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Disney’s 100th Anniversary
October 19, 2023It has been fascinating to see the range of narrative on the hundredth anniversary of the Walt Disney Company....
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How Making Something a THING Happen
March 1, 2021Let’s start with this: I don’t think there is anything special called “Immersive Entertainment”. This is the most blatant...
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The Art of The Steal
February 22, 2021As I get older, I find I read more biographies. I guess when you have more road behind you...
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Poetry is Essential
January 25, 2021Poetry is to language what a fine brandy is to grape juice. It is refined, distilled, and concentrated. It...
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Conjuring Sacred Space
December 28, 2020In contemplating Lessons From Live Performance, I had to think for a while about what I thought a “live...
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Using What You Have
November 23, 2020Improvisation immediately drives me to music. I spent a good deal of my life as a “musician” but I...
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Caliban and the Mask of Villainy
October 19, 2020Here, I presume a reasonable lay-person’s familiarity with Shakespeare. Fair, I think, and if you know but two of...
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The Next Normal
September 28, 2020The Next Normal My grandparents never completely let go of the Great Depression. Mistrust of banks, obsessive frugality and...
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No Boundaries
August 3, 2020When I was 9, the walls of my bedroom were covered not with hot rods or pop stars. They...
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Re-Freshing
May 28, 2020It would be irresponsible and cruelly glib to imply that the Covid-19 pandemic has not been difficult, and that...
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I Pledge…
July 19, 2019For the last 3 years, we’ve been engaged in a project that could, if it is successful, have transformative...
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Coming of Age
July 1, 2019At the turn of the century, out of the chaos of a chilling economy and the double punches of...
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Happy Continuation to A Great Idea
May 1, 2019The park now known as Disney’s Hollywood Studios, a name I have never gotten quite comfortable with, turns 30...
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What Burns?
April 17, 2019I am not a Catholic. I am not even a Christian in the way that Christians define themselves. I...
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Creativity, Innovation, Life and Death
March 18, 2019Simply getting older-participating in the entropy attendant to a certain number of solar orbits-confers nothing. Even the much-vaunted acquisition...
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Making Up The New Year
December 27, 2018We have made up something called “The New Year”. TNY happens arbitrarily on December the 31st at midnight. Don’t...
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Continuation
August 22, 2018In our Zen tradition, we learn from the Buddha’s perspective that there is no-coming, no-going. That is a teaching...
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Good Old Systems
May 15, 2018A while back, I discussed (politely, with just a light dusting of snark) what I call the “danger of...
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Cultural Exploration
May 1, 2018Travel broadens you, they say. Well, exploring other cultures doesn’t always require a passport. I spent the weekend at...
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Me and Mrs. Bush
April 18, 2018In the early summer of 1992 I got a call from my boss. “Bob, I need you and your...
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