CD#07 Readers’ meeting
January 2021
In this brief, festive season issue of Creative Dharma, a newsletter, we announce a change to our publication schedule, and give details of a meeting at the end of February for subscribers, friends and anyone interested in meditation, creativity and secular dharma. ⁂
IN FEBRUARY
Creative Dharma readers’ meeting
Depending on your time zone, on either 27th or 28th February 2021 Creative Dharma will be hosting a one-hour online meeting for our community – all our subscribers, our friends and anyone interested in meditation, creativity and secular dharma.
⬆︎ photo by Roel Dierckens on Unsplash
During this opportunity for you to meet the editors, you’ll hear what we have planned for the newsletter. To start with, each of us will each speak for five minutes.
Brad Parks will speak on the place of creativity in meditation practice;
Ramsey Margolis will outline a proposed voluntary paid subscription, with all revenue received being given to creatives across a range of artistic mediums, and to support creative dharma communities and individuals who want to get a community off the ground; and
Ronn Smith will focus on creativity and the dharma, where it comes from, and why a newsletter is a good forum for a continuing conversation on this topic.
We will then open the meeting for observations and questions.
If you’re interested in writing for Creative Dharma, this could be an opportunity to approach us with your own article ideas or suggest article ideas/topics/themes you’d like the newsletter to cover.
While this one-hour Zoom meeting will be free and open to everyone, registration is required. Here are the meeting start times across a range of time zones.
◼ Saturday 27 February
Hawaii, USA – 4pm
California, USA & Vancouver, Canada – 6pm
Chicago, USA – 8pm
New York, USA & Toronto, Canada – 9pm
◼ Sunday 28 February
Central European Time – 3am
Jakarta – 9am
Perth, Western Australia – 10am
Brisbane QLD, Australia – 12pm
Adelaide, South Australia – 12:30pm
Sydney NSW, Australia – 1pm
Aotearoa New Zealand – 3pm
As a newsletter with a global readership, we apologise to our subscribers in Europe, Africa and elsewhere if this timetable makes it difficult for you to take part.
To register for this readers’ meeting go to https://lu.ma/8a5bgpjm/.
Little sister, do you know why humanity passes down
ancient tales, from hand to hand, from generation to generation?
It is so that each generation can add something that was not there yesterday.
– from Che Lan Vien’s 1972 poem ‘New version of an ancient tale’, translated into French by Mireille Gansel, then from French into English by Ros Schwartz
SCHEDULE CHANGE
Starting February – every second month
The response to Creative Dharma has been immensely gratifying, and we deeply appreciate your interest in this contribution to the conversation around secular dharma and creativity.
Producing a monthly newsletter which has four articles of interest to a growing number of subscribers takes time and attention. To maintain the quality we’ve been able to establish, we’ve decided to send the newsletter out every second month from February. This, we believe, will allow us to continue to bring you articles and interviews of exceptional relevance to this conversation.
⬆︎ Subway riders in New York City by F Luis Mora
We’re looking forward to producing six more newsletters this year – in February, April, June, August, October and December – and we encourage you to let us know what you think of them. Of course, we welcome new writers and ideas for articles, so please don’t hesitate to get in touch either with an idea for an article or to discuss your interest in writing something of your own.
Thank you for having subscribed to Creative Dharma, a newsletter. We wish you all a safe and healthy new year. ⁂
Brad Parks, Ramsey Margolis, Ronn Smith
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I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
– Michelangelo
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In your February newsletter: Bill Gayner on mindfulness and creativity; a conversation between Stephen Batchelor and Ronn Smith on the work of Icelandic novelist Jon Kalman Stefansson … and more. ⁂