Past classes

You get to decide what to worship.  Because here’s something that’s weird but true: In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping.  Everybody worships.  The only choice we get is what to worship.  And the compelling reason for maybe choosing some sort of god or spiritual-type of thing to worship—be it JC or Allah, be it YHWH or the Wiccan Mother Goddess, or the Four Noble Truths, or some inviolable set of ethical principles—is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive.

—David Foster Wallace

Halfway home, snow hardening while new snow falls.

—Laura Smith
From her poem: How Change Happens

“I talk about my time there. A new friend asks, Did you ever drink from the river?

Did we drink from the river? No, but we’re still full on the river. We’re greedy for the river. We’re sick of the river. Singing inside us.”

—Ariel Machell

The role of the artist as creator is similar to that of God, the creator.  Both bring forth life from no life, imagery from emptiness, order from chaos.

—Robert J Landy

There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, nor how valuable, nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open.
—Martha Graham (dancer and choreographer)

This session will take place on three consecutive Mondays beginning September 16, 6-8pm

The topic this round is Evolving versus Solving.  We spend such time going back to untangle the tangles typically tangling the tangles more.  If we could just find the first twist, we think, we can unwrap the next and the next and straighten our curvy lives out again.  In this class, we’ll explore what the tangles might be trying to become via art, movement, and of course writing.

Life is not about seeking pleasure, like Freud once said.  It’s not about seeking power, like Alfred Adler once said. Instead, life is about searching for meaning—Viktor Frankl

If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.

—Juan Ramon Jimenez

Before the white chrysanthemum
the scissors hesitate
a moment.—Buson

First snow
falling
on the half-finished bridge.—Basho