Discoveries: Arts and Culture

Read:   “Heaven’s gaits ”   by Adam Gopnik, in this week's New Yorker , September 1, 2014.    What we do when we walk.      “Contemplative walking is Gros’s (Frederic Gros, " A Philosophy of Walking" (Transl from the French by John Howe, Verso) a best seller abroad) --  favored kind:   the walking of medieval pilgrims, of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Henry David Thoreau, of Kant’s daily life.   It is the Western equivalent of what Asians accomplish by sitting.   Walking is the Western form of meditation:   “ You’re doing nothing when you walk, nothing but walking.   But having nothing to do but walk makes it possible to recover the pure sensation of being , to rediscover the simple joy of existing, the joy that permeates the whole of childhood.   ...Movement and Mind are related in Western thought.” "The flaneur represents cynicism, but clothed and housed and only sporadically committed."   I knew I fo...

Enjoyed a visit with Jennifer Andre  in their very new home, in Lafayette,  where she is expecting her second baby boy in October, so all is in readiness.     Joan and her grandchild, Owen  Jennifer and her son, Owen

"Catch a Falling Star" Ensemble Crescent Moon series Sunset Over Uji  Silk and Felt I liked this exhibition ...

Viewed this exhibition yesterday at the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, enjoying its original forms,  immensely.  Nagae Shigekazu  Kawase Shinobu "Seiji"(Celadon) Fujino Sachinko (originally fashion designer, fabric dyer) Fukumoto Fuku, daughter of renown textile artist (Inspired by clouds, ice and moonlight), She says, "I don't like to force my own idea on the clay. Instead the form arises through interplay of actions and reactions between the clay and myself.  An accumulation of emotion is recorded in the clay through working directly with the form ."

Founder  Mimi Chakarova, FIlm Director, A Moment in Time Productions    Prof Buxbaum talking with BAM curator  Curator, Pamela Blotner  Attended the UCBerkeley Law School 20th anniversary reception and photography exhibitions, on the 28th.   Met Mary Steiner, who is UNA-East Bay chair of committee on celebrating the 70th anniversary of the founding of the UN in SF.  Prof Richard Buxbaum delivering address, and Mary Steiner, UNA.           The Lady, Burma(Mynamar) 1996  Sebastian Salgado (Brazil)   Salgado (Angola 1975)   

Soft Shell crab sushi.  Wonderful! 

Chorale and singing was wonderful; attended the full service which was not in Latin but in English. ;   Grounds are beautiful Architecture reminds me of comparable churches outside Barcelona Transports one to another century   

Fishermen bringing in the harvest Steinbeck's "Cannery Row".  the famous sardine factory in Steinbecks story sailboat in Monterey bay Sculpture  Memorial Garden

Pt Lobos rocks and pines Janet Roberts on Pt Lobos taking the 6 mile walk    Brandt's Comorant on Bird Island China Cove Edward Weston Beach where his ashes were thrown

the sea lions feeding frenzy, which lets us know the whales are very near by! Whales just cruising along.... Finally, the tail flip, again  and again! Do I look content?  This three hour boat trip to see the whales is "Summer"! The Deep Blue Sea, on a clear sunny day! 

my favorite mural Very exciting!  This house may become a poetry center, like the wonderful house, UPENN has, for its poetry readings.  But right now, it is still in a process of negotiation, as Sotheby's realtor, creatively organizes a committee to "save the house" and murals.  Christopher Wagstaff, author of a recent exhibition catalogue, the exhibition which is touring and currently in Pasadena, having been at the Grey Art Gallery in NYC, and at the Crocker in summer 2013) - unfortunately I was in China.  The exhibition centers on the relationship and work of Robert Duncan, Poet, whose work I greatly admire(and did as a UW student) and in NYC where I heard him read once before his death.  Pauline Kael is a legend and of course, I read her theater reviews, and heard her speak at the Y92 in NYC, in the 70s.  I never knew she started for a decade in Berkeley writing her reviews.  Her correspondence with poet Robert Duncan (1940-1946) has...