Minibabble: Woman holds the knife on the sharp side
Some thoughts on the proverb, “Woman holds the knife on the sharp side.” Why would she do such a thing? Is it because she was given a knife without a sturdy handle?
Category: Society
Minibabble: Don’t look at the tree!
When I learned to ride a motorcycle, the instructor gave one of those specific pieces of advice that end up being applicable to life in general: “Your bike will go….
Minibabble: Making music together = moving toward the good
Making music together = keeping time together
We often talk about “spending” time with friends, but how about keeping time? When we make music together, we literally interact with the time that we’re “spending,” keeping it, beat by beat, as a shared resource. There’s really no other [public] activity that we can do with other humans that allows us to interact in this way: when we play music, our bodies move in sync, our mouths say words together or in response, we are literally joined together in time.
A Walk Through Santa Cruz, or In Defense of Liberals
Related: “Minibabble: Getting to Know Us – Liberal women in coastal California“ I was ambivalent about going anywhere on Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday, this year otherwise known as Inauguration….
Minibabble: Singing as…
An ode to humanity’s first instrument In which host Suki Wessling reflects on a life of singing. Singing as therapy, singing as memory, singing as body, singing as meditation, singing….
Bodies making music: composer Anne Hege
“It’s really kind of transcendental, this way that a group can come together to bring meaning to sound through our bodies.” Composer Anne Hege practices a rarefied profession. Not only….
Minibabble: Thinking about greed in the redwoods
This is an unusual version of “Just me, talking to you.” In this case, I recorded my thoughts while walking in the redwoods. It’s largely unedited (I took out a….
“This dysfunctional town square” with TV producer Stephanie Jacobs
Stephanie Jacobs has had a long career covering elections for CBS News. But it wasn’t until she moved to California and became a California girl that politics became personal.
Minibabble: Brenda Laurel on Girls and Games
Writer, researcher, designer and entrepreneur Brenda Laurel started in theater, moved to videogames and then virtual reality, and ended up as an academic. This mini-episode, based on the full-length interview….
Minibabble: I can’t say I failed
A couple of months ago, my fellow K-Squid programmer, Debra Sloss, asked me to help with an episode of her show, State of Mind. She’d received some beautiful, thoughtful pieces….