by Lavinia Plonka | Mar 16, 2014 | Humor/CosmiComedy, The Creative Body
“Learn at first concentration without effort: Transform work into play; make every yoke that you have accepted easy and every burden that you carry light.” Anonymous (From Meditations on the Tarot – The Magician) Many years ago, while performing in France, I was...
by Lavinia Plonka | Feb 10, 2014 | Humor/CosmiComedy, The Creative Body |
“The world thus appears as a complicated tissue of events, in which connections of different kinds alternate or overlap or combine and thereby determine the texture of the whole.” (Heisenberg, Physics and Philosophy, 1963) When you walk through the Northwest Airlines...
by Lavinia Plonka | Dec 4, 2013 | Humor/CosmiComedy, The Creative Body
I look around my home office and realize that almost everything was given to me. Galen gave me the glow in the dark rosary blessed by the Pope. Yael gave me the “hamsa” that hangs over the door, a Middle Eastern guard against the evil eye. The framed photograph of...
by Lavinia Plonka | Oct 12, 2013 | Humor/CosmiComedy, The Creative Body |
In a recent TED talk, psychologist Kelly McGonigal proposed that we suffer from stress because we believe that stress is….stressful. Citing a number of studies, she told her audience that people who believed that stress is exciting or productive did not get...
by Lavinia Plonka | Aug 8, 2013 | Humor/CosmiComedy, The Creative Body |
I call him Joe. Every morning during my meditation, he begins his ritual. He flies to my living room window and stands on the clothesline hook, staring at his reflection; his arch enemy, his evil twin, looking out at him from the glass. Then he begins. Bang....
by Lavinia Plonka | Jul 16, 2013 | Humor/CosmiComedy
“To pay or not to pay, that is the question.” I was sure Shakespeare had created Hamlet. The dark Dane, the brooding Prince of existential angst seems quintessential Bard. Hamlet is the most translated, quoted and performed play in the history of the world. It’s...
by Lavinia Plonka | May 5, 2013 | Humor/CosmiComedy |
The other day I was talking to a friend about the latest trend in healthy eating. “None of it makes sense anymore,” she sighed. “My mother is 95, eats two eggs for breakfast every day and loves chocolate. How did she know they would end up on the good list?” Dan...
by Lavinia Plonka | Mar 24, 2013 | Humor/CosmiComedy
I was going to write an erudite treatise on the imminent implosion of reality. But with the world in turmoil over money, reality suddenly seemed trivial. Our pundits, politicians and populace have overcomplicated and “overmediaed” a simple situation: we have an...
by Lavinia Plonka | Mar 4, 2013 | Humor/CosmiComedy
The other day, a friend confessed he was struggling with a book he’s writing. “I have all the ideas, but I can’t seem to get it down on paper,” he complained. “What’s it about?” I was excited. This man is a funny, talented teacher. He’s had lots of great ideas in the...
by Lavinia Plonka | Feb 21, 2013 | Humor/CosmiComedy |
I recently met a woman who was enduring a job she hated in order to maintain her health insurance. “I don’t know what to do,” she sighed. “This job has killed my soul.” “Oh my God!” I exclaimed. “Don’t say that!” I wanted to tell her to quit her job. That life is...
by Lavinia Plonka | Jan 23, 2013 | Humor/CosmiComedy |
When you wish upon a star Makes no difference who you are Anything your heart desires Will come to you Jiminy Cricket Be careful what you wish for My Mother Ask the most rational, prosaic person you know, and odds are, even he or she at one point or another has looked...
by Lavinia Plonka | Jan 2, 2013 | Humor/CosmiComedy
“Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’….Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.” Gospel of...
