[Mary Gilliand reading at Mocha Mayas in Shelburne Falls]
Recently I received an email from poet friend and vajra sister, Mary Gilliand, in response to our second meditation and writing group posts. She writes:
Inspiring to read about your writing in motion workshop on tsetso blog. Good poem written during that you posted!***In that same issue of Hotel Amerika are poems by Chard deNiord....who will join us for our third meeting at the Emily Dickinson homestead on August 1.
In the late 90's I made several labyrinths
https://courses.cit.cornell.edu/mg24/Labyrinth/labyrinth.htmland use the design both walking outdoors and finger-tracing indoors with auditoriums/cafes full of people
https://courses.cit.cornell.edu/mg24/essays.htmIt always liberates the censor-mind, whether the person is new to writing or extensively published or anywhere in between.
I'm glad we share this overlap among our many.
Spent several weeks in California around happy family event, so sorry to miss Rinpoche's summer retreat there this year. Peter and I drove up to San Juan Ridge for a few days, stayed at Kitkidizze with Gary Snyder for the first time since we left there in '76. Ah! precious teacher, 85 years old now. Those over-sunned hills, though - not the place for a northeast woodlands rainy day woman.
Attached 2 poems from new issue 'Hotel Amerika.' Do you know it? I like what they print.
Love,
Mary
