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An Animating Presence: Dani Shapiro on the Quest for a Connected Consciousness. The art of holding up one's own end of the dialogue.
Dani Shapiro's book: Devotion. a memoir. and in it, about her experience of Metta Meditation with her Teacher Sylvia Boorstein.
"after a little while, I became troubled by the question of prayer. Who was it directed to?"
Boorstein explained that rather than metaphysical sorcery, the chants (Metta) are meant to channel our deepest wishes.
"What did it mean to fervently, wholeheartedly name a desire? To speak out of a deep yearning...to set that yearning loose in the world? Could a wish be a less fraught word for prayer?...maybe it wasn't about who, if anyone, was on the other end, listening. Maybe faith had to do with holding up one end of the dialogue."
the kind of Weaving i feel Good about
Again
just looking
and More
more kantha. And no, Mo, i don't stitch till my fingers bleed, but i DO stitch till my left eyeball feels like it wants to fall out.
I wanted so MUCH to cut it. To cut the center. But i haven't and will Wait till tomorrow. But the kantha is/was enough to hold the fibers of the linen in place. Tomorrow.
i worked on the Fence
