“How do we continue after facing the unthinkable?”
A discussion with four creators whose work reflects a personal experience with crisis. See www.fsexperience.com for more! To learn more about Neycha’s White Noise Project, visit www.tobearwitness.org.
Full Spectrum presents…THE SURVIVORS
HINDSIGHT IS 20/20
2.4.08
There’s something odd about endings. They seem to give birth to heavy bouts of good ol’ fashion guilt – a useless emotion. If you don’t believe it’s a complete waste of energy, take Wayne Dyer’s suggestion from his book Your Erroneous Zones, and spend the rest of your day feeling guilty and see if [...]
SURRENDER IN 2008
1.22.08
“You say you wanna be free. You gotta let go of the shit that holds you down.”
Toni Morrison
Surrender your fears.
Surrender your tendency to blame.
Surrender your predisposition toward over-analysis, under-analysis.
Surrender your need to always be right, or good, or preferred.
Surrender your fears.
Surrender your ambition.
Surrender your immobility.
Surrender your fears.
Surrender your lies about life, other, self.
Surrender your [...]
HOW MUCH “HUMAN” CAN YOU TOLERATE?
12.13.07
There are few things as challenging as forgiving someone; fewer still if the offender has not directly asked for our forgiveness. We often hold onto our anger over being hurt (or disrespected, offended, overlooked, you feel in the blank) believing somehow that we are punishing the offender for his or her actions. We [...]
THE “GOOD GIRL” HAS LEFT THE BUILDING
11.16.07
To share kindness with another is beautiful. To make one’s self available to other people’s needs is an equally enduring quality. But when the desire to please others clouds our ability to answer to our own needs, we no longer belong to ourselves. The longing to be liked and validated by others is a [...]
THE ILLUSION OF TIME
11.8.07
THE ILLUSION OF TIME
“Man lives by time. Inventing the future has been his favorite game of escape. Problems exist only in time – that is when we meet an issue incompletely. To face a challenge partially or without our complete attention is to bring about a problem. And the problem [...]
WALK THE DOG
11.1.07
Walk the dog
(my mom’s way of saying “get on with it!”)
Stop lying. There is nothing righteous about pretending. To tell the truth about who you are, where you are and what you want from your life is an everyday act of courage. It is a choice to be fearless. Communicating what is real [...]
Campaign for Authentic Self-Definition, Part 1.
Campaign for Authentic Self-Definition
Part 1.
“Everyday Transformers: The making of a superhero;
risk taking and shape shifting”
On my radar the last few weeks – – people with the moxie to live authentic lives; those super humans, by my estimation anyway, who’ve found a way to manhandle the risks and challenges of life and use [...]
Clutter: Detoxing from the BS in our lives
Clutter.
1. a confused or disordered state or collection. 2. a confused multitude of things. 3. unwanted echoes that interfere with the observation of signals on a radar screen.American heritage dictionary
I have a young cousin named Lauren who mistakenly misspelled the word thing as thag. And in the normal tradition of my family (specifically my [...]
