safe but not comfortable

Hey...

I just wanted to say that I think our class today was an example of safe place but not comfortable place, and  I want to thank you for letting me ::boil:: in that kind of place.

Performance this Sat Evening!!

Hey all. As I mentioned at the end of class, I will be performing this Saturday, Feb 18th, at the event : A Love Supreme. It's a night of poetry, song and celebration of our creative ancestors who flourished during the Harlem Renaissance era. The celebration starts at 6pm and is set to end around 9. A full spread of food and drinks will be provided!!! (we all love food :) I would love to see you there!!!

Address: 685 14th St
Oakland, Ca

(held in the event space at the First Unitarian Church)

While reading about creativity, I was reminded of this video.
Elizabeth Gilbert: A new way to think about creativity

http://youtu.be/86x-u-tz0MA

This quote from the Bhagavad Gita popped into my head after our discussion Wednesday:


"If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same..."


P.S. Rudyard Kipling uses these lines in his poem "If," so he's usually credited...

The Zen Child

Our reading this week reminds me of the book I'm reading right now: Zen Mind, Beginners' Mind by Sunryu Suzuki. "...in the actual experience of making past time present. There we have poetry, and there we have human life." If the Zen approach to art is to undo our critic, our rambling mind, then it must want us to live in our child self. This is important to me because I believe that I had an intact wisdom as a child and lost it as I grew up. Too much worrying. "Man is a thinking reed buy his great works are done when he is not calculating and thinking. 'Childlikeness has to be restored with long years of training on the art of self-forgetfulnes."- Herrigel.

Wooo hooo!

Ok, just wanted to post sumthin so the blog wouldn't look so lonely. Going to print out the readings for next week.

:)