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Tag: Aikido

on suicide

Posted on 25 June 2011 by mira

Just when I was feeling all kadished-out.  Just when I thought I couldn’t write another thing about death, death and dying, loss, grief, the ones I love, terrible events …  Just when I thought that the kaddish project — our kaddish in two-part harmony — had done its job a few months shy of a…

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voices in the volvo

Posted on 1 May 20111 May 2011 by mira

There’s something I really don’t like about finishing things.  Good at starting.  Good at ongoing.  Good at thinking about.  Finishing:  very depressing. So.  I had just finished organizing the entire program for a SWAA conference one year, along with two colleagues.  SWAA would be the Southwestern Anthropological Association.  And we planned some real conference treats….

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techno-bling and the demise of the Qigong master

Posted on 2 January 201127 March 2011 by mira

[powerpress] Sylvester teaches Aikido to 80 year old ladies. And Qigong. And breath work. And energy work, of course. Whole food nutrition. Color and aroma therapy. African-American pragmatism. If it’s a healing art — he can convey it. And the ladies at the North Oakland Senior Center love him. And so do I. He’s my…

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a kaddish for terry dobson

Posted on 13 December 201018 April 2011 by mira

There’s no reason for me to remember. There’s no reason to forget. I knew the man for 15 minutes. The last 15 minutes, it turned out. Riki, his partner, told me at SF General Hospital that night, that in those 15 minutes, I had gotten the best of Terry Dobson. Maybe it’s the focus on…

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