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....
by Lavinia Plonka | Feb 10, 2019 | Humor/CosmiComedy |
“Rosebud,” Last word of Citizen Kane Long, long ago, in eternally sunny Southern California, (remember when sunny California sounded like heaven instead of a dry and gasping desert?), I was sitting around with some friends with nothing better to do than play with...
by Lavinia Plonka | Feb 5, 2019 | Humor/CosmiComedy, The Creative Body
I’m feeling ridiculous, standing here, holding a sock filled with cornstarch, tied at the top. A new miracle cure, you ask? Perhaps an esoteric facial treatment endorsed by Gwyneth Paltrow? A fun way to whack your husband? I know I should throw it away, yet I stand...
by Lavinia Plonka | Feb 10, 2017 | Humor/CosmiComedy, The Creative Body, The Feldenkrais Method®
Now that Ringling Bros. have announced their final season, I find myself reflecting on the word circus. What will happen to it, if there is no more circus? Will it re-boot itself to mean something new? After all, the original “circus” was simply the arena...
by Lavinia Plonka | Aug 10, 2016 | Humor/CosmiComedy
When asked what surprised him about humanity the most, the Dalai Lama replied: “Man. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. “ Nothing is more important than your health….except for your money –...
by Lavinia Plonka | May 10, 2015 | Body Language, Humor/CosmiComedy, Movement as Medicine, The Creative Body
“A person who smiles a lot is either a fool or an American.” Russian saying Gray skies are gonna clear up Put on a happy face. Brush off that frown and cheer up Put on a happy face. From Bye Bye Birdie I...
by Lavinia Plonka | Dec 29, 2014 | Humor/CosmiComedy
The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep. The Tempest Act 4, scene...
by Lavinia Plonka | Sep 4, 2014 | Humor/CosmiComedy
Years ago, I went to Hayden Planetarium for their sky show, which was a trip through the universe, and a lesson on scale. For the finale, the camera began to pull back from our conveniently located position at the center of the universe, to its furthest edges, and...
