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Being Big or Just Being Me
I catch myself wanting to watch a specific dancer in a company or an actor on stage. I tell myself that I like to see the choices they make. But…
Read MoreAs If
They say “look at your own city as if you are a tourist.” I think about that as I see the tourist buses drive down Melrose. I took a tourist…
Read MoreDoing vs. Watching
We all have tendencies. If they are positive we call them talents. If they are negative we call them habits or worse addictions. Two big ones of mine are watching…
Read MoreDescriptive vs. Opinionated
Can language be descriptive without being opinionated? Can we ever say anything that is objective? We all have our point of view. I love that expression. If you’ve ever drawn…
Read MoreDeserving or Entitled
Oh, how I hate getting triggered. Privilege and entitlement still get to me. I’ve often heard what bothers us in others is what we don’t like about ourselves. I’ve thought…
Read MoreArt vs. Commerce
I go between commerce being a way for artists to exist producing their art to feeling like art is minimalized when it has to fit into the commercial world. I…
Read MoreEase or Flexibility
Life is sound, i.e. vibrations. If you slow a pitch down enough it is just clicks. We hear because of the pulsing—the giving and taking away. Light is just pulsing…
Read MoreAchieving vs. Accepting
I have realized after many years that taking time to acknowledge success is just as important as striving to be better. If you never stop to acknowledge yourself, it’s like…
Read MoreSocial good vs. Socialism
Social good is something that benefits the largest number of people in the largest possible way… (https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/social_good.asp) …socialism is based on the idea that common or public ownership of resources…
Read MoreWhat will we do…or not do
I finally decided to suffer the violence and watch Squid Games, the show that everyone is talking about. It brings up so many questions about what we will do to…
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