SEVERAL BITS and MANY PIECES

Friday 10/3

The National Arts Club
Photographs by Jonathan Jakubowicz 
 
Two Exhibits
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"The Soft Sculpture of Charles James"

"Charles James is not only the greatest American couturier,
but the world's best and only dressmaker"

with Eric T. Norris

He treated us to a tasty lunch at
Ponty Bistro

Saturday 10/4
Begonia in the morning at
New York Zen Center for Compassionate Care

Altar

Sunday 10/5
Morning Zen again

 Circle Altered by Sunlight

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Midday
Transition at Home

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Afternoon
Metric Poetry Reading

Ottos Tiki Bar on 14th Street

Vintage

Inside in the dark back room Meredith Bergman read beautifully
See previous post Part two
Joshua Mehigan was utterly mesmerizing
 
One of the poems he read was 'Smokestack'
and below he also reads 'Rabbit Foot'
WATCH
http://vimeo.com/41056170
Many others read, but I didn't write all the names so won't put any names I know for fear of favoring.  All were fine and the very full house enthusiastic.
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Exit All
Our fortunes were available two doors away

Monday 10/6
Evening
The Moving Pen
my writing group meets near here

and around the corner from here

two hours later I walked home

The moon was a tipped egg

Tuesday 10/7
Morning

Yoga for Mental Wellness

Leslie Kaminoff and Amy Matthews

The Breathing Project

Wednesday 10/8

I was rudely awakened from a troubling dream by a furry feeling at my neck at 3AM--spent an hour stripping the bed and looking for openings (of which there are many)...((((sigh)))) 'Tis the season for this and now I must DO something about it.
The day dissolved into emails, face book, research and reading.
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Evening
I watched this documentary

"Exit Through the Gift Shop"
Banksy

(eighty minutes)

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Thursday 10/9
Resting, Reading , Writing, Being

"Thinkers in ancient India understood the source and direction of the creative impulse as accessible deep within their being in moments of intuitive insight. Various verses in the Rgveda reflect the idea that certain people possess within a transformative genius or dhi" 
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-from The Artist as Yogi-The Yogi as Artist by William K. Mahony
Parabola-Volume xiii-Number 1-1988-The Creative Impulse-
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Friday 10/10
I'm going to the movies

"The Autobiography of a Yogi"
by Paramahansa Yogananda

Available through the Gutenberg organization
free download in various formats
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7452
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I am entertaining the notion that Wednesdays mouse was just a vivid part of the dream since there has been no sign of it since.  It does happen that if a dream element wakes one violently the portal remains open and the vision seems real.  This is usually an important dream, and mine was that.
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