Tango is different from other types of dancing for reasons that are definable and some that are not. You’ll hear about the pauses, the silence, the partners not speaking, not thinking, not looking at each other. The embrace is soft and sliding and so intimate, it’s as if the two partners are undergoing cell-fusion. The music has no fixed rhythmic pattern. The dance has a simple structure but is open to infinite improvisation (think of how few elements there are in the universe relative to the infinite ways they differentiate matter).
Writing as Refuge – Workshop Aug 1
June 30, 2010 by
Writing as Refuge – Confronting and Transforming Loss Sunday, August 1 10 am – 5 pm Anyone who writes, professionally or informally, experiences how it taps a different brain from the everyday one. Invariably, the writing space, entered as in meditation, allows loss and submerged pain to float to surface. Writers often face these feelings, […]
Writing as Refuge – San Francisco Zen Center
June 30, 2010 by
Writing as Refuge – Confronting and Transforming Loss Sunday, August 1 10 am – 5 pm Anyone who writes, professionally or informally, experiences how it taps a different brain from the everyday one. Invariably, the writing space, entered as in meditation, allows loss and submerged pain to float to surface. Writers often face these feelings, […]
Publish or Perish?
May 21, 2010 by
That is a question . . . which for academics has long been an imperative, and which may explain in part why academic writing is widely considered off the scales on the Fog Index. Forced to write is like being force to eat or read.
Double or nothing – kayaking San Juans
May 2, 2010 by
From VIA Magazine – 2002 or so Double or nothing by Camille Cusumano I wanted to gaze at the forest-clad shoreline of San Juan, the second largest island in Washington’s archipelago, the San Juans, from a single kayak. But no local outfit would take me out in a single. They’re less stable than double kayaks […]
BIG SUR – A HIKE WITH SARAH & ARNIE
May 2, 2010 by
From VIA Magazine – 1999 or so I watched Sarah take the cure along Big Sur’s Pine Ridge Trail.For several years, her husband Arnie—my cousin—and I have backpacked into the mountains of California. For a week my cousin drops his corporate persona and becomes a regular backwoods guy. Sarah lives each trip through the opportunistic […]
VIA Magazine archived stories
May 2, 2010 by
These are links to some of the many travel stories I wrote for VIA Magazine from 1988 through 2006. Some info may not have aged gracefully – do check all contact info. MENDOCINO, CALIFORNIA http://www.viamagazine.com/weekenders/mendocino97.asp BIG SUR, DRIVING THE BIG SOUTH http://www.viamagazine.com/top_stories/articles/bigsouth97.asp – JACKSON HOLE, WYOMING http://www.viamagazine.com/top_stories/articles/jackson98.asp HAWAII’S ALOHA FESTIVALS http://www.viamagazine.com/top_stories/articles/aloha97.asp PALM SPRINGS, CALIFORNIA http://www.viamagazine.com/top_stories/articles/desertwilds98.asp […]
Karaoke in Las Vegas, Ol’ Blue Eyes style
May 2, 2010 by
This was part of a big roundup on Vegas researched with the whole VIA Magazine staff – great trip. March/April 2005 – VIA Magazine – check into below for updates Downtown strip of Vegas at night How To Bring Down The House By Camille Cusumano 2 A.M. I could have sung “New York, New York” […]
“The crack is in me,” I said heroically
May 1, 2010 by
“The crack is in me,” I said heroically. Fitzgerald
The sign of first-rate intelligence
May 1, 2010 by
I have quoted from this essay for three decades – long before I embraced Zen paradox or understood about negative capability. I still subscribe to it – see boldfaced The Crack-Up By F. Scott Fitzgerald February, 1936 Of course all life is a process of breaking down, but the blows that do the dramatic side […]