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Comment on Writing Sesshin: a guided writing and meditation retreat @ Hollyhock by Ruth Ozeki

Ruth Ozeki — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:22:16 +0000

Hi Kelly, yes, I’ll be leading this workshop. Email me if you have questions, okay? ozekiland at gmail.com

Comment on All Over Creation by Food and infertility | Many things I am

Food and infertility | Many things I am — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 09:15:33 +0000

[...] whenever we can find and afford it. This is part due to reading My Year of Meats and All Over Creation by Ruth Ozeki about what goes into our food without our knowledge or permission. If you [...]

Comment on Writing Sesshin: a guided writing and meditation retreat @ Hollyhock by kelly lounsbury

kelly lounsbury — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 21:29:09 +0000

Is this a workshop RUTH will be holding? Will she be there to meet?

Comment on books + films by Joyce Roderick

Joyce Roderick — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 17:09:18 +0000

Thank you for your books and your teaching. I admire your powerful and insightful story-telling. You set to words and story a portion of the pain I carry for our present world. I have taught about biology and ecology for many years because I love with all my soul the beauty and wonder of the natural world. Maya may be an illusion, but I find my love for Nature makes me carry pain for the world in which we now live. The vulnerability of living things and especially children and women haunts me. I know the Buddha said that desire is the cause of pain and anguish, but I find it terribly difficult to let it go. It seems to me that somebody has to carry the pain and awareness of the world. Your books and those of Barbara Kingsolver express what I have felt for seventy years. I am so grateful to you. Your stories allow me to cry, to release some of the load, and to laugh. Please do a book about water politics, the over-plumbing of the water supplies of the U.S, and the assault on the water tables. Namaste, Joyce Roderick

Comment on Pain Free: a creative conversation with Ruth Ozeki & Susan Squier by Gzala

Gzala — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 16:09:15 +0000

Sorry for my awful English…I’ve just finished to read “My year of meat”. I’d like just to tell you “thanks”: I thought to be alone to think and to say theese things…but it isn’t the truth. – Someone like you exists, and I don’t feel alone,nomore.I don’t eat meat or fish since when I was 14 (now I’m 27).Maybe today I’ve convinced my musliman husband to be a new vegetarian, a new person. For me it’s already enough and i feel relieved at last.
Thank you!
Gzala

Comment on the death of the last white male by Okorafor, Ore, Ozeki | Erin M. Hartshorn

Okorafor, Ore, Ozeki | Erin M. Hartshorn — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 15:08:21 +0000

[...] Okay, I’m cheating with this one. Although Ozeki’s book My Year of Meats includes a ghost, the short story I’m including here has no speculative elements at all. I don’t care. It’s a beautiful story. Read it here. [...]

Comment on biography by Organic Thought » My Year of Meats

Organic Thought » My Year of Meats — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 19:02:45 +0000

[...] last semester called My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki. Though we read the novel because the author, Ozeki, is Asian-American and that was the focus with which our class was built, I think it is a text that [...]

Comment on My Year of Meats by All Over Creation | project intelligence

All Over Creation | project intelligence — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 11:48:43 +0000

[...] but a few years ago, I read the American-Japanese author Ruth Ozeki’s first novel – My Year of Meats – and was positively surprised, and this her second novel was thus given the benefit of [...]

Comment on All Over Creation by All Over Creation | project intelligence

All Over Creation | project intelligence — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 11:48:23 +0000

[...] All Over Creation is a novel about potatoes and potato farmers. Yes, I know, it does not sound overly exiting, but a few years ago, I read the American-Japanese author Ruth Ozeki’s first novel – My Year of Meats – and was positively surprised, and this her second novel was thus given the benefit of doubt. And, as soon was to be proven, potatoes and potato farmers can be exiting, especially if coupled to the larger issue of agribusiness and genetic engineering. [...]

Comment on mixed by Catriona O'Curry

Catriona O'Curry — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 01:21:49 +0000

I can’t remember if I wrote that I taught Cross Cultural Psychology and Gender Psychology at Pima Community College here in Tucson, AZ. I will send the name of this book to my ex-colleagues.