by Renée Silvus
How do we finish something that could go on and on? Artists have a solution. There can always be more brush stokes, words, rehearsals, and details, so they consciously decide something is finished. We can apply this to the end of the day when we have more to...
by Renée Silvus
You know how sometimes you start something, then end up wishing you had done it differently? Like inviting people to a fancy dinner party in the woods and belatedly realizing you didn’t think about dirty dishes. Or Halloween festivities with elaborate decorations,...
by Renée Silvus
Thank you for joining this experiment in generating more conscious community. Experiment because we’ll shape and iterate this together. That’s community. First Wisdom Teaching Tat Tvam Asi. Thou art that. This is a Sanskrit epigram from the Indian scripture...
by Renée Silvus
There’s your Life Story, the How I Got Here. It’s usually interesting enough, and…there’s another one. The one underneath guiding the whole show, like an iceberg you may not see. I’ll Out mine so you know what I mean. My surface story is that I grew up in nice...
by Renée Silvus
Something Very Unusual happened when I was hunkered into my little desert retreat. I knew it was possible to piddle away the time, lollygagging in the sunshine, running around to favorite haunts. So I made a resolution to stay focused, unpacked my stack of books, and...
by Renée Silvus
Three years ago the London Philharmonia and Esa-Pekka Salonen produced a series on Stravinsky called Myths & Rituals. Holy Archetypes, do I fly around the world for 30 minutes of The Rite of Spring and the dynamic Esa-Pekka? I binged on Longmire to keep myself in...
