I ran into you at Ikahime's website. You might like one or more of my books in your library with the great name. The Sea Slug as a Taoist sage is essayed and translated (a haibun by shikou, the funeral-faker of bashou's group) in Rise, Ye Sea Slugs! And the re-creation of the world every year expressed in Fifth Season, though shintou might appeal, too -- i know a taoist teacher in hawaii had a lot of fun with new year celebrations -- i visited with a chinese friend and sat with my ant-trail plastered to the ground baaaaing like a goat . . .

On the other hand, the unclapped one, you might not like the bonzes depicted by the dirty senryu of my most recent book! Blyth would have, but i suspect most buddhists are a bit too clean nowadays . . .

敬愚

posted by keigu at 2:20 pm (EST) on Oct 30, 2007

Oo, all those fixin's for the Garden sound great. I think it could be integrated like the Chinese garden - that seems to work and isn't obtrusive.
Been too busy with getting pottery studio and studying japanese to do much work with our library at WMGLCC. But tis ok because the guy I'm working with has been busy as well. Maybe something this weekend.
I think that Portland and Missoula are siblings of a sort, but of what sort, I'm not sure.
Maybe soon I'll get to slow down and read again. Right now getting a few pages in of "Under the Banner of Heaven." What are you reading?

posted by ikahime at 5:42 pm (EST) on Nov 15, 2006

Japan was transforming. Spent 2 years there as an English teacher. Had been devouring everything Buddhist before my journey and astonishingly, didn't go to one sesshin. In fact, I think I came back more Shinto than Buddhist. I love the old drunken masters that read and drink and howl at the moon. I love Issa.
I wasn't able to purchase the broadside of Snyder's. What a shame.
I'm in Montana now at the Mansfield Library. I often long for Portland, but this place is holding me right now...

posted by ikahime at 3:30 pm (EST) on Nov 13, 2006

I used to live in Portland near the Japanese Gardens and was a member for a year - really wonderful. I miss it a lot. But it inspired me to go to Japan and immerse myself in the culture.
Regarding cataloging a library, I'm advising our local GLBT group about cataloging their library. It would be cool to get a bunch of small libraries together in a group. Is this profile your personal library, or the Barking Dog collection?
Gary Snyder...I got to see him once at UO when the Univ press released a broadside of one of his poems. Pretty neat.
Peace

posted by ikahime at 4:33 pm (EST) on Nov 12, 2006

Your library is really wonderful, and we actually share more books than the 4 listed (I just read them at various libraries, including UO when I lived there). I'm curious as to what Barking Dog Buddhist Library is. Is it in Portland?
Peace,
Audra

posted by ikahime at 11:42 am (EST) on Nov 12, 2006

Go ahead, really!
It's all jazz, just rollin' on. . .

posted by hadwalmer at 1:04 pm (EST) on Sep 13, 2006

I am:
Buddhist meditator and reader
Trying to organize and remove extra books,
that don't speak to me anymore, or I don't love
That don't teach me about the world I live in
To lighten up in my mind,
To actively participate in various communities -
British Columbia, Slocan Valley Farmstead,
Here in Oregon, Buddhist community
(Barking Dog Buddhist Library)
Tour Guiding at The Japanese Garden
Loving my family, driving my daughter,
Getting older. . .

posted by hadwalmer at 8:35 pm (EST) on Aug 9, 2006