For David LaChapelle
by Julie Pigott
Deep Breath
The last time I saw him
I brought sage and
a feather wrapped in red
Grieving
I bowed before him
tried to speak
“STOP,” he commanded
“Take a deep breath
and start again.”
So I took a long deep breath
and another
while he waited
“A gift from eagle, left
on the beach for you,”
I spoke, offering the bundle
Nodding in gratitude
trembling hands lifted the
eagle feather
Picked up sacred sage
took a long deep breath
and another
While I waited
-By Julie Mae Pigott
Showing posts with label Art offering. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Art offering. Show all posts
Saturday, October 9, 2010
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
David's breath in Alaska, an honoring by Rory Finney
YOU TUBE VIDEO of filmmaker Rory Finney's journey to McCarthy Alaska in honor of David's connection to this powerful land. Really not to be missed...
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Screenplay by David, upcoming republication by Stephen Griffies
Photoshop blend by David LaChapelle.
Unauthorized use of Yogananda photo for purpose of sharing, not sales. Do not replicate.
Do you know anything about David's play Passing Through, and can contribute to the preface section in the upcoming publication? Please contact Stephen Griffies through ananda@jeffnet.org. He is also interested in talking to people with context of Yogananda's journey to Juneau in 1924 or with background in Kriya Yoga who can connect him with Self Realization Fellowship. If you participated in readings of Passing Through and can tell us some about the process, please let us know.
Saturday, May 1, 2010
David as "Basil" in The Rita Lila
David shows up as "Basil" in The Rita Lila by Rita Ann Shankara
From Chapter 29, Samadhi, Surprises, and Gold:
After the tea break that evening, Basil talked about courage, discernment, and guidance. He advised: “Whatever is arising, don’t cling to its phenomenon and don’t hide in your strategies (‘being sick all the time’ is one strategy), but rather, stand firmly in your being, in the unraveling. Have the courage to BE with what is emerging, and the discernment to know what you are experiencing.
“In this time of dissolving form, in this declining empire, ask yourself, ‘What am I called to do?’ and listen to your inner guidance. There is a lot of anxiety out there in the Collective, but if you take in nourishment (friends, food, practices, prayers), and listen for guidance, then you will be able to navigate through – no matter what happens. All of the information in this age produces anxiety that is both contagious and crippling… As yogis and yoginis, it is our responsibility to continually calm ourselves so that we not only lessen our personal anxieties, but we also lessen the amount of anxiety that we contribute to the Collective Anxiety.”
As the evening ended, Basil told a short story for me:
Once there was a firefly of Consciousness buzzing around inside a cupboard. She couldn’t figure out how to get out – she was buzzing around lighting up motherhood, career, parents visiting… but she couldn’t see the instructions. Then she closed her eyes and thought of God, and when she opened her eyes she saw the instructions: “Open Here.”
In the following days, I still felt sick to my stomach and my head also hurt, but as I contemplated the teachings from that night, I began to take courage. I started focusing my attention on surrendering to each and every experience.
From Chapter 43, Hawaii Retreat:
“Rita, for your enlightenment program, all you need are these two things: 1. The mind becomes that which it dwells upon, and 2. By placing the mind on the highest state, you become the highest state.
“Putting your mind on energetic structures helps you to open. You have to gain strength in keeping your gaze on the highest state. Remember that we reinforce conditions by dwelling on them – we are all doing this. We are all there, oscillating and learning to put our concentration on things that expand us.
“We each come in with veils of doubt that we can only each burn through on our own, through meditation. After you burn through them, you understand why they were there. However, you have to get out of your own misery to be sensitive enough to feel those higher dimensions.”
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Monday, April 19, 2010
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Friday, January 29, 2010
Community Creative Corner Coming!
GUESS WHAT!
A NEW BLOG
WILL SOON RUN SIDE BY SIDE TO
CELEBRATINGDAVID.BLOGSPOT.COM
UNTIL IT'S CREATED...
THINK ABOUT THE FOLLOWING:
DAVID'S LOVE
YOUR CREATIVE GIFTS
THE WAYS YOUR LIGHT CAME OUT A LITTLE BRIGHTER
WHEN HE SAW ...
YOU ARE INVITED
TO CONSIDER THE FULLNESS OF YOUR EXPRESSION
THE WAYS YOU SPEND TIME THAT BRING YOU JOY
GIFTS OTHERS REFLECT OF YOU(NESS)
TIME DISAPPEARS WHEN YOU ARE ... ? ...
DIVINE REMEBERING OF
WHO WE REALLY ARE ...
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with love
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Hymn of Changes by David LaChapelle
To purchase a copy
contact ananda@jeffnet.org
or PayPal $42 (postage included in price) to
ananda@jeffnet.org
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
David's Drawings
Monday, December 21, 2009
A Hymn of Changes is HERE!!!!
The boxes of A Hymn of Changes are in!!! What an amazing feeling to finally see David's words and our work in print
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Morning I Ching throw
Devin Hormann-Rivard met David when he was about 5 years. He kept in touch with his spiritual guide throughout his life and participated in many retreats over the years. After graduation from Naropa University in Boulder he was called to join us in Silverton, helping support David's healing process, to be of service and to learn from his mentor. David's distinct assignment for him was an invitation to take his outdated I Ching book he had published years earlier to the next level for a revised edition. Over the last 6 months, the book has been taken through reformatting, editing, re-editing, design, re-design and publishing stages, and has been officially shipped out from the publisher!!! I will receive the hot-off-the-presses box of books any DAY now... Thursday or Friday this week!!!!
This undertaking truly would not have been possible without the dedication and form-holding capacity Devin brought to the project. David's passing ripped through Devin as painfully as for any of us, especially given that he had specifically moved to Silverton be close to him. He took David's request for the republish to heart and made a steady daily practice of designing and formatting the new layout (not to mention learning the advanced computer software just as diligently to do so). His relationship and practice of throwing the I Ching regularly, as well as his field of study, offered clarity about the complexities of Chinese principles and turned out to be invaluable in David's absence... for all the integrity issues involved in producing another artist's works.
This post is for Devin, seen in these images below on a crisp Colorado camping morning... Throwing the I Ching with Quinn Joyce, sweet young neighbor and friend.
Thank you Kind Warrior
A poem by Devin relating a slice of his experience in Yosemite at David's memorial
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Slideshow has new online location
David's pencil drawing series slideshow by Carlos Delgado has been moved... to view, click HERE or on pencil image. Cards of each image are available. Email your order to ananda@jeffnet.org
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
David's Brain
I have the privilege of searching around in David's brain when I need to... the mac he bonded with last winter... where he gathered so many fantastic images, holy ones, his own photography, research files and scanned documents... what an adventure. If Im brave enough to face the cluttered desktop (cuz still not able to change anything of his inner world) there is a wealth of treasure to behold. He would want you to have a peek time to time, so from now on will blog from his laptop in addition, as the mood strikes. Enjoy this pairing...
These two image files were listed next to each other on his disk, ... interestingly though; by number. In other words not intentionally paired by him. Sweet.
More to come...
These two image files were listed next to each other on his disk, ... interestingly though; by number. In other words not intentionally paired by him. Sweet.
More to come...
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Art for Livelihood... building a portfolio
Art for Livelihood... building a portfolio
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