Category: Random

Me talkin to myself

  • I’m starting my mornings with Nia’s 5 Stages. I love how Nia trainer Laurie Bass has described this practice on her web site. For my non-dancing friends, this isn’t dance. It’s a stretching/moving routine that only takes five minutes. For me this simple morning ritual brings a wonderful body-centered awareness. I have a lovely recording…

  • Get up offa that thing and dance till you feel better. Get up offa that thing and try to release the pressure! singer songwriter James Brown Words to live by.

  • A cool thing is happening along the Oregon, California border. Salmon are returning for the first time in decades to the Klamath River. Thank the tribes — Karuk, Yurok, and Klamath — for their perseverance in leading the collaborative effort to free the river from the constraints of four hydroelectric dams that blocked salmon access…