists can sit with the blank page, they can explore their inner spaces, and they can be with stillness and silence. They [...]
“My belief is in the blood and flesh as being wiser than the intellect. The body-unconscious is where life bubbles up in us. It is how we know that we are alive, alive to the depths of our souls and in touch somewhere with the vivid reaches of the cosmos.”
- D.H. Lawrence
I was told a while ago by a cranial sacral practictioner of a particular line by Rudolf Steiner that went a little like this: ‘the purpose of life is the fulfillment of consciousness.’
I asked what that all entailed, since it seemed like a metric ton encapsulated in such a short string of words, and I was shown [...]