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darfur emergency

for today, i want to interrupt our usual topics and post this letter here that my daughter just wrote to everyone she knows. the motto of my practice is making lives better, making better lives. let’s make better lives for the people in darfur. Millions of people are at death’s door in Darfur right now.… Continue reading darfur emergency

those who quit drinking …

i was intrigued by levy’s comment on the art and alcohol posting a few days ago and thought it would be worthwhile to dedicate a blog entry to it. here is what he says: I can appreciate the turn around stories of artists and I

alternative learners: artists

tonight i’m preparing a presentation to teachers about alternative learners. alternative learners are people whose learning processes are different from most of their peers. they’re often called dyslexics, or people with learning disabilities. the problem with using the term “learning disabilities” is that it implies that

alcohol and art

these last few days i’ve been listening to quite a few people talk about their experience with alcohol misuse, either through their own struggles or because of alcoholism among their loved ones. what is it about alcohol abuse that frightens us so? when i was younger, it was the strange and dangerous-seeming world that drunks… Continue reading alcohol and art

writing our own story

internet lore has it that according to thomas cleary, one of the most prolific translators of buddhist and other eastern texts, yesterday’s strawberry story originally has a different ending. in that version, the delicious strawberry that the cliff-hanger pops into his mouth is

storytelling

so …. we keep on weaving our way here through the arts. from remembrance day to courage to storytelling … okay, let’s stay with storytelling for a while. i don’t know who said the words, “man is a storytelling animal” (hegel? derrida? tolkien? jung?) stories – “narratives”, they call them in academia – are as… Continue reading storytelling