Wisdom Wednesday #60 – Dance Monkey’s Dance

I took a few performance study classes when in I was in college. In my advance performance class the texts that we performed were longer and had more depth. In the class we were to perform more sociopolitical pieces that are often times heavy and hard to digest. To kick off the class, my instructor…

All Is Not Lost

Happy New Year’s Eve! I hope the year was good to you and everything that you needed it to be. If the year was a challenge, I hope you learned and grew or at least saw the light of each challenge. If the year all around stunk, I hope today is the high note that…

Mindful Monday #58 – Voyage of Discovery

Ever since I saw the musical Wicked, I have noticed that their has been a shift in my awareness.  In fact, this awareness shift has been very gradual, but was fully brought to my attention when I wrote my Wicked post.  The way I deconstructed the musical is the way I have been deconstructing a…

Wisdom Wednesday #12 – A Message For All Of Humanity

As a little girl I believed whole heatedly that world peace was possible.  Now as an adult I still hold on that belief as a possibility and a necessity. Too often we hold on to grudges.  Too often we focus on differences. In my human experience I have learned in academia that we are more…

I’m Sorry

I want to take a moment to apologize.  In response to last week’s theme of letting go, this week I want to talk about the power of I’m Sorry.   Since I was a girl I was raised to apologize for my mistakes.  Apologies are hard because of the feeling of shame that washes over you. …