Events | NYC Maker Faire 2015

While I am working the movement infrastructure for Saturday and Sunday performances, the energy of preparation for the Maker Faire brings somehow some comfort. Can making provide healing? Can people be brought together by making? These are the initial thoughts, summarized in such "dense" questions.
Below are few images of an event powered by creativity, excitement and joie de vivre.

Events | New York, September 24: Glimpses of Pope Francis

In a surreal cars empty Fifth Avenue, crowds wait for Pope Francis to arrive from Saint Patrick Cathedral. Finally, preceded by a massive motorcade the Pope arrives waving in the iconic Fiat 500.

Practice | Finding the Axis Mundi in the Roman Ruins, at Sea

 On one of the last glorious days of summer 2015 I am moving to the Mediterranean sea, in the town of Anzio or Antium (V century B.C). The emperor Nero (37-68 AD) was born here and ruins of his Villa stand on the beach.

Practice | Finding the Axis Mundi in Rome

In this particularly unsettling time, I am trying to find a center; being in Rome, the city where I was born and raised, brings focus even when collective histories are woven within my personal memories.
The phenomenological axis mundi of my existing intersects with the celebrated places in Rome, where the "navel of the world", can be found in many different locations.One of the most remarkable axis mundi is the obelisk in Piazza San Pietro. Located at the center of the elliptical square the obelisk function as a sundial, with the faces aligned to the four cardinal points.

Practice | August 18, Finding the Axis Mundi by the Hudson River, at Sunset

I am finding my axis mundi by the Hudson River, at sunset.
space-time coordinates: 19:22 UTC, 40.77699, -73.99132

 

practice | August 13: Finding the Axis Mundi on the High Line

Threading space and time with my body: this is the essence of my somatic practice.

On August 13 my geospatial coordinates at sunset were 40.75417, -74.0057. My body prayer was interacting with the sun geometry.

Practice site and excerpts from my walk, whose length was approximately 5.75 miles

divorce brutality & healing | Central Park, Walking in the Ramble

Walking has become a metaphor for my life these days —besides providing healing while I am trying to keep my sanity struggling with the divorce brutality. 

During my morning walk in Central Park I kept getting lost in familiar grounds, the Ramble, where I have been walking probably almost hundreds time, in any season.
But I have finally, found sunlight to orient and guide me in the darkness. Quite a metaphor...

memoir | "I Take You As Awful Husband"

Slip of tongue or Freudian slip ? It was definitely a prediction, when repeating after the Boston judge, I said "awful" instead of "lawful".

Very sadly, with profound pain, I remember that day and what came after: humiliations, bullying, financial control, greed, narcissism, coupled with shunning from his family whose greed had manipulated him for all his life . And in the past year the discovery that honesty, the only positive value which I believe belonged to him. was gone.

I have very little good memories of this relationship, which are overwhelmed now by his last coward act, putting our daughter's well being in the hand of a greedy divorce attorney whose only interest is to make as much profit as possible from our pain.

And somehow I feel sorry for him; even if dangerous, he is ultimately a coward, desperately looking for attention.

Looking onwards and upwards.