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River Jackson-Paton, Ph.D.going to California…and other news…
my dear friend & colleague Dr. Susan Rahman has invited me to visit her human sexuality class at the college of marin on March 3! i'm preparing a presentation on love & attraction! if you're in the bay area, come and participate! very exciting! thanks for this...
support being unsettled…
the fantastic blog brainpickings posted about Emerson last week, and the quote took my breath away... thanks Emerson and brainpickings!
letting it go…
i've been reading an article in Psychology Today, and it has bearing on all kinds of unsettling work, both personal AND also social and cultural, too: 'It’s an axiom of psychology that we are some recombination of all of our yesterdays. To move forward wisely, we are...
being in relationship…
the other day i read two articles in the NY Times magazine that were something of review essays about film, tv and books in popular culture. they struck me for a few reasons: first, my work of being unsettled is about breaking down the barriers that i've been trained...
where the wild things aren’t
looking back over my sporadic postings, i pleasantly remember writing 'playing in the wild' just about one season ago, at the autumnal equinox. that seems fitting as i prepare to put together some further musings about an apparent explosion about things 'wild.'...
becoming a fan, or a student?
In my last post, I dedicated 'gone fishing' to Brené Brown, Amanda Palmer and Fritz Tramonte. This is both brief backstory, and also reflection on becoming a new fan of someone in 'popular culture.' Brené has been on my 'team' for some time (I found her extraordinary...
gone fishing…
gone fishing for brene brown, amanda palmer, and fritz tramonte I've been away againand in my infinite clevernessand attempt to camouflage I was attempting to finda different phrase to hide behindbut maybe I have beengone fishing I had a laugh oncewith a vegan...
body of work…
body of work ... work of body went to the Bath House Cultural Center today for their annual dias de los muertas show and i was very inspired. so i am writing up an initial proposal and sending it to a few of my artist friends, and we'll see where it goes... possible...
Happy Halloween/Samhain/Dias de las muertas
At this time of dressing up, role playing, costuming, ghoulish trick-and-treating, I am compelled to at least give brief mention of my current inspirations... This is from John King's "The Celtic druids’ year" “Perhaps the festival of Samhain celebrated, through...
breaking ourselves open…
in recent weeks, i've been practically bombarded with inspiration, experience, and passion gathering around a quote from Boyhood filmmaker, Richard Linklater. when the Daily Show's Jon Stewart asked about the unpredictability of filming over a twelve-year period...