How many times I’ve found myself in this artistic place? Too many, a lifetime! I set up my studio for quickie video shoots. I put up a nice Celtic hanging to hide the wiry mess. I found a good angle for shooting, (if a bit tight against the recording booth – small room!) set up [...]
I found a guitar player asking, “practice, what is it? how do I do it?” on the 13th fret site. This is such a tricky question. Often, we respond with, something like “take 2 exercises. Call me in the morning” Smile. But practice is not exercises or studies. It’s a way of approaching things that [...]
Yesterday, I found myself listening to a “motivational” speaker at the University of Oregon. I know, my life is strange. I like to call it “kaleidoscopic”. It sometimes seems like a bit of everything mixed together and refracted so that there appear to have fundamental patterns, when in fact, it’s all just a collection of [...]
Wow, what a journey: Weekend 1: Music and Ritual near Heidelberg Week 2: Great conversations with friends, old and new in Amsterdam Weekend 2: Pentacle of Pearl in Amsterdam Week 3: Deep connections with friends in Berlin Weekend 3: Adventures in Glastonbury Week 4: Leeds College of Music I’ll start at the beginning. I had [...]
I’m off for a month to Europe. I’ll be doing a couple of weekend intensives. I’ll join music, ritual, and the sacred in Frankfurt, co-taught with my friend Celia. And then, I’m off to Amsterdam to teach a Pentacle of Pearl with Suus (details are in my calendar). Both of these workshops include the intersection [...]
Many apologies to readers for the long delay in postings. For quite a long time, I was unable to log into my blog because of misconfiguration. Now, I’ll be able to start posting again. I’m off to Europe for workshops and visits next week. Please see my calendar for details (linked off ofwww.magicbrook.com). I intend [...]
Spiral dance support for the Berkeley tree sit, leadership, and co-creation.
I’m slowly landing back into my daily routine at home. 7 locations, 29 rituals, 5 performances, 3 camps, 32 days. Whew! Some of the highlights of my trip: Nature awareness work with Cypress in the mountains above Denver. She and I have been turning over ideas about how to open wilderness connection to urban-centered folks. [...]
There I was after a very busy week at the beginning of March in Denver waiting in the Denver airport for my delayed flight back to the San Francisco Bay Area. I was casting about for something to occupy me. There weren’t a lot of people about. So I took out my guitar and started [...]
When I went to check out what iSound was playing, imgagine my surprise when the song labeled “Enough!” was actually “12 Long Years”. Yikes! When the song was uploaded, I must have typed the wrong title or uploaded the wrong mp3. Either was, it’s my slow, angry blues, “12 Long Years” that made it onto [...]