REMINDERS AND HIGHLIGHTS
July 4th Fixin’s with Chef Joe
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Great chefs know to use great ingredients. That’s why the Center’s resident expert, Chef Joe Cizynski, procures the highest quality ingredients for his dishes … and why you should, too, especially for one of the year’s most important meals: the Fourth of July feast!
Let the chef take the guesswork out of it. Place your order now for premium all-natural beef, pork, duck, veal, shrimp, crab, salmon, and amazing homemade seafood sausage, pasta salad with asparagus and blue cheese, and classic red potato salad.
Every Friday from 8:30 – 9:30 am
Online: Yoga for Wise Warriors! With Lees Yunits
Bringing to mind that yoga is a process that everyone is capable of, Lees teaches yoga to beginners and advanced, to the stressed and to the curious, to retirees, young mothers and fathers, artists, businesswomen and men. Everyone benefits from stretching, breathing and meditating. Joy is the byproduct.
$15.00 – Drop-in / $75.00 – 6 weeks
Listening vs Hearing
Almost every culture on the planet creates and listens to music and that alone says how important it is to us humans, often tapping directly into our emotions with laser-precision.
“Music is the universal language of mankind.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Music can be complex, layered, nuanced, and subtle, a spectrum of tones and colors, creating tunes, songs, arias, drones, and stories. Experiencing it can be so rewarding, yet although we hear music everywhere, we rarely do the thing it is actually made for – we rarely just listen. As such, we are inadvertently doing music as an artform something of a disservice, relegating it to the background soundtrack to our everyday life. At the same time, we are starving ourselves of something that can bring great joy.
The solution is simple. To enjoy music as an artform – to soak up the joy and pleasure it can bring us — all we need is a few minutes each day to sit down, put on a favorite song …and listen . Listen for the violin line, feel the bass rhythm, pick out the backing vocal, or tune into the guitar. Hopefully, you’ll discover – or rather rediscover – what you loved about music in the first place, before you were too busy to enjoy it except as a background to something else
Music can connect with us deeply. We can be moved to tears or jump for joy in an instant – sometimes within the same song. Sometimes it’s good for the soul, particularly during this lockdown when we have a little more time to ourselves, to tap-out for a few minutes a day and listen to – not just hear – your favorite music.