Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 1st, 2009
I sat with my friend Annemarie at the cafe opposite BAM last fall after seeing dress rehearsal for Bombay Blues. Pina came in with a group of friends. I thought how elegant she looked in her slumpy dark clothing, gaunt but strong features, her like-ness to Georgia O’Keefe.
I am stunned by her death. Very sudden. [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on May 20th, 2009
Conversation between Dunya & Kate Temple-West:
Kate: I came across this from philosopher Charles Taylor:
“If authenticity is being true to ourselves, is recovering our own ’sentiment de l’existence’, then perhaps we can only achieve it integrally if we recognize that this sentiment connects us to a wider whole. It was perhaps not an accident that in [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 4th, 2009
This is beautiful description of what one woman’s heart attack felt like. It belongs in this blog because it is so somatically connected. A woman’s heart attack may not resemble a man’s.
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NURSE’S HEART ATTACK EXPERIENCE
Women and heart attacks (Myocardial infarction). Did you know that women rarely have the same dramatic symptoms that men have when [...]
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