The tissues of my chest and breasts, once a fearful, locked room to me, are now a well-met place that I know how to support and to live in. Even more than that, we now have the kind of relationship wherein when they start to change - get lumpy or bumpy or painful - I know them as a canary in the coalmine; it’s time to pay attention and take some Care. I live with more Heart, because there She is, and freer. Which I can do, because DeAnna (and other teachers, like the two below) gave me the tools to care for myself in dynamic relationship.
Care which we hope now to offer to you, in the form of this class, ANTLERS OF THE HEART.
The unmaking of a soul in the face of the core.
Read MoreUnmake the impulse to take what is not yours. Remake the possibility of a living equity.
Read MoreOr: 13 WAYS TO SUPPORT MUSIC and the PEOPLE WHO MAKE IT.
Read MoreSomeone asked me why I wear what I wear on stage. Here’s how I don’t leak energy on discomfort…
Read MoreKnow you’re going to a show tomorrow? Buy your tickets today.
Read MoreAn (occasionally) unsmiling young woman. Hallelujah. She leads us - and we add this to the list of ways - to righteousness.
Read MoreOr: Buying guitar string while female…
Read MoreHow to (think about) be(ing) a human being? (As a musician.)
Read MoreHairbrained ideas about booking shows….that even seem to work.
Read MoreWhy it matters that you, audience-member-listener-music-lover, engage with a musician’s social media. And how to go about doing it to actually help spread the music.
Read MoreA Checklist for Hosts + Musicians: everything you’ll need to discuss to have a beautiful evening of handmade music.
Read MoreSmall venues are closing. The Label system is kicking and screaming. No one’s quite sure what anything means. Music is “free”, but at what cost and to whom? You like music. You want to help. Here’s some ideas about how we all can add our veggie to the soup.
Read MoreYou and a handful of *staggeringly frightening* female apologists will say: “But I am/he is a Good Man.”
Ok, Good Man…
Read MoreYou are accountable to yourself. You must sleep in your own bed with a free conscience, a quiet mind, and a clear heart, knowing that you have not damaged the lives of others, knowing that you have served the law and the love of your neighbors.
I see you.
Know your rights. People of all genders, get your yearly exam. Women and people with internal genitalia, get a pap smear every year. If you’re going for anaesthetized surgery, make sure there is NO fine print about having a pelvic exam while you are under. (See the At Your Cervix Campaign if this is news to you.) You live in your body - you have every right to crown yourself Sovereign therein. Take up the mantle and wear it with joy.
Read MoreUnless you have awe in your eyes and praise on your lips…
Read MoreCourtesy is not chivalry; chivalry is misogyny in white gloves.
Read MoreOnce there was a little girl who loved horses. You will say, wait: more than once; many little girls love horses. And you will be correct. This is a story about one such little girl.
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