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Category Archives: Dance
Dancing With Holidays Past
The best family holidays were full of laughter, dancing, and just being together. Continue reading
Posted in Autobiographical, Courage, Dance, Dementia, Family, Home, Love, Music, Tribute
Tagged cancer, Christmas, Covid, Dirty Dancing, empty chairs, Island Home, Lisa Stanley, Love Is Strange, Old North Knox, Old North Knoxville, Sylvia & Mickey, Thanksgiving, The flu
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The Superheroes Among Us
Young children live in the “now”, can we learn from them? Continue reading
Posted in Autobiographical, Beauty, Blooming, Childhood, Courage, Creativity, Dance, Family, Happiness, Ideas, Love, Music, Wonder
Tagged Brandi Carlile, children, earthlings, Fall On Me, REM, Stay Gentle, superheroes, the now, true superheroes
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A Wildflower Running Free
A tribute to my dear sister, Lisa Allen Stanley, who passed away on Father’s Day, June 19, 2022, at the too-age of 63. Continue reading
Posted in Autobiographical, Blooming, Childhood, Courage, Dance, Family, Freedom, Knoxville, Love, Tribute, Uncategorized, Women
Tagged Cades Cove, Church Street United Methodist Church, Island Home, Lay Packing Company, Lisa Stanley, Pat Summit, South High School, Stanley's Greenhouse, Tennessee Theatre, Tom Petty, UT College of Human Ecology, UT Medical Center, wildflowers, Woodlawn Cemetery, Ye Olde Steak House
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Dreams Walking in Broad Daylight
. . . dreams walking in broad daylightThree hundred, sixty five degreesBurning down the house. “Burning Down the House”, songwriters: David Byrne, Christopher Frantz, Martina Weymouth, Jerry Harrison Seeing the world through the eyes of a baby or toddler is … Continue reading
IndigoNation
Nothing compares with this dye’s ability to capture the blues of nature—a midnight sky, early dawn, or an impression of the sea. It can also define a mood—of melancholy, of mystery in the dark hues, or joy and vitality in lighter … Continue reading
Posted in Beauty, Courage, Creativity, Dance, Freedom, Happiness, Ideas, Op/Ed Thoughts, The Arts, Wonder
Tagged blue, Cher, Concerning the Spiritual in Art, Duke Ellington, I Voted, I've Got You Babe, Indignation, indigo, Isaac Newton, Kadinsky, Mood Indigo, Philip Roth, Sonny Bono, the color blue, The Seattle Asian Art Museum, Wassily Kandinsky
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Blooming Out of Season
Nearly a decade ago I planted two camellias in container pots just outside the front door of our home. I never thought they would live for long–in containers, mind you– in the mercurial climate of East Tennessee. But my sister, … Continue reading
Posted in Autobiographical, Backyard Nature, Beauty, Blooming, Dance, Happiness, Ideas, John Irving, Music, Op/Ed Thoughts, Stage, Women
Tagged Billie Holiday, Blooming, Camellias, Carmen McRae, Growing, Happiness, Maria Cole, Nat King Cole, Nat King Cole: Afraid of the Dark, Netflix, New Year, Stanley's Greenhouse, Winter
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I’m a Dancing Girl
I have always been drawn to people and communities who dance. My theory is that when a culture loses its dancing–as a community–it loses its vitality, passion, and reason for living, what the French call raison d’être. Conversely when a … Continue reading
I’m a Dancing Girl
I have always been drawn to people and communities who dance. My theory is that when a culture loses its dancing as a community, it loses its vitality and reason for existing, what the French call raison d’être. Conversely when … Continue reading
Posted in Autobiographical, Bruce Springsteen, Creativity, Dance, Knoxville, Music
Tagged Bruce Springsteen, communal dance, dancing, finding your soul, folk dance
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