Moving on to Vancouver (by the slow boat–Amtrak train) today. The last few days have been a whirlwind of seeing old friends, making new friends, and sharing the Fire Monks story. Here’s one of those moments captured visually–me chatting with a former nursing student of my mother’s (in Michigan) while two friends from the Berkeley Zen Center wait to have their books signed.
Archives for July 2011
Boulder-bound
This week I’m headed to Boulder, Seattle, Portland and Vancouver for Fire Monks events. I’m really looking forward to seeing friends in each of those cities. Back for the next Bay Area event 8/4 in Guerneville and 8/6 at Berkeley Zen Center.
P.S. My cat Jai is home from the hospital! He had something called DKA–diabetic ketoacidosis–and almost died. Whew…
Kron4 News Weekend
David Zimmerman and I will be on Kron4 News Weekend on Sunday 7/24 at 9:15am, interviewed by Henry Tenenbaum. The segment is only four minutes, so tune in on time if you want to watch!
Fire, wind, water, earth…
“We are a uniquely fire creature on a uniquely fire planet….Other animals knock over trees and dig holes; we do fire.” Fire is an “ecological signature” of who we are. “It forces us to act and to chose.”–Stephen J. Pyne
Tuesday night I had the honor of conversing with fire historian Pyne and our host Bill Deverell at the historic Los Angeles public library as part of the ALOUD program. This was the first in what promises to be an intriguing series on fire, wind, water, and earth. You can listen to the podcast here or on the player below.
Speaking of animals digging holes, one of my cats is in the hospital receiving continuous fluids, in critical condition. I held him in my lap today. He was earth, water, wind. Very little presence of fire, and yet, his illness is yet another kind of fire to meet, right there alongside the exhileration of my book tour.
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On deck
Capitola Book Cafe (near Santa Cruz) tonight at 7:30pm. Tomorrow, Los Angeles central library’s Mark Taper auditorium, 7pm. Thursday I’m back in Berkeley at Mrs. Dalloway’s. Ici, the ever-popular ice cream place, is just down the street so you can cool your taste buds after hearing me read about fires in the forest and in the mind.