project1979 turns 40
I started this blog in response to feeling very….30 and also feeling like the generation I connected with was special. I still feel that it is. I thought it would be worth it to experiment on a project attempting to highlight people all over the world who were born in a tiny slice of a … Continue reading
Snow days, Mimosas: Dear Karen
Toasting a woman who taught me to embrace both kale and gratitude.
Dear Rodney
I am currently living in a place where no one is rioting and the biggest struggle for me today will be getting my car out of my snow-packed driveway. I remember the day when the Rodney King verdict came out…I was sitting at a Mexican restaurant with my mom and sister in Encinitas, California, we … Continue reading
Follow-Through
At the moment, I mean in this moment right now I am repeating to myself: isuckisuckisuckisuck a mantra I would like to backspace right now. But then I’d be lying. I’ve written two blogposts in the the last month. Didn’t manage to make them perfect so they are still in drafts. Most days I wake … Continue reading
Into a Daybreak
“To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision. Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity. It becomes easier to die and avoid conflict than to maintain a constant … Continue reading
Reality: Los Colorados
Here in Italy at the moment after four and a half months China. I have had little access to internet in the past few months between China )no social media!) and traveling/couch-surfing. Finally, I have stolen a moment between lessons and rehearsals to write about lovely people I met in 2012 while in Berlin that … Continue reading
This is hero: his dream
Today I leave for a year in China. I don’t know how I feel exactly, although I am pretending to be brave but I know that what I’m facing is so little compared to what is on the plates of others. All around me are examples of 30-something’s courage, from Marcel Mettelsiefen (35) and his work … Continue reading
How do you get through your day?
Richie Parker gives us another reason to be proud of our generation.
What Time is IT?
What time is it? It’s BIRTHDAY TIME! Come dance with me… …because it’s my first day of being thankfully, fully in my mid-30’s and I am feeling grateful that I made it. This song exemplifies what I feel on this perfect cloudy London day. I sing it nearly every day: This year which has stretched … Continue reading
InVisible in Germany
Originally posted on project1979:
Now in Brussels and gearing up for the performance on Saturday which will be done Salon-style for a live group here with people streaming in from around the world. Can’t wait! In the three weeks that I was in Germany my life was altered by Bluespots productions: I jumped off. Often…