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I Go to the Feet of the Ultimate Truth…

December 11, 2015 by anado 1 Comment

….Today I awoke rather late..6:45…maybe it was the tequila and burgers the previous evening with friends…I usually get up around 5:30…Richard was still snoring away and I quickly gathered some clothes together in the dark to dispel the December chill….I went about my morning business:  brushing my teeth, taking a seat on the throne, letting the dogs out, visiting our big dogs at the top of the property, getting myself and the guys started in the studio, feeding the cats, making coffee and breakfast with Richard…and finally sitting down for a warm breakfast.  I noticed the clothes that I had on were various shades of burnt orange and purple-red….I said to Richard, "I look rather Sannyasy this morning (in reference to wearing all oranges and reds for 10 years of my life)…Richard said, "You do…is it his birthday or something?"…and then it hit me…today would have been Bhagwan/Osho's birthday and Richard had no idea of that and I had not remembered the date…a little cosmic tuned in-ness….(Bhagwan/Osho has been a paramount part of my life for close to 40 years….I had lived by his side for 11 years of intense devotion and growth…in 1989 I left his Commune and immersed myself back into the "Real World" after leaving his Ashram in India…I was ever ready to surf this life without training wheels while using what I had learned…he died the following January in 1990)…I ate my breakfast with my Beloved Richard filled with such joy in our most joyful home and exclaimed, "I love being alive"…and Richard felt the same….I go to the Feet of the Ultimate Truth and bow down to the Wonder of all that is Groovy….

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Waking Tears…a Poem

November 14, 2015 by anado 1 Comment

I have tears today…

easy yet hard to explain…

I have tears for the innocent victims…

I have tears for the innocence ripped from the lives of the shooters…

I have tears that are innocent….

yet my innocence is being drained….

I want to smell a rose…

I want to feel like a child again…

I don’t wish for these tears…

I wish for innocence….

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Awake Early…Thinking….

November 13, 2015 by anado 1 Comment

I got to thinking…in two years we will be celebrating the Summer of Love's 50th Anniversary…in less than 2 years…I will be 70 years old, Goddess willing…that is so hard to fathom…this photo was taken in 1970 on a pond that was once my front yard…I had returned to Oklahoma from San Francisco and the Summer of Love the year before…the following year (1971) I went to New York…Life has been so rich…So full of platitudes and a few nights in the gutter…so today…I embrace this journey that continues to wind around a magic mountain offering sustained views of the Groove…the pond has expanded…over here…over there…

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Lost and Found

November 1, 2015 by anado 7 Comments

I have a confession:  I felt like a loser growing up…I felt un-noticed and dumb….I made up for it in all the wrong ways…Today I realized that creating Casa de Las Ranas and the Chapel of Jimmy Ray Gallery​ has been…… "like this elaborate scheme to have an audience.”  I found that line in an old New York Times article this am…and realized that I have to fess up….this scheme has transformed my life and that of Richard also…as a Divine Friend once said, "Only Losers Win in This Game"….

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Shock and Awe: The Bush Sisters…..

October 7, 2015 by anado 1 Comment

I completed the piece that you see in this photo back in 2012…I sold it off the wall….The couple who bought it went back to the US…They decided it was too large for their new space…so they gave it back to me and asked if I could sell it for them and they would give me half……ok…..that sounds good……I showed it to this lady who was very politically active for many years…she liked it….Shock and Awe……The Bush Sisters….any takers?  By the way…the lady's name is Bonnie Raitt……. 12113305_10207488067781425_8598137389989664047_o

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Putting the finger on it…….

September 14, 2015 by anado Leave a Comment

I am trying to remember why I never went to Burning Man….for the same reason I never saw "The Sound of Music"?….I ask myself that question when I see all these incredible photos…could I be stumbling to the beat of a different drum? I can't from afar be in judgement…such beautiful talented spirits mingling and reverberating on the Playa….It just feels too …like a country club…I guess that's it!  There have been other events and causes and cultural gatherings that I had an instant yes to dive into….but Black Rock City?  Let those folks flourish there…it is a rite of passage for some…I prefer my spectacles to be a bit more personal…less mainstream…..just some thoughts on a morning before breakfast, laundry, studio…….etc

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