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  • Peace Through Music

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    When Quester and I were in college, for a semester or two I worked for some wonderful women in a new department, Peace Studies. Quester was always involved in the local music scene, so we tried to put on a spring fundraiser called “Peace Through Music.” It failed, I think from lack of enough publicity,…

  • Dancing My Yoga

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    I fall in and out of love with my practice of yoga. In a bigger picture way, where yoga encompasses the art of living in connection, I practice often. Yet I’m talking  here about the “on the mat” part of yoga, the physical poses (asanas) and breathing exercises (pranayama). It’s not usually one of my…

  • A Festival of Inspiration

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    Blessings of August, and big Happy Birthday smooches to my lovely Leo friends, including of course my dear BlackLion, whose birthday is today! This past weekend he and I attended an amazing music festival. We went with the Dark Follies troupe, and had a fantastic experience there. The vibe was joyful and inspiring. After a…

  • Curiosity Informs the Cat

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    One of the (many) things I love about cats is their innate curiosity. One night at a Dark Follies band rehearsal, the man who was hosting the practice at his home had some friends stop by, a bit earlier than they’d said they would. They’d brought their big dog with them. The friends and the…

  • Time Being Relative

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    I had an interesting experience with time today. We had a Dark Follies Not Just Rhythm Orchestra band practice this evening, outdoors in a lovely grassy park near the ocean. The group was working on learning a new song, and the drummers were asked to hold the beat while the guitar, violin, and accordion players…

  • Why Drumming Helps With My Writing

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    Feline Drummers at the Watch City Festival in Waltham, MA 5/12/12 photo by Jennifer Wright Owen Elven Tiger and I are taking a drawing class at our homeschool co-op, based on the book “Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain” by Betty Edwards. At this point in my life, I’ve done lots of meditation,…

  • This Week

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    Well, hello there! I’ve been away from blogging for a couple of weeks, which included our amazing journey to the Life Rocks! Radical Unschooling conference. That was a very joyful, uplifting experience, and I plan to post more about it, and about some of the new ideas that inspired me while I was there. But…

  • Traveling Beyond Words

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    Sometimes there are things that I’m thinking or feeling or dreaming that just can’t be communicated with words. Does that ever happen for you? Like those dreams that stir me awake, but I can’t write them in my dream journal because there’s really no plot or setting or characters, just a sort of indescribable awareness.…

  • The Spirits of Vaudeville

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    BlackLion and I are performing this week with the Dark Follies. We’ll be part of a Halloween-themed show called “The Spirits of Vaudeville,” at Lucid Stage in Portland this Thursday through Saturday evenings (we have to miss the Saturday matinee due to a previous commitment). We’ll be drumming with them as usual, but we’ll also…

  • Inanna, Sisters in Rhythm

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    My Mom and I went to a wonderful concert tonight. The performers were Inanna – definitely check out their website if you’ve never heard of (or heard) them. We’ve seen them before, most notably in 2004 just after my Mom got out of rehab after her major car accident. I remember that show particularly because…