Chocco Dog takes an INSPIRED LEAP!
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INSPIRING MINDS WANT TO KNOW!
WHAT INSPIRES YOU?
WHO INSPIRES YOU?
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“I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning” -- Peter DeVries
Landscape
I would, to compose my eclogues chastely,
Lie down close to the sky like an astrologer,
And, near the church towers, listen while I dream
To their solemn anthems borne to me by the wind.
My chin cupped in both hands, high up in my garret
I shall see the workshops where they chatter and sing,
The chimneys, the belfries, those masts of the city,
And the skies that make one dream of eternity.
It is sweet, through the mist, to see the stars
Appear in the heavens, the lamps in the windows,
The streams of smoke rise in the firmament
And the moon spread out her pale enchantment.
I shall see the springtimes, the summers, the autumns;
And when winter comes with its monotonous snow,
I shall close all the shutters and draw all the drapes
So I can build at night my fairy palaces.
Then I shall dream of pale blue horizons, gardens,
Fountains weeping into alabaster basins,
Of kisses, of birds singing morning and evening,
And of all that is most childlike in the Idyl.
Riot, storming vainly at my window,
Will not make me raise my head from my desk,
For I shall be plunged in the voluptuousness
Of evoking the Springtime with my will alone,
Of drawing forth a sun from my heart, and making
Of my burning thoughts a warm atmosphere.
~tr William Aggeler (1954)
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Verb: inspire in'spIr
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Heighten or intensify- animate, invigorate, enliven, exalt
Supply the inspiration for
"The article about the artist inspired the exhibition of his recent work"
Serve as the inciting cause of- prompt, instigate
Spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts- cheer, root on, urge, barrack, urge on, exhort, pep up
Fill with revolutionary ideas- revolutionize, revolutionise [Brit]
Draw in (air)"The patient has trouble inspiring"; "The lung cancer patient cannot inspire air very well"- inhale, breathe in
Derived forms: inspiring, inspires, inspired
See also: inspiration, inspiratory, inspirer
Type of: breathe, cause, encourage, excite, get, have, indoctrinate, induce, make, occasion, respire, shake, shake up, stimulate, stir, suspire, take a breath
(from http://www.wordwebonline.com/)
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The topic and idea of inspiration pervaded our experience this weekend in South Bend. What inspires us? What is inspiring in the world today? Are we, as artists, generally inspiring? Are we inspired? Does American culture foster inspired thought, existence, action?
It made me realize that I've become consumed by the notion that less and less of our human experience is inspiring. I spend more of my time concentrating on what I don't want around me; what DOES NOT inspire me, rather than what DOES inspire me. AND, in my work (all of it) the modus operandi has been to produce rather than be an inspiration to others.
So............INSPIRED by Colleen's comments and our conversation, I've decided to take a deeper look at the ordinary.........and then to peer around that for the extraordinary and seek and provide inspiration............she mentioned that she heard at one time that a choreographer said something like this: "It is my job........it is part of my job description as an artist to be inspired." That's completely paraphrased and second-generation hearsay but it hit me like a ton of bricks. What an idea. What a concept. What a mode of daily being. I want that to be my job. My obligation. My onus. My desire.
Now....it's been a while since I've put a thought to what inspires me. Yes, I feel inspired from time to time and I keep a daily gratitude journal but I've always compartmentalized those moments, things, experiences as a fleeting sensation or a list of things, people and events I'm thankful for..............I see now that they are all deep sources of inspiration and can be fuel for the inspired FIRE................
So right here, right now, I'm going to start documenting the stuff that inspires me. I hope that if you come across this musing, you will be inspired to do the same or at least let someone know when they've inspired you.
* un-self-conscious hospitality
* fearless physicality
*a certain someone's selfless generosity and support
*unconditional love (my mother and father)
*display and practice of delayed gratification
*resourcefulness
*my dog's wagging tail
*The StoryCorps Project
*self-sufficiency
*smiling.........smiling faces
*local artists who continue to work on EVERYTHING they care about
*businesses that remain devoted to their customers and haven't surrendered their ideals to the money machine
*homes that are TV-less
*students who are devoted and self-driven investigators, discoverers, miners, and tinkerers
*"This American Life"
*quiet
*cm2 Saturday classes
*innate curiosity
*knowledge seekers (my brother)
*people who can see the bigger picture
*people who recognize and refuse to be swayed by media group think
That's just the beginning of the list and of course they're in no particular order. But it's a start!
Leave a comment about what or who inspires YOU!
coco
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16 comments:
So I only just came across your blog, and was reading through a few of your posts. This was such an accessible and presently applicable idea, that of being inspired. I think of inspiration most often as a kind of vital, filling, input, part of the natural process of respiration (literal, metaphorical), the inflow that happens as part of the ebb and flow, that precedes outflow. I think of conscious breathing exercises, how breathing as a physical anomaly is an subconscious, involuntary action. But we can bring mindfulness to it, and in doing so give it greater depth and relevance to our physical being. Obviously, all of this can be an metaphor.
A metaphor for that which comes in in order to facilitate that which goes out, whether we bring mindfulness to it or not.
What inspires me today:
-comfortable silences
-that which lies in between
-SARK
-anusara yoga
-imagining one's life beyond its present conditions
-passage of time
-debris rolling in the wind in a busy intersection
-Alexander McQueen's fall 2008 ready to wear.
That's just today.
Lots of love.
-M
Michael. You don't know how welcome your comments are at this moment! I was just thinking of dropping the whole blog thing because people aren't responding to the musings and there's something about getting a little feedback/affirmation/comraderie/interaction that makes this whole thing seem more like a way of sharing rather than a way of rambling to myself.........afterall, i share my thoughts with myself all day long.......it's nice to be able to share them with others..........
so.......thanks for letting me know that there's someone out there on the other end of this endeavor! It means more to me than you can know.
More on inspiration in next comment.
*smiling at you!*
coco
yes to your words and ideas........mindfulness has become THE way for me to stay interested in this dance life. it's the only way i feel like i sense the reason for doing it. it used to be something else but now i know it's because i want to be in a state of mindfulness. seeing and being every moment of physicality, breath, motion. to see it, sense it, know it, and watch it go by........into the oblivion of the ephemeral ether that eventually consumes all dancing.......all things that pass through time and space......
the body as a site for experiencing inspired activity/action/agency ("literal/metaphorical" as you put it) is constantly asking for a moment of my time and attention. It's whether or not I take the time to give it what it asks for .........that's the choice that we all struggle with i think.........
i don't know what i'm writing at this point.....it's 2am and i'm inspired........because i just took the time to realize that my body is asking for rest/sleep/dreams......and i'm going to actually give it what it needs......
visit this link for some really great reading on "mindfulness". just keep scrolling down and down and down if you have the time to read it all:
http://motionpotion.blogspot.com/
especially happy to be having this conversation with you, michael.
coco
i'll write more on this when i have my "blogging brain" on!
but i did want to add to the list of things that are inspiring me today:
* silliness
* sauna time
* hearing george laugh
* roller skates
* spring sunshine on melting snow
* open windows and doors
* knowing physically what is verbally inexplicable
*smile*
coco
I saved the link you listed for later lounging and reading.
I think this is the kind of conversation that could continue indefinitely. Thank you for facilitating space in which it can occur. And in my seasons of blogging, I can relate to that sense of needing/wanting (the line is never quite clear) feedback. I also have come to find out that there are oft more people reading than responding, and sometimes, like creating dances, I just keep at it, trusting that it is playing a role in someone else's life.
Which leads me to another thought that was sparked by something you said. . .
The notion of where dances go, necessitating the need for the almost zen focus on the present. Over the last couple of years as I have produced work to which I was extremely attached/invested, coming to the end of the process was almost like stepping into a postpartum depression. It can be so difficult to let go of something that has been the major focus of your daily life. And a comfort I have come to also can relate to the blogging, that as we put things out there, as much as dance especially is completely rooted and bound within time and space, in continues in a different way. . . in the lives of those who have received what we gave, the dancers who took part in it, the audience who witnessed it, etc. Grandly or minutely, their lives had been adjusted to make space for the affects of the work, that continues on in their perceptions and memories of the work, and more indirectly in the effects the piece had on them, if that was simple inspiration, or emotional elation or upheaval, entertainment, etc.
I remember when I saw the section of "In the Clear" that you showed at ACDF that year. I still hold it as one of the most riveting artistic experiences I have had. . . part of it was purely physical identification, partly aesthetic identification, a large part emotional reactions to the human interaction being shown, and how they related to my own life (this does now touch on the subject of engagement, the desired attitude in the audience. . . how I actively brought my self to the work in order to more fully experience it), etc. That piece is years gone, and yet it has made a life inside my own (and others).
I created a piece last year entitled "Sketches of Shame" which has only been seen by a few people. It was censored from two concerts, so to date, the only people who have seen it were the adjudicators for these events and those who have seen the video (not the same). It was not shown because of the intensely personal reactions those panelists experienced when they watched the piece, how much of their own past and shame and secret lives it brought to the surface, and for those events that was not their intentions for what they wanted to show. And yet I look back on that piece as a success. It was in no intense way didactic, merely observational/representational, intended to do exactly what it did with those few who have seen it, bring their own lives to the surface, uncover the past, relate to the inner darkness, etc. . . I'm rambling now, but the point I hope I am still addressing is the continuing life of the work, where it goes after its physical time/space has passed.
Conversation coming full circle, I suppose of am talking about expiration, which in turn becomes inspiration actively/passively, mindfully/unconsciously, for others.
Those are some of my thoughts today.
hope your day is full of new inspiration and mindfulness.
-M
michael.
thank you again.
i'm formulating a response as i've just come back from one of bebe miller's rehearsals for her new project and am still "cognating".........
but....you say you blog and i remember a while back visiting a website or something of yours but for the life of me can't find it........or your email address......i think when i switched careers and went from mac to pc i lost some things along the way.......
would you mind updating me?
thanks
coco
absolutely.
(I know I seem to be online a bit too much, but I worked yesterday morning and tonight, so this just happens to be my home/computer time)
email: freestyleworship@hotmail.com
website (which is extremely basic and in need of upgrading/updating): http://www.geocities.com/freestyleworship
I currently blog on xanga, although that community has stagnated, so I may be switching soon. But it is at: http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=freestyleworship
I know the sense of things lost in transition. It has been a while since I had to move, and now I am facing packing up and finding a place to live a relocating. I am moving to Columbus in the summer, I was accepted to OSU and received a fellowship, so I will be there in months to come. But it is all so daunting, when you've really settled in a place (I've been in Jackson, MS, close to five years) to uproot and move on. Already even in the sorting of what needs to come with me, what needs to be let go of, I feel pieces of my life slipping away. And that can be such a good thing. But there are those things that get lost in transition.
Talk soon.
-M
congratulations on the OSU grad school and fellowship! wonderful news........
you'll get to really delve into all of your dancing life ideas there.......my grad studies time at OSU was one of the most uniquely extraordinary times of my life........i'll be around for your 3 years here so i'll be able to witness your work.........that's exciting....
back to the life of the work/life span of the work/inspiration/etc......
i've gotten to a place where except for the moment that i'm maneuvering the work and trying my best to converse with it, i'm generally detached from it.......it's weird....i don't exactly feel like a decision maker or a controller of the process.....i try to notice what is happening and what feels the dance coming into being......saying that sounds so......so........so-so.....
but it's true in so-so many ways........and when it's done, i look at it and think....how did that happen? and then i think "what will the next one be?"
here's my dilemma.......starting on the next one.......the questions are huge to me: "why make another dance?", "what questions will another dance answer?", "what is the purpose of making another dance?", "what am i expecting out of this creation process?", "do i matter?", "what matters?", "is this a selfish act?", "what does a dance that i coax into being do for the world?", "is it ridiculous to think that dances i make have any impact on the 'world'?", "is a new dance just another way for me to exert/impose my needs/desires/thoughts on others?", "what do my dances promote or deny?". As I scramble and search for another dance platform or reason or launching site, I find that anything that i hold up for scrutiny as a worthy area of interest dissolves into these questions.......
like right now........i feel the need to make a solo to an aria or a bass line......what? yes....why? don't know.......
what is that going to do? have i been into the studio yet to figure it out? no........why? because i can't legitimize the desire......
as i say this i know it sounds rather defeatist.....and i do feel defeated in some ways but it doesn't stop me from tearing all of it up again and again to see if there's a shred of evidence that supports this dancing life of mine.......
that's why i'm so interested in INSPIRATION........from the perspective of seeking a raison d'etre and from the perspective of seeking new, refreshing and clear ideas for coaxing another movement project out of the ether......
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
more inspiring stuff:
* dame shirley bassey
* chocco chasing a tennis ball
* george's glass making
* saturday morning dancing
* questions with no ready answers
* new balls of yarn and ribbon
* new empty journals amd datebooks
k........hope you're having a wonderful weekend!
coco
So many questions.
Good questions. They bring me outside of myself and into myself at the same time, both in a positive fashion.
There are days I wish I was detached from the work, perhaps then it would not be so eviscerating. That sounds like such a suffering artist. . . and I don't mean to be, I don't mean the work is suffering. . . but I do believe that there is not a conflict between the act of creation and pain that may be associated with it.
There is a beautiful quote by May Sarton from her "Journal of a Solitude" (which I read over and over) that I will paraphrase as the essential factor in my work right now. She speaks of the nobility of bringing the personal dilemmas into the public arena, in hopes of solving for all what we cannot solve for ourselves. That is the fuel of my work right now, and has been for some years. In that sense, there is a selfish quality, and a kind of optimistic idealism involved in it. All of my dances are rooted in communication. . . I so envy the beautiful work of more kinesthetic based choreographers, who are not driven by an idea and the desire to articulate the ineffable. Their work can be so interesting, and when I see it, I feel as if my work is not interesting in comparison. But what I feel about my work the reason for my dancing life. . . is that I am creating something to articulate through movement metaphors qualities of existence and experience for which we do not have words, which we don't always express. My work ends up with the large, cosmic/human themes: belief and heresy, the nature of self discovery, human aversion to intimacy, linear time based reality and all the things we "miss", birth, love, death. . . the list goes on. And there is a sense in which I am merely struggling through/working out these experiences and questions and very rarely offering solutions or any kind of didactic direction. But I have this hope that perhaps in offering articulation of these experiences from my perspectives, perhaps that is part of the solution. Connection, recognition, identification, relationship between artist/artist/audience, etc.
I offer none of this as "solutions" or answers to your questions. Just setting up my experience of this medium, my attachments and fuel. Sometimes I end up making dances "about" the same subjects, because the nature in which they perambulate, or the way in which I perambulate, the subject, is different, nuanced, from a different perspective of life and situation. Life and death and linear existence/the passage of time are ongoing themes in my work, because I am not resolved in them. I have moments of recognition with each piece. . .
I think sometimes there is a trust factor associated in the creative process. It's like a relationship with the work. . . trusting that is there is a desire, it is somehow legitimate. Trusting that there isn't a right and wrong in the decision making process, that with each moment where we decide from the infinite possibilities that we are going to do THIS, the fact that we have chosen that legitimizes it.
I think there are all kinds of reasons we make dances. I think it is a rushing fuel to know why we are making a dance, what is our reason, our purpose. . . and sometimes I have made dances not knowing its purpose, just knowing that I want to, and the question of why becomes the fuel. Or sometimes it can be simply the desire. And sometimes the answer simply becomes, because this is what I want. And there is something untrustworthy in the kind of ascetic belief that fulfilling our own desire is not a good reason for doing something.
I'm not trying to answer your questions for you, obviously. But certainly there are answers and possible solutions. . . and I think of a notion from quantum physics, the idea that there is infinite possibility and a single reality does not coalesce until acted upon, until decided. Maybe therein lies the answers.
My inspirations today (today my inspirations are not all positive, but definitely incoming energy that is being processed):
-anger; sense of betrayal
-rearranging my friend Laurel's apartment to create a space for work/writing music
-bradford pear trees in bloom
-the statement "deep fried Southern feminism" that I heard on the radio
-stories of early American religious intolerance on NPR
-watching The L Word with friends tonight
-silence in my relationship with my brother
-flowers; buying them for myself late last night
-strength
thank you for this dialogue. it is enriching my life.
-M
ps- I just finished putting up videos of some of my dances on youtube. My "channel" is at: http://www.youtube.com/user/morrismichaelj
Hope you have time to check some of them out.
Not in an attempt to keep a week-old conversation going, but I was feeling rather inspired today, and it brought me back to this conversation:
-I am feeling moved by stories of endings, specifically stories involving the death of a child, and the relationship of the parent to that event (this can also be a metaphor)
-Meredith Monk's new album from her piece "Impermanence"
-a video I found on youtube from 1983 of Meredith Monk's "Turtle Dreams". Thinking of dances in a very formal way. . .
-more Alexander Mcqueen. His Fall/Winter 07 show, and the choreographic quality it has
-movement discovery
-bizarre dreams
-wind blowing so hard that driving became difficult
-NPR
hope you are well.
-M
ps-I am not doing the trivia because I am not currently in OH, but to be honest I can only think of one piece that fits the description. I was surprised at not knowing the full answer. Nice prompt to research.
Please! Keep the conversation going! Sorry I've missed the last couple of comment strings....I've been backlogged a bit working on a website and trying to get ready to go out of town for rehearsals tomorrow.........and submitting grades for this past quarter........
anyway.......re: your comments about the QUESTIONS that plague many an art maker at some point in their lives........your "answers" echo the backtalk that i give myself when grappling with these issues....and i appreciated seeing them in print/screen/type....they're a comforting reality when i see someone else understanding and responding similarly.......colleen and i had a conversation yesterday during rehearsal about my assumptions about dance making and some of the hang ups i have right now about ordinariness and how those areas are rich and fertile ground for making because they are full of contradictions, breaking down walls of misunderstandings within the self and also outside of the dancing body/mind.......
and this weekend colleen has asked us to bring to rehearsal 2 things that inspire us.....and this conversation will be one of them!......so on with the list...and don't worry ....this could never get old to me.....this conversation, these lists, these musings and chats......it's what makes particular pieces of my world go around......
*george's innate understanding of coding systems....
*chocco dog covered in snow
*the creative potential of a weekend in South Bend
*the view through a windshield being swiped with brand new wipers
*dancing squirrels
*practicing seeing
k......i may be out of pocket a bit this weekend but will try to check in between rehearsals......otherwise it will be Sunday before I get back to this beautiful conversation.
coco
Thank you for being an appreciative, investigatory, open conversationalist. I wanted to respond immediately. I know you may be out for days, but I was thinking too many things to keep them on hold for later. I completely honor your life as it is, and the restrictions it contains, and whenever your life has time for this conversation, it is the right time for it to continue.
It is making my world go round as well.
Onward.
I find myself wondering. . . I assume, and from having exposure to you and your work for years now, I don't think it is a wholly unfounded assumption, that your dances are more of a physical investigation, more about movement ideas and the investigations of dance practices than they are ABOUT a specific subject matter. is this correct? I think back again to seeing "In the Clear" (I will not be able to impress on you the gravity of my reaction to that performance), and all of the personal resonance it stirred. It was so emotionally evocative, so psychologically provocative, I remember points at which I was hardly breathing because I was feeling and associating so much. And yet I was very aware that I perceived this experience as separate from your intentions. The movement was so well worked, so innovative. . . and yet the human drama was also so tangible. I suppose now I am asking two questions, your larger approach to your work, and also that piece. Did you come to it with intended meaning? Did you fostering the surfacing of meaning? Or did you look at it in its finished incarnation and relate to it as a purely physical investigation?
I am thinking about what it means to create work that essentially addresses the same theme/subject again and again. I have so predominant themes in my work, as I mentioned earlier. And I can't help but view "new" ideas through the lens of "haven't I said that before? Haven't I already made that dance?" And I think I am coming to the answer that no, I haven't, and yes, I can continue to create on these same themes, because that are subject matters that have persisted for centuries, certainly that can survive the scrutiny of my lifetime. And also there is the factor that my relationship to these subjects are constantly evolving (as long as I allow them to be so, encourage them to do so). I can make a piece now about loss that is different from the section of a dance I made last year that addressed this theme. I relate differently to loss now than I did then. My body speaks of it differently, in a different vocabulary, with different memories and associations now than I had then, different responses. . . and in making new work on the perpetual themes, I am allowing for the possibility that I can connect to a different person/audience in this piece than I did with separate piece on the same subject, because perhaps the manner in which I relate to the subject now is more connected to their experiences than the other piece was. . . if that makes sense.
I suppose my assumption in my work is meaning. Deeper than simply intention, it seeks communication. . . and that is my wellspring. I can create inventive movement when I apply myself, but I am never satisfied with it. . . it always feels insubstantial, incomplete. When I create with the intention of communicating the ineffable experience of certain subject matter, I never quite run out. I tire out. I ache from the process sometimes. . . but there is always more to excavate, to explore and investigate. The nuances of perception and my own ideas and experiences, and how those specific nuances are brought into the body, how I experience and in turn express them in my body. In that way, my automatic assumptions in my dance making have served thus far to offer fuel rather than blockages.
I am excited about having these assumptions prodded, challenged, perhaps even overturned. I think I am approaching this next season with a strong sense of self and my work, but full of questions. . . and an appetite to be questioned, to be inspired and receive input beyond where I have/could have brought myself. It is a very exciting prospect.
I hope your rehearsals are productive and fulfilling. I hope that new discoveries hover around your perceptions, and that in the field of the familiar, the unexpected will reveal itself.
-M
I feel as if I keep laying on the layers of this post, making it more and more daunting to respond if time ever allows, but this subject comes to mind throughout my days, even as I continue to comment on your more recent blog.
I feel knotted today, knotted with polar emotions and unexplained sensations and uncertainty, mixed with promising future, a possible place to live in Columbus, new dances being made, new insightful conversation. . .
And I feel inspired by it all.
Today I am inspired by:
-Meredith Monk's song "View 1" from her "Turtle Dreams" album
-her song "Between Song" from "Impermanence"
-Arvo Part's "Fur Alina"
-a sculpture called "Salem" by Tracey Emin
-Microsoft excel as a choreographic tool
-these blog conversation
-ignorant men who think a woman is supposed to be and look a certain way
-cleaning; the daily tasks
-gardening and yard work
-May Sarton's "Journal of a Solitude"
-Anne Carson's "Eros: The Bittersweet"
-Madeleine L'Engle's "The Ordering of Love"
-the movie "Shortbus", and the feeling that I am a strange person and that maybe we all are, maybe that is part of our humanity
Love and inspiration.
-M
michael!
more layers please!
layers of this beats layers of other stuff anyday!
so first i want to say that you should keep a copy of all of your comments on this blog for your upcoming stint as a grad student at osu.....it will make great fodder for papers that you will write in various classes.
*just a pragmatic piece of info for you.*
lately, i've been overwhelmed with inspiring things, people, events, thoughts, dreams.........and in a way the desire to do and think and engage so deeply to each of these stimuli has become a freaky way of being.......freaky as in different from the notice/go, notice/go, notice/let it pass life i was living just a few weeks ago.....of course then some things were so beautiful i couldn't let them pass without some careful and quality consideration (like my life with george, my dog's little eyebrows twitching with curiosity and loyalty, and the occasional dance related thing, etc. etc.)
but mostly i was trying to flatten out my experience in order to make it more navigable.........so layers is a good metaphor....a thickening and thus deepening of a daily life ........ i won't get to poetic here because it's almost bedtime.....
but suffice it to say that although the travel through these thoughts and feelings is much more time-consuming and effortful it is much more satisfying...to stop and recognize, notice, turn over and over, allow and surrender to the moment of thought, sensation, being, feeling is always nutritious and restorative......
i'm babbling and going in zigzags.......
one last thought....i don't know why but the prospect of responding to these times in my life (the inspiring stuff) via creating dance is a bit daunting.....i feel myself wanting to and then i get this feeling that the moment is just fine on its own and doesn't need to be expressed or manifested in any way other than the way it has moved me internally.....
almost as if the desire to put it or my response to it into some visible form would sully its natural state......the je ne sais quoi of that thrilling spark or that comforting recognition of goodness.......
i sometimes feel like just having seen it, felt it, experienced it, been in the midst of it and the imaginative rush and flux that unfurls from it is a creation in and of itself.....within me. i am changed. my constitution is altered. i have transformed. it may not be recognizable or evident to the outside world but i'm there with it, making and performing an inspired life.......and that feels complete somehow.....
i keep waiting (patiently mind you!) for this to spill over into the studio/stage/work.......
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
don't know where that came from but i'm glad it's out ....... thanks for the spark, mister!
and you keep bringing me back to this place of recording the specific things that inspire me and that makes me happy....otherwise, i'd forget even though i'm the one who asked for this.....so the universe has provided me with a delicate and gentle push (in the form of YOU!)to remember that it is important to share these remarkable times with others.....and not shade them in my own private mind.......
today:
*eager students
*wind gusts that smell like spring
*feeling a system give a little bit in response to a request of mine
*watching The Biggest Loser while running on treadmill
*knowing that it will soon be warm enough to run outside!
*anusara yoga (my first class!)
*serendipitous scheduling
*george's glass flowers
*rhythm breathing
*binaural programming
*a new solo coming to me while listening to a friend's music
*many layers to come!
michael....thanks for this...again...it puts me in a state of departure, arrival and expectation of great things.....and you know, it's just fun. Fun for me. Fun is something we forget about sometimes.
I remember when i see your words.
coco
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