GRECCHINOIS
Back to School
…With no endless scroll to distract, family time in Greece meant I was able to immerse myself in book after book on the beach and navigate a foreign culture and language, all allowing my imagination and creativity to flourish. With no screens to hide behind, weeks at arts camp meant focused musical practice, intensive rehearsals in the theatre, and learning how to push through the boundaries of my naturally introverted tendencies to navigate the hyperstimulating social scene of brilliant…
Gods of the Earth
…Experiencing song, both as a listener and as a performer, is to live the experience William Blake conjures in the opening lines of his Auguries of Innocence: “to see a world in a grain of sand”. It is like looking through a kaleidoscope.…
Becoming a Lake
…Watching the debate rage on through this midterm cycle isn’t only exciting, it’s a sign that America still values dissent, and that the process of disagreement teaches us to value people who don’t share all our beliefs. Hopping between summer festivals, I’ve been struck by how intensely my colleagues will debate.…
Finding Joy in Judgement
…They say that Mercury Retrograde, in addition to being a time of garbled miscommunication, is a time for slowing down and considering the patterns in one’s life. While I don’t usually put too much stock into astrology, I nonetheless find myself buying into horoscopes more than usual during these three-week junkets…
What Passions Cannot Music Raise
…Time naturally continues to be at the forefront of my thoughts, as we slide into one of the quasi-quarterly periods that astrologers identify as Mercury Retrograde, in which the pace of time can feel like it slows to that of molasses, and we are forced to move slowly or suffer the consequences.…
Vanishing from the Flux of Time
…While they only ever lasted four to five weeks each year, those summer trips to Nafpaktos always felt like time stopped. Part of this was the time in which we grew up in the 1980s, a time before cell phones and the internet. A voracious bookworm, I read countless books on the beach those summers, with seemingly infinite time at my disposal.…
The Grace to Begin and Belong
…Somehow, a month of seemingly disconnected and random projects that only seemed to share the fact of their new-ness to me coalesced into a monthlong meditation on identity, and how it affects the ways we not only see others, but ourselves, as well…
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