From Pablo Neruda's magnificent book of poems, Odes to Common Things, is this beauty (in English thanks to translator Ken Krabbenhoft). “Ode to the Spoon” Spoon, scoop formed by man’s most ancient hand, in your design of metal or wood we still see the shape of the first palm to which water imparted coolness and savage blood, the throb of bonfires and the hunt. Little spoon in an infant’s tiny hand, you raise to his mouth the earth’s most ancient kiss, silent...
Jennifer Bullock, a colleague, friend, and fellow performance activist shared all of who she is in this beautiful essay,We Move. We are Stronger Together. We Dance, a response to a police shooting in Philadelphia, know as "the city of brotherly love." ...
Performance and Play: Pioneering a New Method of Learning in Lloyd International Honors College Read about it! ...
I'm privileged to have Jackie Salit as a friend and mentor. Here is her most recent essay (Pipat's Letter) lamenting the loss —and embracing the joy—of small pleasures as she witnesses, like all of us, some world events. Yesterday morning, all the boys — the Wild Boars – were rescued. At...
When adults, especially those with cognitive limitations, “babble,” it can be very difficult to see or hear them as offers to create with. Mostly, their sounds get interpreted (“Mom is crying, so she must mean she is in pain”), or reacted to with anger, frustration and/or great sadness. Rarely are...
Thanks to my friend Marian Rich for letting me know how last Night's Saturday Night Live (1/27/18) complemented my post, "The Communication Trap." [youtube height="HEIGHT" width="WIDTH"]PLACE_LINK_HERE[/youtube]...
Today's words juxtapose the profound and the everyday imagination of Mark Twain. I. You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. II. One of my sorrows, when the summer ends, is that I must put off my cheery and comfortable white clothes and enter for the winter into...
Straightforward and important article. I recommend it! A Cure for Our Fixation on Metrics is an essay from The Wall Street Journal by Professor Jerry Muller, adapted from his new book, The Tyranny of Metrics. Muller says: With measurement as with everything else, recognizing limits is often the beginning of wisdom. Not all problems...
Today's words are from Jackie Salit, President of IndependentVoting.org, the country’s leading strategy and organizing center for independents. Jackie's columns, talks and conversations cut through the mist that the news and its talking heads cover us with. This quote is from her essay, "Making Sense of the Senseless" (October 11, 2017). "The...
Today's words are from Nazim Hikmet (1902-1963), the Turkish poet, novelist and playwright who was repeatedly arrested for his political beliefs and spent much of his adult life in prison or in exile. ON LIVING Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel, for example— I mean without looking...