"Sound is the rubbing of notes between two drops of water,  the breath between the note and the silence, the sound of thought – To write is to note down the music of the world" – Helen Cixous This quote was just emailed to me by a dear friend and storyteller Kaja – telling me [...]

      ***  I tried to write this post on movement and the space between thrice – and lost it each time. Rather than try to again recreate my lengthy notes and thoughts I have decided to put some notes I had written elsewhere below and took this as an opportunity to first share [...]

‘I hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the great world around us’ – Ansel Adams Autumn Moon, the High Sierra from Glacier Point, taken Sept. 15, 1948 - Yosemite National Park Image (c) Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust Ansel Adams, The Tetons and the [...]

"Fuss has most often made unique images with a simple process that completely eliminates the camera – a photogram…." Source Invocation, 1992 This is the second time I have posted Adam Fuss’s images. He is one of my favourite photographers – discovered thanks to a photography teacher, Simone, several years ago…folding back into my new thoughts on visuals [...]

Today and the last week’s AND has been a thinking about Caterpillar AND Butterfly. Background: I have been playing with the word "AND" for almost a year now. It seems to be the nicest (re-)addition to my vocaluarly, where possible replacing But. For example, what if we centralized AND decentralized the banking sector? That is [...]

“As I dig for wild orchidsIn the autumn fields.It is the deeply bedded rootthat I desire,Not the flower.”- Izumi Shikibu, Japan (974-1034)   The strength of a tree is defined by its roots [paraphrased Rabbi Simon Jacobson] "A man is a bumdle of relations, a knot of roots, whose flower and fruitage is the world" – [...]

"Life is too precious to take it seriously…" There is joy and laughter in everything! Special thank you’s to the beautiful people I met over the last weekend at the "edge of emergence" dialogue and retreat! It was a privilege to meet you and be part of the changes together..and to find myself and joy again…and to dance! [...]

"What is the future vision we are climbing towards? - What is a future outcome I would like to be part of?" *** A rabbi is watching a group of young boys attempt to climb a very flimsy ladder to the top of a tree. Each boy takes his turn and each, at some point, falls back to the [...]

We have a lot to learn from plants. Attention goes where energy flows… I got a beautiful present of sunflowers today and it brightened up the room…but well beyond that ‘happiness’ they generate, I have been thinking about the sunflower and how it goes in the direction of the sun/light ie they are heliotropic. I have [...]

Le Violon d’ingres 1924 (c) Man Ray (source)