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Teddy Roosevelt
There’s art in performing and talent in performing well, as my friend Joe Wiegand does impersonating Teddy Roosevelt. We saw him during a live performance on President’s Day, February 18, 2007 at the Lyceum in Alexandria, VA. In the spirit of Independence Day and since he’s on tour celebrating T.R.’s 150th birthday, I thought I’d post this clip. Joe does such an amazing job portraying T.R., not only in appearance but down to his mannerisms and speech inflection. He’s entertaining and humorous and makes learning history — about T.R. and his presidency — fun. I have another movie that he sent from when he was in New Orleans, but I…
Art is Therapy
While watching the news tonight, I was struck by how difficult it has been for the survivors of China’s massive earthquake — especially the children. I believe art can be used in therapy to lesson the blow of physical and psychological trauma. In fact the news showed clips of mental health workers helping the surviving Chinese kids in shelters describe their fears and experience during the earthquake by drawing. Art therapy is based on the principle that traumatic experience is stored in the memory as an image. Drawing the image helps process the memory cognitively and lessens the trauma to help resolve it. Here’s an interesting article on Glam Spirit…
Reflection on the Arboretum
The weather was absolutely gorgeous for spending a Sunday afternoon at the National Arboretum. The azaleas and rhodos were in full bloom and everyone and their neighbor seemed to be there enjoying their beauty. This is that annual time of year to make the journey to witness Spring in its full splendor. The only unfortunate thing was that we decided too late in the day to do this and didn’t have enough time to explore. At least for now, we can always go back. Here are a few pictures I took: I came across this YouTube video of Japanese style sumi-e painting of a koi and I thought it was…
