Shoes & News - Musings on Living and Giving
Gratitude to all the Soul Shoe Makers
The Unnerving & Exquisite Exhibition of Khvay Samnang at the Gallery Batia Sarem
I remain astounded by what is happening in Cambodia and tonight the credits go to Batia Sarem Gallery, Martin Phéline, and his guest artists Khvay Samnang and dancer Rady Nget.Not enough can be stated about the courage, skill, and mastery of these artists. Under the...
Your Stories Are More Powerful Than You Think
I spoke at length to a vibrant young man last night. He was a stranger, but only for a moment. He opened up about his life story in which he had literally raised himself, worked many jobs, learned 2 languages, stretched his mind and body, and gained confidence. Yet,...
Remembering the Truths
The role of the US in the disaster of Cambodia. After one month of arriving in Cambodia, I take a day to myself, get caught up with social media, clean the house, and peruse a few books already read for the purpose of trying to answer some questions friends have...
Brochures for the Soul Shoes Project
Brochures are ready for the Soul Shoe Project. Are you making your shoes? A child dies every 5 minutes from violence. Make a shoe. Stop the Silence. Use community art to bring awareness. The vast majority of children are killed outside warzones and that...
Meet Brandon M Watkins – Our New Board Member & Communications Ambassador
Brandon M Watkins has joined the Board of Directors for the Living Arts Corporation and is serving as our Communications Ambassador.
Mr. Watkins is the Administration Manager at SMW Projects, Inc., a full service Project Management firm with offices in Lousiana and Texas, and SSE Electrical and Instrumentation in Baytown, Texas where he manages business affairs in the areas of operations, marketing and PR. Previously Brandon Watkins worked at Burrow Global Construction LLC, an EPC company, and was instrumental in managing computer, payroll, project and safety systems.
Clay McLeod Chapman – “a horror-drunk storytelling virtuoso master idiot. ” — Time Out New York
Our May, 2015 performance series All Nets Have Holes will include a piece written by Clay McLeod Chapman, who has generously given me the performance rights to his stories in rest area. If you can get to Estes Park, Colorado for the Stanley Film Fest you will have...
The New Year & the Promise of Possibility
New Year’s celebrations always make us itch. They scratch and tickle and won’t leave us alone. They leave us hankering, yearning, thirsting and aching for another day, another chance, another rebirth. On New Year’s Eve we feel like Ebenezer Scrooge being...
The Power of Play
There is a inaudible and under-examined plight in the world: we are forgetting how to play. Cross cultural studies on children’s play are alerting us to the rapid decrease in children’s ability to enter in fantasy play and a severe decrease in both free play...
I’m an ass, you’re an ass- so where’s the problem?
“I’m an ass, you’re an ass, so where’s the problem?” I read these words decades ago but I’m just beginning to own them. They come from Fr. Tony de Mello, who was ostracized by his church but continued to teach people how to wake up and live until his sudden...
No Still Means No
Nadia was enchanting from the moment she crossed our threshold. Thirty-one years old, a natural beauty and an open, sincere spirit that flowed immediately from her steady handshake and engaging smile. She came to our home for a week’s respite from her demanding job...
Dear China Friends
Dear son and China friends, I unabashedly send these words to you. I have been back in America for a month and each day has presented challenges in business, relationships, finances, culture and family dynamics that I could not have forseen while away. While it has...
Homeward Bound
“I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within.” - Lillian Smith, American writer I’ve been back a few short weeks from a three month hiatus in China and the last...
The Kingdom of Wonder
