stretch appeal : October 2010

10/27/10

Yesterday after class I ventured over to the exquisite Safeway grocery store on nw 13th street. One of the guys working in produce handed me a sample from this huge, beautiful honey crisp apple. The taste was sublime. I commented on how especially tasty they were and he smiled and said, "I know, I had one entire apple for lunch today." I loved that.

Don't miss out on this years bounty - yum!

who is martha graham: finding meaning through dancing

10/22/10

learning to love the skin you're in:

Tomorrow is my speaking engagement for Women in Spiritual Harmony. A have spent this last week preparing my message, deeply pondering my topic: How to Love the Skin You're In. This has given me a great opportunity to re-visit the conundrum women face about loving their skin, being happy with their various shapes and sizes and celebrating this vessel we call our bodies; all of which motivated me to write my book, Feel Good Naked where I discuss at length the tragedy of female body hatred and all of the evil ways this malaise strips away our precious life force. I think about the effort women make to look a certain way based on a society that brain washes the female sector to believe that this looks good, that looks bad, size matters, clothing labels are important, aging is a no-no ... and that's just a snippet of the female body hatred iceberg. Here's what I know for sure and I look forward to talking about: on any given day you can choose not to put faith into such a crazy belief system, but instead you can and deserve to take back your personal power, re-claim your life, enjoy and celebrate your body and smile knowing how perfect you really are, right now. And although this tender process can be brutally hard at times, we can't know pleasure unless we recognize pain. Hope to see you tomorrow.

stretch appeal homework - watch these arms!

"As an artist, Bob Fosse was known for his thoroughly modern style, a signature one could never mistake for anyone else's. Snapping fingers are omnipresent, so are rakishly tilted bowler hats. Both hip and shoulder rolls appear frequently, as do backward exits. Swiveling hips and strutting predominate, as do white-gloved, single-handed gestures. Fosse himself often called the en masse amalgamation of these moves the "amoeba", and that word as much as any describes his particular style, one at once fluid and angular".

10/18/10

who is beau redmond:

He is my father and an incredible artist. Here are his newest paintings that will be featured in his show, "New Directions and Old Friends", opening 11/6 at Arts on Douglas in New Smyrna Beach, Florida:
https://public.me.com/groupmojo1

10/15/10

who is eckhart tolle:

10/13/10

perspective:

What we have before us are some breathtaking opportunities disguised as insoluble problems.

-John Gardner

10/12/10

great improv:

10/11/10

herbie hancock & corinne bailey rae honor joni:

10/7/10

who are mavis staples + jeff tweedy:

10/1/10

life lessons to unlearn:

http://www.katu.com/amnw/segments/104161849.html

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