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Musings | Feb 5, 2021
When I read the above quote from the final chapter of the book, I was immediately transported to summertime at Usdan. Camp is a meaningful place for our children any summer, but especially this summer. Here are the core reasons why I believe opening in-person camp this summer is so important for our children:
Inspiring U | Feb 1, 2021
Inspiring U is a growing collection of creative content to help our community stay creatively engaged.
Musings | Jan 29, 2021
We came to witness a president become inaugurated, and watched as the moment pushed our youth into the spotlight when we all needed a seed of inspiration to flower. Somewhere between the built up anger, generational frustrations, and systematic disparities, the world needed a poem to start our conversation to heal. In these trying times, “where can we find light in this never-ending shade?”
Musings | Jan 22, 2021
I’m absolutely serious. We really, really need to make a play date. After the year we’ve all been through, I believe we more than owe it to ourselves. Aristotle claimed that play was a bodily necessity and said that just as the tired body requires rest, so too the stressed individual requires play. Today, stress might just be our society’s greatest commodity.
Musings | Jan 15, 2021
What a wildly restorative week this one became for me, due to two virtual events focused on youth creativity. In case you missed them, I'll catch you up.
Musings | Jan 8, 2021
Typically, I neither read my horoscope nor follow astrology, but the current planetary alignment has contextualized 2021 for me as an exciting year for a creative community like ours. As the lyrics in the musical “Hair” expresses: “This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius.” We are in the final phases of the transition from the Age of Pisces to that of Aquarius.