Got Nature? An Earth Month RX
Do YOU need nature? I bet you do!
What better time to discover if NATURE is for YOU than this April, during Earth Month?
As the commercial above shows, getting out in NATURE is not only good for you, but it’s easy! Nature is just right outside our doors and all we have to do is put our media devices down in order to enjoy NATURE.
Even better NATURE IS FREE!
There are endless ways to enjoy NATURE including attending a transformational festival camping out in nature like I will be doing this weekend at Lucidity.
This semester, I have taken my students outside as often as possible, and we have ventured off campus too on field trips to Art City and Bell Arts Factory.
Today we are going to Ventura’s Color Garden (located on Poli at Chestnut just up the hill form the Starbucks on Main by the movie theater). There we will have speakers on researching and writing for environmental problem solving and presentation about Theodora Burr Shepherd. Next we will walk through the Ventura Botanic Garden behind City Hall (Poli at Chestnut). All are welcome to join us! As the parking lot by the Color Garden can fill, consider parking in the City Hall lot by the Botanic Garden. Read more…
On the eve of National Poetry Month, what better way than to celebrate with an offsite AWP event at LACMA during the AWP conference in LA?
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What Matters: Care, Feel, Notice, Live
“He says it doesn’t matter if you draw, or write books.
It doesn’t matter if you saw wood, or catch fish.
It doesn’t matter if you sit at home and stare at the ants on your veranda or the shadows of the trees and grasses in your garden.
It matters that you care.
It matters that you feel.
It matters that you notice.
It matters that life lives through you.”
“The firebrand is the person who recognizes what is natural, what is organic, what is alive and vital in life, the person who dares to live, to be, and to create, often in the face of interference, rejection, deceit, and betrayal. The firebrand is a burning ember, life that is in each of us and that 
provides the spark and energy to speak against what distorts, hides, and denies our being and truth. It is that which awakens within us, when we must declare our independence or when we discover a new formula for living.”
–Clark Moustakas
Today is a *Lunar Eclipse* (more on the astronomy here) Full Moon in Libra (more on the astrology here).
Fittingly, it is the day tickets go on sale for Burning Man at noon. And that’s why I included two “up in the air” videos with this blog post.
Because like with the eclipse, you will probably miss out. Sorry!
Those who have submitted a Burner Profile before the Friday deadline will have the chance to get Read more…
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, LA Sports Arena, March 15, 17, 19, 2016 review by guest blogger Ron Wells: Requiem for an Arena
“Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world’s great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of those rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters.”
Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It
They say a building has no soul. It’s just a building. It’s a thing that houses people for short periods of time before releasing them back into the world.
Having said that, then why are we mourning a place that we lovingly call a dump? Therein, lies a story decades in the making.
This Women’s History Month, celebrate with three women poets of the central and southern coast!
On Thursday, March 17 at 730pm, Los Osos’s poet Dian Sousa features at the EP Foster Library’s Topping Room 651 E. Main Street, Ventura in a free reading hosted by Ventura County’s poet laureate Phil Taggart; an open mic follows.
A surfer, wine lover, and environmentalist, Dian is the author of Lullabies for the Spooked and Cool (Mille Grazie Press, 2004) and her work has been published in numerous anthologies and journals including: Solo Cafe (Soho Press, 2005), Asylum Arts Annual (Asylum’s Press, 1994), and Chiron Review.
This Saturday, March 19 at 7pm, Santa Barbara’s Poet Laureate Sojourner Kincaid Rolle and Lois P. Jones feature at the Arcade Poetry Series at the Carnegie Art Museum in Oxnard. Non-members pay $3 for admission. Read more…
Spring into Creativity at Art City Gardens
Art City Sculpture Garden photo by Lynne Okun
Tuesday March 15, join my students and I from 1230-6pm on a field trip to Art City Gardens and Art City Sculpture Studio 197 Dubbers where we will meet with local artists and activists about the creative process, research paper projects, explore, and get our hands dirty too!
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Cheers to women in wine for Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day!
March is Women’s History Month in the United States, and yesterday, Tuesday March 8 was International Women’s Day,
…so we thought March would be an appropriate time to take notice of not only some of the women wine makers we admire but also a few wine bloggers as well.
Starting with Kimberly Smith, wine maker at La Montagne, who says,
“May each sip bring your joy!”
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On Celebrating Internat’l Women’s Day 3/8
“We can not all succeed when half of us are held back.” Malala Yousafzai
Today let’s celebrate the women who uplift and inspire us. Read more…
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