leeconger.bsky.social
#intentionalcommunity in #ClaremontCA, #Gay, #gaymarried, he/him, #exChristian, #Qigong teacher, #Buddhist, #WagnerEnsemble tenor & occasional #opera, retired #postmodern #psychotherapist / #NarrativeTherapy, #TimeBank organizer. MindBodyLosAngeles.com
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Lagniappe: Out of nowhere, Mohammad was shouting "Habibi!" to someone in a vehicle passing us on Cesar Chavez. Moments later, said #habibi was at our table, offering us her homemade-from-scratch #labne. I was an oh, so happy adoptee in their cozy community with the megapolis buzzing around us.
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... (came with chicken); liked the salsa verde (came with pork belly) just fine.
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... (are now in #MountWashington). @oktayyeb used to live in #LincolnPark (is now around the corner). It was their recommendation. It was awfully darned good! Two fried chicken breakfast burritos, one crispy pork belly burrito. Assorted coffees. I'm a sucker for creamy #guajillo salsa ...
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@michellematsumune.bsky.social
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@rootsimple.bsky.social
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@dougltradeecon.bsky.social, Let's discuss this, please!
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Gilda Jackson's Facebook post on Election Day read, "Thank you Jesus for your favor and for giving America another undeserving chance! Please forgive us when we fail you, guide and direct us in all we do." Jesus misled her.
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Except Trump ignores the courts, while experiencing no consequences, so what good would this do?
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Don't you know it! Go, Cascadia, go!
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Maybe Pascal Baudar is your dude. Among (many) other things, is an invasivore chef, who lives in Angeles Nat'l Forest on our friend's goat ranch. Creates fermentation recipes, etc. w "weeds" etc.
www.instagram.com/pascalbaudar...
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"Accidentally" sure has me curious. Blind date?
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@dougltradeecon.bsky.social
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... station at Vermont/Santa Monica, catch the #Metro to Vermont/Sunset, and then walk to Hollywood Blvd.
Late lunch at #Carousel on Hollywood Blvd.
www.mobilize.us/handsoff/eve...
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And this will be enforced ... how?
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PREACH!
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The librettist for the opera #ALifeForTheTsar by #MikhailGlinka. (Now, to chase down a recording of this work I do not know!)
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#Donizetti wrote #AnnaBolena for #Pasta. #Bellini composed #Norma and #Sonnambula for her. #Stendahl claimed, "she possesses the rare ability to be able to sing contralto as easily as she can sing soprano." See @parterrebox.bsky.social review of #Bartoli 's recording:
parterre.com/2013/05/16/r...
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Henry Pleasants' 1966 book "The Great Singers" had an illustration of Viardot's kRaZy ornaments for (I think) an aria from Gluck's "Orphée et Eurydice." I tried to find an image online. Best I could do (though piss poor) is at Google books. Hardly material for a Zoom "Sing Along with Pauline" event.
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That fragrance. My favorite. At a #StudioPetrichor workshop several years ago in #Altadena, #ShawnMaestrettiPatterson made us an infusion of #trichosremalanatum and #yerbabuena. To recall it is to yearn for it.
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Howdy. I'm on the board of #LosAngeles #EcoVillage, a rare URBAN EV / #intentionalcommunity. 17 mo ago, husband and I moved 30 mi east to #PilgrimPlace, IC / retirement community in ClaremontCA. Do you know ic.org? Great resource!
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I'm on the board of #LosAngelesEcoVillage, a rare URBAN #ecovillage/ #intentionalcommunity. 17 mo ago, my husband and I moved 30 mi east to #PilgrimPlace, an IC / retirement community in ClaremontCA. Come check 'em out!
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For sure, for sure! Homophobia in my N. La. bio family led me to break ties with them 15 yrs ago. After 30 yrs in the same house in Los Angeles, my husband and I moved to an #intentionalcommunity 17 mo ago. Whew!
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#Qigong and #TaiChi (as moving meditation practices). And sure, #yoga. Why not?
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@rootsimple.bsky.social @rhondalund.bsky.social
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... drive away from our house without wandering into that impossible dead end, lest we not find her for years and then, discovering only her skeleton, seated at the wheel of her car. Still trying to sober up here. Can you tell?"
That was my 1st #soundbath. I'm not exactly a junkie (he said).
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... dreamed a dream there, another dream here, another dream there, never sleeping, always aware of the chimes. And then finally, what?, an hour later, I began to piece myself back together, in order to rise from the mat and usher the sound healer out the door with instructions on how to ...
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... I listened attentively for awhile, and then grew inattentive as the sounds made little architectural structures in my brain, structures that glowed rose and lavender and teal and cerulean, before they transmogrified into slow-gyring, pulsating orbs. And then I dreamed a dream here, ...
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This post o' yern wounds this tenor's heart. Baritone Will Parker told me of the time that some "jaded opera goers" invited him to their box for a performance. It had a bar in back. That's where they sat drinking, until someone would alert them the next aria was coming up. Now THAT wounded shur nuf!
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From scouring the Met's online database, I reckon I first heard Plishka on 1/13/68 as the sacristan in Tosca. I would have been 11, listening to Met radio for two years by then. AMAZING, yes?!, that we got to see him in Live in HD transmissions! Thanks for honoring him here.
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Recordings of #JoanSutherland and #MarilynHorne basically made my childhood and adolescence in the rural South endurable. With #belcanto as hub, I gradually-gingerly followed spokes outwardly in all stylistic directions. Met radio broadcasts helped. Ultimately, fleeing the South was required. Whew!
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1st I've heard of them. My dad intro'd me to his 100s of 78rpms when I was 9 (1966). Soon, I became a regular listener to Met radio. Heard Corelli maybe 12 times? Saw him on tour in Memphis TN '75 (Romeo). Collected LPs '69-'77. Then, life changed. (long story) How'd these tapes come into your life?
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Greetings from #ClaremontCA! My husband and I moved here from #SilverLake/ #LosAngeles 17 mo ago, after >30 yrs in the same house. Now in an #intentional / retirement community. We'll try to catch a show. Not out late these days. I lead #Qigong at a few venues (by donation). You'd be welcome to join
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... Hence, the #Shame. (Excuse me now, while I go dump some kitchen scraps into our little #compost bin and give it a stir.)
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... And as time passed, she amended, amended, amended. By the time I came along 50+ years later, you couldn't find a teaspoon of #red #clay on the grounds. Though I know better cerebrally, I am ever comparing our little garden here in the CA desert with the lushness of Grandmother's. Hence, ...
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... on this 4-acre piece of #red #clay "that didn't have ONE TEASPOON of good soil on it!" (as she used to say). She up and contracted with the local #cotton gin to truck their piles and piles of husks to the far (and hidden) end corner of the property: her first #compost piles. ...
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... workshop at the @rootsimple.bsky.social compound a few weeks back, Nance asked us all to introduce ourselves and to mention what our " #compost issue" was. I divulged that my "compost issue" is #Shame. My #Alabama grandmother married my grandfather and moved in with her Louisiana in-laws ...
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"... There is no whit less enlightenment under the tree at the end of your street than there was under #Buddha 's bo tree. In any instant the sacred may wipe you with its finger. In any instant the bush may flare, your feet may rise, or you may see a bunch of souls in trees."
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