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Archive for October, 2008

yearbooking me self

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Chitta Vritti comes across funny stuff. here is my result from yearbooking myself. except my hair was always wavy. once i lost 5 pounds on Weight Watchers and my mom took me to buy a yellow turtle neck at Sears. i was so proud of that.

the present moment

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i intended to practice but was unable to get to the shala. next week, i hope, my schedule will be more normal. A quote sent by Wise Albert follows.

meditation

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going to one of the monthly meditation paloozas this saturday. the picture is of a bell at San Francisco Zen Center’s Green Gulch Farm in Marin. that’s a lot of words to describe a location. it was taken by Surharper and posted in Flickr.  the picture below is of the meditation hall at the Hippocrates Spa in The Phillipines, which my friend Jessica R. took. it would not take much to be transported skyward if you were in that setting.

hangbacks

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i’m on a deadline, so i did a short practice at home that consisted mainly of hangbacks, as Susananda calls them. it’s what my body craves when i’m sitting too many hours hunched forward on a computer. hopefully my practice next week will be more normal.

early design tools

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as i sit here using the latest computerized design tools, i look at this drawing i did in 1980 of how we used to do our design work by hand on these big tables and feel that it looks quaint, in a way. the hairstyles are appropriate. consulting with a colleague while designing is useful. those are electrical plugs on the side, by the way. we had radios then, and electrical erasors.

moon day

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i’m kind of glad to have read in an email that today is a moonday and i don’t have to practice. this morning i slept later than usual and would have had trouble getting to the shala on time. the ceramic was hand painted by Amparo Brown, a ceramic artist friend who “adopted” my great aunt and called her “mami conejita”. our family homes were dotted with Amparo’s work.

practice prognostication

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short shala shinding today. practiced Second to Kapotasana. Om chakka lakka lakka. a lot of attention to triangle pose and to Urdvha Danurasana. this sounds like a horoscope. wouldn’t it be funny if we started writing horoscopes of how we thought our practices would turn out each day? Mars is aligned with Jupiter. lots of opportunities for thoracic openings today.

Masskara 08

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Masskara 08
Originally uploaded by shemlongakit

Phocholo’s comment in my blog entry on the Kadayawan Festival reminds me that Jessica is accompanying talented photographers such as Shem Longakit on these photo journaling events. Here is an interesting composition by Shem from the Masskara event.

how to architect - video

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one of my newsgroups alerted me to this; it’s great fun to watch - very creative and honest about the design process as applied to a small house.

quiet and busy today

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quiet and busy time at home today. practice tomorrow. went to a birthday party last night. unable to get to the shala today. here are so more pictures by Jessica R. of the Masskara Festival in the Phillipines, including one of her. Masskara means mask in Spanish. i don’t get tired of looking at these pictures. maybe because the celebrate life.