Face-Planting, and Reflections on Art.   Madrid 18 Years Later.
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Face-Planting, and Reflections on Art.   Madrid 18 Years Later.

The female dancer stood up from her tiny wooden stool then graced the stage.  She waited.  Gathering her skirt, and her forces, she tapped in to something.  The force overtook her and she moved along with the melody and song, contriving her body and stomping loudly onto the wooden stage with melodic and staccato taps and clicks.  Her face contorted as the emotion flowed through her.  An intense look I will never forget, one who’s story moved me to tears.   Continue reading Face-Planting, and Reflections on Art.   Madrid 18 Years Later.

Turkish Delighting – My Love Affair in Istanbul, with Tango and Baklava
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Turkish Delighting – My Love Affair in Istanbul, with Tango and Baklava

Usually down for an adventure, I had decided instead of flying, to take a €30 bus ride from Bulgaria’s east coast, down into Turkey. A 6-hour journey and an on-the-spot $30 expedited visa later, the coach bus scarcely filled with Turks, Bulgarians, a few Eastern European stragglers, and myself in the back–propped contentedly against the window–arrived in Istanbul. Continue reading Turkish Delighting – My Love Affair in Istanbul, with Tango and Baklava

Part II:  Encoding in Bulgaria
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Part II:  Encoding in Bulgaria

I had been granted the experiential insight of understanding how when you visit a place, and openly, you connect and align to it, you will in turn take on the place’s frequency– forever bear it.  For me, it felt like adding a vibration of a place’s essence to my inner “basket of fruits,” and resonating it from then on.  So too was I doing here at Beglik Tash, and had done in Plovdiv, and Sofia. Continue reading Part II:  Encoding in Bulgaria

Rožat ~ Creating in Croatia
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Rožat ~ Creating in Croatia

I had wanted quiet. I had spent the last two and half weeks living in a sleepy fishing village next to the sea, in the south of Crete, and it had been an incredibly nourishing time for me, full of immense creativity and productivity. One could say, with artists and artistry there is usually either an ebb or flow for standards of creation. Another place in nature was the ideal choice for me.  And then I stumbled upon Rožat… Continue reading Rožat ~ Creating in Croatia

South West France ~La Vie en Vert
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South West France ~La Vie en Vert

It was a sunny, August day as we wound brightly along the hilly, narrow two-lane roads lined with verdant, pastured farm land.  The southwest of France is a shiny, picturesque dream of idyllic charm.  One painted repetitiously with plots of corn and patches of sunflower fields.  On this warm day, windows down, and blown by the steady cool wind, we buzzed past the endless fields, and I could feel the comforting presence of simplistic lifestyle where people existed closely together with the land.  Continue reading South West France ~La Vie en Vert

Answering the Call
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Answering the Call

“If a person has had the sense of ‘the Call’ – the feeling that there’s an adventure for him — and they don’t follow that, but remain in society because it’s safe and secure, then life dries up. 

If you have the guts to follow the risk, however, life opens up all along the line. I’m not superstitious, but I do believe in spiritual magic, you might say. If one follows what I call one’s bliss — the thing that really gets you deep in your gut and that you feel is your life – doors will open up.” Joseph Campbell Continue reading Answering the Call