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Thursday, July 24, 2008

Red Is the Color

There are lots of red windows, doors, signs--and even trees in Ireland.




Here you'll see a gate at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre with the detail of a human hand. Also, there's a picture of a pub (I haven't been in one yet!) in Monaghan, and below it a picture of my friend Elizabeth Greisman, a visual artist from Ontario, standing outside her studio here at the Centre. I'm going to do a blog posting on Elizabeth and her work soon. But meanwhile, I'm going for a walk. The meals are delicious here. And a walk after dinner, with the light still glorious, is the perfect aid to the digestion. Also, there are lots of cows and sheep who contribute to the scenery along the way.



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Rose

Rose

Rambling

Rambling


Oceans

Dignified Parisians

Herman Melville:

"Consider all this; and then turn to this green, gentle, and most docile earth; consider them both, the sea and the land; and do you not find a strange analogy to something in yourself?"


Blue Morpho

Our 35th Anniversary


The abiding principle is forward motion with seamless and uncluttered transitions."
--Brenda Bynum


Heaven preserve us from all the sleek and dowdy virtues, such as punctuality, conscientiousness, fidelity and smugness."
--Violet Keppel to Vita Sackville-West

American in Beijing

Pensive Boddhisatva

We crave radiance in this austere world,
light in the spiritual darkness.

--Elizabeth Alexander




"I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world."
— Mary Anne Radmacher





I was born to live ten thousand lives with the heart of a child.
--Thich Nhat Hanh

Waiting

I like the idea that there's something beyond the painting. Beyond what you can see."
--George Condo



India Friends

Beginners

But we have only begun
to love the earth.

We have only begun to imagine the fullness of life.

How could we tire of hope?
So much is in a bud.

--Denise Levertov

The Thinker








Rebecca, Vibodh, iPad



Rebecca with two Geshes

Julia and Friend

Commencement 2010

Commencement 2010
Arnold and me, et al

Wonderland

Alice laughed: "There's no use trying," she said; one can't believe impossible things."
"I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was younger, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."

Work of Art

Voyages

Voyages
Looking back on the old year and preparing for new possibilities.
"Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards."

--S. Kierkegaard

My Father

My Father
December 2009

"Sometimes I think creativity
is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you."
--Maya Lin


Carefree in Nova Scotia
"Seldom, very seldom does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or mistaken."

--Jane Austen

Intersubjectivity

Meditative Practice

The Whirlpool

The Whirlpool
Joel Leivick




Creativity Conversation

Woman with Baby Carriage

Woman with Baby Carriage
Pablo Picasso

Lord Ganesha

Lord Ganesha
Remover of Obstackles

Ganesha, Dalai Lama, Family

Ganesha, Dalai Lama, Family

The poet Longellow

The poet Longellow
Author of "Evangeline"

Grapevines

Turn, turn my wheel! All things must change

to something new, to something strange.

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Potter’s Wheel”


Summer ramblings

Summer ramblings
Drift and Intention

Cheers to friendship and writing!



Basketball lessons

Basketball lessons


Inauguration Day

Inauguration Day
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Atlanta: January 2009

Chance Encounter

FabIndia

FabIndia

Travelers

Shadows and Openings

Shadows and Openings
Red Fort

Qutb Minar

Qutb Minar

At the Taj!

At the Taj!
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Lodhi Gardens

Lodhi Gardens
A Rose Grows in India

A Place for Ron

High Tea

High Tea
Imperial Hotel

Lotus Temple

Lotus Temple

East of Kailash

East of Kailash
Three Dog Day






Ashoka Pillar







Home away from Home

Home away from Home
World Buddhist Centre







Cooking Dinner

Zzzz--Zzzz-Zen Buddhist

Zzzz--Zzzz-Zen Buddhist
Back at Home, My Neighbor Craig

Irish Holiday Blessings

Irish Holiday Blessings
As I prepare to go to India . . . .

India Meanderings

India Meanderings
An Atlas of Impossible Longing

Books I am Reading to Prepare for India

  • "What the Body Remembers" by Shauna Singh Baldwin
  • "A Suitable Boy" by Vikram Seth
  • "Arranged Marriage" by C.B. Divakaruni
  • "City of Djinns" by W. Dalrymple

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Autumn
Gingko Leaves on the Emory Campus

The View from My Study at Home

Tell the Truth

Tell the Truth
but tell it Slant --Emily Dickinson

10,000 Villages

10,000 Villages
Casey at work!

Other Travelers

Other Travelers
Rebecca, buying books, in Lucknow, India

Sean and Casey at Lollapolooza

Connemaara Ron

Randy: Zen Master, Magician, True Friend

Some Wild Irish Roses

Some Wild Irish Roses

A Rose is a Rose is a Rose

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  • The flower in the header is a "knock-out rose" from our front yard.

Come Fairies . . .


"Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame."


--William Butler Yeats


. . . Follow My Journey

. . . Follow My Journey
To Ireland: A Mystical, Mythic, and Mysterious Place

Cup of Tea?

Cup of Tea?
Phil Coulter--songwriter, producer, Irish folk music star--fixes a cup of tea for me. Notice the roses on the teacup.

The I's have it: Where should I go next?


How do you feel about traveling?

Interior Landscapes: A Few Books I am Reading.

  • "The Moon is Always Female" by Marge Piercy
  • "Strange Kin: Ireland and the American South" by Kieran Quinlan
  • "The Irish File: Images from a Land of Grace" by Jon Michael Riley
  • "A Secret Map of Ireland" by Rosita Boland
  • "Deep Travel: Contemporary American Poets Abroad," edited by Sandra Meeks
  • "The Gathering" by Anne Enright, winner of the 2007 Man Booker Prize

  • "Adventure Divas: Searching the Globe for Women Who are Changing the World" by Holly Morris: Quotation from Helen Keller--"Life is a daring adventure, or nothing."
  • "The Wild Places" by Robert Macfarlane: "to achieve correspondence between belief and place. between inner and outer landscapes"--to "consider infinitude."

My friend, the mystical Marcia Wade, holding a book of poetry, "The Moon is Always Female."

Many Magees

Many Magees
In Dublin

In Galway

Journeys

"For there is a poetry in wildness . . . "
--Charles Dickens, "Martin Chuzzlewit"

"Summer is its own time."
--Colson Whtehead, "The Gangsters"

"In Ireland the inevitable never happens and the unexpected constantly occurs."
--Sir John Pentland Mahaffy


"A good photograph is knowing where to stand."
--Ansel Adams

"The journey is the destination." ---Lao-Tsu

Writing has been "a journey where each point of arrival . . . turned out to be a stepping-stone rather than a destination."
---Seamus Heaney

"I'll walk where my own nature would be leading. It vexes me to choose another guide."
---Emily Bronte


For my writing friends

Things I am Doing to Prepare for Ireland

  • Listening to Irish Music
  • Shopping for a rain jacket.
  • Reading Poetry by Seamus Heaney. You can read some, too.
  • Surfing the web
  • Learning how to blog

Imagine

  • "The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of the Imagination" by J.K. Rowling
"It is our choices . . . that show what we truly are far more than our abilities."

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (1999)

Classical Music Websites Worth Visiting

  • ASO
  • Carnegie Hall
  • Keeping Score with Michael Tilson Thomas
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  • Local Classical Creators
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  • NY Phil

Salman Rushdie and Me

Salman Rushdie and Me
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Loosen up My Life Awhile

In his book, The Irish File: Images from a Land of Grace, Jon Michael Riley tells the story of coming upon a small plaque in County Kerry and reading this prayer:
 
Lead me to the well of stillness
Deep into my being of God
Down through my thoughts,  feelings, concerns, desires
Deepen and broaden it within me
Help me to let go and to loosen up my life awhile
For your prompting.
To seep in through its sides in time
And fill my heart with your desire to direct my life flow.

"The Meaning of a Word" by Vincent Woods, Irish poet and playwright



1
I went fishing for a lost word
And found myself.

-----------------
2
I fished 
In a ditch
In a dung hill
In a roofless house

I fished 
With a tape recorder
With a camera 
With a memory

3
In the ditch 
I found clay
In the dung hill
I found flesh
In the house 
I found a roof

With a tape recorder 
I found languge
With a camera
I found sight
With a memory
I transformed them

4
I went fishing
And found my ancestors
Eating potatoes
From a lost word


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