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As summer comes to a close, and we all welcome in a new season of abundance, as I stumbled upon this reminder I needed to share! #yougotthis #washingtonsquarepark #inspirationeverywhere

#inspirationeverywhere #washingtonsquarepark #yougotthis

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Stepping through open doors, we stumbled upon this room with a view. #butlerlibrary #columbiauniversity

#butlerlibrary #columbiauniversity

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Delicious homemade blueberry coconut ice pops made by #teamdaniels! #realfooddaily

#realfooddaily #teamdaniels

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#banksyny #hammerboy #uws #inspirationeverywhere

#uws #hammerboy #banksyny #inspirationeverywhere

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If you are a theatre professional, eventually a number of questions surface about how to nurture and grow family alongside your work. Thankfully, this week Playbill published a longread on exactly this topic. I’m grateful they dedicated more than 500 words to the subject, but it still feels like we are just  scratching the surface. Please comment after reading. I’m super interested to hear your thoughts on this subject! 

#theatreandchildren #theatrewomen #entertainment

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A new set of cleverly animated reasons to get up and move! 

#standup movemore sitting muratdalkinlinc

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Journalist suffers from dystonia, a movement disorder that causes involuntary muscle contractions that are very intense

#dance #dancetherapy #arts education #inspiration #justmove

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"Circle of Life" performed on the A train in NYC by the broadway cast of Lion King on June 24, 2014. This surprise performance completely took my breath away. 

#lion king #improv everywhere #nyc #musical theatre #magical

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A letter from parents that lost their three children and their maternal grandfather in the MH17 disaster. 

"A message to the soldiers in the Ukraine, the politicians, the media, our friends and family.

Our pain is intense and relentless. We live in a hell beyond hell.

Our babies are not here with us – we need to live with this act of horror, every day and every moment for the rest of our lives.

No one deserves what we are going through.

Not even the people who shot our whole family out of the sky.

No hate in the world is as strong as the love we have for our children, for Mo, for Evie, for Otis.

No hate in the world is as strong as the love we have for Grandad Nick.

No hate in the world is as strong as the love we have for each other.

This is a revelation that gives us some comfort.

We would ask everyone to remember this when you are making any decisions that affect us and the other victims of this horror.

So far, every moment since we arrived home, we’ve been surrounded by family and friends. We desperately pray that this continues, because this expression of love is what is keeping us alive. We want to continue to know about your lives, all the good and all the bad. We no longer have lives that we want to live by ourselves. So we’d like to take the chance to thank everyone, all our incredible friends, family and communities, and to tell you all that we love you very much.

We would also like to thank the people at DFAT; the local coordinator Claire and most sincerely, Diana and Adrian from The Hague, without whom we would not be here. We ask the media to respect the privacy of our family and friends – pain is not a story.

Yours truly

Anthony Maslin & Marite Norris."

#flight mh17 #mh17 #wake of tragedy #ukraine #power of love #family #Global Peace

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'If you start every day with a class, followed by rehearsals, then performances evenings and weekends, you know what work is. 

Yet another example of how arts education builds better humans. 

#women in leadership #arts education #artistic discipline #leigh thomas #ballet #power of art

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Currently live streaming #mindbodygreen‘s #revitalize summit. Check it out, fantastic fourteen minute talks by a wide array of wellness specialists.

#wellness #Mindfulness #natural living #lifestyle

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"We all could harold in an epidemic of health,"

Terry Wahls MD. 

#revitalize #mindbodyspirit #terry wahls

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Or at least the ones since they started airing it on national TV in 1967. Sorry, Ethel Merman!

This made my day! My inner musical theatre goddess  is so happy right now. 

#broadway #musical theatre #tony awards

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Rise up and create. 

#art #art for social change #emma goldman #artivism #artivist

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"I'll Rise" song by Ben Harper, lyrics by Maya Angelou.

I was first introduced to Maya Angelou's words through Ben Harper's song "I'll Rise," set to Ms. Angelou's poem "Still I Rise." Powerful then. Powerful now. This week the world has lost a master, a goddess, a guru of words and vision. Now it is our turn to study her wisdom and carry it with us. Thank you, Maya Angelou. Our world is better because of your dedication, compassion, intelligence, and art. 

"Still I Rise" by Maya Angelou

You may write me down in history  With your bitter, twisted lies,  You may tread me in the very dirt  But still, like dust, I'll rise.  Does my sassiness upset you?  Why are you beset with gloom?  'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells  Pumping in my living room.  Just like moons and like suns,  With the certainty of tides,  Just like hopes springing high,  Still I'll rise.  Did you want to see me broken?  Bowed head and lowered eyes?  Shoulders falling down like teardrops.  Weakened by my soulful cries.  Does my haughtiness offend you?  Don't you take it awful hard  'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines  Diggin' in my own back yard.  You may shoot me with your words,  You may cut me with your eyes,  You may kill me with your hatefulness,  But still, like air, I'll rise.  Does my sexiness upset you?  Does it come as a surprise  That I dance like I've got diamonds  At the meeting of my thighs?  Out of the huts of history's shame  I rise  Up from a past that's rooted in pain  I rise  I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,  Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.  Leaving behind nights of terror and fear  I rise  Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear  I rise  Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,  I am the dream and the hope of the slave.  I rise  I rise  I rise.

#maya angelou #i rise #ben harper #women of history #historical women #solidarity #still i rise #slavery #african american hi #civil rights movement

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Some motivation from an iconic leader.

#feminism #feminist #service #women #experience #susan b. anthony #suffrage #maturity

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Perhaps life offers only the choice of remembering the garden or forgetting it. Either, or: it takes strength to remember, it takes another kind of strength to forget, it takes a hero to do both. People who remember court madness through...the pain of the perpetually recurring death of their innocence; people who forget court another kind of madness...; and the world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.

James Baldwin, Another Country

#James Baldwin #duality #another country #heroes #remember #accepting the past