It’s more than just online yoga. You have the chance, nudged on by necessity, to change everything in your life.
We can learn from the gardeners and horticulturists at Holden Forests & Gardens as they tend to the rebirth of trees and plants this time of year.
We can share in the struggle of small music venues as they scramble for survival.
We can honor the world by celebrating the 50th anniversary of Earth Day today, reminding us to take care of ourselves and each other.Nothing substitutes for getting your exercise, especially during times of stress.
That and eating right. Maybe we’ll get into that next week.–Thomas Mulready
We could all use a little yoga now. The discipline, which can be practiced by people of all ages and abilities, in simple and challenging forms, is both a physical exercise and a form of mediation that offers a grounding focus. Many local studios and teachers are now offering online classes, so if you’ve been reluctant to give it a try in public, now you can do so in your own home. Read More
Some businesses and institutions can just lock up, set the alarm and walk away until whenever this thing blows over. Not so Holden Arboretum and the Cleveland Botanical Garden, where they care for a living collection of plants and animals. Their full team of horticulturists is at work making sure they’re all in the best of health. Join us for a behind-the-scenes look. Read More
The health of Cleveland’s music scene doesn’t depend on big-name tours, probably all canceled for the foreseeable future: it depends on the small clubs that create a sense of community. The good news is they’re working together — and with a newly formed national network of similar venues — to look at how to survive and how to reopen safely, much sooner than you’ll get to see the Rolling Stones. Read More
Ray McNiece, probably Cleveland’s best-known performance poet, has just been named Heights Arts’ 10th poet laureate and he’s bursting with plans to make the most of the role. Read More
Terri Pontremoli, who re-imagined Tri-C JazzFest as an actual festival and expanded its educational aspect, has been named a 2020 “Jazz Hero” by the Jazz Journalists Association. Read More
Akron’s Curated Storefront project is planning an exhibit called MASK-R-AID, featuring artist-designed functional masks. Here’s how to submit your design. Read More
The Cleveland Tree Coalition is celebrating Arbor Day — that’s today — with a week’s worth of online offerings to educate about the role trees play in our environment.
End GameWhile medical professionals, scientists and other intelligent individuals caution that it’s far too soon to relax social distancing, those on the far right are clamoring to reopen the country and they are doing so with one particular intent: They want to complete their mission of assuring the uninterrupted continuation of white domination of America… Read More
Planting is well underway at the Trinity Cathedral Urban Farm which raises organic produce to feed hungry people in the city, where volunteers have been working for a month to do maintenance prepare beds.
