“Please Plant This Book” was a wonderful volume distributed by the hippy innovator and writer, Richard Brautigan. It consisted of a folded and glued folder containing eight seed packets., with a short poem printed on each…
Read MoreI have been fortunate that the first 30 years of my life were dedicated primarily to playing and studying music. Since then I have found myself exploring the connection of mind and body and manual therapy through my school, in workshops, and in private practice. “Roots and Branches” is however one way it all came together….
Read More“Giovanni travelled to England to study with a remarkable Edwardian woman healer, Lily Cornford. Lily also treated Kate Bush, the English singer/songwriter and she included a song ‘Lily’ on her Red shoes album…
Read MoreIt turns out evolution doesn’t happen only gradually. Various simultaneous evolutions happen at different tempi – just like many-voiced music can have one instrument playing slower chords while another simultaneously plays faster notes of a melody…
Read MoreHome is where the head is. Or is that how it goes? "I think, therefore, I am." To which I say, "Oh, yeah?" It seems to me unbelievable that Descartes, who uttered the above quote, was completely serious. For instance, I find the statement, "I feel, therefore, I am." much more appealing and just as true…
Read More“Whatever treasure is there but oneself….”
Read Morein homage to my mother, Faye Markin and my godmother, Millie Barry….
Read More“Come, let us talk about that slumber and the lazy pillow that’s been swimming in the moon next door…”
Read More“I have decided to include the ten oxherding pictures, a well-known Zen representation of training of the mind, so basic that it could be considered fundamental to all schools of Buddhism…” - Chögyam Trungpa
Read MoreWhen he was 25, it occurred to him to ask his grumpy, anti-introspective grandfather an unlikely question,
“Gramps, do you dream?”
Calmness of mind does not mean you should stop your activity. Real calmness should be found in activity itself. - Suzuki Roshi
Read MoreHave I read all these books? NO!
Read MoreThe only mind you can ordinarily read is your own.
Read MoreThis poem was evoked by a deeper exploration of my participation in the August, 28, 1968 protest in Chicago and by the poignant synchrony of a hospital visit that day and my mother’s passing soon thereafter. It also was amplified by the recent unrest in our country.
Read MoreDuring the second Zero Balancing Teacher Training Program, I found myself rooming with Giovanni Pescetto, from Baltimore, a big, tall, irrepressible man of Italian descent, acupuncturist and long-time ZB student…
Read More"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand." ~ Henri Nouwen
Read MoreI was checking out on my back yard greenery when I saw amidst the unruly Mess two large stones close together, one obviously paying a lot of attention to the other and the other shyly accepting it.
Read MorePablo Neruda said, “Hands make the world each day.” Naturally they have made for songs as well. “Sing me a new song; the world is transfigured and all the heavens rejoice.” - Friedrich Nietzsche Here’s a selection of songs for hands:
Read MoreThe old testament is certainly wrong with its the contention that “In the beginning is the word.” Feet certainly are older than any words. So more accurately we could say, “In the beginning are the feet.”
Read MoreThe downside of the separation of church and state is the separation of spiritual integrity from political action. What is more important than regaining our integrity in body, mind and spirit?….
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