More Than Four Sides

Category: Art

  • Musicals, Shmoozicals

    I hung out at the Palo Alto Community Theater throughout my high school years. Like so much of my life then, I was pulled into being involved by my best friend, S. I only was onstage one, or maybe twice. The first time, I was a Bobby-soxer in the opening number of Guys & Dolls.…

  • The restorative power of singing…

    I feel like I’ve written about this before, but searching on the word “choir” didn’t produce the results that I thought it would.  I figured that I must have written sometime in the past about how therapeutic it is for me to join with a group of people, be they close friends or total strangers,…

  • Music is love… Music is life

    I think I’ve written about this before, but it recently became very present for me again when I was listening to streaming music, and the song “Music is love”, by David Crosby, came on.  The version inserted here is Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young:

  • Art in London 

    There are several mandatory stops for me whenever I’m in England. I managed to get to two of them, and added a new stop – the Tate Modern. I mentioned going to the British Museum with S last week, and I might have gone back, as it is huge (or “yuge” as our new president-elect…

  • Art in London 

    There are several mandatory stops for me whenever I’m in England. I managed to get to two of them, and added a new stop – the Tate Modern.  I mentioned going to the British Museum with S last week, and I might have gone back, as it is huge (or “yuge” as our new president-elect…

  • someone on FB shared this image…

    …it’s nearly exactly what I had in mind when I named this blog – I wanted to create my favicon to be something like this. any help from my graphic design savvy friends? I’m breathing (on this very very anxious day).

  • Good music

    I turned on the radio this morning in the middle of the program On Being, and heard Krista Tippett ask her guest (who I soon realized was Yoyo Ma) “So if you could replace the words “classical music” with another phrase, or some other words, what would they be?” Her question immediately brought back to…

  • Kindergarten, interrupted

    Well, we were going along so well, with Days One and Two successfully completed, and no major meltdowns. We were enjoying a lovely evening at home yesterday, with both boys playing so nicely together, and painting lovely pictures. We were getting dinner started, and J climbed into my lap and said, “My head hurts.” I…

  • Jazz – it’s all about balancing on the edge

    I have played music, or sung (same thing, just using the voice as one’s instrument), from the time I was about 6 years old, maybe earlier.  I remember hearing music from my earliest memories.  Both my parents played music, in very different ways, and music was never always something to listen to only, but something…

  • Cross-Stitching Science! Alicia Watkins of… | Art & Science Journal

    I tend to get overwhelmed by all the various social media options – the omnipresent FaceBook, and then Twitter, Tumbr, Pinterest, Flipboard, etc etc etc. But, I happened across this, thanks to one of those various tools (I think it was Tumblr, but I can’t recall for sure).  Anyway, this post was very cool, and…