Ha Noi Wedding Plans

April 2011

Sharing the Bubble

Does each of us live in a bubble?















Snuggling
deep in a safe place
protecting our joy..















Inside this bubble
do we have a dream
we would like to share?














Is it to be closer to someone?
















Is it to love our selves more in someone else?















Possibly
we can find a way...














In Asia they believe the deepest sense of self
comes through your family















with roots going way back















through countless generations















and the reincarnated wisdom of ancestors















as little lamas.



















I believe















something connects us all















beyond anyone's wildest dreams.















and the key
is very simple.


This winter
in Ha Noi















artists joined together


















at the Maison des Arts















in a salon
painting portraits
which became a kind of listening project.



















While staring
we began to find



















surprising beauties















within

and our painting















led others



















to find new beauty in themselves















and so, we found
coming out of our old shells














the world's our oyster!















Back home now
with thanks again
to Nga, who brought
the dream out, alive















love and hugs
d


Dan Potter

google: dan's plasma sculpture
for this website:

http://home.earthlink.net/~danpottervia/id1.html

Spring Surprises

Again: the smallest shoots unfurl
slide forth as usual
and Gabriel is here
in one bird's trill
announcing everything




(with thanks to the composer
Allen Gabriel Kastelle
and his special guest artist
Jo Ann Galat Brown
for their brilliance
at 6 yesterday
in a one of the Bonzai Concerts
at the Violin Training Gymnasium
just below 2Wives
in New London:

gabrielviolin@gmail.com)


with love and hugs
d
Dan Potter

google: dan's plasma sculpture
for this website:

http://home.earthlink.net/~danpottervia/id1.html

Opening this Saturday

Come this Saturday
to the opening
of my plasmacut sculpture show
at 2Wives
4-6 pm
45 Huntington Street
New London

(next to the library)

Tiger Love

I see tomorrow is Valentine's Day


















a time for love
treats




starting off the early Spring with generative fests like Lupercalia
and Tet.


Tomorrow also opens the year of the metal tiger



full of the fierce energy of love



to save us all
with love's eternal forgiveness
and protection through grace.



With
blessings



in abundance:




May you dance through this year with Ganesh
finding your shining path
happy, joyous, and free

with love
d

Belleville

Only a little jet lagged








Marya and I found our way
further down George V









to the very busy American Cathedral
















where Toasty, her sister, was first married













in the chapel on the other side





















and our host, a local opera singer
(long after appearing as Holofernes
in a Merchant Ivory film)


















showed us to his exquisite rooms
where he has opened a place for himself
in the attic













and we took him out to dinner with a cat





at his favorite local restaurant
around the corner
from the most beautiful view of Paris
afforded by Belleville






and we found the clouds opening
on I.M.Pei's pyramid at the Louvre












on our way to see Bonnard's looser views














and Surtout la Table
at the Musée d'Orsay











where we accidentally came upon shadow figures
for La Chat Noir writers' nightclub






and Cezanne's dream

amused
by Odalisque









until we began to levitate






for our train to Austria
with love
and hugs
d and Marya





Dan Potter

google: dan's sculpture

yunan project

From Lan Lan Wang's Yunan Project
now at this year's Smithsonian
International Folklife Festival
until July 7..




Marya and I took overnight Amtraks
back and forth
to spend all day Thursday in D.C.

and are blown away
after dancing with Thai
watching Mekong




eating with Irish Mummers
and watching Virginians
waltzing
with love and hugs
d