Sky of the Present Moment
Sky of the Present Moment New Paintings by Suiko McCall on view November 27 – December 21, 2023 San Francisco Zen Center 300 Page Street Please join Art Monastery Founder & Abbess Suiko Betsy McCall at her solo painting show! Artist Reception Friday, December 15 7-9pm Sky of the Present Moment is a show about presence, […]
Hosting Empowerment: The Book
In the summer of 2023, at one of the world’s most ecologically responsible printing presses, the three-year European Commission-funded project Hosting Empowerment published a book. I had the honor of illustrating and designing this book, along with my collaborator Boris Goldammer. The idea behind the book is to provide a guide for facilitators who want […]
Song to the Goddess of Awakening
Full Moon Saturday, October 28 In this moment together — alone embodied in this space and light-filled body awaken my appreciation a wish for my life to lived in service of the heartbreak passage by which we aim to put a name on all the world’s beauties as they crest bright and float away. Poem by […]
Candle Flame Moon
Candle Flame Moon New Moon October 14, 2023 Ritual comes unbidden to the blank. There’s a small opening in the fortress a clear spring, an oak, a swing traces of pleasure without aim just this particular body in this time a moment ripe for awakening so, the flickered moon. Or a poppy’s papery petals. Palo Santo […]
Girl Friday Moon
Full Moon September 29, 2023 —for HCB, a singular morning star Cosmic love is plain as day— it is praise for a place to rise from for the straightening braces of family & the mirror spirit that sees you seeing you (Seeing all you don’t see is a kind of seeing too) So it is not […]
Glamouring Moon
Glamouring Moon New Moon September 14, 2023 The mark of a rainbow is vanishing After the gold astonishment & showy glamouring effortless appearance Coolly fooling air the mountain mouth blushes into a leaning empty Void gasp in mind stop bands of sky snake into mist At the last cloud goodbye nothing holding life pure energy Poem […]
