Rinchen Palbar

Offering of Dance

—Erol Josue, Choreographer and Dancer (2023)

Life is death we’re lengthy at,
Death the hinge to life.
—Emily Dickinson, Letters (1863)

“I'm not telling them to be cool either. I'm playing hot jazz. I'm playing something where they can't sit still. Buddhists can't sit still. Taoists can't sit still. Nobody gonna sit still when I'm playing."
—Sun Ra (1988)

But has he pitched a no-hitter on LSD yet?

Pearl Primus—dancer, choreographer, anthropologist (1949)

Offering of Dance

Rest in Love, Peace and Power Sly Stone

🎶 My only weapon is my pen
And the frame of mind I'm in

I'm a songwriter, a poet
I'm a songwriter, yeah, a poet🎶

America is in even greater danger because of its cult of toughness, its hatred of sensitivity, and someday it may have to pay a price for this, because atrophy of feeling creates criminals.

—Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 3: 1939-1944

Statue of Guru Rinpoche Padmasambhava—Nepal, 17th century. (Erik Törner, photographer)

“In every direction, pacify and turn back all war and invasion by military forces.”
—Guru Rinpoche Padmasambhava

May the fourth be with you my friend

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

—H. L. Mencken, A Little Book In C Major (1916)

Alas I forgot to turn off my car when I went outside to take the video, and thus there wasn’t any original audio. His love grunts and love cries are piercing! 

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Offering of Dance

—Suzanne Farrell and Arthur Mitchell in "Metastaseis and Pithoprakta,” choreography by George Balanchine, music by Iannis Xenakis (1968)

La bohème

The nature of mind alone is the seed of everything;
Existence and enlightenment unfold from it.
It grants every form of accomplishment you wish.
To this mind, a wish-fulfilling jewel, I bow.
—Saraha

W.C. Fields as Humpty Dumpty in Alice in Wonderland (1933)

…the return of a lot of sweetempered gunpowdered didst unto dudst but it never stphruck your mudhead's obtundity (O hell, here comes our funeral! O pest, I'll miss the post!)”
—James Joyce, Finnegans Wake

…impetiginous sore and pustules, by the auspices of that raven cloud, your shade, and by the auguries of rooks in parlament, death with every disaster, the dynamatisation of colleagues, the reducing of records to ashes, the levelling of all customs by blazes…

"Sniffer of carrion, premature gravedigger, seeker of the nest of evil in the bosom of a good word, you, who sleep at our vigil and fast for our feast, you with your dislocated reason, have cutely foretold, a jophet in your own absence, by blind poring upon your many scalds and burns and blisters…

“No society can smash the social contract and be exempt from the consequences, and the consequences are chaos for everybody in the society.”
—James Baldwin

Offering of Dance

—Katherine Dunham (Choreographer) and Vanoye Aikens in Le Jazz Hot (1952)

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…You could call me the jester of the creator.”
—Sun Ra

…A race without a sense of humor is in bad shape. A race needs clowns. In earlier days people knew that. Kings always had a court jester around. In that way he was reminded how ridiculous things are. I believe that nations too should have jesters, in the congress, near the president, everywhere…

“First of all I express sincerity. There's also that sense of humor, by which people sometimes learn to laugh about themselves. I mean, the situation is so serious that the people could go crazy because of it. They need to smile and realize how ridiculous everything is…

—e. e. cummings, "Foreword to an Exhibit: I" (1944)

…as every child and woman and man may be immeasurable, art is the mystery of every man and woman and child. In so far as a human being is an artist, skies and mountains and oceans and thunderbolts and butterflies are immeasurable; and art is every mystery of nature.”