by Lavinia Plonka | Jul 5, 2022 | Humor/CosmiComedy, Kinesa Newsletter |
Photo by Erika Fletcher on Unsplash On a recent balmy evening, my husband Ron and I took a walk down our dirt road after dinner. The sun had set and the sky was laced with pink clouds glowing against the azure sky. There is a field at the bottom of the road next to...
by Lavinia Plonka | Jan 6, 2022 | Humor/CosmiComedy, The Creative Body
I was writing in my journal, waxing profound about the arcs in my life. “Sometimes it seems like I’ve spent my life walking in place. I move along and then I hit a wall. After banging my head against it for a while, I often discover there was no wall, or that the wall...
by Lavinia Plonka | Aug 2, 2021 | Body Language, Humor/CosmiComedy
I was pondering the wonders and stories of our anatomy the other day, and realized I could probably write a post about every part of myself. Who knows how long this inspiration will last, this could be a very long series! That led me to reflecting on my hands. When...
by Lavinia Plonka | Feb 1, 2021 | Humor/CosmiComedy, The Creative Body
Photo by Ashley Batz on Unsplash I get an idea. Half-baked. Disparate elements. Nothing comes together. I pace. I ruminate. Then look up the word rumination and discover it has to do with thinking about the past. So if I’m not ruminating, what am I doing? I try to...
by Lavinia Plonka | Oct 21, 2020 | Body Language, Humor/CosmiComedy |
Photo by Element5 Digital on Unsplash So many people have prefaced recent conversations with “I’m so worried about the election that….” or “I just don’t know what to trust,” or “Those people are insane!” or “Do you think it...
by Lavinia Plonka | Oct 11, 2020 | Body Language, Humor/CosmiComedy, The Creative Body
I go outside and look up at the stars in the winter night, imagining that the light is coming to me from millions, even billions of years ago. I think of myself, a speck on this piece of rock hurling through space, and I imagine someone 1000 years ago, looking up,...
by Lavinia Plonka | Mar 10, 2020 | Humor/CosmiComedy, The Creative Body, The Feldenkrais Method®
I bought what I thought would be a cool, new circular hairbrush that I could use with a blowdryer to volumize my hair (just a few decades late to the party.) After a few curls, my hairbrush got stuck. I tugged. I tried to reverse my way out of the tangle, which merely...
by Lavinia Plonka | Oct 8, 2019 | Humor/CosmiComedy, Movement and The Spirit, The Creative Body, The Feldenkrais Method®
Photo by Ron Morecraft of an installation by Tomas Saracéno from a work by an anonymous spider. For weeks my carport was Charlotte’s lair. The classic orb spider had spun a glorious, monumental web that sometimes verged on over-ambition, attaching silken threads...
by Lavinia Plonka | Sep 28, 2019 | Humor/CosmiComedy
We are in Gijón, Spain. Ron is carefully (because he’s always careful) hanging laundry on the rack attached to our our third floor window. There are no clothespins in our air bnb and there’s no way we know to the courtyard below. The doorbell rings. Who...
by Lavinia Plonka | Jul 7, 2019 | Humor/CosmiComedy
It started with a drip. A delicate but nevertheless relentless Chinese torture, steady and eternal, from the bathroom sink. As people who like to think that we have better things to do with our time, we ignored it. It became a companion, a little tick, tick, tick...
by Lavinia Plonka | Jun 4, 2019 | Humor/CosmiComedy
I was going to call this the year of the spider. When we lived in NJ, we had spiders crawl into forgotten corners, spin webs in light fixtures and occasionally venture onto the kitchen floor. But nothing prepared us for North Carolina, where brazen representatives...
by Lavinia Plonka | Feb 28, 2019 | Humor/CosmiComedy
My sister and I were recently wondering whether our grasp of the continuously evolving vocabulary of the English language would help us prevent dementia: terabyte, download, netiquette, malware, neuroplasticity, acid-reflux, bromance, bingeable, biohack, microbiome....
