Gap Year......or Two

Two decades as a media and entertainment executive; now Tumblr-ing to next chapter.

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Hats, scarves and sweaters!

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Honored to keynote LEA Awards tomorrow! Congratulations #winners! #socalwict #leaawards #hollywood #taglyancomplex (at Taglyan Cultural Complex)

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@purlsoho, How do like the Open Air Wrap in gold? #100HappyDays #Day66 #knitting #knit #knitstagram @togatherdtla 👍🏻👏🏻☕️✂️@jetknit

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#yothyarn #knitting #cashmere togatherdtla! @

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#lovewins Monumental. (at USA)

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Eighteen years of Happy Father's Days to this wonderful, amazing Dad. 💙💚💙💚 @rcerny (at Rimrock Ranch)

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LA noir high in the hills of #Hollywood. #lalife #onlyinla #phäaz @becketcerny @arisilberman And little bro looking on. 🎼🎶🎵🎹 (at Hollywood Sign)

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This is 18. Eighteen. 8-teen. 1-8. #classof2015 @becketcerny

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Ghosts of 10 years ago Christmas past! #TBT Anchorage. 🎄❄️⛄️

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Lucky, My Kids

My 12-year old daughter gets to spend two weeks in March, as part of middle school Immersion, learning and thinking about this:

Public Art: Thinking Outside the Box (7-8)

What is public art? Who makes it? Who is it for? We’ll answer these questions and more as we explore some of the issues, historical and contemporary, surrounding public art in Los Angeles. We will begin the first week of class by visiting several neighborhoods in the city, looking at different kinds of public art works, both traditional (monuments and murals) and innovative (video installations, community gardens). Site visits may include “Nuestra Puebla” (better known as Watts Towers), artists’ projects along the Los Angeles River, and Metro stops along the L.A. (rail) transit system—from the kaleidoscope ceramic murals in North Hollywood to the giant neon sculpture at Pershing Square. In addition, we will visit working artists’ studios to experience first-hand what it’s like to create art on a large scale. Equipped with cameras and sketchbooks, students will be asked to keep a journal of their own visual experiences and to collect creative ideas for a collaborative public art project. In the second week of the course, students will collectively take on the roles of curator, planner, artist and audience as they work together to imagine, coordinate and construct a site-specific art project on Oakwood’s campus. You don’t have to draw to dream big: what will you bring to this project?

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This is happening. Movie making outside my front door. #lalife #starwagons #hollywood

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My neighbor's perfect yellow roses in November. #nofilter #onlyinla

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Gotta do it.

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Mi hija has a Senior driver. This is 7th and 12th ("Mom, get out of the car.")

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Man. El Niño is off for nearly a month - first sleep away - and is not looking back. 🌴☀️👍💚 (at Southwest Airlines at BUR)

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Mindfulness Poetry "You Reading This, Be Ready."

You Reading This, Be Ready

Starting here, what do you want to remember? How sunlight creeps along a shining floor? What scent of old wood hovers, what softened sound from outside fills the air?

Will you ever bring a better gift for the world than the breathing respect that you carry wherever you go right now? Are you waiting for time to show you some better thoughts?

When you turn around, starting here, lift this new glimpse that you found; carry into evening all that you want from this day. This interval you spent reading or hearing this, keep it for life -

What can anyone give you greater than now, starting here, right in this room, when you turn around?

--William Stafford

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Mindfulness Poetry "Enough."

From our 4th Mindfulness class at Insight LA.

Enough

Enough. These few words are enough. If not these words, this breath. If not this breath, this sitting here. This opening to the life we have refused again and again until now.

Until now.

--David Whyte