in response to Meg: Yay!!
Wow, to begin is a daunting thing this time. Short: festival was great. I made new friends who I will keep the rest of my life, such excellent people these mimes can be...really serious seekers.
I have my mime premier in late september, found out a few days ago...Bartek and I and a friend of ours, much work to be done between now and then...I'm excited and a bit nervous, am I good enough at this point to be on a stage as a mime??? I've only been doing it for a year and a few months...we'll see.
Working my ass off at the school which is okay except now my very disorganized boss has mistaken my friendly and energetic demenor for someone willing to pick up after him if he makes a mistake 'Uh, Arielle can you lock the school tonight and come back at 7:30 am just to open it for me??' Hmm..no. I need learn how to stay nice but be a little more distant...
Last week for absolutly no reason except that the thought came out of nowhere, I decided to check out the Kabbalah center they have in here in Warsaw...it was kind of cool. I spoke with a very lovely woman who gave me a general idea of what kabbalah was about answered some of my questions, recommended a book and sent me on my merry way. I like the idea that you're not supposed to believe anything, that you have to experience it for yourself and that's your work to do. It's also nice that it's not only a set of ideas but that there is a real life application to these thoughts. I read the book, what it says makes sense to me, mostly, there are a few concepts that make me a little twitchy, but that is mostly courteous of my jewish upbringing and my severe dislike of it. I guess you could find similar ideas in buddhism, zen, gnosticism and such. I'm just so ready to get to the 'living and doing' stage of whatever spiritual path I'm on. It's really nice for astrology and numerology to tell you what strengths and weaknesses you have, for Reiki to heal you, and for yoga to make you strong in body and mind, but I need to work on my mental/psychological aspects now. What is it to be a good human??? etc. etc.. blah blah blah
so how are you guys doing???
I have my mime premier in late september, found out a few days ago...Bartek and I and a friend of ours, much work to be done between now and then...I'm excited and a bit nervous, am I good enough at this point to be on a stage as a mime??? I've only been doing it for a year and a few months...we'll see.
Working my ass off at the school which is okay except now my very disorganized boss has mistaken my friendly and energetic demenor for someone willing to pick up after him if he makes a mistake 'Uh, Arielle can you lock the school tonight and come back at 7:30 am just to open it for me??' Hmm..no. I need learn how to stay nice but be a little more distant...
Last week for absolutly no reason except that the thought came out of nowhere, I decided to check out the Kabbalah center they have in here in Warsaw...it was kind of cool. I spoke with a very lovely woman who gave me a general idea of what kabbalah was about answered some of my questions, recommended a book and sent me on my merry way. I like the idea that you're not supposed to believe anything, that you have to experience it for yourself and that's your work to do. It's also nice that it's not only a set of ideas but that there is a real life application to these thoughts. I read the book, what it says makes sense to me, mostly, there are a few concepts that make me a little twitchy, but that is mostly courteous of my jewish upbringing and my severe dislike of it. I guess you could find similar ideas in buddhism, zen, gnosticism and such. I'm just so ready to get to the 'living and doing' stage of whatever spiritual path I'm on. It's really nice for astrology and numerology to tell you what strengths and weaknesses you have, for Reiki to heal you, and for yoga to make you strong in body and mind, but I need to work on my mental/psychological aspects now. What is it to be a good human??? etc. etc.. blah blah blah
so how are you guys doing???