Author: laurel

+ Your Year in a Word  A couple years ago I started a project for myself.  Around this time of year I would pick a word that would be my ‘guide’ for the upcoming year.  I would start thinking about it this time of year as the summer ended and …

Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.  – Roy Ascott  That solves a lot of problems: we don’t have to argue whether photographs are art, or whether performances are art, …because we say, ‘Art is something that happens, a process, not …

I was the kid that couldn’t sit still ….When I was 6 I participated in my first track meet, when I was 9 I ran my first 10K. In the spring of 2003 I got a postcard in the mail that was about to change my life forever.  It was …

Here you go…a fun soundtrack for your holiday weekend.  Loving this playlist.  And the studio as it steadily grows.  And all of you as you do too. Happy Independence Day to you and yours  LVM  + Show Up Everyday + X  X X X X X X X X X …

We’ve been doing a lot of work with upper back bends lately and they seem to be getting good reviews.  Back bends did not come easy for me.  I’ve had to really do a lot of work to stabilize my lower back to open my upper back.  It took me …

I love weekends like these.  It finally feels like Spring.  I’ve got a full day of planting ahead of me.  I get to take small, urban spaces and make them feel expansive and pretty like an open field.  NE will be vibrant and full of artists and creative types for …

> No Class on Sunday   I will be celebrating the wedding of my friends Heather & Jodi this Sunday, so no class on 5/4. This is a good chance for those of you who have been talking about wanting to jump in on Thursdays. AND in case you were wondering here …

The lesson that life constantly enforces is ‘look underfoot.’  You are always nearer to the true sources of your power than you think.  The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive.  The great opportunity is where you are.  Don’t despise your own place and hour.  Every place is …

“in time of daffodils(who know the goal of living is to grow) forgetting why,remember how in time of lilacs who proclaim the aim of waking is to dream, remember so(forgetting seem) in time of roses(who amaze our now and here with paradise) forgetting if,remember yes in time of all sweet …

Now I become myself. It’s takenTime, many years and places;I have been dissolved and shaken,Worn other people’s faces,Run madly, as if Time were there,Terribly old, crying a warning,“Hurry, you will be dead before–“(What? Before you reach the morning?Or the end of the poem is clear?Or love safe in the walled …