Dance Blogs

 Each of us, individually, are the end result of  a huge battle in which as many as 100 million sperm gladiators fought each other to penetrate the fort of the one egg that became each of us.  

On the cellular level---murder, mayhem, destruction and suicide take place continuously within us. 1) take our skin, we get a new coat of skin every six weeks; every seven years every cell in our body will have replaced itself (except for our brain and nerve cells) and even in the length of time that its taken for you to read this,  over 50 million new cells were generated in each of our bodies. We are continually  destructing and reconstruc Read More »

How many of you remember what you had to eat for lunch Thursday noon?

Unless someone held you up at gunpoint at the restaurant you were eating at or you were out with that special someone who finally asked you out--

you're probably not going to remember.  Emotion publishes memory and often turns it into what memory experts define as a "story truth."  Otherwise, it was just a day in the life--and that would be a happening truth.

A happening truth,  are the facts.  The who, what and where--i.e.

A story truth, as far as memory goes, are what we make of that memory. The fictional writer in all of us which codes the memory as meaningful or not.

The more emotion that was involved, the more story and the more vivid the memory.

But accurate?  Not necessarily.
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Dancing with the Ancestors - Easter Sunday

The last Sunday I guided the music, which was Easter Sunday, we had a family reunion. We celebrated dancing with the 'missing' which in reality---in the dance, is completely present with us always.

I began with the notion of mathematics, particularly the mathematical probability that all living humans today have a common ancestor if you go back 2,000 to 5,000 years. (MAPPING HUMAN HISTORY by Steve Olson) Olson states that if you go back 5,000 to 7,000 years we would all have the same set of ancestors.

Year Generation Ancestors
2000 1 You You
1975 2 2 2 parents
1950 3 6 4 grandparents
1925 4 14 8 g grandparents
1900 5 30 16 gg grandparents
1875 6 62 32 ggg grandparents
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