Monday, May 28, 2018

NEW EVENT COMING UP FOR "WIFE, JUST LET GO"

In the spirit of peace and harmony, the sharing of “Wife, Just Let Go,” continues. Announcing another book event coming up in June in Los Angeles. Chado, the Japanese Way of Tea has always been a pillar that has held me up during years of intensive caregiving and still holds me up in grief especially as the 3rd anniversary of Robert’s death approaches. Please join me for a book discussion/tea ceremony at the beautiful Shoseian Teahouse in Glendale, CA on June 17, 2018. (See event post.) Please spread the word to your friends in the LA area and contact me if you need further information. The momentum for the book is ongoing.

Shoseian “Whispering Pine” Teahouse

Brand Library Park 1601 West Mountain St., Glendale, CA 91201

A CHADO JOURNEY

We invite you to a Book Discusion and Tea Ceremony by Diana Saltoon, a teacher of Chado, “The Way of Tea”.

Author of Wife, Just Let Go - Zen, Alzheimer’s and Love

June 17, 2018

2 PM – 4 PM

Book Discussion and Tea Ceremony

Ms. Saltoon will discuss her book, how Chado was a pillar during her years of caregiving, how the practice of Chado is beneficial not only in times of ease and joy, but also in times of suffering, hardship and loss.

Those attending will be served traditional sweets and a bowl of matcha.

After the demonstration, the afternoon will be open to further discussion and questions from the audience, taking place in the historic Shoseian “Whispering Pine” Tea House, one of Glendale’s “Hidden Treasures”.

$20 per person donation

RSVP by June 13th to : friends@shoseianteahouse.com

Friends of Shoseian is a non-profit IRC Section 501 (c)(3) organization.

Contributions can be tax deductible under IRC Section 170.

City of GlendaleSponsored by:

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

Monday, May 28, 2018

NEW EVENT COMING UP FOR "WIFE, JUST LET GO"

June 17, 2018

2 PM – 4 PM

$20 per person donation