Before they could vote, our ancestors dreamed of freedom when it was utterly impossible. They found slavery and racism to be abhorrent in every way even when it was normal and they dreamt up ways to resist it. It’s important that we not accept the world as it’s presented to us, accept the systems we’ve inherited but rather dream of how they could work for us and read/talk with each other and do research so we can dream bigger and better.

How I’m parenting myself through what I'm calling the “Covid Exhaustion-Wave Background” of 2020

We live in a world that has decided that human suffering and poverty are not only acceptable, but that they are the natural order of things.

It feels like everything is at risk of being torn away and eaten up in the jaws of this insatiable capitalism beast. Anything that can make money must make money, no matter the cost. But the cost is us... it’s humanity.

Anyone who’s ever worked on a team knows that team dynamics can have major impact on output. We've got some of the basics down pat when it comes to helping differently tuned people with disparate, maybe even oppositional energies, to create beautiful music together.

Oh man! So about a year ago I went to China for the 3rd UNESCO International Youth Forum on Creativity and Heritage along the Silk Roads and it was awesome, so behold, 10 highlights!