A Mindful Life

Great Olmec stone head on view (and on loan for one year from Mexico) at the DeYoung Museum in San Francisco.

We experienced a gadget revolution recently at Chez Mindful Life. The huge clunker television, which Husband acquired prior to meeting me, blew a convergence IC or amp (or something technically complex that I don’t understand). Although he rarely purchases anything, he enjoys learning about the latest in high-end stereo and television components. This machine was [...]

I have begun to read a fascinating book, Lies My Teacher Told Me : Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong. I’m only in the first chapter, which examines the process of “heroification” of public figures. The book has photos and captions, one of which floored me. Since the book was published in 1995, long [...]

Despite its length, this was a really good day. First I drove to Oakland to meet with the Executive Director of the Center for Community Benefit Organizations. The purpose of our meeting was to discuss how they might revive the Hank Rosso Library, a resource collection providing information to help non-profits thrive and fulfill their [...]

A willing heart adds feather to the heel.
–Joanna Baillie

Busy week. Monday in Milpitas. Tuesday was in San Francisco until 9:30 p.m. (my colleague drove). Wednesday was Milpitas. Today I drove (my turn with the coworker) to SF; we left at 7:45 a.m. and arrived at 9:00. I was in meetings from 9:00 until 4:30. We left SF at 4:30 to get back to [...]

Last night I attended a networking event in SF that was sponsored by the Craigslist Foundation. Their goal is to catalyze the community by educating and promoting resources so they can “help people help.” Since it was primarily SF non-profits, though, I didn’t stay long. I would love to see if the foundation might hold [...]

Below are some other “words of wisdom” bestowed upon me by the person who assumed that, based on a brief viewing of a couple of my works, my motives could be judged and that I was in need of his guidance. I’m amazed by the pomposity of his viewpoint and this assumption that I do [...]

I received feedback regarding my creativity that I’ve been mulling over.
“Your poems, like the two of your collages I’ve seen, are constructed of things you think to be already artistic. With the collages, the images may sometimes become greater than the sum of their parts, but you act to prevent that by sticking in something [...]