Peter Ferko

Topless in Manhattan…

Peter — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 01:22:56 +0000

…or Another Example of what I Love about New York Today I was walking up Broadway just past noon, when I noticed a young woman in tan jeans walking ahead of me. She had shoulder-length red hair and was carrying a handbag. It dawned on me that her back, which was bare–I presumed from a halter [...]

perfect words

Peter — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 14:47:50 +0000

As a manipulator of words, I often am searching for the one that conveys just the right meaning. Pamela Haag has assembled a list of such words, unfortunately, they’re not in English. But who knows, perhaps because of their je ne sais quoi — beating ability or the Weltanschauung they engender, they will come into [...]

portrait with pup

Peter — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 15:21:24 +0000

horsin' around with Michalangela, aka mica (click for bigger)

Thank you, Wendy Newton, for the sharp shooting!

MLK applies in so many ways

Peter — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:19:19 +0000

I have made it an annual ritual to watch King’s 17-minute speech to honor his holiday and ponder the racial injustice that he so powerfully fought. I hope you will join me in this ritual and keep the holiday in its true spirit, which is so easily forgotten.

This year as I watched, I substituted the [...]

That’s what the airplane setting is for…

Peter — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 21:37:43 +0000

It happened to Wendy during a Broadway performance. Thank God Alan Rickman didn’t come stare her down from the edge of the stage. The extenuating circumstance (isn’t there always one) was that she thought she’d forgotten the phone at home.

I make light of it in yoga class, though some eyes roll still. No such luck [...]

Why ISHTA Yoga for a safe practice

Peter — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:29:35 +0000

An underlying premise of the ISHTA Yoga lineage of yoga in which I teach is that yoga must be tailored to the individual to bring about the desired result. One of the biggest teaching challenges we face is telling students to back off of the drive to accomplish postures and to instead find balance between [...]

12 list i can appreciate

Peter — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:28:23 +0000

Here’s a list of 12 art world things to ditch in 2012, from Matt Gleason in the Huffington Post. His final thought of a host of thoughtful and humorous observations:

Like Gandhi said, “What you do will not be important but it is important that you do it.” he didn’t add “…so buy the overpriced book and [...]

Seminar

Peter — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 02:14:04 +0000

To be a good teacher is to meet students where they are and help them reach their potential. To be an artist, and perhaps that would be best pronounced in it’s French translation, artiste, may be to engage in the too painful act of casting pearls before swine.

That is the opinion of what turns out [...]

more fun than i’ve watched in ages

Peter — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 04:01:37 +0000

A fabulous farce with a serious political underpinning. Le Nom des Gens.

YOGrAffiti

Peter — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 04:44:06 +0000