Wife, Just Let Go : April 2018

Saturday, April 21, 2018

Wednesday, April 11, 2018

EVENT AT DIESEL BOOKSTORE, BRENTWOOD, CA

Thanks to Diesel Bookstore in Brentwood, CA, for a successful book event of “Wife, Just Let Go!” last Thursday. Many came – old friends and new and thanks to them for a lively discussion and purchase of the book. The positive response to “Wife, Just Let Go” is encouraging and inspirational and promises another event on a return visit to Los Angeles this summer. Now in UK enjoying a visit with my brother and family, and reuniting with dear friends. The weather here is reminiscent of Portland, OR - clouds and rain with sunshine on the horizon and warmer days to come. Yet, with all this travelling I’m reminded by Hakuin Zenji that: “Coming and going/we never leave home.”

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.”

Wife, Just Let Go

Zen, Alzheimer's, and Love

Saturday, April 21, 2018

AT GLENDALE, CALIFORNIA

Glendale, CA at Shoseian Teahouse and Brand Library with a dear chajin and teacher. Beautiful day in sunny LA.

Wednesday, April 11, 2018

EVENT AT DIESEL BOOKSTORE, BRENTWOOD, CA