It was August 1992, and my mother was nearing the end of her battle with lung cancer. This was the day my Dad and I got a prescription filled for morphine. There was a hospital bed in the room where she used to sit for hours in her recliner. We took turns sleeping on the […]
I sometimes think of the Now as a Universal – a large all-encompassing entity. That may be so, but it also operates on a personal and local level. Just pay attention. A friend was on a website she rarely visits just to check on a kayak trip a friend was leading, and upon poking around […]
Exquisite Silence Mountain ridge panoramic view sky draining of blue and white and flowing towards the brilliant orange fire of sunset. Distant lines of hills and peaks transform from smoky gray to an inky purple, in sharp relief to the pale parchment of the sky. The colors write their slow moving story on my eyes, […]
Almost 19 years ago, I deepened my experience of freely improvised music with Paul Winter in a Living Music Village held at Omega. This past weekend he offered a shorter and similar workshop in Virginia. Again he kindled something profound in me, and an appreciation for how important it is to help others rediscover their […]
This is my first blog post. I have written much in my life, but today I enter a new format, with a new potential for being heard. The Players of Now domain is dedicated to the spread of spontaneous artistic expression in all mediums, by all ages and all abilities, so we each feel we […]