Here's the link for the video recording of Week 4. Forgive the shortness: I'm traveling and a bit too busy, but wanted to get this up for those of you who missed it this final week.
Click here to view the video: https://vimeo.com/153588958
Don't forg
Read more…Thank you for taking the time to develop this webinar and offer it up and out to the world! What a pleasure to have participated on the blog and in person. The only frustration I had was not being able to sit in a room, in circle, with all of you an
Read more…All, if you like please take a moment to click on this link to see the wonderful quote from Jean Gebser I just posted. It echoes quite nicely the Bringhurst reading for this week.
https://www.facebook.com/BrianMichaelTracy/
Read more…I wanted to share a beautiful poem that fell upon me last night at a program by the NW Dance Project. Benjamin Wardell is a contemporary dancer who wrote the poem The Clouds Inside. The NW Dance Project took the poem as a platform for one of their da
Read more…The Theme for Week 4 is "Ecology: The Earth's Poems"
READING ASSIGNMENT FOR WEEK 4:
Robert Bringhurst: Chapter entitled “The Silence That is not Poetry — and the Silence That Is” (from the book,The Tree of Meaning.")
Go to this link and click on the
Read more…Week 3: "Technology and the Mythic Poetic Landscape” (Originally aired January 20, 2016)
***Please note that these recordings are private for registrants of the course, "Cultivating Poetic Sensibility in a Wired World." Please do not share or forward
Read more…In the webinar yesterday I mentioned the term the despotic eye--this is the eye of distance that looks at things/nature and takes their measure. It is the style of techne
Poiesis is is a way of seeing that looks from within things, and speaks from ho
Read more…Hi all. In case you don't have a good Internet connection that allows you to stream the video replays, here are Weeks 1 & 2 as downloadable audio Mp3 files.
Again, a reminder: these are for paying participants in the course only. Please do not share
Read more…Here is the recording for Week 2: "The Dream and the Poem” (Originally aired January 13, 2016)
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Read more…In response to the request to post my Poem & Dream presentation from last night's session please see attached. Any and all comments are welcome. Brian
Read more…The Theme for Week 3 is "Technology & the Mythic Poetic Landscape"
READING ASSIGNMENT FOR WEEK 3:
"The Virtues of Caution: A Call to Awaken our Aesthetic Responses"—James Hillman: http://www.resurgence.org/magazine/article1269-the-virtues-of-caution
Read more…I have used this one as an artistic activity in retreats before as a sort of coloring meditation. folks seem to really enjoy it.
Stained Glass Manadal Coloring book
Read more…I let this writing be with me over the week and found a rush of imagery/affect while sitting by the churning Pacific with my two dogs. A flock of Sanderlings moved past and I was overwhelmed by the movement of the hundreds of legs scampering .... her
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In regards to the poem “Dreaming Blackbird” by Brian Michael Tracy
To Brian:
I took your poem for a walk today. Folded paper in my pocket, we tramped in snow down the hill alongside sagebrush and snowberry bush, junipers and fallen timber
Read more…Just wanted to share a photo of this chap who shares my office with me.
Read more…I took this photo this morning at Rancho Oso, Paradise Rd., Santa Barbara, where I live. :)
My suggestion in the Webinar about getting lost was/is to get back to the body.
To get lost is to walk a bit every day while staying
open to being surprised by what lies unexpectedly in the familiar;
to get lost is to amble along with no intentio
Read more…Here is a response to the Dreaming Blackbird poem which, when I read it, it reminded me of a recent dream I had of a beakless bird who flew at me and then entered me at my throat.
Silence Broken
I stepped inside,
and you found me,
I saw your eyes,
Read more…Hi Everyone
It was great to be part of this group last week. It was 1 AM for me when we started but certainly worth staying up past my bed time for!! It has been wonderful for me to join the group and to hear everyone share. Soul is a bit shy in t
Read more…Just a note to the group that the Iris reference in the poem is to the Greek Goddess:
http://www.greekmythology.com/Other_Gods/Iris/iris.html
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