NEW YEAR NEW DECADE

New Years Eve

Central Altar at the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care after the great bell/bowl tolled 108 times and every being present got to strike once each for their individual New Year 'Intention'. Happy to have attended and happy be home in the warmth at 10 p.m. sipping hot soup

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New Years Day
Hanuman at Tibet House 
Too Ill to Attend this year, but they posted on Line.
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January 2nd
I watched/listened full screen on my laptop with stereo earplugs and chanted along quietly over the next many hours.

Links
Part 1:
https://www.facebook.com/NinaRaoChant/videos/2781312485288610/
Part 3:
https://www.facebook.com/NinaRaoChant/videos/2496104934044375/
Part 4: 
https://www.facebook.com/NinaRaoChant/videos/771889793278936/


Late Night Walk
Homeless
Laid low by this Christmas morning cold that persists, by the death of my younger brother and the departure of Ram Das from the planet, I have been at an emotional standstill since the New Year dawned. Mostly in bed with only a few pauses to run out for necessaries.the only photograph I've shot so far, blurry because I was and because I didn't want to disturb the sleeping being, so no flash. I wonder what the bird forms are. Perhaps spirit manifesting. Homelessness is in every corner of this City and all Cities across these disunited States. Homelessness is everywhere across the planet.

May all beings find safe harbor this year and may the dark forces of our human nature be overwhelmed by light.
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January 3rd
Heartbreaking Fires and Floods
Now This
Damn!

 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/03/world/middleeast/iraq-iran-airstrike-al-muhandis.html
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January 4th
Rain and Fog and I've been so low, yet an unlikely source inspired me today
"Renaissance Man"
After losing his job in an advertising agency, Billy Rago finds another one as an English teacher in a barrack. He has to deal with students who have never been accustomed to study. Billy has an idea: making them revive the 'Hamlet' play, and the result is a success. Directed by Penny Marshall with Danny DeVito, Gregory Hines, James Remar, Ed Begley Jr., Lillo Brancato, Stacey Dash, Kadeem Hardison, Richard T. Jones, Khalil Kain, Peter Simmons, Gregory Sporleder, Mark Wahlberg.
 You can watch for a fee or purchase
https://www.vudu.com/content/movies/details/Renaissance-Man/32406
I watched for free on my antennae-enabled TV
Channel 41.2

Bounce is the first African American broadcast network. It airs on the broadcast signals of local television stations and corresponding cable carriage and features a programming mix of original series, theatrical motion pictures, specials, off-network series and more. Among the founders of Bounce are iconic American figures Ambassador Andrew Young and Martin Luther King, III.
https://www.bouncetv.com/schedule/
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Teddy Has a little Friend now to keep him company when I'm away.
"Buddy"

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