Living

The Immigration Dance: Putting your Passion into Migration and Movement

If you had the power to change one law, what would it be and why? Immigration. The laws of countries – and there are these laws in several countries! – that mandate preference in hiring of local citizens over foreigners. The laws that restrict movement and migration, of settling in a new location. Besides the laws creating an “us versus them” attitude, read on. Trust … Continue reading The Immigration Dance: Putting your Passion into Migration and Movement

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You Choose Your Dirt: The Tribe Makes the Vibe

Can we really compare the daily details of one country to another? Can we compare cultures that have developed over centuries and millennia to one that might be an amalgamation of a few hundred years?  I say yes: In my experience working, living and traveling around the world as a performer, this is an important yes! A focus of late has been where to move … Continue reading You Choose Your Dirt: The Tribe Makes the Vibe

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Telling a Beautiful Story with Art Photography

So often photographers, models and performers are so focused on acquiring the perfect photo, with perfect light, details, and color spectrum, that art and expression is overlooked or compromised by perfectionism. Challenge your ability and expertise. Cultivate an aesthetic appreciation in addition to utilization of technique, even if it goes against convention. When ready to take photos, notice the details and feel the space. Let … Continue reading Telling a Beautiful Story with Art Photography

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The Stormy Beauty of the Sun, a poet’s perspective

Thinking about the solar storm this weekend, the northern lights were beautiful, reaching across new skies, where we wouldn’t usually see them! But it’s also going to disrupt communications and devices. For centuries and millennia, humans have been observing their environment and appreciating their surroundings. Looking at the birds. I’ve noticed even when I was indoors, a bird I was watching outdoors could sometimes notice … Continue reading The Stormy Beauty of the Sun, a poet’s perspective

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Poetry

Music

The rhythm of life Breathing; A thought exhaling, Singing melodies On my Mind, Of my soul. Rivers dancing through the skies, Oceans shining on the clouds, Sparkling lights reflecting An eternity of grace In hopes of rain. A lullaby of Sunlight Touching The ground With love’s compassion, In tears of salvation, In tears of hope, Unending; Saving souls from despair. The freedom of a Bird … Continue reading Music

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Poetry

I listened

I heard something but there was nothing there— noises in the distance. I heard something in the darkness, then I was awoken from a daydream in a shattered haze to hear her calling, “I am me.” I wanted to turn away, but I was nearly there out of the background and into the day, I had to reach that farthest star, I fell. I could … Continue reading I listened

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ARTicles, Via Vienna

Everything is Moving! Capturing Movement in Fine Arts

Compelled by the desire for the renewal of art in the context of the thriving, urban setting of the early 20th century – with burgeoning technologies and a lifestyle faster-paced than ever before experienced – a Viennese group of artists engaged an artistic perspective in the context of European modernism, Kinetismus, “Kinetism” ( not to be confused with kinetic art). The name coming from the … Continue reading Everything is Moving! Capturing Movement in Fine Arts

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