Wife, Just Let Go : KBOO PATHWAYS INTERVIEW OF "WIFE, JUST LET GO."

Friday, March 2, 2018

KBOO PATHWAYS INTERVIEW OF "WIFE, JUST LET GO."

The ongoing interest in Wife, Just Let Go, keeps me continually engaged in the world of Alzheimer’s, loss, and grief, where I’m called to share my own experiences in a positive, loving way. Perhaps the most important thing I learned as an effective care-person was to “hold” the memories for my husband struggling with the disease, to be a kind of “memory bank” for him, gifting memories and filling in the gaps he was experiencing as he strived to write and continued to write. He taught me to place a great faith in love, a love that transcends all measure and conditions, a love that demands deeper, wider understanding of a world shared by all beings.

Recently, I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Renee Poindexter for a Pathways Program on KBOO Radio regarding Wife, Just Let Go that I co-authored with my husband, Robert Briggs. It aired on Sunday, February 25, 2018 and for those who didn’t get to listen to this here’s a link to the recording. Feel free to contact me with your own ideas, feelings, thoughts or questions.

https://kboo.fm/media/63813-zen-alzheimers-and-love

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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.”

Zen, Alzheimer's, and Love

Friday, March 2, 2018

KBOO PATHWAYS INTERVIEW OF "WIFE, JUST LET GO."

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