"The Right Brain Develops First ~ Why Play is the Foundation for Academic Learning" I stumbled across this wonderful article by Vince Gowman this morning, still a bit jet lagged state, just home...
The Immediacy of Play
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Meditation, Resilience and Clowns
When I talk to Sandra after the workshop, to ask how it went, she tells me she has never seen some of the participants smile before, let alone laugh. I hadn’t considered that possibility earlier in the day, though I did note a few faces that were slow to thaw into humorous expression….
Photos from Chocolat Exhibit in Paris 2016
I had the good fortune to be in Paris when the movie "Chocolat" came out last February (2016), which portrays the famous turn of the century clown duo Chocolat et Foottit. To celebrate the release,...
Musing on the nature of humor and clown
Not long ago I wrote a post on constructive versus destructive humor focusing in on if the humor was at someone’s expense or globally uplifting. This was before the whole creepy clown phenomenon...
Scary Clowns Take 3. Terrorist Clown Ring Arrested !!!
The Latest Headline in the Santa Monica (CA) Observer: Terrorist Clown Ring Arrested in Alabama Clown Fears Have Spread Across the South in Recent Weeks Flomaton, Alabama police have taken one adult...
Scary Clowns Part 2. It was all a hoax!
For those of you following the news of scary clowns in the Carolinas, you can now breathe a collective sigh of relief as the WXII.12 news reports: Winston-Salem police said Friday that they...
Clown.GoogleAlerts.1.2016
Another Google alert in my mailbox, links to all the articles that contain the word clown. That word is my nemesis. The prevailing mainstream perception of that word, at least according to the...
Constructive/Destructive Humor
You wish to share a joke, a remark, expecting/hoping for laughter. Sometimes though your intent backfires, and you find yourself in a bit of a pickle….How to know when is the right time? When is the joke a good joke?
“As long as the humor is not destructive” the woman explaine
In parts of Argentina, Clowns in Children’s hospitals is a law.
Yes it's a law in Argentina that Children's Hospitals must employ clowns. I'm posting here to link the reader to this great article (on the Next City website written by M. Sophia Newman. It's ...