- Please
continue to offer bows for the family of Alison Templeton, a Peninsula
School parent, who died on April 1st after a long struggle with cancer
- Please
continue to offer bows for Jeff Ghazarian and his family, friends of
Lilliana Mendez-Soto’s nephew who died on March 19th at
the age of 34 from COVID-19
- Please
continue to offer bows of well-being for:
- Jackie
Little, Jim Little’s aunt, who is currently in hospital after
testing positive for COVID-19
- Lisa
McCrossen, Dainuri Rott’s niece, who is recovering from COVID-19
- Carmen
Ibanez, Lidia Luna’s mother, who is recovering from surgery for sciatica
- Rev.
Les Kaye, Misha’s Zen teacher, who is undergoing chemotherapy for bladder
cancer
- Brendan,
Kate Haimson’s son, who is recovering from surgery for a brain aneurism
- Lilith
Armitage, Shannon Bergman’s daughter who is recovering from knee surgery
- Michael
Tieri Ricaud, Dainuri Rott’s brother, who is suffering from MS
Our new ZHS on-line schedule (go to
our website for more information: zenheartsangha.org):
- Mondays: 7-8:30pm -
zazen, short service, lecture/discussion
- Tuesdays-Fridays:
5:30-6:10pm - zazen, offering of merit/bows
- Saturdays:
8:00-10:15am - zazen, short service, tea, discussion/study
Wonderful links shared by sangha and
friends:
- New from Zen Heart Sangha: a new tab on our website with
resources about COVID-19: zenheartsangha.org
- From our dharma sister, Diane
Comey: a tour of Hakone Gardens during cherry blossom time https://youtu.be/cJ09GLc-cek
- From a friend of Misha’s for sheer
joy, music, and amazing birds:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMXD4h5w8D8
- From our dharma
brother, Takashi Nagata: shopping links for hard-to-find items:
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From our dharma sister in New York, Patty Pecoraro:
Hi everyone! Growing up in a
small apartment in Queens, NY in the 1950s, what does a well-respected
Sicilian-American girl do? She cooks and cleans, of course. So most of you must
know where this is going. In times of stress, my go-to is cooking and cleaning,
not necessarily in that order. So my first line of attack was washing
curtains that haven’t been done in at least five years, with a promise made
annually during our zendo winter break and the usual refrain, “tomorrow and
tomorrow and tomorrow...”. So as you can
see from the first picture, where are the curtains? At that very moment on that
naked window...I could hear the hum of the washing machine washing those
curtains clean. I went down to check the rinse water which looked much more
than dirty grey. I will leave it at that. So here we are today, curtains back
up, clean and sweet smelling. Ah, such a simple delight. This has moved me to
attack, attack, attack other curtains in the house just begging to be clean. I
don’t have the pandemic blues; I clean!
If you want some serious humor, this is one of the funniest things I've ever heard and it's a true story. It is completely unrelated to Buddhism or any kind of practice. It's just darn funny.
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