October - 2019

Art a Daily Practice*

<p>Photo: Annecy Baez -“The Righting Life” Daily Practice is important to create any art: painting, drawing, writing, dancing. We all know that this is why they call it practice. 1. Some people set a time to create art. They wake up and they sit or stand always at the same time. Others are spontaneous, they… </p> <div class="link-more"><a href="https://annecybaez.net/2019/10/29/art-a-daily-practice-3/">Read More</a></div>

A Photo is a Memory*

<p>My daughter took this photo of me right after I read at the Newburyport Literary Festival in April of 2008.  I remember that day, how happy I was about being there. It drizzled most of the time.  My husband and our daughter joined me for the weekend. Everyone I met there was so welcoming.  The… </p> <div class="link-more"><a href="https://annecybaez.net/2019/10/29/on-a-photo-2/">Read More</a></div>

Story – “The Storyteller”

<p>“In the morning when the sunrises my mother, Mia, wakes up and does her morning meditation. She always does this before she goes to work. I always know for a fact that by 6:30 a.m. she will be facing East, towards the sun, her face covered by sunlight. She’ll be in lotus pose legs folded… </p> <div class="link-more"><a href="https://annecybaez.net/2019/10/28/my-daughters-eyes-and-other-stories-2/">Read More</a></div>

Story – “Aura”

<p>From My Daughter’s Eyes and Other Stories: “Aura was one of those women who was not family, but was family, and no one knew how. It took some time for me to put all of the pieces of the puzzle together and find the truth about Aura, but by then, she’d be gone to breast… </p> <div class="link-more"><a href="https://annecybaez.net/2019/10/28/aura/">Read More</a></div>

A/R/Tography

<p>For the longest time, I have been an a/r/tographer, an Artist, Researcher, Teacher/Therapist. A/r/tography, a research methodolody developed in Canada by Dr. Rita Irwin who coined the term. My intuitive digital collages are created with a/r/tography in mind. I am hoping to write an art based research paper focusing on the creation of these collages… </p> <div class="link-more"><a href="https://annecybaez.net/2019/10/27/a-r-tography/">Read More</a></div>

October 2019 – Music As Metaphor for Life

<p>Live With Awareness, Courage and Love (ACL) Meetup Music as Metaphor for Life In this ACL meet up on Saturday, 10/19/19, we will delve into what musical instruments and music mean to us, how music is a metaphor for how we relate to ourselves and others. We will explore how we use music to represent… </p> <div class="link-more"><a href="https://annecybaez.net/2019/10/13/october-2019-music-as-metaphor-for-life/">Read More</a></div>

Story – The Red Shoes

<p>The Red Shoes The warm, humid air was still when Ana Julia and her mother, Dolores, arrived at the Lama shoe store on Fordham Road in the Bronx. Ana Julia sensed a calm promise of excitement in the air, the kind that is in the air when one is young and full of joy. “Ana,… </p> <div class="link-more"><a href="https://annecybaez.net/2019/10/07/my-daughters-eyes-4/">Read More</a></div>

Story -Amor es…Love is…

<p>From My Daughter’s Eyes and Other Stories Amor es… Love is…1/26/74 – Dia de la Virgen de La Altagracia Julia, our housekeeper, has prepared breakfast. A cafe con leche six pan de aguas con mantequilla, our daily bread. Apan de agua is a small Dominican baguette the size of the palm of my hand. Its… </p> <div class="link-more"><a href="https://annecybaez.net/2019/10/06/story-excerpt/">Read More</a></div>

Story – Amor Sucks

<p>Wednesday, January 12, 1972, Bronx, New York , “Hump Day” Cousin Eva and our best friend America lock themselves in the bedroom with the boys. They usually start slowly.  Eva goes with Snake and then Rica follows, then Pito. I stay alone in the sunken living room, hearing the Temptations or watching “One Life to Live”. … </p> <div class="link-more"><a href="https://annecybaez.net/2019/10/05/my-daughters-eyes-and-other-stories-5/">Read More</a></div>

Poetry as Therapy

<p>Poetry as Therapy Listen to presences inside poems.Let them take you where they will.Follow those private hints,And never leave the premises.                                     —Rumi In this poem, Rumi simplifies what Poetry therapy is about. Take a poem, listen to the presence inside of it, le