The artist…
Artists feel the need to draw everyone in towards them. To be the tiny planet around which a hundred thousand eyes and ears can orbit if they so choose. An artist dreams of the day when all who are paying attention will join together for one moment of collective realisation, and in that moment become one. Forming a family and a being, the spark of which has been in the artists brain since day one. An artist attempts

The question is…
After some light and playful badgering from Nancy (please don’t hit me again. I’ll be good from now on, honest.) I felt like it might be time to write something else to go on here. It’s not that i’ve been neglecting it, i’ve just hit that point in my writing cycle that i like to call “is it worth writing anymore?” I have spent roughly the last 7 years alte

Divine Femi-Ninjas
NW as a Femi-Ninja 1981 Femi-Ninja! Femi-Ninja: femi is short for feminine;  nin is from the Japanese word for endure + ja which means person.  Ja is also the word for yes in German. Femi-Ninja means She who endures – yes! All women are femi-ninjas and don’t we know it.  We are barely into our teens, or sometimes not even that, when we begin enduring periods.  Then later, to our happiness or to our dismay, we

Oops – I Created A Fear Wall!
And it seemed such a good idea at the time!  Create an image that represents all the fears we face, and then lead a guided meditation through it. Not only walking through the wall, but seeing that the wall was only a laser light show – that it didn’t even exist – except in our minds.  What could be simpler than that? The answer is – nothing.  But the story doesn’t end there.  No matter that I was light about it, even going so far as to play th

Going Through the Fear Wall
Going Through the Fear Wall I thought we would introduce something new in the show today:  going through the fear wall. I would like it to be a weekly exercise.  I think it could be very powerful done in a group setting. I thought of it while thinking of the theme of our show today, Actors and Ascension.  I was thinking how as actors we constantly have to overcome our fear of exposure, of showing ourselves, of putting ourselves “ou