Wife, Just Let Go : November 2018

Thursday, November 22, 2018

This event is based on Robert Briggs and Diana Saltoon's book: "Wife, Just Let Go: Zen, Alzheimer's, and Love." The book is now the Award-Winning Finalist in the Self-Help: Relationships category of the 2018 Best Book Awards sponsored by American Book Fest! (The book is available for sale in Portland at Powells Bookstore, Broadway Books, Daedalus and Annie Bloom's as well as Amazon and Ingram.)

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“Placing a great faith in love.” Whether you’re a caregiver or anyone navigating through the emotions of grief, anger, hurt or sadness, abuse or depression, ultimately, it is love that soothes the aching heart. Even Einstein admitted in a letter to his daughter about the “Universal Force which is Love.” Grief is an expression of profound love within that is never exhausted. Exploring grief and all its related emotions, we learn how they may be understood, held in compassion and released into the spaciousness of peace and love. Through shared experiences we learn simple ways of releasing and healing through awareness and understanding the core of our existence.

TUE, DEC 4 AT 6:30 PM

Opening to Love, Strength, and Acceptance

New Renaissance BookshopPortland, OR

Friday, November 16, 2018

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

Thursday, November 22, 2018

Friday, November 16, 2018

WIFE, JUST LET GO, ZEN: ALZHEIMER'S, AND LOVE