Laura's new book Uncommon Voyage: Parenting Children with Special Needs, A Handbook will be published in 2016. From 2000-2005 Laura was the Project Director for the New York Foundation for the Arts on a film about Albania, Shqiperi. Laura's essays were published in The Forward in 2014 and 2015 and are collected in, Uncommon Passages. Laura is a devoted student of Iyengar Yoga. Essays from her book, Can You Show Me Tomorrow Today?can be read on her website www.laurashapirokramer.com
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Spring Equinox
A time to rebalance now that we've had a day of equal light and dark – the Spring equinox having just occurred – days lengthen as the Sun (my ruling ‘planet’) rises to its zenith. The sun is truly a star giving light and warmth and the impetus for growth – seen and unseen.
Reading ‘My Father’s Paradise’ by Ariel Sabar. It is a remarkable telling of his family's roots - 2700 years - in a remote corner of the world - an enclave of Jews in Kurdish Iraq who still spoke Aramaic.
Watching “The Stoning of Saroya M” – a powerful Iranian film
Listening to Sade and Andras Schiff.
Seeing the Wooster Street production of North Atlantic and The Bridgeman Packer Dance Troupe at the Barishnikov Art Center.