Lois Holzman |

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...

16 Dec Performing Who You Are Becoming

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjmPdBop5G4 Antoine Joyce, the City Leader of the All Stars Project of Dallas, recently spoke at TEDxSMU on how performance on stage and off has the power to develop and grow lives....

09 May For My Spanish Speaking Friends

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My TED talk, Play Helps Us Grow at Any Age," is now in Spanish. Thanks to El Centro Fred Newman for the subtitles! El Juego nos Ayuda a Crecer a Cualquier Edad por Dra. Lois Holzman en TEDxNavesink

08 Apr What Dogs Do for Us

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Jane Brody is the Personal Health columnist for The New York Times. Her April 8, 2014 column, “My Life as a Dog Owner,” is lovely. She speaks personally of how her life changed when she got a dog and moves from there to share research on the health that dogs...

26 Oct Can Performance Change the World?

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October 25, 2010 That's the question that over 500 people from 38 countries played and performed with, and created conversations, dances, music and skits about—and simultaneously shared the inspiring and creative work they are doing in their communities, schools, hospitals, universities, NGOs and neighborhood streets. The event was Performing the World 2010,...