Category Archives: improvisation life

Oct7

living in the material world

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I watched the second half of Martin Scorcese’s HBO documentary on George Harrison last night.  Inscrutable, whimsical, beautiful.  The dark horse, the spiritual man.

My take away is that he lived the improvisation life – he let himself be moved, changed, followed the call, dove deep, came up different.  The through line was looking for the deepest place that his music could take him.

I loved the image of him pulling Ravi Shankar along a path through the brush to the edge of the thrashing Pacific, and both of them gazing down into that wildness.

Have you found the deepest place that your _________(fill in the blank)__________ can take you?  Are you on the path?

 

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Oct6

great work

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I cannot imagine my life without the brilliant gifts of Steve Jobs. His Great Work makes mine possible.

What John Scully said about him is what i love about my Mac.  It is a beautiful thing.

“I remember going into Steve’s house and he had almost no furniture in it. He just had a picture of Einstein, whom he admired greatly, and he had a Tiffany lamp and a chair and a bed. He just didn’t believe in having lots of things around but he was incredibly careful in what he selected. The same thing was true with Apple. Here’s someone who starts with the user experience, who believes that industrial design shouldn’t be compared to what other people were doing with technology products but it should be compared to people were doing with jewelry… Go back to my lock example, and hinges and a door with beautiful brass, finely machined, mechanical devices. And I think that reflects everything that I have ever seen that Steve has touched.”

Here it is from Steve himself:

Oct5

get out on the floor!

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Photo: Jeffrey Anderson; Ingrid Schatz & DeAnna Pellecchia in “Stallion Tango”

I am looking for more ways to get out on the floor.  Getting out on the floor means dancing (writing, riding, loving) full out, no stops, all in.  I came across this delicious video when I was doing some research for one of the performers I coach.  Check out Ruel and Mike. They are ALL in.  How often do you get out on the floor?