Death and Life
TRIGGER WARNING: DEATH MENTION Yesterday I received news that an academic acquaintance dropped dead of a heart attack. He was in his early 40s and… Read More »Death and Life
TRIGGER WARNING: DEATH MENTION Yesterday I received news that an academic acquaintance dropped dead of a heart attack. He was in his early 40s and… Read More »Death and Life
This post is an open activity to anyone. One of my classes has been discussing expression and the communication and teaching of this in music.… Read More »Putting words to music
(3 min read) This one’s for Dave. Thank you for asking me to write it.
So this post? We were sitting next to each other in an airport cafe eating pizza before catching our flights to our respective homes after a conference and we were talking about different forms of communication.
I have always been curious about perception and connection, Read More »On communication and connection
(30 sec read) This is one of those stories that is lovely just because it is, and with so many stories that involve children, it has direct relevance to adult life. Zesty botanicals have less to do with it – but the freshness that they conjure is relevant to the residue left on me by this story.
A good friend of mine came to visit (over a decade ago) and my children were very small, 2 and nearly 4 at the time. This friend was magic – he had no children of his own, but mine adored him and he had a simple, but amazing game he played with them.
They would do what little children did and stretch their arms upwards and ask, ‘Can you pick me up? Pleeeeeease?’ (or in the case of the 2 year old ‘pick up peez!’)Read More »Zesty botanicals and children’s laughter
Photo CC licensed: http://bit.ly/1B2Khzv This morning I was inspired by Gardner Campbell’s Downstream Deliverables, where he reflected on two things: the impact of what we say,… Read More »In the alphabet soup of life