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last updated 08/01/07
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A post before singing
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I should be sleeping so I can get up for my singing job tomorrow, but I've been waiting to share this quote I found in one of my favorite novels, which I read probably once a year (Immortality, by Milan Kundera). "He suddenly realized... that peo...
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Who is this Patricia Storace, and does she have priestesses?
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Okay, so as of this writing two out of three of my blog posts are about the glorious writing of Patricia Storace, but a) so far I've only *written* three blog posts, and 2) I swear I don't know her and have no agenda other than to point to beauty ...
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"For there is nothing lost, but may be found, if sought"
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Last week A. and I saw the Tibetan Buddhist monks of Gaden Ngari Monastery ( www.gadenngari.org) add the final grains of yellow sand to an intricate "medicine buddha" mandala they'd been creating for several days at East West Books (www.eastwestnyc...
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Mirror, mirror...
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I just read a haunting excerpt from a new novel called The Book of Heaven, by Patricia Storace ( www.nybooks.com/articles/20397). It’s not specific about the country or the religion that creates the setting for the story, and I wonder wheth...
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I should be sleeping so I can get up for my singing job tomorrow, but I've been waiting to share this quote I found in one of my favorite novels, which I read probably once a year (Immortality, by Milan Kundera). "He suddenly realized... that people saw him differently from how he saw himself or from how he thought he was seen by others.... Without his realizing it in the slightest, something must have happened to his image. Something must have happened and he didn't know what it was, and he...
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Okay, so as of this writing two out of three of my blog posts are about the glorious writing of Patricia Storace, but a) so far I've only *written* three blog posts, and 2) I swear I don't know her and have no agenda other than to point to beauty where I find it and say look, look, look! And this woman is really turning it out.
So: as I was haunting Books of Wonder, waiting for someone to ask me if I wanted a job, I happened upon her new children's book, "Sugar Cane: A Caribbean Rapunzel."...
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Last week A. and I saw the Tibetan Buddhist monks of Gaden Ngari Monastery ( www.gadenngari.org) add the final grains of yellow sand to an intricate "medicine buddha" mandala they'd been creating for several days at East West Books ( www.eastwestnyc.com). The mandala, which if I'd been able to get close enough to see it properly I probably would have disturbed by exhaling on it, was a colorful traditional representation of one of the "subtle realms" of Tibetan Buddhism, and its creation and des...
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I just read a haunting excerpt from a new novel called The Book of Heaven, by Patricia Storace ( www.nybooks.com/articles/20397). It’s not specific about the country or the religion that creates the setting for the story, and I wonder whether Storace, like Margaret Atwood in her dystopian novels, combined aspects of different cultures to create a chilling but plausible fictional sect. Certainly the religious taboo against images of one kind or another is familiar enough, though the ex...
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