I wanted to share this incredible poem. My dear friend Jacque Darragh gave me this poem as part of our Artist’s Way class.  I just adore what it says.  You can take “Love” to mean so many different things: the love we receive from others or from God, or the act of giving love [...]

I was SO glad I took the time to go see the final dress rehearsal of Wagner’s Lohengrin at Houston Grand Opera on Tuesday night.  I had NO idea that I would experience such a special performance. I have seen several Wagner operas live, but it has been quite a few years.  I just remember [...]

Wired Glass: Santa Fe-based artist with really cool, funky mixed-media sculptures.  Website isn’t well developed but he does awesome work.
CORE Performance Company: A crazy dance group that wore crazy costumes and wandered around the festival stirring up trouble.  It was totally unique modern dance that I couldn’t stop watching.
Emerson Images: Photographer who has incredible pictures [...]

I think most people, when they experience a work of art, are not only interested in WHAT it is, but also HOW it was created.  Most everyone wants to pull back the curtain and see the wizard who makes it all happen.  As in so many things, children can be such an example of how [...]

These words are really meaningful to me right now. ~Dan
Our Deepest Fear
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful [...]

“Let the beauty you love be what you do. There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the earth.”
– Rumi
(Thanks to Kara for this quote.)

After I heard an interview with pianist Sarah Cahill on Houston Public Radio, Abby and I decided to go to a concert last Friday night.
The concert was entitled “Music For Peace: A Sweeter Music” and was entirely new works that Sarah Cahill had commissioned on the theme of peace.  Some notable composers on the program [...]

I recently encountered this Rumi poem at a concert I attended.
There Is A Field
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field.  I’ll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase each other
doesn’t make any sense.
- Rumi
…wow…

Time has a profound effect on music. This seems to be true in many ways, but specifically length of exposure has a profound effect on how I receive music into my psyche.  Take, for example, my current dealings with the Houston Ballet.  I am singing with a male chorus from the orchestra pit while the [...]

I heard this poem on The Writer’s Almanac today and it really made me laugh.  It’s kind of dark comedy, but I TOTALLY relate.  You can also click the link above and listen to Garrison Keillor’s clever reading of the poem.

Bridal Shower
by George Bilgere

Perhaps, in a distant café,
four or five people are talking
with the four [...]