A peculiar man from India came to my home to help me with a ghost problem. He didn’t want to talk about the ghost but rather wanted to tell me how I should or shouldn’t make art. I believed (for only a short time, a few days perhaps) that he knew more about making [...]
Oracle Improv
Let’s Pretend
June 9th, 2009
Dying Forward
March 26th, 2009
There are days when nothing works and all that can be done is to lay in the grass. For a long while yesterday I did this as it was finally warm enough here in the upper mid-west to take the shoes and socks off and fall into the Earth’s embrace and breathe the sun into every cell. When the garbage trucks began smashing things and the metal collectors started dumpster diving in the alley I knew peace and quiet was over, for the moment. It was delicious while it lasted. There are these precious stretches of time in the city when quietness falls over this place like a soft rain; sweet bits of stillness before and between the appearance of the chembots spraying their poisons, the scream of sirens, and jackhammers.
Origin of the Oracle
March 14th, 2009
Welcome to Satori Institute’s Oracle Improv. The name is suggestive of what you will encounter here; an eclectic offering of improvisational thoughts, reflections, research, stories, oracular insights, cultural reviews, program info, and the like.