NOT GONE-STILL GOING

Virtual Sangha Monday
via ZOOM
3.23
Koshin Paley Ellison and Robert Chodo Campbell

Many members appeared and spoke,
each from their own homes.

We Meditated Together
My screen shots are inadequate to convey the absolutely magical experience. Although I couldn't actually join in due to lack of cell and camera connected to my laptop, thanks to Alex Goden, I was able to see and hear the whole session.What a gift. Those of you familiar with the technology will understand.

Tuesday
3.24
6:15 a.m.

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Then the Sun rose and my open windows let air circulate for several hours, clearing that stuffy shut-in apartment staleness.
Mailed two cards to two friends, picked up arugula on sale and had the necessary walk about while keeping my distance.  

6:15 p.m.
 Reflected sunset in the East


Wednesday
2.25
It rained and threatens more

Late Afternoon
Walk to Gramercy Park

 Calder Sculpture
His kids bought a building on the North side that used to be many apartments. Friends lived there for years.
Gutted and converted to a one family.

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Why it's called "Janey Waney'

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/artists/calder-sculpture-returns-to-gramercy-park-3146/

 New Bank in town
'Flushing'

 Survivors
Keeping Personal Distance

 Thursday

3.26

6 a.m.

 Statistics

As of this morning, New York City had close to 18,000 COVID-19 cases (half the cases in the State and 1/3 of the cases nationwide).  Manhattan's share was 3,187; Queens led the City with 5,066 cases.

 

Friday

3.27

One Flower
by Jack Kerouac

One flower
on the cliffside
Nodding at the canyon

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Home

Baked three Molasses Corn-bread Loafs

Cooked Apples

 

Saturday

3.28.

6 a.m.

"Red sky in the morning

Sailors heed warning."

I Know Who and Where I Am
Ms 3.28.2020

I'm  living in the light
shining bright.

I'm my entire past
presently manifesting.

I'm free floating stardust,
'million year old carbon'.

I'm a blooming garden
with an herbal heart.

I'm heading for extinction
in no hurry at all.

Inspiration for "I know Who and Where I Am"

~*~

Afternoon and Evening

Prepping Food

Shallot, wilted Arugula

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Sweet Potato

Supper and Leftovers
Baked chicken tenders, Arugula with feta and farmers cheese
Toasted sweet potato


PBS
9 p.m.
"Handmaids Tale"
"Throughout The Handmaid's Tale, issues of feminism, abortion rights, male dominance, and conservative religious politics all come under fire. Some may view the film itself as anti-female considering its concepts, but it is quite the opposite. Instead it shows how only through solidarity can women bring down an overriding patriarchal mindset. The film, which works from Harold Pinter's screenplay adaptation of Margaret Atwood's novel, features strong performances."
http://www.haroldpinter.org/films/films_handmaids.shtml
I fell asleep.
Slept right through it. I remember reading the original. The book is in one of those stacked book boxes I hope to cart down to the Strand if it still exists when this 'Ongoing Unknown' runs it's course.
~*~

OUT and ABOUT and AT HOME

WEDNESDAY

Evening

Madison Square Park

Blooming

Artist Project

at the North end of the Park

"Monument"

Animates this statue of Admiral David Glasgow Farragut

The Artist states: "I hope that as the monument is brought to life the projection will, in turn, animate the hearts and minds of the public, helping to inspire a greater emotional understanding of both the refugees’ lived experiences and the help displaced persons desperately need. Borrowing the words of David Miliband, President, International Rescue Committee, we must strengthen the civic demand that “the United States, the world’s richest nation, reverse the current course of denying assistance and safety to refugees and asylum-seekers.”

Full Interview

https://www.madisonsquarepark.org/mad-sq-art/interview-krzysztof-wodiczko-monument

Domestic Heroes

WORKERS

This Market is Open 24 Hours
Reasonable prices, Organic and vegetarian choices.

Bus Drivers

 ~*~


THURSDAY
Spring officially arrives in the Northeast before midnight this evening. I've been brooding over the long term effects of this pandemic. Rain is falling lightly and I'm feeling a bit blueish. Hot chocolate will help.

It did.
An hour walking around the neighborhood also helped.
While mailing a package at the post, I heard that Baruch, which was already closed for classes, Just evacuated entirely. Staff and teachers were working and the library had been available to students. Two staff members were diagnosed with the virus!

Blooming on East 23rd Street

6 p.m.
Well Stocked

Also more on the door and in the freezer
 plus jars of beans, grains and nuts,coconut and olive oil
6 p.m.
Supper Preparation Begins

 dicing fresh garlic next
there will be additions once steamed and warmed

P.S
Enough Toilet Paper

9 p.m.
Throw-back Thursday Entertainment

1995
"American drama film based on the 1991 novel of the same name by Whitney Otto. Directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse, the film stars Winona Ryder, Anne Bancroft, Ellen Burstyn, Kate Nelligan. Includes Maya Angelou, Jean Simmons, Rip Torn, Alfre Woodard and more. It marked Jared Leto’s film debut. Nominated by the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture."
Preview

https://youtu.be/kSiJpk7isz
~*~

Of course, I'm keeping up with the Corona news
then
detaching from it 

SINGING LOVE SONGS - NOURISHING BEING

 11.7.2018
with LabSchul at Washington Square Park

SINGING

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Songs:

"LET IT BE"
Paul McCartney
"SINGING FOR OUR LIVES"
Holly Near
"WOKE UP THIS MORNIN'"
Spiritual adapted by the Freedom Singers
"COURAGE"
(South African Apartheid Resistance)
"LIFT EVERY VOICE AND SING"
James Weldon Johnson
 and

"THE BODY OF LOVE"
Ben Lee
Where there is fear, let there be an opening
Where there is hunger,
Let there be empathy
Where we've forgotten how to love,
let us know the ache, the ache of...
~*~
Being one, one with the body of love
One with the body of love
With being one,
One with the body of love
One with the body of love
~*~
Where there is loneliness
let there be solitude
Where there is pride, where we are strong
Let us learn to break
Where there is certainty
let there be innocence
Where there is hurt, where there is hurt
let there be an embrace
~*~
The ache in your heart is holy
The ache in your heart is good
The ache in your heart is the ache of...
(Being one with the body of love)
~*~
Where there is anger
let there be forgiveness now
Where there is sweetness to be found
let us know the taste
Where there is doubt let there be
emptiness
Where there are two let there be one
let us know the ach
(the ache in your heart is holy)

Glorious Day

Doves flying circles and the sun making rain dogs above us

 *
Dove Lover

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 *
Leaving the Park

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Trader Joe Shopping
Walked Home
Street found Oak leaves and seeds

NOURISHING
"Hen of the Woods" Mushroom Soup
Kidney beans, Chicken and Sausage Stew

Kidney beans, Chicken, Sausage and Peas

Organic Apples with Candied Almonds

*
Rescued from the Garbage

Eringium?

~*~

11.8.2018
MEDITATION
Sentient beings are numberless, I vow to save them.
Desires are inexhaustible, I vow to put an end to them.
The Dharmas are boundless, I vow to master them.
The Buddha Way is unattainable, I vow to attain it.
 
(I fail again and again and again so keep practicing)
~*~

GIFTS of LIGHT

Friday Night

There is not much so curative

as a visit from a compatible friend.

Easy conversations, 'food' swapping:

my wheat for his lemonade,
His wittiness for my laughter, my variety of concoctions
for his willingness to make use of them.  

Lots of classical music, talk of the classics, and truths;

we read Barbara's poem "Three Laments".

Teas: two 'sleepytime' + two 'breathe easy',

sweetened by Stevia and steeped.

Sharing 'the unbearable lightness of being'

without ever calling it that.

We watched 

"Shine"

(see links)

 ~*~

Saturday
Made these Berry wine cordials by soaking wine with berries and spice for months, drained and bottled it for gifts today. I can not drink alcohol.

Doodled
"Twisted Rainbow"

However
My chronic condition was super bad today and no comfort for the left leg either so I took a walk with my cane.  Totally unstable and no ability to stand still in drizzley rain but I like the shot anyhow.

So it goes
~*~

Sunday
Aside from short sleeps, my Rx for CC, and a hot compress for the leg, music, a bit of broth and toast, nothing much. The old lady is still sick; so much so, I fear to alienate friends who call to say 'How are you', being tempted to say 'fine' . Of course I ask how they are and perhaps I'm told.  I'm not even up for company if any were available. One fairly close by friend has offered.  I don't want to chat on the phone. Everything takes twice as much energy as one thinks it might. Careful, 'You are quite grumpy' my inner therapist says. This is my fifteenth or so wake up from the aching let to heat the compress again and down another glass of "CALM".  I meant to post this at 10PM yesterday but it's already Monday morning. I 'want' to think this too will pass, and since everything does it will, but I don't believe it will be a return to well woman old age.  'It's the illness talking' my therapist says, 'don't listen'.  The rash has just flared up again all over my face too. Poor me.  Such darkness! I'm going to mine some old photos for light:

3.26 2010
Skylight
beautiful blue sky in the old Dharma Mittra yoga studio

 3.26 2011

Daffodils

found feathers, wooden carved chickadee and cardinal with the stone owl in the alcove by the alley window

3.26.2012

Forsythia 

in Westfield Massachusetts with dear old friends Jenny and Richard

3.26 2013

Cloth Work

 with light on my work table when I was still sewing

3.26.2014

Ceramic dove

that holds my mailbox key, backed by Jude Hills gift of a stitch sampler when she was leading 'The Magic Feather project.

3.26.2015

Stone Buddha

Given to me by Jude's brother, Nemo, and holding a $100 bill to remind me of the transitory nature of things, backed by a street found seascape I eventually gave to my Superintendent because he said it reminded him of his home in the Dominican Republic.

 

Lastly

This Happy Song,

the words of which are all true, and which I also posted at face book.

https://youtu.be/LHacDYj8KZM

Links

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shine_(film)
clip
http://www.imdb.com/videoplayer/vi630325529?ref_=tt_pv_vi_aiv_1