Empathy You walk into the event with your arms full of children. Your hands are sticky from a morning of half eaten honey toast, your head aching from occasional shrieks of joy, and frequent cries of dismay. The flurry and push to get out the door to something the kids want to go to astounds...Continue reading
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The Real Results of The Jeff & Paige Membership Drive: A Poem, Mr. Farts, and a Vision of a Climate Resilient Community.
Membership Drive Results -- in Poetry form by Paige I begin with a goal-- 400 new members-- that seems reasonable enough. After all I watched "Field of Dreams" with Kevin Costner in 1989. "If You Build it They Will Come." I'll put this out to our audience and they will come... They don't. 1989 was...
Releasing My Inner Bobcat
Paige the bobcat circa 2010 photo credit Caroline Colvin. I've been dressing up like a bobcat on stage since 2008. And I don't want to stop. So I'm releasing my inner bobcat and fighting for my work as an artist and performer. It's the fight of a mother/provider, it's the fight of an animal, it's...Continue reading
A Day in the Life of Jeff of Paige: In Love With Nature in a Whole New Way
This was a man who wanted to escape “Into the Alpine” and take my bicycle and ride to the periphery. This was a man who wanted to disconnect from the human community in order to delve deeper into the natural world. Now, at the age of 39, with a 4-year old of my own and a new little one on the way, I’m way more likely to take a short walk in the field behind our house with Paige and Wolf than to explore those alpine valleys where wildflowers grow.
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