Posts tagged CWA2015
Sipping from the Fire Hose #CWA2015
Apr 10th
When South Boulder Creek jumped its banks last year there were just too many acre feet of rain to stay put. That’s how my brain feels after the deluge of:
The Globalization of Terror
In a Single Garment of Destiny
Gays Saved Marriage
Song making
Kick Ass Career Advice
Science Ethics: Means & Ends
Tuesday’s Jazz Concert
Negotiating Nukes with Iran
Lessons Not Learned in School
Performance: Art & Social Change
Wrangling with essential, complex questions, feelings, and conflicts about U.S. & international political issues, I am deeply grateful to end each conference day with the solace of cultivated beauty shared. Thank you, panelists, ALL, for your courage and willingness to come, to speak, to listen, to dare to live and give in ways that are uniquely yours. We need all the voices, all the knowledge and all the distilled wisdom. May we have the courage to sip and hydrate from the fire hose, not very comfortable….
Thoughts on the CWA by Leanne Soucek
Apr 7th
I’m on the elliptical at the gym, pondering the heart-nourishing, mind-sharpening experience of the first day of CWA 2015. After the emotional gravitas of hearing The Globalization of Terror and A Single Garment of Destiny, wondering anew what I can do personally, how I can help my students use their hearts, minds, skills to build inter-cultural bridges of understanding, respect and trust, I had the additional privilege to end my day with the experience of the having slogan sported for years on my car’s rear bumper: “Peace Through Music.”
Moderated by Boulder’s beloved Rebecca Folsom, the songwriters’ panel in UMC 235 wasn’t so much a “panel,” as it was a jazz quartet, with melody, solos, improvisation, interpretations and queries on heart-themes…simply beautiful. The tenderness of the communication between David Wilcox, Lillian Boutte, Tanya Ellsworth Boutte, Rebecca Folsom, a young rapper and the audience served as a model to me: this is what I, we, can do…the illustrious panel welcomed a one-minute open to healing performed acapella by the brave audience member. I left feeling strengthened, nourished, hopeful, ready to try again to love…
Quoting Leonard Bernstein after the shocking news of JFK’s assassination: “This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.”
by: Leanne Soucek and Students at the #CWA2015
