Christa will have two CD release shows:

May 19 Arts Block in Greenfield
http://theartsblock.com/

Jun 2 Gypsy Joynt in Great Barrington
http://www.gypsyjoyntcafe.net/

Check out Christa’s music:

https://www.facebook.com/christajoymusician

Rigdens at an Exhibition | Shambhala Times Community News Magazine.

This is what warriorship looks like. Please read this moving article by long-time Shambhala practitioner Joan Whitacre.

http://www.elephantjournal.com/2012/02/the-buddha-on-food-stamps–joan-whitacre/

This document highlights the findings from 69 Shambhala Centers, as they dialoged about kindness, society, Shambhala, and meditation in September 2011. The report provides a window into the history, present activities, and aspirations of Shambhala. Enjoy!

http://shambhalatimes.org/2012/02/07/shambhala-and-society/

Our next movie night at the Center features “The Hours” with Meryl Streep, Juliana Moore, Nicole Kidman and Ed Harris, score by Philip Glass, followed as always by an interesting informal discussion. $5.00 Contribution requested. The Hours is a fascinating and unusually structured film that focuses on three women in three different decades and contemplates identity, suicide, AIDS, sexuality, and creativity.

“I like being able to talk to my mom without rolling my eyes. I like my mom. And I like my inner teenager. Nobody taught her to expect that the world could be kind, that other people would be helpful, that gentleness was an option. That simply existing means you have value. We’re learning that now, and we try to speak from that knowledge rather than shouting from habit.”

Read more: http://www.theidproject.org/blog/nancy-thompson/2011/06/25/why-i-meditate-anyway