Busy on Vacation

Lots of behind the scenes work has been getting done- especially on the office management side. The school year has begun, but slowly and invisibly, like the mycelia that establishes itself long before the mushroom pops up. Speaking of which, with all the rain we've had we can expect a great fungi season this fall: boletes, puffballs, bearded tooths, and so on. Look for TAS teachers in the woods and up in the trees.

  Parents: make your appointments for a visit and an interview soon. We have had a lot of inquiries over the last two weeks.

 I am going on vacation and will turn off my TAS thinking for a week, except for the couple of Kandinsky volumes I am hauling along with me. This is going to be a great school year, with some new programs and a whole batch of new students. 

 Back to blogging on August 18th.

Hello Tuesday!

News update: Coming soon, a framework for the arts program...Chrissy has uncorked a brilliant scheme that will somehow reconcile the simplicity colleges want on our transcripts with the jungle like complexity of our course selection...A well known art historian from NYC has agreed to help out with our Kandinsky and Gorky expeditions...Chang Sik Kim, Zen Master, Swordsman, and founder of Shim Gum Do, will be visiting us in the fall...
Those are a few of the developments. There is quite a bit of work to do: the mundane stuff of painting and organizing, curriculum and budgets, but with more than a month left of summer, I for one, am feeling rested and almost ready.
I hope everyone else is moving that way, too. Just keep saying that summer is long; be sure to attend to every moment and it will become so. Don't repeat cliches of "where did the summer go" blah blah blah- it is right all around you, isn't it? When that thought creeps in, simply take a moment to survey all that has happened in the last few days...

No Meditation Thursday July 23rd

In Boston through the weekend.

Post Slow Down, next two weeks...

Keep an eye on the Artblogg and on Birds of Appetite, that's where any posting action will be. I am leaving for Boston on Wednesday for a bit of a retreat at the Shim Gum Do temple up there. Regular posting will resume Tuesday the 28th.