Loose Leaf Notes

That’s what I asked myself while standing next to Rodin’s headless Walking Man sculpture that was next to the Yoko Ono’s Wishing Tree in the Hirshhorn Museum Garden in D.C.

We took this picture at the entrance of the museum for our grandsons. Notice the flat tires.

Although the Smithsonian orchid exhibit (see HERE) was the day’s highlight, we also loved the Pulse installation at the Hirshhorn Museum, a light and water immersion experience that was inspired by the artist hearing his son’s heartbeat for the first time.

Our pulses effected this wall of water. 

I was also intrigued by the What Absence is Made Of exhibit.

There was art at every turn.

“I love larger than life Alice in Wonderland installations that stretch the boundaries of reality.” I wrote that in 2014 when we first discovered Barbara Kruger photomontages, an ongoing installation in the lower level of the Hirshhorn that is still there but changed up.

We thought this postcard message was perfect for Joe who is a mindfulness teacher.

We missed the cherry blossom trees in Washington DC, but not the later blooming double blossom variety at our friend’s Laura and Greg’s home on the outskirts of the city. (And check out the fantastic orchid exhibit we say HERE.)

They jokingly call their place Camp Fulton but I think of it more as a Villa.

Joe and I were pampered with Laura’s gourmet meals, a salt cave spa and swim, poolside sun, golf simulator fun, sherry, whiskey and wine sipping and deep conversation. What great hosts and friends!

On Saturday Joe and I attended a day long workshop with Michael Meade, who I described when we first met him in 2011 as a “shamanistic/poetic/storyteller, Irish wise guy, mentor to the troubled, author, mythologist, drummer, and scholar of psychology and language.

Meanwhile, I’m still processing the depths of Michael’s Paths of Awakening workshop but am currently in vacation recovery mode and waiting for my own head to return.  I do know that I resonate with Michael – whose tapes we have been listening to for many years – in a kindred way and appreciate that he is an original thinker with a focus on the inner life.  I recall that I actually gave him a hug at the close of the workshop and at one point handed him a copy of THIS poem I wrote after being inspired by our 2011 daylong workshop, which you can read about HERE.  P.S. I purposely posted 13 pictures in case my head doesn’t come back in time for my 13 Thursday post this week! / Our World Tuesday /All Seasons