It's showtime folks!

"The average person looks without seeing,

listens without hearing, touches without noticing,

eats without tasting, and smells without awareness." - Leonardo da Vinci

I was struck by this quote when I was playing with the DaVinci robot attempting to get a rubber band off some pretend tissues. Not easy! What I noticed was that my whole self was in a state of awareness, not the ordinariness referred to in the master’s quote. When we are in awareness, something happens not only to you but to us. I have a new awareness of when I am talking and when I should go quieter, when to ask a question and how to answer one and being especially aware of how I look not in the mirror kind but in the engagement kind. Performers remind themselves: “It’s showtime folks!”