Category: dancing
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Starcat’s Favorites: Just Keep Dancing
After a very busy and emotional couple of weeks (see my last post for more details), I had a very magickal weekend. Friday night we attended a kirtan at Portland Yoga Studio at the invitation of my friend Jenn. BlackLion and I joined the musicians and had fun drumming as well as singing. Saturday was…
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Starcat’s Favorites: Transition to Autumn
I had my 43rd birthday this week, and as is often the case, my personal celebration helps me mark the transition from summer energies to those of autumn. For most of us, there’s a lot going on right now, and it’s important to make sure we find and maintain our balance as we make the…
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Starcat’s Favorites: Big Blue Moon
Wow, what a week. It was super crazy busy, and capped off by an awesome Full Blue Moon circle on Thursday night. Amazing. There are still some not-so-great things happening in my world right now, but I like to focus on what is going well. I’m getting rather good at it, actually. I mean, I’m…
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Exploring Alternate Lives
One of the exercises in the first week of The Artist’s Way is to answer this question: “If you had five other lives to lead, what would you do in each of them?” The answers probably could be very elaborate, but the author lists some examples, most of which are professions (firefighter, rock star, surgeon,…
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Blogging for the Ballroom
If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you may know that this radical chick has a few kinda mainstream pleasures. One of them is watching Dancing With the Stars with my Mom. Yep, it’s a Monday night family tradition for us. Since we don’t have TV at our house, we go and watch…
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The Pennsic War
The entire Pennsic experience was amazing! We all had a fabulous time. It makes us want to get even more involved in the SCA. Dryst served as a page for the matriarch of our camp, and also did some water-bearing and armor toting for a couple of the camp’s warriors. He wants to get his…
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Quote for today
“Let us read and let us dance — two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.”– Voltaire
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Rain and Dancing
Here we are in another rainy weekend. You can tell because I’m actually staying inside long enough to write. Although there is probably no one reading this anyway, because of the long gaps in entries while the sun was shining! (Helloooo, anyone there?) Last night was Freakwitch band practice, with all five members in the…