Beltane Emergence Dancers. Kinesthetic wonders. The James Sewell ballet troupe are lithe, strong, fluid. Many of the things they did with their bodies revealed possibilities […]
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Mid-Summer Waxing Honey Flow Moon Visiting the Inferno today, complete with air conditioning. The Inferno exhibit, illustrations of this section of Dante’s masterpiece done by a contemporary artist, Michael Mazur, hang in a print exhibition at the MIA. The Inferno, especially its introduction, has touched me deeply, as it has Western civilization. Here are two […]
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Let There Be Darkness
Fall Waxing Harvest Moon Let’s try darkness again. In Taoism the familiar Taiji makes my point about the essential and complementary nature of light and dark. Taoism gives equal weight to the yin and yang* represented in the taiji, the small circle of yin within the yang and of yang within the yin, emphasizing the […]
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