Muse:
pronunciation: myooz
noun:
1. greek mythology: Any of the nine daughters of Mnemosyne and Zeus, each of whom presided over a different art or science. 2. a. a guiding spirit. b. a source of inspiration. 3. a poet.
verb:
when combined with a preposition, can take on, upon, over, about, as in: She was musing on (upon) what her new novel would be like. He mused for several days over (about) what to paint next.
word history:
the Muses have inspired poetry since Chaucer invoked one in 1374 and of course Homer well before that. Muse comes from Latin musa and Greek mousa. Further origins are in the name Mnemosyne, the goddess of memory. Her name is the Greek noun “memory,” which is an extended form of the Greek and Indo-European root “to think.” The reconstructed form montya, an ancestor of Greek mousa could then mean something like “having mental power.”
Music
John Rockwell, Brian Tobin, Lillie Jayne, Trubadore, Oakley Hall, Derek Ball, Larry Alan Smith, Jetfly,
Movies
András Maros, Todd Walker, Claudia Mogel, Natacha Koutchowmow, Craig Marsden, Velcrow Ripper, Chris Momenee, Laura Davis, Anna Maria Zaluczkowsa, Gabe Rivas Gomez, Joyce Maynard, Elliot Greenebaum, David Tedeschi, Martha Callanan, Mike Healey, David Tedeschi, Michelle Lovegrove Thompson
Television
Ramsey McPhilips,
Books
John Clanchy, Christopher Hope, Melita Schaum, Carmen Callil, Jennifer Cho, Stephanie Buckle, Heather Burt, David Hamilton, Robin Hemley, Matthew Sharpe, Gaylord Brewer, Colson Whitehead, Ophelia Redpath, Mike Healey, Kevin Young, Sarah Deming, Andrea Meyer, Tim Keane, Ted Deppe, Beth Gylys, Annie Deppe, Alistair Taylor, Michael Cronin, Evelyn Conlon, Elsie Rivas Gomez, Gabe Gomez, Shanti Banwart, Les Brown, Sherry Christie, Rebecca Dawson, Laura Steel, Judith Dale, Kevin Donnelly, David Emblidge, Stephanie Schwartz, Amy Fleury, Alexandra Farkas, Ori Fienberg, Maurice Harmon, Maura Harmon, Janet Holst, Farrin Jacobs, Ingrid Jones, Roisin Meaney,Tim Moss, Nakima Ollin, Louise Ramsden, David Rees, John Rockwell, Katherine Smith, Christina Takamatsu, Sharon Ultsch, Kevin Vaughn, Sandy Florian, Contessa Riggs, Adrian Patch, Kevin Vaughn, Katherine Smith, Jacquelyn Shah. Gerard Marconi, Ingrid Jones, Greg Chandler, Sabrina Dalla Valle, Chris Oeser, Luba Ostashevsky, Hilda Vassberg, Meghan Kenny, Katie Crouch, April Freely, Riley Hanick, Elizabeth Cowan, Nicholas Kowalczyk, Peter Kline, Danielle Beeber, Robert Chiovoloni, Alice Nelson
Heroes
ART:
Tom Darnell, Ophelia Redpath, Mary Offerman, Lance Simms, Christian Bastian, Emmanuelle Marion, Ann Chamberlin,
DRAMA: Louise Ramsden, Gaylord Brewer,
PHOTOGRAPHY: Krista Boggs, Kara Lewis,
Painting, Pastels, Watercolour, Portraiture, Commercial, Journalistic (we're near the International Perpignan Annual Photojournalism Festival), Fashion/Glamour...
About me: La Muse is a writers' and artists’ retreat in the South of France. The focus for everyone here is on their creative project. We are run somewhat like a co-op. In exchange for opening our home to attendees, we hope that they will take our mission seriously and use the time they’ve given themselves to get work done.
La Muse is informal and comfortable, but a structure exists with the purpose of vigorous work and focus on a creative project. That structure consists of our house guidelines.
Essentially, the guidelines recommend about eight hours of creative work a day just as you would do for an employer. The quiet hours are: 9am – 12pm, 1pm – 5:30pm, 10:00pm – 7am. Saturdays and Sundays are a day off. Basically, our guidelines encourage respect for your own work, others’ work, our house, and our neighbors. The purpose of each guideline is to support a true retreat from life back home.
Know as well that they are called “guidelines” and not “rules” for a reason. We’re all adults; we all have our own process. We will not chain you to your desk. But know that we make these recommendations because they work. After nearly seven years of doing this, talking to attendees, and using our own experience as a rule of thumb, we can guarantee that if you stick with the program you will leave here feeling very accomplished. We are as much a machine-free house as we can be so that you can clear your mental desktops to find peace and inspiration through discipline and solace.
The point is to disconnect in order to connect.
Among the artists who’ve stayed here are novelists, poets, screenwriters, short and flash fiction writers, playwrights, musicians, journalists, docudramatists, memoirists, composers, photographers, painters, embroiderers, publishers, biographers, agents and many more, of all ages, denominations and continents.
Who I'd like to meet: Writers, artists and musicians who need to get away to work on a project in peace.
Please check us out on our website (www.lamuseinn.com) or on our blog at: http://lamusewritersandartistsretreat.blogspot.com
Thanks for befriending Oxjam! I hope that you’ll want to take part in Oxjam this October and organise a music event (it doesn’t matter how small) to raise money for Oxfam. It’s really easy and fun to do. You can download a toolkit and loads of other online resources from www.oxfam/org.uk/oxjam.
PLUS…if you are in a band and you want to play at an Oxjam event you stand the chance of being shown on MTV! Visit www.mtv.uk/oxjam.
Bonjour! Ou plutot bonne soir, parce que je brule l'huile du minuit! Hmm. J'ai manque de Labastide: j'ai encontree une gentilhomme de "Les Clos Perdus" au International Food and Wine Expo a Londres. Le saveur de la Languedoc, boy oh boy...x
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