Sometimes I can dance for hours with total abandon. A true trance. Processing. Exorcising. Recovering. Advance to trance because it’s remedy. Let it go, feel the flow, fast, then slow. (Source: Dance Trance) Dance can be such a total commitment (or no commitment at all!) and a profoundly visceral and immersive act. It’s a way to wrestle the beast without damaging yourself, without damaging ...
Midlife Crisis Postponed
Benign
Dermatology visit. Yes, a poem about body dots! This up-close-and-personal (too personal?!) account is approximately midway through a poem about my first dermatologist appointment. He touches a mole on my neck then dips darting eyes to my chest, to hairy, pigmented spots and rough, pinkish patches. Seborrheic keratosis. Solar lentigo. Normal. No cause for concern. These middle years ...
Midlife Reality Check
"Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it is against the wrong wall." ~ Joseph Campbell This is an image called "Tele Time" that is included in 40x41: Midlife Crisis Postponed. It's one of a series of telemark skiing collages I've created over the last few years. It's a mobile (originating photograph and doodle were created via mobile phone and tablet) mashup (digital ...
Hazmat
What?!?! Have I totally lost the plot, you're thinking, right? One might well wonder lately if we've all lost the plot. Tempestuous times. Wacky ways; weird days. Too much vitriolic verbosity. Too little tolerance. Too little curiosity... Beware the tox- ic rumor mill, which sits unground, on dusty sill. The lines above come from a reflection on toxicity and tolerance and combinatorial ...