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Read Summer Sanctuaries, a review of Miriam's Well which appears in The Frugal Guide, Summer 09
The IAPD is proud to announce that one of our students, Melissa Sweet, is facilitating Projective Dreamwork workshops at Mirabai Bookstore in Woodstock, on Wednesdays, 6:30-8:00pm.
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Our Theme for 2009:
The Transformational Power of Chaos
Questions on a Friday morning: August 28, 2009
A Message from Spiritual Director Susan Rosen
I’ve been watching the coverage about Ted Kennedy and the Kennedy family. Looking at old clips of speeches by Jack, Bobby and Teddy I was reminded that though they came from financial affluence they spoke to and for the poor, the sick, the least educated, the “untouchables” of America. And I wondered who speaks for America's untouchables today? And even if a few of us do speak, who listens? Teddy has been talking about health care for the past 40 years!! Most of the speeches about the haves and the have nots are still applicable right now. Have we become abundantly more narcissistic in the past 40 years? Has the division between the rich and the poor scared the middle class into such extremism that all that is visible is “what’s good for me?”
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The Art of Kathryn Taylor
Many more of these marvelous paintings can be seen at Kathryn’s website.
Kathryn is Jeremy Taylor’s wife. He writes about her and her work:
"...everything Kath has ever sketched, or drawn, or painted has been part of the exploration of ... this beautiful, mysterious, and compelling land of her psyche, and the greater collective psyche upon which her personality (and, indeed, all our seemingly unique and separate personalities) rests.
"...all true acts of imagination, no matter how nonsensical or seemingly bizarre they might appear to be at first glance, are statements of non-material truth, in just the same fashion that the dreams we remember from sleep are all accurate and true symbolic statements about the deeper meanings and implications of our lives and loves.
"Kath has imagined and rendered these curious scenes with impeccable honesty and good conscience. Her interior explorations brought forth onto the page as she draws and paints are guided by an intense and breath-taking truthfulness ... an intensity and integrity that parallels her waking life search for reliable relational, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual understanding."
You can read Jeremy’s whole article here.
Nancy Goodwin Cobb, the mother of our Board member Martha Dewing, passed away in November 2008. One of the last things she did was to vote by absentee ballot, using a pen from Miriam’s Well. Martha sent us a picture with the message, “…the pen that was used to give Obama the state of Florida, and thus, said she proudly, the election!” Nancy and Martha – may the longtime sun shine upon you, all love surround you, and the clear light within you guide your way home.
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