Wife, Just Let Go : Book Read/Signing of "Wife, Just Let Go" in Berkeley. Photos by Anne Coffelt

Wednesday, December 6, 2017

Book Read/Signing of "Wife, Just Let Go" in Berkeley. Photos by Anne Coffelt

Moments of reunion with old and dear friends in the Bay Area. Heartfelt gratitude to my hosts in Marin County for your kind and generous hospitality, to all who were able to come to Berkeley and brave the traffic all the way from the wine country beyond Sonoma in the north and Santa Cruz in the south, for bringing your friends and buying the book for yourself and others.

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Great thanks to Judy Seicho Fleischman for hosting the event and to Tim Lane for his assistance

With Mark Ong, book designer of "Wife, Just Let Go," colleague of Robert Briggs Associates and treasured friend of Robert Briggs & Diana Saltoon

Thank you Angie and Terry, for your support with the book and purchasing many copies as gifts for friends.

With dear friend and photographer Anne, who traveled miles to the event!

A truly unexpected reunion! The man who first introduced Robert to me! No words are enough to say, "thank you, Bill!"

Many thanks to Marina, a publishing colleague and wonderful friend who braved miles to Berkeley

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Diana Saltoon Bio

Diana Saltoon has traveled extensively, studied yoga, and in the 1970s developed a program that dealt with modern stress. Her interest in Zen led to a study of Chado, The Way of Tea, as a Zen art and received a certificate of Chamei from the Urasenke School in Kyoto, Japan. Diana became a teacher at the Portland Wakai Tea Association in Oregon before moving with her husband, Robert Briggs, to New York in 2011. They returned to Portland, Oregon, in 2014. A member of Zen communities in Oregon and New York, Diana continues to give presentations, classes and workshops on the Zen Art of Tea. She is the author of Tea and Ceremony: Experiencing Tranquility (2004), The Common Book of Consciousness (1990), and Four Hands: Green Gulch Poems (1987).

Robert Briggs Bio

Robert Briggs attended Auburn and Columbia Universities and served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War. He became a partner in The San Francisco Book Company in 1972 and in 1973 founded Robert Briggs Associates, a group of West Coast consultants to writers and small publishers. The Association was involved in a variety of nonfiction publications including Rolling Thunder by Doug Boyd, Mind as Healer, Mind as Slayer, Kenneth R. Pelletier’s classic book on stress, as well as works by Joseph Campbell, Stanislav Grof, Colin Wilson, and Theodore Roszak. Briggs is also the author of The American Emergency: A Search for Spiritual Renewal in an Age of Materialism, 1986, and Ruined Time: the 1950s and the Beat, 2006. Ruined Time is a cultural autobiography of the Great Depression, World War II and the 1950s. This book sparked various multimedia projects including Jazz and Poetry & Other Reasons, reads written and read by Robert Briggs and accompanied by jazz musicians in performances in Portland, OR. CDs were produced that include Poetry in the 1950s (1999), Someone Said No(2003), My Own Atom Bomb (2005), The Beat Goes On(2008), Love in America (2009) and The Beat Revealed (2011). Robert Briggs was involved in early West Coast jazz and poetry scenes where he performed in San Francisco’s Jazz Cellar. To Briggs, “Jazz is to music, what poetry is to knowing.”

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