Laurel Massétag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-3057842012-01-13T20:16:00-05:00Voice of the Swan: Reflections on song and spirit
TypePadLa lunetag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83499cd2669e20167607d1a44970b2012-01-13T20:16:00-05:002012-01-13T20:23:08-05:00The moon was full a few days ago, and I caught glimpses between buildings as it rose in the sky. It was beautiful, and my heart sang a little song. But once upon a time, I lived where a winter...Laurel Masséhttp://laurelmasse.typepad.com/my_weblog/2012/01/la-lune.htmlMamatag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83499cd2669e20168e5416b57970c2012-01-09T15:00:51-05:002012-01-09T15:00:51-05:00Everything is alive. Everything. Souls all around us. Altars under our feet. Blessed are those who protect Her. Thank you, Dance Ranger, for drawing my attention to this video.Laurel Masséhttp://laurelmasse.typepad.com/my_weblog/2012/01/mama.htmlThe long nighttag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83499cd2669e2015438b43e0f970c2011-12-22T12:31:05-05:002011-12-22T12:31:05-05:00Dancing 'round the year, and blessed to be doing so again, because... On the eve of solstice last night 33 years ago, my life was utterly changed in the slow blink of a tired eye, and I woke in St....Laurel Masséhttp://laurelmasse.typepad.com/my_weblog/2011/12/the-long-night.htmlCool schooltag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83499cd2669e20162fd59908c970d2011-12-04T16:46:14-05:002011-12-04T16:46:14-05:00This is wonderful on many levels. It's a great story about jazz and the culture of jazz, a story about being, and trying to be, cool, and, most wonderfully, a story that can teach you how to tell a story....Laurel Masséhttp://laurelmasse.typepad.com/my_weblog/2011/12/cool-school.htmlKashmir 1994tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83499cd2669e2015393f72c26970b2011-12-03T14:23:00-05:002011-12-03T14:23:00-05:00Just because.Laurel Masséhttp://laurelmasse.typepad.com/my_weblog/2011/12/kashmir-1994.htmlRests between the bright shiny notestag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83499cd2669e20154376d8793970c2011-11-26T12:29:05-05:002011-11-26T12:29:05-05:00Mrs. Peel and I are sitting side by side, looking out the window. The morning chatter-clatter of starlings on the postage-stamp lawn in front of my apartment has already abated, leaving us to gaze at metal and bricks, the traffic...Laurel Masséhttp://laurelmasse.typepad.com/my_weblog/2011/11/rests-between-notes.htmlBeyond words, and yet tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83499cd2669e2015436a3d57c970c2011-11-17T07:49:47-05:002011-11-17T07:54:36-05:00Myth isn't about primal urges; it's about how the world works, about the relationship of things. Metaphysics. As above, so below. If blood, then bread. Up kills. Time was, time will be. This way in. No way out. It's patterning...Laurel Masséhttp://laurelmasse.typepad.com/my_weblog/2011/11/beyond-words-and-yet.htmlBird on a wiretag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83499cd2669e20154361c10ff970c2011-10-14T13:58:49-04:002011-10-14T14:01:43-04:00A few mornings after I returned from this year's wonderful session of The International Cabaret Conference at Yale, I had a little dizzy spell. Walking down a narrow hallway, I bounced off the walls a bit, like a pinball. Nothing...Laurel Masséhttp://laurelmasse.typepad.com/my_weblog/2011/10/bird-on-a-wire.htmlDeep listeningtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83499cd2669e2015435ab8831970c2011-09-24T14:42:09-04:002011-09-24T14:42:09-04:00I don’t have internet in my apartment at the moment. Nor do I have any magazine-in-the-mailbox subscriptions. These two conditions are related, and there are a couple of reasons for them. The first, the “presenting complaint”, in med-speak, is the...Laurel Masséhttp://laurelmasse.typepad.com/my_weblog/2011/09/deep-listening.htmlDreaming wingstag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83499cd2669e2015434b2c7b4970c2011-09-08T17:30:11-04:002011-09-08T17:30:11-04:00This photograph - which is not a fake - is extraordinary in many ways, not the least of which is that is has countless layers of symbolism and story and the truth of dreams. Every time I look at it,...Laurel Masséhttp://laurelmasse.typepad.com/my_weblog/2011/09/wings.html