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On The Path: An Interview With Linsi Deyo
March 22, 2022 By Southern Dharma Staff
This is part one of three of an interview Southern Dharma Executive Director Sonia Marcus conducted with long time friend of Southern Dharma, Linsi Deyo. Linsi is the owner of Carolina Morning, a company that specializes in meditation implements, cushions, seats, furniture and other supports. You can learn more about their work at www.zafu.net
SM: Let's start out, if you don't mind, by introducing ourselves. What I know about you so far is that Carolina Morning is your business and that you used to serve on the board at Southern Dharma. I was wondering if you could tell me a little bit more about yourself and your backgrounds.
LD: When I went to college, I was a philosophy major. And in the end, I was a philosophy major. I did a lot of switching, and I wanted to go to graduate school for Comparative Eastern and Western Philosophy. I got accepted at a school that I didn't want to go to, and I did not get accepted to the school I wanted to go to, so I decided not to go to the school I wasn't drawn to and ended up not really using my college education in the way I expected.
I was sort of trying to find myself. The closest I got to a career was my interest in therapy. I worked in mental hospitals, and I was on track to become a therapist. And inside of myself, I felt like I wasn't really ready to; I felt like I needed to heal more.
I had moved to Spring Creek—to Madison County—very close to Southern Dharma and had met Elizabeth and Melinda. I was very interested in Southern Dharma because I already considered myself a Buddhist and had done a number of retreats in the Northeast.
SM: How did you end up in Spring Creek?
LD: I hiked the Appalachian Trail.
SM: You just walked off the trail and into Spring Creek?
LD: Sort of. I hiked the whole trail. I started in Georgia and hiked all the way up to Maine with my boyfriend at that time and our dog, Otis.
SM: So it was the three of you on the AT.
LD: Yes. Otis couldn't hike through the Smokies with us, so we boarded Otis. In the process of boarding the dog, we went through Spring Creek, and we met Pearl Goforth. Pearl lived very close to Southern Dharma, and for some reason, we stopped at Pearl's house. I think there was a dog in the road or something like that.
We pulled over. Pearl was an 80-year-old woman and we started talking to her—she was very friendly—and she said, "Dolly and Grace have that little house for sale up on the hill over there." We looked up the hill, and she said, "If you think you like this area so much, why don't you just go ahead and buy that house?"
SM: Wow.
LD: Well we did.
SM: Talk about serendipity.
LD: I was very involved with the Tibetan Buddhist community [in Boston, where I came from]. There were very few Buddhists in Spring Creek at the time. Then, I found out about Elizabeth and Melinda and what they were doing. I'd only come to Buddhism in 1980, so I was in that ecstatic stage of having found this miraculous new way of life.
SM: What did that ecstatic stage look like? How did that manifest?
LD: This is what I consider the gem in my story related to Southern Dharma. I was very much enamored by the model of the Dharma teacher. Once I decided I wanted to be a therapist, I struggled for a long time with whether I wanted to be a Dharma teacher.
I was in my early and mid-thirties, so it's a time of life. I think we all do this in our own way. Really my lesson from Southern Dharma, by working so closely with Southern Dharma and getting to know the teachers, was realizing that the teachers were on the same path as me, and a lot of them had similar struggles to my struggles. That did draw me, and wanting to be part of bringing the Dharma to birth in that place was very exciting to me. The Dharma had, in combination with therapy, been a very powerful movement in my life and they still are. They still are.
Southern Dharma encouraged me to start Carolina Morning Designs, and Melinda and Elizabeth encouraged me to start it on my own.
SM: So it's not just that we have your cushions and zabutons here because you're a local company and you've been involved with Southern Dharma but because the whole company idea itself was born out of Southern Dharma and your experience with it.
LD: Absolutely. Elizabeth and Melinda were focused on diversity. This was the 80s and it wasn't that far away from the Women's Movement. As a kid in college, the Women's Movement was just starting at the end of the 60s and in the early 70s. Melinda, Elizabeth, and myself came out of the Women's Movement. It influenced us. As much as they wanted diversity, they wanted to empower women.
Keep an eye out for Part 2 coming soon!
Building Beloved Dharma Communities
November 10, 2021 By Southern Dharma Staff
By Matt Kaplan, 2021 Resident
In late June of 2021, I went to Southern Dharma to do my final project for a Masters degree in Reconciliation and Peacebuilding. I developed the project, entitled "Peace Processes for Building Beloved Community," based upon six "Peace Processes" - Listening, Emotions, Empathy, Dialogue, Critical Thinking, and Going Forth - all centered around processing content related to healing racism, aimed at building healthier communities.
This project sought to fill a gap in convert American Buddhism, partly addressed by Engaged Buddhism, emphasizing relational practices, rather than just individual meditation. This is a way to connect the "inner and outer," potentially leading to more effective peacebuilding strategies - and Sangha development. Reconciliation, which Dr. King referred to as "the aftermath of nonviolence," is both a process and a goal, like: "peace by peaceful means" (Johan Galtung); "we make the road by walking" (Myles Horton & Paulo Freire); "we build the road and the road builds us" (Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement); and "peace is every step" (Nhat Hanh). Therefore, rather than "achieving" reconciliation at some future time, we can start here and now, building more sustainable, durable, and resilient communities through relevant practices - with the help of spiritual friends (Pali: kalyana mitta).
After arriving, I had little more than a week until we would begin the project. It was good to be back, having sat a couple of retreats here before, and also a couple online - one of which took place in the spring with Donald Rothberg on "Buddhist Practice and Transforming Racism Inside and Outside." It turned out he would be leading another retreat on the same theme during the first weekend I was there, this time for the board and staff. In no way had I fully integrated all the material from the earlier retreat, so I felt really fortunate to get to participate again. That retreat served as an excellent primer for the project sessions to come. Rothberg names the "importance of community, including both smaller communities that can be supportive home bases, relatively free of 'shame and blame,' for transformative practice, and the larger, emerging 'beloved community.'" That resonated with me and was similar to what we would be trying to do later.
On July 1st, we had our first session of "Beloved Community." Our core material was a report called "Making the Invisible Visible: Healing Racism in Our Buddhist Communities," which contained many personal statements from practitioners and teachers. Although we had a curriculum and I had a rough idea of how it would go, it turned out that all six sessions became adaptations of what was originally planned. Most of the first session focused on coming up with group agreements - basically a conversation about the type of space we would like to create, for safety and supporting each other. Next, we read about The Beloved Community, listened to part of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech (as a Dharma talk), and read about Sangha by Thich Nhat Hanh - then we envisioned our own Beloved Community. Over time, the sessions proceeded smoothly enough, touching on Peace Processes and other curriculum, including Joanna Macy's "Truth Mandala," ARISE Sangha's "Gatha for Healing Racial, Systemic, and Social Inequity," and Kingian Nonviolence, both steps and principles.
In addition to the important practice we were doing, I loved being in the mountains, with Dharma friends, connecting with nature, simpler living, and meditation. It's quite a blessing to get to experience these conditions, for the time getting to step out of a much crazier world - to then return with more clarity and energy for engagement. I believe the world needs our practices, more mindfulness and compassion for dealing with the complexity of issues, rather than full-time escape. My hope is that we can grow and develop these practices, drawing upon the energy of our time, moving us closer to Dr. King's vision of the Beloved Community.
Creating Whole and Beloved Communities does not arise just because we want them to, or because we think we deserve them, or because we think that this is the way things should be, nor does it happen overnight. It happens through the diligence and consistency of difficult work, constant compassion, and always our highest intentions embodied by Wise Effort and the entire Eightfold Path ... from all communities, to work on ourselves over time, so that we can work on ourselves together. - Larry Yang, "Sangha is Culture"
Matt Kaplan resides in the Southeast and has sat many retreats in different traditions, with affinity for Vipassana and Zen. He is completing an MA Reconciliation and Peacebuilding degree and is currently exploring restorative practices, folk schools, and critical pedagogy.
Falling Into the Sunset: An Interview with Tracey Huger, 2021 Resident
October 18, 2021 By Southern Dharma Staff
The following interview between Tracey Huger, 2021 Resident and Sonia Marcus, Executive Director was recorded in February 2021. Tracey describes herself this way: Tracey Huger, originally from the Bronx, continues to travel through the South in search of new unique experiences. Tracey served as a Resident for 6 non-consecutive weeks, focusing on racial awareness and equity planning. We love and miss you, Tracey!
Portrait of Tracey Huger at Southern Dharma
SM: Considering that we're a couple of people who grew up in New York City and from backgrounds that had absolutely nothing to do with Buddhism, it's kind of funny that you and I would meet here this year. So how did that happen?
TH: Yeah, it's the Universe.
SM: How did that happen to you?
TH: Well, I've had some meditation training a few years ago. I went to a 10-day course [Goenka] that was pretty intense; and after that, I really didn't practice very much.
Last year, I took a six-week course on mindful meditation, and since then, it's been incorporated, not necessarily in formal sits, but in the way I was seeing things. The space that it created and in the attention to the now, basically.
When this opportunity [Southern Dharma Residency] arose, I was like, "Oh, that's pretty cool. I do like the outdoors." There was also a special project attached to it that I'm particularly interested in right now. All of that together made me try this out. The first couple of days here have been really interesting.
SM: Will you share more about that?
TH: It has been eye-opening; and one of those experiences that, once you absorb the space, you also really see who you are.
I learned that in my first 10-day meditation course. There, I was super defiant for absolutely no reason. I was imagining breaking out of the campus in Montreal that was in the middle of nowhere. But there was no way I would be able to get back home because they had driven me there! So, then I thought, what was I breaking out of? Nobody is keeping me here. I realized that I was defiant then.
Here what I noticed is my natural tendency to be academic and study. There's not a lot of people here because of the Covid restrictions. So, I just happened to pick up a book and began voraciously reading. That's what I needed to do.
SM: Guilty confession: Many meditation teachers at Southern Dharma will tell you not to read any books while you're on retreats, but I have read some of the best books here at Southern Dharma when I was on retreat.
TH: I was reading [Eckhart Tolle's] The Power of Now. It is all about stillness and an appreciation for now. As a New Yorker, whenever I have idle time my brain just really goes. I read 100 pages the first night. I couldn't get enough of it.
During the 10-day sit, I didn't have access to anything. I was sneaking paper to try to write in the staircase. I understand the value in that part because it gives you the separation. But there's also a stillness that allows you to deeply understand, especially if you're reading something that's a program or appropriate for your current situation.
SM: I can tell you I was the same way, and still am to some extent. I thought I would essentially cogitate my way to understanding Buddhism and meditation. The practice has also been huge but it isn't necessarily the thing I was initially drawn to. I was captivated by the concepts.
TH: I think because I had some sort of meditation experience as a child I connected to the experience of it. It overlaps with my spiritual and religious background as well. I did not have a religion as a kid, though I'd been around people who had religion. So, I had some ideas of what they kind of do.
Until I was about 12 I thought I was Christian. Then somebody told me
the tenets of Christianity and I was like, "Oh, no, that's not me."
So that's been my experience with meditation, where I had already had certain experiences and I didn't have a language for it.
SM: You were telling me about when you were growing up that you had the feeling that you were meditating, but didn't know what meditating was.
TH: Yeah, a good portion of my meditation started from watching sunsets. We happened to have a fantastic view of Manhattan from where we were in the Bronx. I could see the George Washington Bridge and a little sliver of the Hudson River. It was just beautiful. Every night I would just watch the sunset.
At some point, it just became like I fell into the sunset. I really can't explain it. It was a stillness that felt like I was going into a vacuum, and from that space things were clear.
I could see the people in their apartment buildings and the people on the street. I thought, why aren't they aware of this? How could my family be doing things behind me, like watching TV, when this was happening?
I maintained [the practice] from 7 through 18, when I finally left our home. It was just like this thing that I had. It didn't really make sense to me why other people weren't tapping into that.
SM: Let's go from there to talking about the South. You're seeing the South when you come to Southern Dharma, right?
TH: I came from New York through Atlanta. Basically, when you travel, you recognize what to expect of who you are. I got a taste of what it means to be a New Yorker in other places. Some of it is language. Certain words that I say, identifying me as New Yorker that other New Yorkers gravitate towards. So we tell our stories.
SM: 'You guys. You know.' Those are the ones for me.
TH: There's that sort of being, out of knowing I'm not originally from here. But I do have some roots, my parents are Southern. I'm comfortable with the culture and certain things that I can kind of relate to. But I've never experienced rural South except for my family's farm in the plains of South Carolina.
This is very different. This is quite rural and a little... creepy. By the time I got up that interesting road, my thought was, "Well, I really hope I like these people because it's not going to be easy to get down!" Then there's a degree of commitment that's nice. Whereas if it were just across the street from a major highway, then it's like, "OK, if I don't like this then I'll just go."
But it's also really beautiful. There is a little spot here carved into this wonderful thick forest in the mountains. You're not just going up the mountain, there's a degree of leaving something behind. That's beautiful. This is a safe container, which you can use to explore various things.
SM: I remember when you arrived, you called your sister to let her know you had survived the trip.
TH: Yeah! I told her about that one lane road, but it's a two-way lane and it's very close. It's like the edge where you can totally fall off and you know, you have to go. And it's like a leap of faith.
After all that, she's like, "Why are you there? Why did you do this to yourself?" I replied, "I like adventure". I know myself. I learn about myself as much as I do about the space I enter.
SM: When we were talking when you first arrived, I was just so delighted to hear you comparing it to a couple of other experiences you had of being in the Adirondacks and the Australian Outback. But this is your country. And it's not just your country, it's the region where your parents were born and raised, you know what I mean?
TH: Totally. But what I did in the Adirondacks and the Outback felt more akin to this. I went to the Adirondacks from the city by going that far north. That was just incredible and beautiful. But it has a different feel. This feels more rustic. I don't think "downhome", because that sounds derogatory, but it really is. It feels less manufactured in some ways.
Then when I was in Australia, we traveled through serious outback. There's nobody for days and you're on a dirt country road with big dust storms. You need to make sure you have all your supplies because nobody's going to help you if you break down and don't have water.
So that's what I meant when I compared the experiences. And in some ways, that's scary. But for me, it was sort of like you get a sense of your humanity. It's the limits of being human and the need to really rely on others in certain ways and also prepare. And that's the feeling I got, even though there are resources available. There's a seriousness about this that is different from those other experiences.
SM: Another difference with outback Australia is here you're driving past houses that have Confederate flags flying on them.
TH: As an African American, there's always the fear that big cities are a little bit safer than other areas. But I try my best not to make assumptions because there's a cultural difference.
In New York, I used to say to Jewish people I would encounter - and I hope this isn't offensive - "Are you a practicing Jew or a cultural Jew?" There are practicing conservative and orthodox Jewish people. Then there are a lot of people who are what I would call culturally Jewish - they don't have a history of practicing, but they still identify as Jewish.
That's kind of the South as well. There are people who see the Confederate flag as part of the culture in the South. That could mean sort of like "rebel", or it's tied to their culture. And then there are those who take it as White Supremacy.
How you approach and identify them - you can't bring your assumptions there because you may get a response that's not reflective of who they are. If you encounter a white supremacist, most of them are not going to bother you. You can identify those who don't really want to be in your presence. You just leave it. What if you offer an openness? If they're not that type of person, they'll appreciate it. That's really beautiful. It's likely you'll find some sort of common ground and you'll leave there knowing that everyone within that situation is not what you think. They'll get some sort of appreciation of where you are, who you are, because they've had a real experience. I'm open to that. I've heard lots of stories, but I know how to approach people. You give them a chance.
SM: So you trust in your open heart on some level? That you'll connect with other open hearts and that ultimately trumps everything else?
TH: Yeah, it really does. You have to give it a chance because if you approach them with this sense that that's not going to happen, then it probably won't.
What was more sort of strange to me were all the Trump signs. That's more of an association. I thought that was interesting and wondered how they relate to me. Once again, there's various reasons why one would affiliate with one [political] party.
SM: Talk to me about coming to meditation from a different background than many others.
TH: From an African American experience, although I don't represent all African Americans, my experience in my culture is that meditation, yoga, all those sorts of practices are not celebrated. They're not well known from our perspective. We haven't adopted it. Therefore, there's a distance there.
Then there's expectations. Sometimes when you go into [meditation groups], not only are you not necessarily represented, but it also doesn't feel like it reflects you in a lot of ways. Once you enter that space, depending on how welcoming it is, you can go beyond that. It becomes a part of what's available to you as opposed to a cultural difference.
You're entering the culture of that space. You can adopt it and find a way that's very personal. I found that here. Definitely. I've noticed there are certain spaces that are so warm within its community, within meditation and yoga. They are naturally warm. Everyone is accepted.
When you think about it too much, you're separating in a way that's not necessary. You end up taking an idea that's from a white dominant culture and you should be accepted in every space. It changes to mean you're accepted because of your culture. I don't have that expectation. It's almost like the white bar that just gets dipped in chocolate. Now it's black. Yeah. That's not true understanding.
SM: That's right. Because that's not inclusion.
TH: No, that's not inclusion. It's nice to come into these very warm spaces where it's not just Black or White. We're dealing on a different level.
SM: I'm glad you felt that way while you were here. Let's come back to something you were saying to me about how, in African-American culture, things like yoga and meditation or maybe other types of alternative wellness or spiritual alternatives are not necessarily part of the landscape. It's that there's a certain level of distrust, right?
TH: Absolutely.
SM: I was wondering if you could say a little more about that.
TH: Well, within our cultural traditions, Christianity plays a huge part. There's a sense of a direct [spiritual] connection within the yoga and meditation traditions that make them feel very different [from the belief in Jesus]. Like, it may not be something that can be adopted and still maintain one's Christianity - which is not true. It's not a dogma. It's a perspective that actually weaves well into Christianity and other sorts of religions but it must be embraced as such before one can see that.
Then there's the way it's been marketed as sort of an elitist practice or for a particular type of person. If one doesn't want to be that, that can feel like a barrier. In work and academic spaces we often find ourselves not being the dominant group or in small numbers, but we can pretend those spaces are neutral by focusing on the work, the knowledge or our performance. Yet, in the yoga and meditation space the practice itself can feel like a cultural experience, and we're not necessarily going to want to adopt a different culture. Once again, if one gets past that first layer, the actual practice itself is available to everyone; but one has to want to, and feel one can, make that jump. It's like the knowledge in the classroom that is available to everyone, if one gets past the artifice of elitism that exists around it. Those barriers or limited access points, they're not really necessary.
SM: I always think of it as the packaging that goes around it. It's like the practice itself is just light. That's all, just light. It doesn't have any cultural dimension or real religious dogma, necessarily. Some can put this box around it that says that it's for these people and it's done this way. But once you break that open, it's just the light that's shining.
TH: Yeah, and we focus on the package so much.
That's how I can speak to that Southern person with the Confederate flag and find common ground. I'm waiting to find out what's cool and neat about them. It's like a beauty. Once I find that, I'm super excited because it's like, "Oh, I have that, too! Ok, now we're going to speak on that shared level."
Then, it becomes clear because I've gone through the steps of kind of understanding who they are. The language - I already know it. It's not like I'm trying to translate it. We're both speaking the same language. Even if I stumbled a bit, we already broke through the barriers and vice versa. I know we're trying to work on this level, so, I will say, "I don't agree with this or that; but we're both still here." I love that!
SM: I think that's the heart of the South.
TH: Yeah, it is.
SM: Tracey, you applied for a residency with us and you expressed a particular interest in working with us on anti-racism work, racial diversity, inclusion and equity. Say more about that.
TH: Well, 2020 has been an interesting year and the summer was definitely racially charged. There was sort of an awakening, an opportunity for people to really think about how to deal with racism in this country. As a result of that, I was getting so much information, a lot of it from social media, and I felt disheartened by it. At the same time, my white friends were approaching me and wanting all this information.
I noticed there were a lot of books and these beautiful reading and watch lists. But, for me, it was slightly overwhelming. I couldn't imagine feeling a sense of urgency and being directed to read a list of books. So, I developed a website [studentsneedteachers.com] with the hopes of encouraging others to feel the pain of racism. I want people to feel it and understand that that feeling is what will drive their curiosity because they'll have a more innate knowledge of it.
The site starts with short, powerful videos. The first talks about the history of racism and systematic oppression by Kimberly Jones. She does this analogy to Monopoly that's just beautiful. The next one is a young man, who looks like a child, talking about a list that his mother gave him and he's been forced to learn. Not every kid has to do that but Black people are burdened with adjusting to unfair systems. The last video poses the question of complicity. An educator, Jane Elliott, makes an audience aware of a difference in treatment that can't be denied, and suggests it is now their responsibility to do something about it. She broke it down so beautifully. This is the problem, and we have to move forward because inaction is consent. So this was my mindset. After George Floyd, we're all aware there is a bad situation. I was gathering all this information with the hopes of helping others gain a way into the issue.
When I saw the Residency, I thought I might be able to combine the spirit of my meditative practice, with a taste of the interesting culture that exists here, while learning how cultural awareness could be incorporated into it. I could get information about the needs of the community and what it feels is lacking, because it's not about pushing out information. It's seeing where curiosity is, what gaps in information there are, and how we can make the experience personal - because that's important.
SM: What are the key things that you're taking with you from this experience that started with driving up into the mountains and going up the crazy gravel one way road?
TH: Well, I am aware that I am definitely from the city. (laughs)
Mostly, I felt the importance of not erasing our differences in the service of peace. Also, if I continue to explore anti-racism, my meditative practices can inform it. However, to be effective, I'll also have to confront and explore my own racial traumas.
SM: Thank you, Tracey. It was a nice conversation to have with you. I'm looking forward to delight in your ongoing journey and your insights. Thank you for letting us share Southern Dharma with you.
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Where Hearts Connect: A Mother and Son's Journey
August 25, 2021 By Southern Dharma Staff
by Bev Wann
It was a rough couple of years. At age 19, my son Brendan had a bleed in his brain that resulted in half of his body being paralyzed. He muscled his way through months of rehab and eventually picked up the pieces of his life. Just one month into his second semester at college he had a second bleed. This one also froze half of his body and required him to come to a complete stop … no school, no job, back into my, his mother's, home. He started on an earnest, often painful, journey of healing … focusing on his body, his heart, and his spirit.
In March of his 23rd year he went on his first residential, silent retreat at Southern Dharma Retreat Center. He died of a third episode six months later.
His teachers and the practices they encouraged during that week on the mountain offered him support for being with the limitations of his physical body, tools for working with times of overwhelming fear and sadness and ways to find moments of peace. His last chapter of life on earth was a time of profound awakening to the truth of unending love. His time at SDRC was an important part of his dying with an open heart.
Shortly after his passing I found my way up the winding road to SDRC for a retreat of my own. I have returned to attend many retreats since then. The land has absorbed my tears and the mountain has heard my cries of grief. This retreat center has become my place of refuge and solace. The sanctuary, silence, teachers … the shared wisdom, gracious staff, natural beauty … have all supported me through years of recovery and beyond. Last month I attended a solo retreat in one of the little cabins right by the creek. I found great joy sitting in meditation with the other retreatants, weeding the gardens, climbing the mountain, eating the incredible SDRC meals, resting in the sounds of the bees and the flowing water, and communing in the evenings with the small band gathered together for the week.
Each retreat offers me the dual gifts of silence - deep peace and profound confrontation with my own mind. And each retreat offers me a chance to reconnect with my inner life, with the pulse of wilderness and with my son. I sense him most clearly when I am quiet, in my heart and in this place we both know and knew as sacred. In the closing retreat circles I am always moved to mention his name to honor his short, but full life.
I write this to bring to life the power and possibilities a retreat can offer someone coming into their own as a young adult. It may offer a place of healing, it may offer a space for exploring one's path or purpose, it may provide vital teachings that support years of practice and growth and it may plant seeds that mature into a lifetime of compassionate and wise choices. A contribution to the Brendan James Scholarship Fund will support young adults in being able to attend retreats before they may be able to afford one on their own. I can't think of a better way to pass on what we know in our hearts to those coming behind us.
Attending a meditation retreat is a luxury that many young adults cannot afford without support. If you would like to make an offering to the Brendan James Scholarship Fund for Young Adults, or any of our other scholarship programs, please visit our Donation page and let us know in the comments how you would like your gift utilized. Deep thanks to Brendan for his inspiring example and Bev for her commitment to all our early stage practitioners. May all who are searching find their way to the Dharma.
Carving Spoons
August 6, 2021 By Southern Dharma Staff
By Sam Chrisinger, Winter Resident
One of the ways I spent my time at Southern Dharma was carving wooden spoons. I appreciate the stillness this can bring to a quiet morning. With hands and eyes occupied this way I often find my mind settles easily, and I had many sweet mornings watching dawn arrive in the holler while working away on a project.
The way I practice it, spoon carving begins with what looks like a round piece of firewood, and the best wood is still wet and yields easily to a knife. I had the good fortune to harvest some sections of a last-year's wind-fall maple tree from the woods on the land. Not as green as a freshly fallen tree, but still good for carving work. Almost certainly one of the red maple trees (acer rubrum var. rubum) that grace the Southeast with their springtime fireworks display of bright red buds that explode into flowers. In March it was these very buds that were my company as I whittled away on the kitchen stoop. Deep gratitude to these maple trees and the land they stand on.
Once cut into 12" sections, the logs are riven in half as neatly as possible using a combination of a froe (wedge) and beetle (sledge). One of the halves is roughly shaped with a hatchet, quickly removing large quantities of what wood needs to be removed to reveal the shape of a spoon. The remaining chunk can rightfully be called a "blank" and is ready for the gradual refinement by knife, gouge, and hook knife.
As the piece is turned every which way and wood is gradually removed, and the carver must constantly attune to the direction of fibers in the wood, knots or other irregularities. Most of all to taking great care not to cut too deeply in any spot. Cutting "against the grain" inevitably causes the wood fibers to tear out, sometimes in large chunks. In this way a workpiece can be ruined in an instant. Cutting "with the grain" usually isn't subject to this danger, but with a spoon it's rarely so simple. Every curve and transition contains a point of inflection where carving must briefly happen in the "wrong direction". Learning to feel this change with the knife and how to navigate it gracefully takes practice and a healthy dose of intuition.
Spoon carving can be a practice in observing the ways all the senses expand and contract. This happens simultaneously and on many levels. There is the movement from tree to log to blank to spoon-shaped to spoon and all of the transitions therein. There are the moments where vision narrows to an area smaller than a dime, fixated on some tiny imperfection or detail. There are moments when the awareness of touch is centered almost fully in the right thumb as it guides a knife smoothly across some difficult place. Then pause, hold the piece back and look it over. Check the balance, check the thickness in different places. Does it flow together as a whole? Will it even work as a spoon? The geometry of commonplace implements is easy to overlook until you've managed to carve an absurd and utterly unusable soup spoon. As the piece becomes physically smaller so do the spheres of attention and intention, but always these areas of focus must be understood as part of a larger whole. A repeating spiral from gross to subtle to gross to subtle.
As someone still coming to terms with the fact that perfection is not only unattainable but somewhat nonsensical when applied to everyday things (I'm stubborn so this is a slow process), I find observing my mind to be one of the most interesting aspects of carving. A wide spectrum is there to observe-from those profound moments of single pointed concentration to the captivating daydreams that leave me wondering what I've been doing and wow am I glad I'm not bleeding. When things seem to be going well my mind easily turns to "Oh I must be good at this!", and just as easily a mistake becomes "What a waste, I should give this up altogether!". It's places of artistic expression where my inner perfectionist comes out most strongly, and often projects are discarded because of some small flaw. To check this impulse I used to make a practice of always finishing a spoon once started, but now I allow for a wider range of discretion. There is that constant play between sensing what is challenging yet worthwhile and what is simply energy better spent elsewhere. Sometimes this means being willing to spend hours carving an elaborate piece of kindling. Other times the result is a finely formed and functional spoon that can be enjoyed for years to come. Trying to remain equally open to both outcomes has been a real place of learning for me.
Sam is a software developer turned carpenter, woodworker, and bicycle mechanic- jack of many trades, master of none. Born in raised in Virginia, he has spent the past several years living in North Carolina (with the exception of a brief stint on the West coast). He enjoys playing clawhammer banjo, cooking, and spending time outside. Sam is currently serving as Interim Groundskeeper here at SDRC.
Takeaways from our Gender & Accommodations survey
May 16, 2021 By Southern Dharma Staff
In February 2021, Southern Dharma asked our newsletter subscribers to participate in a (highly unscientific but still very informative) survey on gender & accommodations. The survey seeks to inform Southern Dharma's practices around the assignment of housing options and how gender does (or doesn't) play into that. Our intention is to maximize the housing we have available for as many retreatants as possible, and also to be accommodating of diverse needs and diverse genders.
We asked respondents to kindly set aside concerns about snoring, since snoring is something that people of all genders can be prone to, and we already ask a specific question about that on our registration form.
As of mid-May 2021, we received 74 responses, partially summarized below by question:
So, what are my key takeaways from this (and some further analysis)? What are the things I feel that we need to keep in mind when making changes?
Only women said that they would insist on sharing a space with someone of the same gender, whether it was the dorm or the double bedrooms. Those who felt this way still represented a minority of the respondents, though a majority of female respondents would at least prefer to be housed with other female retreatants if not insist upon it.
People are apparently more sensitive in regards to sharing the double rooms versus the dorm spaces on the 3rd floor, which offer privacy partitions.
People who have been on 4+ retreats have significantly stronger preferences to be segregated by gender. It's possible that this is due to the fact that they are older but we did not ask people to identify themselves by age in the survey.
Several female respondents specified that they consider anyone who identifies as female as female, regardless of their birth sex.
In the open feedback question, we received some additional requests to "please take extra care of gender nonconforming people. Making effort to ask what they need to feel safe and comfortable." We also received some appreciation for asking these questions at all.
We may make a decision based on the feedback to allow people of all genders to share the dormitory space (rather than restricting it to females), and use the double rooms on the 2nd floor to house retreatants who either prefer or insist on sharing space with someone of the same gender, especially females. This will allow us to adapt more flexibly to registrations for any particular retreat, rather than restricting admission to individuals of a particular gender in order to fill our remaining spots. We will also discuss whether single kutis or tents could be blocked off for retreats until we determine that someone does not have a critical need for a solo space, rather than just a preference. These could be, for example, gender nonconforming individuals who do not feel comfortable sharing sleeping space at all.
Feel free to comment on this post if you have thoughts to share on the results. We are also open to receiving more responses if you haven't yet participated in the survey, but would like to. Thanks in advance for completing the survey by June 1, 2021, at which time it will officially close.
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UT Austin structural biologist Jason McLellan, Ph.D., is the recipient of the 2022 Edith and Peter O'Donnell Award in Medicine from TAMEST. He was chosen for his breakthrough research in mapping, modifying, and stabilizing coronavirus spike proteins, which paved the way for the creation of leading COVID-19 vaccines.
Dr. McLellan, Welch Chair in Chemistry and Professor in the Department of Molecular Biosciences at The University of Texas at Austin, has been working on coronaviruses since 2013.
His team of structural biologists created the first three-dimensional structure of the coronavirus spike protein, a shape-shifting protein that allows the virus to enter and infect human cells. This blueprint of the protein enabled McLellan and his researchers to modify the spike and help stabilize it in a form that is optimal for use in vaccines.
His research laid the groundwork for vaccines from Pfizer/BioNTech, Moderna, Johnson & Johnson and Novavax. They all utilized his spike protein discovery in their efforts to create and distribute life-saving vaccines.
"By discovering ways to stabilize the spike protein, the part of the coronavirus capable of infecting cells, Dr. McLellan's work uncovered a critical invention that helps to create a strong antibody response to the coronavirus," said Nominator Nancy A Moran, Ph.D. (NAS), Warren J. and Viola Mae Raymer Chair Professor, Integrative Biology, The University of Texas at Austin. "Once the map is created, Dr. McLellan's team can rationally determine changes to the virus molecule to create a vaccine not normally found in nature. The implications his research has for the future of vaccines is simply stunning, with applications for a wide range of deadly viruses threatening people around the globe."
Dr. McLellan is one of four Texas-based researchers receiving the TAMEST 2022 Edith and Peter O'Donnell Awards. Each are chosen for their individual contributions addressing the essential role that science and technology play in society, and whose work meets the highest standards of exemplary professional performance, creativity and resourcefulness.
"Beyond just the state of Texas, Dr. McLellan's research on stabilizing coronavirus spike proteins has saved countless lives around the world and we are honored to present him with the 2022 Edith and Peter O'Donnell Award in Medicine," said David E. Daniel, Ph.D. (NAE), TAMEST Board President. "The pandemic has been hard on all of us, and we are honored to recognize Dr. McLellan's dedication and foresight in creating virus antigens that continue to be utilized in vaccines. We can't wait to see how he will utilize this research next."
Dr. McLellan will be recognized at the 2022 Edith and Peter O'Donnell Awards Ceremony on Monday, June 20, 2022, and will give a presentation on his research preceding the award ceremony at the TAMEST 2022 Annual Conference, Forward Texas – Imperatives for Health in San Antonio, Texas at the Westin Riverwalk Hotel.
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The 20-seat spot will serve beefsteak, chicken adobo, pancit, and more
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String bean adobo: long string beans sautéed with soy sauce, vinegar, garlic, and onion, and served with jasmine rice.
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Atlanta's culinary scene is a melting pot of cultures. But there aren't a ton of Filipino options. Hope Webb and Walter Cortado hope to help change that by opening Estrellita in Grant Park.
A self-described serial entrepreneur with 12 years in hospitality, Webb and business partner Cortado both have roots in Pampanga, often described as the culinary capital of the Philippines. It's a region influenced by Spain, as well as Japan and America, Webb explains. She and Cortado created Estrellita, which opens in the spring at 580 Woodward Avenue, to bring the food they grew up with to Atlantans.
Chicken inasal: grilled chicken marinated with ginger, lemongrass, garlic, and onion.
Named after a song by Manuel Ponce that Cortado's grandfather frequently hummed, Estrellita—or "little star" in Spanish—also pays tribute to Webb's mother, whose last name was Estrella. An intimate space that seats 20, Estrellita is designed to be the "little star" of Grant Park, Cortado says.
The restaurant will serve Filipino staples such as beefsteak, chicken adobo, lumpia (similar to spring rolls), and pancit (a version of lo mein). As head chef, Cortado will also make bone marrow soup—a sour, salty, and spicy soup he says rivals ramen—with plantains, bok choy, and beef, served with rice. Comfort foods such as arroz caldo—rice porridge with onions, garlic, ginger—will be available, too.
Bistek: thinly sliced beef marinated in a savory soy and lemon sauce, pan fried, and finished with citrus, then served over a bed of jasmine rice.
For brunch, there will be garlic fried rice with fried egg and Filipino sausage and egg sandwiches on pandesal bread with potatoes and banana ketchup. Expect mimosas and Micheladas.
Though Estrellita is unlikely to have its liquor license when it first opens, it will later offer a concise bar program with sangria, Red Horse beer, house red and wine wines, and a couple seasonal cocktails utilizing the tropical fruits of the Philippines, Cortado says.
Located next to Manny's Grant Park, Estrellita will be designed with Spanish and Filipino influence and "Hollywood regency style," Webb says.
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The mouthwatering legacy of Melbourne Mexican joint Trippy Taco
Words by Marnie Vinall
Trippy Taco has long held a special place in the hearts and bellies of Melbourne's vegans and vegetarians.
Serving up Mexican street food style dishes, the restaurant has been going strong for over 19 years now. It's fair to say the store is part of the city's furniture at this point – and with the assorted menu sporting flavours from across the board, it's clear to see why.
Many years ago, it all began as an idea between mates at a get together. "It started from a party," creator and owner of Trippy Taco, Simon Fischer, explains. "A friend of mine had a bus in this caravan park up in Byron Bay, and said, 'Oh, we should have a party here one day'. So, we said 'yeah, let's have a party' and I said, 'I'll make tacos', because I'd just got back from America and learnt how to make all these tacos and was right into it."
The party was a success. So, knowing they were onto something good, Fischer and his mates took their tacos on the road, going around to markets and festivals offering up their bites to the masses. "Seriously, it was just fun. It wasn't even a money thing. It was only three years later I realised and went, 'Oh you can actually make some money doing this.'"
This went on for around six years, before the Trippy Taco we know and love along Fitzroy's Gertrude Street opened its door in 2006.
A lot of the menu is heavily influenced from Fischer's pre-food truck days in America, "I was living in San Diego and my friend who I was living with taught me how to make the tortillas. We'd literally just be making tortillas every night and then I was going down to Mexico surfing a lot, as we were only 20 minutes from the border, eating lots of tacos down there."
Fischer realised that what he was experiencing wasn't like anything available back in Australia. "There was nothing like that when we got home," he explains. Vegetarians, in particular, were out of luck in this regard. "There was nothing around. Well, very little. There was definitely no vegetarian Mexican food around."
So, drawing from what he learnt overseas, Fischer starting experimenting with flavours out of his food truck and "trying it out on customers and seeing what customers liked". From this, he developed the trademark taste of Trippy Taco over a slow process, evolving the flavours to give the people the scrumptious taste they deserve.
Even today, Fischer acknowledges that the offerings of his store are distinctive to the others of the city. "We make our own corn tortillas every day, fresh, and we cook them to order. So, if you order a taco, the tortilla is cooked from raw right there in front of you – you wouldn't get that anywhere else."
Although the menu has authentic elements, Fischer is quick to note that he's never called it authentic. "Because I'm Australian, I'm not Mexican," he regards. "I've just borrowed authentic elements."
Fischer is rightly proud of Trippy Taco and the eatery he's nurtured since those beginning days a long time ago.
"It's a little eclectic, a little bit quirky," he notes. "It's maybe a little bit a reflection of myself, my friends and what I like. It's just grown out of that and in a way, because of where it is, it's taken on its own personality."
"People find it really tricky to pin Trippy Taco down to any one thing and it's sort of also a bit hectic, and at some times, a bit confusing," Fischer laughs. "I like that because there are all these places that have come and been born out of a concept and you know, they're really well planned out and everything's smooth and it's ok, but I like that Trippy Taco is more spontaneous."
Melbourne's beloved Trippy Taco sprawls two locations at 234 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy and 6 Acland Street, St Kilda. Head to the restaurant website for the menu, opening hours and more information.
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Stronger societies create conditions that lead to better lives for individuals and communities. For four decades, CIFAR researchers have sought to understand the conditions needed for resilient communities.
In celebration of CIFAR's 40th anniversary, we look at three key research milestones that helped improve the lives of people around the world.
The World Happiness Report
Does happiness play a role in the creation of more resilient communities? It is a question that intrigued CIFAR Distinguished Fellow John Helliwell, then co-director of CIFAR's Social Interactions, Identity & Well-Being program.
In 2012, Helliwell shared his findings as co-author of The United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network's first World Happiness Report. The report reviews the state of happiness worldwide and shows how the new science of happiness explains personal and national variations in happiness. It continues to be issued annually, incorporating data from 150 countries.
"CIFAR has helped greatly to create the research, to assemble a critical mass [of knowledge], and to communicate the results in the academic and policy communities and to the broader public," shared Helliwell in a news story about the first report.
Much like Helliwell and the study of happiness, Fraser Mustard, CIFAR's founding president, was among the first to note the importance of the first five years in a child's life, and the vital role an individual's formative years play throughout their lifetime.
In 1999, Mustard and the Honourable Margaret Norrie McCain assembled a team to study the relationship between early brain and child development, and learning, behaviour and health. Employing CIFAR's approach to exploring complex questions, the team met with researchers from across disciplines and borders, including members from three other CIFAR programs at the time (Population Health, Human Development, and Economic Growth).
The Early Years Study outlined an astonishing (for the time) conclusion: "We consider, in view of this evidence, that the period of early child development is equal to or, in some cases, greater in importance for the quality of the next generation than the periods children and youth spend in education or post secondary education."
The report included an influential series of recommendations that laid the foundations for today's full-day kindergarten and parenting centres — including government support for these programs.
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Goldie Nejat, a Fellow in CIFAR's Innovation, Equity & the Future of Prosperity program, is studying the other end of life's continuum, assessing how we care for the oldest among us and whether new technologies might help address the needs of this vulnerable population.
Nejat's recent work on socially assistive robots focuses on how human-robot interactions are interpreted by humans and under what conditions they contribute to addressing social hardship — especially social isolation in long-term care facilities.
"It's important for older adults to be healthy as they age, be active and take part in social interactions," Nejat told U of T News. "There's a lot of potential for robots to support their everyday lives in this way."
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There are many details posted with this video, except that it happened on the night of August 24th -- and the video doesn't exactly clearly depict anything that looks like a UFO, but it does show a bunch off lights in weird patterns in sky.
Caution: this video contains some foul language. We counted half a dozen bad words in 30 seconds.
Now, oddly enough, many years ago while driving through the Pine Barrens in the middle of the night by the cranberry bogs on Route 563 below Chatsworth, I saw lights that were in a similar pattern dancing across the sky at a very fast rate of speed... and that's all I'm saying about that.
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It is academic, online, open access, peer reviewed international journal. It aims to publish original, theoretical and practical advances in interdisciplinary streams of Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology and related fields. All submitted papers will be reviewed by the board of committee of IJSRSET.
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Submission of a paper implies that the work described has not been published previously (except in the form of an abstract or academic thesis) and is not under consideration for publication elsewhere. The submission should be approved by all the authors of the paper. If a paper is finally accepted, the authorities, where the work had been carried out, shall be responsible for not publishing the work elsewhere in the same form. Paper, once submitted for consideration in IJSRSET, cannot be withdrawn unless the same is finally rejected.
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Pascall - Eskimos:Traditionally Eskimo lollies or Fruit Puffs are used to make the New Zealand Lolly Cake. Eskimos are firm but soft and chewy Marshmallow like lollies. Ingredients: Sugar, Water, Wheat Glucose Syrup, Invert Sugar, Gelatine, Flavours and Colours: (102, 122 and 133). Best Before Mar 2019.
Pascall - Fruit Bursts:Fruit Bursts are another Kiwi favourite, everyone has their favourite colour. Ingredients: Sugar, Glucose Syrup, Water, Vegetable Oil, Food Acid, Fruit Juice Concentrates, Gelatine, Flavours and Colours (124, 110, 102 and 133). Best Before Apr 2019.