The weather in San Francisco this week has been most varied, and it was unfortunate that yesterday was the nicest day of them all, and I had no way to get outside - the morning program segued right into setting up the Buddha Hall, lunch, rehearsal and jukai. There was a two-fold bright side to being indoors, though: first that I am fond of all four of the people who were receiving the precepts, Jim, Verna, Jay and Lauren, and secondly that I was wearing for the first time (the French have a verb for just this situation, wouldn't you know) a new light-weight kimono and jubon which had freshly arrived from Liz at
Zabu Zabu, and which made a huge difference to running around on a warm afternoon, contributing materially to feeling my relaxed throughout the proceedings.
Things went smoothly and happily, and I think the photos do the best job of telling the story, as usual:
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| Jim with Jordan |
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| Verna with Steve |
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| Jay with Steve |
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| Lauren with Paul |
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| I like this one of Paul, which reminds me of nothing so much as Bellini's Doge. |
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| Lauren and Jay chanting |
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| Jim with Jordan |
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| Verna and Jay |
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| Verna being Verna |
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| Steve's whisk |
7 comments:
The Lauren and Paul one... thank you for 'capturing' that moment.
Congratulations to all, especially my friend Jim.
ZabuZabu lightweight kimono saved me last summer in hot, humid N. Caorlina
Beautiful photos and I especially like the one of Jim and Jordan.
Thank you all - Choro, I hope you let Liz know. She was happy to get my email thanking her over the weekend.
These are awesome, Shundo!! Yay, Dharma!! Thanks so much for everything I cannot name...Namaste
Yay Verna
Photos most fine, Shundo. Thanks for posting them.
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