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Every Little Thing You Do Is Magic(k)
It can feel really liberating to break societal rules insisting upon rationality and “grown-up” behavior. Engaging in activities that, on the surface, appear irrational, frivolous, illogical or childish, but also playful and spontaneous, might just help you relax the grip of linear thinking and break through feelings of limitation. Most of us unthinkingly live by…
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We’re Not Buying It
It’s hard to notice when you’re in the middle of it, but if you step back it becomes pretty clear that our corporate-controlled economy has managed to transform just about every aspect of modern life into a commodity. It’s a process that insidiously seeps into our daily experience. The COVID crisis has forced this situation…
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In Praise of Losing the Plot
We seem to have lost the plot. This is a very fascinating metaphor. It points to our long and deep connection with story. Story has served us as a tool perhaps since our beginnings as a species. We have employed, and continue to employ, story as a way to see meaning, continuity and resolution in…
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The Power of Chant
3/14/20 I just spent ten minutes listening to, and chanting along with, a recording by Jason McKean entitled “Serenity OM.” It’s just him with a group, chanting OM periodically, accompanied by gently repetitive electronic backing. You can listen to a 6 minute sample here on YouTube, and the full one hour track is here on…
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May You Live in Interesting Times
“May You Live in Interesting Times.” A (probably) apocryphal ancient Chinese curse you’ve most likely heard before. Well, if these aren’t “interesting” times, I don’t know what would qualify. Yes, things could certainly be a lot worse, but a global pandemic and rapidly shifting waves of political enthusiasm and disappointment, against the backdrop of climate…
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Creativity Is Healing
Creativity is Healing. That’s what this site is all about. Whether it’s a question of enacting your impulse to draw, sing, play an instrument, dance, act or make things, or joining with a group of like-minded friends — or strangers — to share the unique joy of communing through the arts, creativity can be profoundly…
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John Wick as a Metaphor for PTSD
[NO SPOILERS] As a PTSD survivor, I have found the character of John Wick (from the three eponymous films starring Keanu Reeves) to have great resonance with my own experiences. On the surface, my life is absolutely nothing like John Wick’s, and yet, the feeling the films evoke in me is a familiar one. John…