Tim Hogan, Zen Mountain Man and Collections Manager of Botany at the University of Colorado Boulder’s Museum of Natural History, just shared his review of Eileen Crist’s Abundant Earth: Toward an Ecological Civilization (University of Chicago Press, 2019). After quoting Paul Shephard saying that “the ‘civilized mind’ attempts to simplify and level the world, whereas the […]
Continue reading →This morning Meri reminded me that today is the 75th rebirthday of Smokey the Bear, so together we read out loud, antiphonally, the Smokey the Bear Sutra under the Sunflowers of Vairocana and over breakfast. Of this Smokey the Bear Sutra, Katherine McNeil has this in her bibliography (Entry A 20): Single leaf broadside.…Printed in black on light […]
Continue reading →Available here is a PDF of Appendix 3: Mark Gonnerman, “Fieldwork: Gary Snyder, Libraries, and Book Learning,” in A Sense of the Whole: Reading Gary Snyder’s Mountains and Rivers Without End, ed. Mark Gonnerman (Berkeley: Counterpoint Press, 2015), 291–315. Gonnerman_Gary Snyder and Book Learning_A Sense of the Whole 2015
Continue reading →The other day, Meri Mitsuyoshi caught a Wall Street Journal article introducing Changing and Unchanging Things: Noguchi and Hasegawa in Postwar Japan, the exhibition that opened at Japan’s Yokohama Museum of Art (January 12–March 24), is currently at the Noguchi Museum in Queens (May 1–July 14, 2019), and will be at the Asian Art Museum […]
Continue reading →Here I’ll attach two recent interviews with Richard Powers, author of The Overstory (2018) in a PDF format that makes them easy to print out and read with pen in hand, which always enlivens the reading experience for me: 1] Everett. Hamner, “Here’s to Unsuicide: An Interview with Richard Powers,” Los Angeles Review of Books (7 April […]
Continue reading →Professor Qionglin “Joan” Tan, Yingying “Hannah” Deng, and I visited Gary Snyder at Kitkitdizze on 8 February 2019. There we caught up on news from the Center for Gary Snyder Studies Joan founded at Hunan University in 2015. Joan, Gary, Hannah (8Feb19) Professor Tan’s advisee, Ms. Deng, a Changsha native, is enjoying a dissertation research year at UC Berkeley. Gary […]
Continue reading →Thanks to Paul Nelson for reading and thinking with A Sense of the Whole, as noted here: https://www.paulenelson.com/2018/07/27/notes-on-a-sense-of-the-whole-reading-mark-gonnerman-reading-gary-snyder/
Continue reading →As i begin to make my contribution as Founding Humanities Teacher at the Academy of Thought and Industry (ATI) in San Francisco, i am excited by the prospect of turning San Francisco into a fieldwork site for young urban students of the human sciences. I will be leading a discussion about this on Sunday, July 1 from 10:00–12:00 noon: Here’s where […]
Continue reading →Here is the handout i created for a breakout session at the inspirational “Becoming Cascadian” retreat hosted by Paul Nelson and Bhakti Watts in the Cedar River Watershed on the shore of Lake Washington this past May 31–June 3. Becoming Cascadian Handout MG V.18 Our time together featured presentations by Andrew Schelling and Tetsuzen Jason Wirth, who took us into an in-depth […]
Continue reading →Kazuaki Tanahashi kindly sent me his latest book from Shambhala Press: a retrospective review of his paintings accompanied by stories that invite the reader to become better acquainted with the good life of this wandering Berkeley-based artivist (activist artist). Kaz’s book contains a chapter about his painting, Bristle Cone Pine, two scrolls that played a key role in our Mountains & Rivers Workshop. The […]
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