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Axo went to school with me yesterday so we could do "Musical Friday" in my class with live musicians.  We sang about four songs in every class:

1. "Fuzzy" by Grant Lee Phillips
2. "BAD" by U2
3. "Fix You" by Coldplay
4. "White Winter Hymnal" by Fleet Foxes or "Waiting on an Angel" by Ben Harper

The kids loved it.  They loved getting to meet my husband ( Read more... )

Fire and Rain have been a recurring theme in many of my dreams, and when I dream about them they're always happening at the same time.  I inevitably wake up from those dreams with a profound sense of depth and catharsis.  They're exhilarating and transcendent ( Read more... )

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I put out the call for garden donations last week, and I said that I needed to raise about $400 to cover everything that we wanted to do.  Today, I received an envelope with no return address, and inside of it was a money order for $400.  The memo line said "The Garden Fund" and the money order was from "Anonymous."  I promptly started crying and ( Read more... )

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I spent most of yesterday sitting on my bum doing nothing.  It was very therapeutic.  The one thing I could do while sitting on my bum was study Tibetan.  I spent several hours working my way through the 70-pg. introduction to The Manual of Standard Tibetan.  It was great.  I read about so many things in detail.  Specific questions that I had had ( Read more... )

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Here are some photos from our weekend up with the Buddhists!

The Shi-tro Mandala (the only 3-dimensional mandala in the Western Hemisphere)

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Axo said it was fine for me to run around labelling everything in the apt with Tibetan names as long as I included the Spanish ones as well (because he's trying to improve his Spanish).  So, I've now labelled the kitchen and the bathroom and the bedroom.  It's so wrong.  Anyone who comes over is going to think we're freaks, but I'm totally loving ( Read more... )

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so many hours doing Tibetan vocabulary...  why did I let myself forget so much stuff?

oh the pain!

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I just spent the past three days up in Tehachapi, at Ari Bhod.  I went up there to help Lama Gyatso out.  I figured if I want him to do my wedding, I need to be giving something back.  Honestly, I wasn't sure I'd enjoy being up there, but in the end I had the TIME OF MY LIFE.  It was probably the single most rejuvenating thing I've done throughout ( Read more... )

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It totally cracked me up and I think it's awesome that Rinpoche likes to test drive ferraris and that he gets mad and flips people off in traffic just like the rest of us.  As he put it, "Fingers manifest." ;-)

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It's been a year and three months since I last saw Chhoje Rinpoche, but I got a good dose this week.  He was here on Wednesday and yesterday.  On Wednesday, he gave teachings in the evening, and then yesterday Axo and I met with him privately for about a half hour and he gave teachings again in the evening.  I also took the opportunity to make ( Read more... )