• D’s  energy  today created  a  clearing in me.  Poetry  is  ‘what gets  lost in translation’ Robert  frost  tells  us.  But  D  made  me  sense  the  power  of the emotional depth  that poetry  speaks  to….really  speaking to what is  ineffable.   ah  poetry for  me  is  closest to  music.  Tell me,  what do you think  about  […]

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  • “I  didn’t know  I could change  my  voice”.  “A lot good a  degree from Harvard  is  if  they  don’t teach  you  to question.” But  I  don’t  think C.  is  alone.  How  many of  you  believe the same thing about your  voice?  I  learned  very young  to mask my voice   in order to protect myself and […]

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  • I  am highly  flummoxed.  I know  less  now  than  yesterday  when I  first  stepped  into Blog World. Is it that I got there late  both days or  I sat in on the  wrong   sessions?   How  could  that be?  napkindad.com–was  so  welcomed  to my  frazzled  left  brain with the beauty of his simple– eloquent really– […]

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