@magrochester Museum of the Dead Halloween Party was a blast! 💥 👻🎉 We went as ‘Berlin Waterfall’ and ‘Into the Woods’… both pieces from artists who dedicated their careers to equity in the arts, bold experiments in color, and passion for creative expression. 🎨🖌️ 🤩 Cheers to the MAG for hosting a delightful night for members and guests! This was our first time attending and now we won’t miss another year’s festivities! 🥳 Colin & I were even nominated for a Best MAG Costume Award! 🤗 Gahhhh! What a treat! Lady Liberty & the Mummy Trio were winners!! 🎉👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 We love the MAG! 💋 #magmuseumofthedead #halloween #patsteir #samgilliam #roccity #rochesterny

🇺🇸 Proud of you, Rochester! About a thousand people came out for citizens’ action in Henrietta today! 👥👥👥👥 One of the deepest values that •everyone• in our nation enjoys is the right to assembly and free speech. 📣💬 Today, that right was practiced and honored across the fruited plains! 🌊🏔️🌾 As a student of history - a teacher of social studies - a citizen - and a voter, I’m grateful to be an American and to live in this amazing country. Thank you to all who vote, who peacefully protest, who add their two cents to the collective conversation we call “the great American experiment”. May we all continue to evolve and unfold in a direction that improves the lives of our neighbors, our communities, our own families, and our planet. 🌎

Have you heard of Emotion Code clearings? 😇 It’s energy work that my generous friend @sonyaeckel has been guiding me through this season. Care to know how it’s going? 10 / 10 😏 #emotioncode #energywork #reiki #midlifewomen #genxers

Got midlife belly fat and body pain? 😏 Got out of control blood sugar and high cholesterol? 😣 Eat this way. It will help you. #midlifewomen #glucoserevolution #eatwell #blueprint

Got 💩 problems? Like… maybe not enough or maybe too much? Listen - try this abdominal massage each morning for a week and see if the 💩 comes out of your bod -better. No joke! This might seem kind of strange, but I’m telling you that if you can improve your 💩 situation -you can improve your longevity and your vitality (especially at midlife). This is true adulting. 😼 #genx #vitality #dontdie #livelong

Standing on 1 foot with your eyes closed is a predictor of longevity. Most people can do 3 seconds when they start this practice. How many seconds can you do? That will be your baseline. Write it on your calendar or pop it into your notes app. Longevity is within our reality when we allow it. Add this practice to your morning routine, and watch your longevity improve each day! ☀️ Come on in to Live Long. Be Well. Be Happy. on Facebook. I’ll share everything I am doing this decade to make the next one even better. #genx #norwex #midlifewomenwellness #MidlifeWellness #MenopauseWellness #perimenopause #womenshealthmatters

Morning routines are THE BEST! 🌞☕️ Today, the eye moisture is happening… tell me how long YOU leave yours on?!? ⏲️ Talk about midlife skin and health in my new group! Live Long. Be Well. Be Happy. Tap here if you’re seeing this in Facebook and come on in! 👆

Listen up midlifers! 📣🗯️ If you are 🔥 HOT as EFF - and have have enough - grab some Black Cohosh. 🖤 No joke. This is not fake news. Hear what I have to say about it over in Live Long. Be Well. Be Happy. Tap in on FB to read the full story! 💋 You’re welcome! #hotflashes #midlifewomen #goodhealth #herbalremedies #norwex #livewell

What’s filling you up? Loading your heart with gratitude? Warming your spirit and charging your soul? …I hope it’s the people in your life. These women mean so much to me. Not for what they do -but for who they are. Surround yourself with others who meet you where you’re at, leave judgement at the door, and lead their lives through a lens of love. Everyone needs a sense of community and belonging. Everyone needs a sense of true self and of purpose. Everyone needs friends who say “yes” and “we’ve got your back”. I’m feeling thankful for all of the above and hope to be a person who can be the same friend in kind. 💐 #friends #norwex #genx #friendshipgoals

Do you have generalized anxiety around the deployment of AI technology? 🤖 Thinking about this because my 22 year old has graduated with her BA & is completely paralyzed by her contemplations over the world of work - frozen in fear that her skills and interests have no place or purpose. Here’s the thing- fearing AI is akin to the Luddites fearing the loom. 🪢 I’m peering at the landscape of generative AI, considering its relevance on a scale as vast as the domestication of fire or the ubiquitous use of electricity. To fear it is to miss the point. If you’re outlook is in alignment with my kid, I’ll ask you what I yearn to ask her… “How was that burger from grub hub?” And “Tell me more about that anime convention you just attended?” How is fearing AI compatible? Is our cognitive dissonance so deep that we find shelter in egregiously ignoring the gazillion examples of our interdependence between AI and the basic functions of our daily existence already in play? Every aspect of our lives is and will continue to be impacted by generative AI - for the love…we’re sitting here on Insta together, right?!? I’m feeling curious, and aligning my expectations with the likes of Franklin, Cox, and Silva. AI is unfolding. It is us. We are it. It is other -but not separate. Magic and mathematics melted into a slurry inextricable from reality as we understand it to be. Maybe we ought to call it “the domestication of the universe”? What do you think?

Siblings. Often, these are the people with whom we travel the greatest distance. 🕰️ The entanglement we experience throughout our lifetime with them is mystical and profound, dispite momentary circumstances. 🪢 I once (twice, three times) read, “Many Lives, Many Masters”, by Brian L. Weiss, M.D., who explored the generational psychology and epigenetic connections that we carry in our cells thoughout our lifetime. He suggests that the people who surround us now, are not tabula rasa individuals, but rather - souls who quantum leap with us from one human experience to the next. ⏳ My brother, whom I see in person perhaps once a year, delights in a “chewy” glass of CabSauv 🍷…without knowing, or ever discussing this preference with him, I remarked that the wine was “chewy” during Liz’s graduation celebration - and with wide eyes, my beautiful sister-in-law turned to me and remarked, “Did you say ‘chewy’? Your brother is the only one I’ve ever heard describe a full-body-red in that way.” I smiled, but my thought was, “That’s quantum entanglement”. 🕸️😏 This week, I’m thinking a lot about family, our relationships, and the space - between, which is not at all empty. It’s filled with non-duality energy - connection at the quantum level, which humans have known about for millennia, but now study through a lens of 60-minute billable sessions, laboratory work, & mathematical data sets. Science, proving spiritual knowing. Cheers 🥂 to siblings. Cheers 🥂 to interconnected friends. Cheers 🥂 to our walk, together, through time, space, and experience.

For our friends and family, near and far, we invite you to read Colin’s father’s obituary. Bob’s memorial service is planned for Saturday, May 17, 2025 at 10:00am, Asbury First United Methodist Church 1050 East Ave, Rochester, NY Also see the link in the comments. 🌈🤍 Thank you for the well wishes we have received. Colin feels deep gratitude for the love & support of family, friends, and colleagues. 🙏🏼 https://www.anthonychapels.com/obituaries/Robert-W-Stokes?obId=42501852