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
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Is marijuana addictive? Yes, in the sense that most of the really pleasant things in life are worth endlessly repeating.
Richard Neville
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.
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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
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If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.
—Juan Ramon Jimenez
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Before the white chrysanthemum
the scissors hesitate
a moment.—Buson
First snow
falling
on the half-finished bridge.—Basho
As long as the sun and the moon are above,
As long as the bumblebee visits a rose,
As long as rosy infants are born,
No one believes it is happening now.—Czeslaw Milosz
Relativity:
The state of being dependent for existence on or determined in nature,
value, or quality by relation to something else.