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Possessed by Violence: Valhalla Rising
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March 24, 2017 by katmcdaniel

Valhalla Rising is a complex and violent film, full of beautiful, savage images and scant dialogue. What actually happens onscreen? …
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Category: Experiences and Impressions, Exploring Culture | Tags: allegory, ambiguity, Christianity, compassion, conversion, interpretation, love, Mads Mikkelsen, mythology, Nicolas Winding Refn, Odin, redemption, Valhalla Rising
Yearning for Catharsis: The Transitory Sound and Movement Collective
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March 11, 2017 by katmcdaniel

When we get caught up in evaluating performance, life, and art, become uninspired. How do we refresh our vision? I …
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Category: Experiences and Impressions | Tags: catharsis, dance, electronic, expectation, film, healing, immersive, improvisation, Lynn Lane, meditation, movement, music, sound, Transitory Sound and Movement Collective
Deciphering the Dream: Robert Altman’s 3 Women
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February 14, 2017 by katmcdaniel

Dreams allow symbols, objects and personalities to form fluid associations. Can their suspension of reality help us understand our lives? …
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Category: Experiences and Impressions | Tags: 3 Women, aggression, anima, creativity, dream, ego, feminine, internal, manifestation, masculine, psychoanalysis, Robert Altman, symbols, visions
The First Annual Late Summer Reading List
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July 26, 2016 by katmcdaniel

Looking for something to do with the rest of your summer? Here are twelve books to help pass the time. …
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Category: Experiences and Impressions | Tags: Dance Dance Dance, literature, Little Fuzzy, My Name is Red, reading list, The Bell Jar, The Golem and the Jinni, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, The Heretic's Daughter, The Left Hand Of Darkness, The Shining, The Tale of Murasaki, The World to Come, To Say Nothing of the Dog
Revealing the Internal Voice: Christopher Isherwood’s A Single Man
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July 24, 2016 by katmcdaniel

If our internal dialogues were revealed, what would the world learn? None of us could bear that kind of …
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Category: Experiences and Impressions | Tags: A Single Man, authenticity, Christopher Isherwood, connectedness, connection, death, experience, homosexuality, humanity, identity, internal, love, relationship, thoughts
Burying the Beloved: Love and Loss in Madeline Miller’s Song of Achilles
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March 6, 2016 by katmcdaniel

What would you do if the love of your life was taking on something that you knew would kill them? …
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Category: Experiences and Impressions | Tags: death, fate, fear, homosexuality, honor, humanity, Iliad, love, Madeline Miller, Patroclus, relationship, sacrifice, Song of Achilles, Thetis
Buried Memories: The Other Immigrants by Saba Husain
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March 3, 2016 by katmcdaniel

There are moments in which events in our past connect powerfully to our present. How do we express such synchronicity? …
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Category: Experiences and Impressions, Poetry | Tags: childhood, connections, empathy, Grand Central Terminal, humanity, Lahore, memory, pattern, resilience, Saba Husain, synchronicity, The Other Immigrants, whispering

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