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WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU BECOME A  CATHOLIC WOMAN-PRIESTTo be  called  FATHER MONTANO would trigger me into tremendously accelerated learning:  1. My glass ceiling would be punctured.2. I would have met the patriarchy in myself…

A PERFORMANCE  FOR  PAUL ESCRIVA AND JOSEPH RAVENS   LINDA MARY MONTANO: 20161. MAKE A CIRCLE OF SOMETHING YOU LOVE (DON’T SPEND MONEY ON THE OBJECTS)2. PLACE SOFT AND COMFORTABLE BLANKETS, CUSHIONS ON THE FLOOR.3. NICE LIGHTING.4. …

BUTTERFLY AT  ROSEKILLBUTTERFLYSometimes nature trumps art! The other day it certainly did at Rosekill Performance space owned/founded and curated by Jill McDermid and Erik Hoaksom in Rosendale NY. I was leaving after a swim, saying good-bye to Ho…

DOCTOR ARUNA MEHTA: AYRUVEDIC DOCTOR AND HEALERDOCTOR ARUNA MEHTA:  SUGGESTIONS of AYRUVEDA MEDICINE FOR WOMEN1. MULARUT: for fallopian tubes, pain after childbirth, cleans uterus, take  10 days2. KUMARIASAT: stomach ache, gas, abdomen.3…

LETTER TO PHONG BUIDEAR  PHONG BUI,I have been  participating in PERFORMANCE ART FESTIVALS…  organized  by PERFORMANCE ARTIST-CURATORS.What a wonderful experience: and maybe one u might want to research in your wond…

HOW  TO LEARN HUMILTY VIA YOUR VEHICLE….2016I got a  message  AWHILE AGO THAT SAID:”Be more compassionate when driving”I got the lesson today:1. when I was overexcited/distracted/not mindful while driving  and backed into a Jeep’s…

THE ART/LIFE INSTITUTE HANDBOOK

http://www.wsworkshop.org/collection/the-artlife-institute-handbook/

The art/life institute handbook – Women’s Studio Workshop www.wsworkshop.org A collection of simple performance exercises, based on the author’s own work and observations, designed to make performance accessible to everyone. work and observations, designed to make performance accessible to everyone. The art/life institute handbook – .org

SINGING THE NYC PHONE BOOK: CENTER FOR BOOK ARTS:  Linda Mary MontanoOCTOBEER 7, 2016Many years ago, I chanted the names of people in a phone book from a tower in a mid western city.It was a majestic and  classic and grandiose event . But ala…

Meditation: Tonglen or Giving and Receiving: A Practice of Great Mercy
1. Cultivating Mercy
The practice of Tonglen or Giving and Receiving is done to develop our compassion and our ability to be present for our own suffering and the suffering of others. It is also a practice of great kindness that opens up our whole being to the overwhelming presence of suffering and our strength and willingness to transform alienation into compassion through the energy of mercy and the cultivation of openness. Tonglen is one of the richest and bravest practices that we can do. In teaching this practice for more than twenty-five years, I have been told again and again that this one practice has helped many people immeasurably in attending to their own fears around pain, suffering, dying, and loss and has given them a real basis for the joining of compassion and equanimity.

THE OPENING OF SISTER MARY JANE ROBERTSHAW’S  ART SHOW AT THE COLLEGE OF NEW ROCHELLE  2016For the 65th anniversary of Sister Mary Jane Robertshaw’s  graduation from CNR, a retrospective of her art was enthusiastically and lovingly …