Posted in family, spirituality, tagged chanting, Geoff, Gina Sala, mbira, tablas on June 17, 2008 | No Comments »
On this video clip of Gina Sala leading devotional chanting, you can see my son Geoff accompanying her on the tablas (drums). This chant is “The One I Love Lives Inside of You.”
And here’s Geoff playing the mbira–African thumb piano.
Posted in Personal, Stitching, hand embroidery, spirituality, tagged birds, counter-culture, drugs, marijuana, sexism, women's movement on May 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
My posts about the counter-culture 19th and 20th centuries, have generated a few comments. (Go back and have a look at them.) Although I was not a hippie–too old and too achievement-oriented at the time, I did smoke marijuana. Here’s the evidence:
I even bought a pound of it from a friend in Berkeley and [...]
Posted in spirituality on March 22, 2008 | No Comments »
Those of you who have read my Blake essay will appreciate this talk by a neuroanatomist who experienced Oneness as a result of a stroke. She describes what was going on in her mind as the brain hemorrhage occurred and she accessed the right brain. She discovered that she could consciously go to [...]
Posted in Blake, Buddhism, art, spirituality on March 21, 2008 | No Comments »
Oh my friends, go here to see photographs of the work in progress of the creation of an incredibly beautiful and complex Tibetan Buddhist sand mandala. One of the things I love about Tibetan Buddhism is the colorfulness–pure, vivid, primary colors in complex designs. There are so many parallels between Blake and Tibetan Buddhism. I [...]
Posted in Blake, Personal, essays, family, spirituality on March 17, 2008 | 3 Comments »
At last, I have finished my essay explaining why William Blake is important to me. I wrote it for my grandson after I sent him my college papers on Blake, but it is just as much written for me. I wanted to articulate for myself what Blake means to me but I sure [...]
Posted in prayer, spirituality on January 1, 2008 | 3 Comments »
For all of you reading this blog:
May you have happiness and the causes of happiness.
May you be liberated from suffering and the causes of suffering.
May you never be separated from the happiness that is free from sorrow.
May you rest in equanimity, free from attachment and aversion.
Traditional Tibetan Buddhist prayer
Posted in Personal, computer, spirituality on December 5, 2007 | 1 Comment »
There is in the Bible a story about Joseph, who was left to die in a pit by his brothers, who were jealous of his status as favorite son. Instead, he was rescued by a passing caravan and sold into slavery in Egypt. Over many years, Joseph won his way out of slavery into the [...]
Posted in Personal, computer, spirituality on December 4, 2007 | 7 Comments »
Years ago a Buddhist nun, Ani Trime Lhamo, with a mischievous smile and a twinkle in her eye, told me, “I’m going to give you a secret teaching. Let be. Let go. Give up the struggle. So what?”
I see losing my data as practice in letting go. I have lost my career, my income, my [...]
Posted in CFS, Personal, Stitching, essays, spirituality on October 24, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I was asked what the ME stands for. This is the new name being promoted for CFS. It stands for myalgic encephalopathy and chronic fatigue syndrome. It is endorsed by the leading researchers and clinicians in this malady. Myalgic refers to the muscle aches and general flu-like achiness of this condition. Encephalopathy means a disorder [...]
Posted in Stitching, spirituality on September 17, 2007 | 4 Comments »
For the Sumptuous Surfaces course with Sharon Boggon, I completed two stitched studies. Sufficiently satisfied with them, I have mounted and framed them. These are the first framed embroideries I have made for myself. Oh, I’ve given many framed embroideries as gifts, but these are the first I’ve kept for myself. Now I have these [...]
