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Let’s Revise Our Everyday Words!
Sunday, 7 Nov, 2010 – 13:21 | View Comments
Let’s Revise Our Everyday Words!

A: Accomplish, act, accountable, arise, awaken, altruistic, abundance, appreciation, accepting, accommodating, artful, aspire, animals, ancestors
B: Build, bliss, be, become, beauty, balance, bond, benefit, brainstorm
C: Co-create, connect, care, create, coach, consciousness, courage, collaborate, …

Sandcastle Wonder
Monday, 16 Aug, 2010 – 9:45 | View Comments
Sandcastle Wonder

Someone sent me an email with all of these incredible photos from a sandcastle contest in Oregon — all I can say is WOW!! This was my personal favorite.
– Anonymous

Theo Jansen’s Sand Beast – Video
Sunday, 15 Aug, 2010 – 9:54 | View Comments
Theo Jansen’s Sand Beast – Video

Theo Jansen is an engineer – but he’s also an artist: he’s a kinetic sculptor. The dutch genius (I use that word with complete faith in its accuracy – and you will, too, …

Stomp Out Loud! – Video
Saturday, 14 Aug, 2010 – 9:20 | View Comments
Stomp Out Loud! – Video

Rhythm using brooms, pots and pans, and basketballs…how wonderful!! Stomp Out Loud, directed by Luke Cresswell, is an amazing musical created with recycled materials and choreography. What do we need with expensive drumsets when this …

“In Our Talons” Bowerbirds – Video
Monday, 9 Aug, 2010 – 10:03 | View Comments
“In Our Talons” Bowerbirds – Video

Bowerbirds band
Here is the start of the text for this song. The video was found by Mattie on blanktv.com:
And the warblers sing: deet-deet-deet-deet-deet-deet-­deet-deet-deet-deet!
And the sparrows sing: deet-deet-deet-deet-deet-deet-­deet-deet-deet-deet!
Through the wheels, through the wheels on the …

It Takes a Village (to Celebrate a Wedding)
Monday, 2 Aug, 2010 – 20:08 | View Comments
It Takes a Village (to Celebrate a Wedding)

Rhinebeck, NY — I hope that some of the joyful and celebratory feelings that I and most of Rhinebeck’s townspeople felt about Chelsea’s wedding touched the wedding party. Just about the entire town turned out …

North and South – A Pause for Beauty
Monday, 2 Aug, 2010 – 7:16 | View Comments
North and South – A Pause for Beauty

By Rod MacIver (www.herondance.org).
If you say north and south are opposites, you then have to recognize there’s a whole range in between. Therefore you have to tremendously enrich the field . . . …

What Rhythm Is … A Pause for Beauty
Friday, 16 Jul, 2010 – 11:01 | View Comments
What Rhythm Is … A Pause for Beauty

In a letter to Vita Sackville West, Virginia Wolfe wrote:
Now this is very profound, what rhythm is, and goes far deeper than words. A sight, an emotion, creates this wave in the mind, long before …

Music for Fitness – Yes, Quietly
Friday, 16 Jul, 2010 – 9:59 | View Comments
Music for Fitness – Yes, Quietly

Music Gives an Energy Boost
Research indicates that listening to music while exercising enables people to work out longer before feeling exhausted. Men increased their time by 30 percent, women by 25 percent, before exhaustion set …

Morning Nectar – A Pause for Beauty
Sunday, 4 Jul, 2010 – 14:41 | View Comments
Morning Nectar – A Pause for Beauty

By Rod MacIver (www.herondance.org).

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