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 | Feb 19, 2013 | The Creative Body
When I was a little girl, there was a local TV show called The Sandy Becker Show. Sandy played a lot of different characters, and seemed to have a wonderful time. One of his characters was called The Big Professor. My mother always ran in to watch the Big Professor,...
by Lavinia Plonka | Jan 28, 2013 | Body Language, The Creative Body |
I went to a performance the other night of a talented clown who billed himself as a “certified lunatic”. He expertly performed all kinds of schtick, much of which I’d seen before. I smiled and admired his skill, but didn’t really laugh much. Then he went out...
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 10, 2013 | The Creative Body
We have super powers. We’ve just forgotten. Somewhere over the course of the last couple of centuries, we’ve narrowed our definition of sensory awareness to five senses: seeing, hearing, touching, tasting, smelling. But what about proprioception: knowing where...
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...
by Lavinia Plonka | Dec 26, 2012 | Humor/CosmiComedy
I recently traveled to Vancouver with my sister Liz. As I was walking through Minneapolis St. Paul airport, I passed my old high school classmate, Mary. Except it wasn’t really Mary. After all, this young woman was about 18 years old, and Mary, well, Mary had...
by Lavinia Plonka | Dec 18, 2012 | Humor/CosmiComedy |
My husband Ron always complains about the English language. He was born in New Jersey, so maybe that complicated his relationship to language in general, since New Jersey’s favorite choices of adjectives in most conversations are not supposed to be part of polite...
by Lavinia Plonka | Dec 15, 2012 | The Creative Body |
The other day in my Awareness Through Movement® class, I saw that some people were having difficulty with a particular movement. “Don’t strain,” I suggested. “Instead, take a moment and imagine the movement.” One of the students started...
by Lavinia Plonka | Dec 11, 2012 | Humor/CosmiComedy
“We almost never think of the present, and when we do, it is only to see what light it throws on our plans for the future.” Pascal When I lived in NJ, there was a new age gift store with a sign outside proclaiming, “Remember the precious present,” cleverly being...
