http://talkinghandstalkingfeet.com/blog Inspired Education Songs In Motion Sun, 25 Jul 2010 20:13:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Chapter Four Ayaviri This was a threshold day. Here we were, straddling two worlds, standing at 16,000 feet above the sea; the Pacific slope behind us and the Andean interior in front of us - an endless landscape of peaks rising to between 16 and 24 thousand feet reaching ... http://talkinghandstalkingfeet.com/blog/andean-soul-part-three/ Chapter Three Llongote Pass We woke the next morning to the mouth watering smell of what we found out was fried guinea pig meat, which we had for breakfast before we were given a sweet send off by our hosts. Down an immense valley we walked following well traveled paths ... http://talkinghandstalkingfeet.com/blog/andean-soul-part-two/ On the Pacific slope of the Peruvian Andes human traffic flows two ways: up and down the steep river valleys from villages perched at 14,000 ft. nestled amidst 18,000 to 24,000 ft. mountains down to sea level AND from valley to valley across the high passes that connect ... http://talkinghandstalkingfeet.com/blog/andean-soul-part-one/ As a young man I had an uncanny instinct for adventure somehow, which often led me to some remarkable people in remarkable places. One such meeting was in the Athabaskan village of Minto, Alaska located just forty miles south of the Artic Circle. It was summer 1979. At solstice ... http://talkinghandstalkingfeet.com/blog/wisdoms-of-an-athabaskan-elder/ It's always a real eye opener what becomes important to children working together toward a performance. We recently completed a 12 week program with 2nd and 3rd grade students culminating in a performance entitled Home Planet Earth. The whole project is chock full to the brim with wisdoms and lessons ... http://talkinghandstalkingfeet.com/blog/sing-with-spirit/ We grew up playing lots of Basketball. Everybody had a hoop in their driveway or access to one nearby. Soccer hadn't caught on yet in the USA. So it was Football, Basketball, Baseball and Hockey. Of those four, the only one that had any kind of compelling rhythm was ... http://talkinghandstalkingfeet.com/blog/rhythm-ball/ Tough times are truly the measure of a person's character, the measure of collective character, be it a community, a city or a nation. There are so many invaluable lessons to be learned from the world's scattered indigenous peoples. Ways of life and living such as - no one ... http://talkinghandstalkingfeet.com/blog/charity-challenge/ Think a moment about the elasticity of time. How it seems to drag on sometimes and whizzzz by other times. Time flies when you are utterly engaged with the all of you. There are slow times and fast times, there are green times and blue times, old times ... http://talkinghandstalkingfeet.com/blog/in-3-minutes/ If you don't understand someone, if something's foreign to you or simply "off your screen", if you really just don't get where someone is coming from - rather than walk away with shrugged shoulders, making a judgment of one kind or another which closes doors, try something different. Try ... http://talkinghandstalkingfeet.com/blog/learning-to-love-the-unknown/ Children learn by catching your sense of discovery, wonder and enthusiasm about a subject, not by having to manage lots of fragments of information. If you don't want it to go in one ear and out the other, find the way to reconnect yourself (not your students, you) with ... http://talkinghandstalkingfeet.com/blog/first-time-every-time/