Archived entries from:
KEEP TALKING
(dispatches from social isolation)
May – November 2020
Dear Friends and ASNYC Family,
We began “Keep Talking” as a way for us to connect while physically separate during the first year of the unfolding coronavirus pandemic. Over the year, you shared many heartfelt pieces of writing, artworks, and links to performances that we otherwise might not have seen. Since then, contributions have died down, as have our own efforts to encourage you and to remind you that we do in fact need to “Keep Talking.” Have we perhaps sunk into a state of numbness waiting for whatever comes next? Have we grown accustomed to the strangeness of our world?
Whatever the reason, we would like to encourage everyone to keep posting on “Keep Talking.” Perhaps you’d like to share a look back at the past year? How about a funny story, or a philosophical journal entry? What about photographs that reflect the everyday during extraordinary times, or something exceptional that surprised you within the day-to-day? There is no limit to your imaginations, nor to our appreciation of your offerings.
With warm regards,
Dorothy Moore and Walter Alexander
(Keep Talking Curators)
P.S. How to submit a contribution to Keep Talking? Send it via email to asnyc (at) asnyc.org with “Keep Talking Contribution” in the subject line. Word, audio or video files or photos can be sent as attachments. Remember, please, that we will not edit your submission.
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KEEP TALKING | How to Fill-out your Mail-in Ballot by Gail Langstroth
“And I Saw. The Lamb opens one of the seven seals and I hear
one of the four animals with a thunderous voice cry…”
KEEP TALKING | Short Videos with a Hand-Puppet by David Taulbee Anderson
A series of four short videos with a hand-puppet made by David Anderson this summer. Enjoy!
KEEP TALKING | Portraits of the Week: A Quartet by Larry Young
Larry Young’s treasure of a quartet of portraits…
KEEP TALKING | Portrait of the Week: Larry Young
Anthroposophy NYC Blog KEEP TALKING(dispatches from social isolation)Portrait of the Week: Larry Young “And yet my spirit-vision only wakesWhen thoughts of action wholly fill my soul,And it is flooded with a living hopeThat for the spirit it may build a...
KEEP TALKING | Portraits of the Week: Doug Safranek
Portraits by Doug Safranek express the mother/child relationship as part of the World Mother Storytelling Project by Murray Nossel.
KEEP TALKING | Portrait of the Week: Helena Zay
This portrait of Hilma af Klint by Helena Zay was part of the Hilma af Klint exhibit at the Lightforms Art Center in Hudson, NY (Spring-Summer 2020).
KEEP TALKING | Portraits of the Week: Larry Young
Anthroposophy NYC Blog KEEP TALKING(dispatches from social isolation)Portraits of the Week: Larry YoungLarry Young captures a solemn summer moment on the canvas..."I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I...
KEEP TALKING | An Offering by Linda Larson: Sunset over Hudson and Steiner’s Verse
Anthroposophy NYC Blog KEEP TALKING(dispatches from social isolation)An Offering by Linda Larson: Sunset over Hudson and Steiner's VerseSunset over the Hudson, On the eve of Summer Solstice 2020, Leading us into the future In radiating Light (Photo:...
KEEP TALKING | NYC Harpist Rita Costanzi Wins the Hershey Felder Arts Prize
Rita Costanzi, a fellow NYC anthroposophist, entered a worldwide competition with a short video, which she wrote, acted, and played harp in… And she won the Hershey Felder Arts Prize!
KEEP TALKING | An Offering: A Reflection on Corona by Michael Ronall
‘”Corona, or Coronata, is what the Italians call this sign (⊍), which, if it occurs in certain parts of all the notes at the same time, means a general silence or a general pause.”’ ~ Johann Gottfried Walther
KEEP TALKING | An Offering: Miss Socks Goes for Help
A lovely radio play about a cat who speaks, reads, and goes to therapy…
KEEP TALKING | An Offering: Richard Thomas Speaks Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130
A true love goes beyond the outward appearances… Listen to Richard Thomas speak Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130 with an honest, yet loving portrayal of his mistress.
KEEP TALKING | Offerings: Contemplating Paul and Novalis, and Sunlit Flowers
Anthroposophy NYC Blog KEEP TALKING(dispatches from social isolation)Offerings: Contemplating Paul and Novalis by Don Bartlett, and Sunlit Flowers by Katherine VodeThroughout my life, I’ve tried to use inspirational works during my trials… so the first I use as...
KEEP TALKING | An Offering: Eurythmy on Sculthorpe’s Requiem for Cello Solo
“In the fall of 2019, I felt I want to work on a piece that will grip me, and this piece did. The purest music… waiting for the purest gestures of eurythmy. Please listen, or watch or do both.” ~ Brigida Baldszun
KEEP TALKING | An Offering: Fred Dennehy Recites Coleridge’s “Kubla Kahn”
Listen to a recitation of “Kubla Khan,” a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (completed in 1797 and published in 1816)
KEEP TALKING | An Offering: Sewing by Dorothy Moore
“Take a breath before you begin. Take another. Reach back to the time when your hands did this without effort, When the craft lived in your fingertips… Above all, finish. Make sure that you finish.”
KEEP TALKING | An Offering: Fred Dennehy Recites Shelley’s “Ozymandias”
“I met a traveller from an antique land,” begins Shelley. Listen to a recording of his poem “Ozymandias” by an actor and long-standing ASNYC member.
KEEP TALKING | COVID-19, Looters, and the Pentecostal Flame Rose | Walter Alexander
“Speak to us all, Flame Rose, to the looters in high places and to the looters in places mean and low…” ~ Walter Alexander
KEEP TALKING | Offerings: A Mélange of Love (bad and good), Urgent Paris Call, Fallen Silence, Forces of Nature
Fallen Silent by John Beck, Urgent Call by Penny Carter, Love Your Solitude by Larry Young, Bad in Love by Daniel Mackenzie, Forces of Nature by Kelly Beekman
KEEP TALKING | First Offerings: Richard Thomas and Dorothy Moore
Anthroposophy NYC Blog KEEP TALKING(dispatches from social isolation)First Offerings: Richard Thomas, Dorothy Moore, Katherine VodeSONNET 29 by William Shakespeare Recited by actor Richard ThomasThe 21st Century Warrior Dorothy Moore I don't remember...
KEEP TALKING | First Offerings: Gisela Wielki
Anthroposophy NYC Blog KEEP TALKING(dispatches from social isolation)First Offerings: Gisela WielkiI am definitely a zoom friendly person. One of my favorite features on the camera is zooming in and zooming out. (See the May Queen photo below.) I will continue...
KEEP TALKING | First Offerings: Jennifer Green
A standing wave, a metaphor for a healthy society, one where transformation and new forms and beginnings can come about because dialogue is open, good-willed and strives toward our highest ideals for humanity as a whole.
KEEP TALKING | First Offerings: Gail Langstroth
Anthroposophy NYC Blog KEEP TALKING(dispatches from social isolation)First Offerings: Gail LangstrothDear Friends, I started my lockdown during the second week of March. I tried to take one long walk a day. My only rule was to always discover new paths and...
KEEP TALKING | First Offerings: Joyce Reilly
Anthroposophy NYC Blog KEEP TALKING(dispatches from social isolation)First Offerings: Joyce ReillyMoses and We Are Reborn Joyce Reilly It’s a rainy Thursday morning in May, and still quiet at 8 am in the supermarket. I just missed the Senior Hour at 7,...
KEEP TALKING | First Offerings: Joanna Bergmann and Katherine Vode
Inspired by the theme “The Beloved Community,” which came from a Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech. Let’s then, “even in small ways contribute to building a warmer, more empathetic Community.”
KEEP TALKING | First Offerings: Kelly Beekman and Katherine Vode
Check out the first offerings in the Keep Talking blog series: a Shakespeare sonnet, personal stories, a painting, a poem, a video, a science pondering, photos from NYC, and a verse.
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