Balancing Act
Alona hides her neuro-divergence from her woke college classmates.
Alona’s hazy ethics and unbridled impulses misdirect her life choices. She becomes obsessed with her Creative Writing professor’s VietNam War short story. A casualty from the story haunts her. Biblical era characters from a story her boyfriend is writing visit her. Researching for her Ecology presentation, Alona stumbles upon ayahuasca and hears Mama Gaia calling.
Alona launches her self-healing journey and learns to harness her imaginary characters to become part of her healing process. Viscerally and psychologically mesmerizing, Balancing Act is Alona’s quest through the landscapes of the mind, across the boundary between reality and unreality, to the haven of empathy.
Balancing Act is the jester in the yurt of New Age Spirituality.
“Alona is traveling through many deaths of her perceived sense of self along her journey. Like many individuals, countries, cultures, and even our Planet. “ Dr. Roslyn Feierstein, Clinical Psychologist.
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Fluid
The passion of the Ancient Greek stage unmasked… a fast-paced journey with a rising young actor whose art becomes a search for the causes of war and the nature of love.
Aleta tries to find contentment facing her loom, worshipping Artemis, and bending to her father’s will. But on the road to an arranged marriage to an old admiral, she steals her brother Paris’s clothes and identity. The newly transformed Paris finds refuge in a regional theatre company.
In Ancient Greece, all acting and chorus roles are played by men. Accepted as a man, the emerging actor is lauded for an extraordinary ability to play women in the theatre company’s anti-war play. In the shadow of Athens’s war with Sparta, Paris harnesses the power of theatre to sway men to choose peace.
Profoundly stirring, this adventure through raging seas and battles, to the Temple of Delphi and the Dionysian stage, is an alluring coming-of-age story, a comedy of love and marriage, and a clash between the rational mind and the human heart.
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