WE WERE ONCE STRANGERS
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FRIENDShip is a collaboration.
FRIENDS WITH WEBSITES
(Dear Friends: this is new (aka OUT OF DATE) and growing, please let me know if you are missing, broken, poorly described or if there's a better link)
Robert Joshin Althouse - painter and zen teacher at The ZEN LIFE AND MEDITATION CENTER in Chicago
Sam Anderson - architect with expertise in art preservation for museums, based in NYC
Hale Appleman - actor now on TV in THE MAGICIANS, lives in LA, films in Vancouver
Jake Appleman - sportswriter based in NYC
Elizabeth Bailey - video director and author of "The Patient's Checklist" about how to deal with hospitals
Karin Berg - music lover and an A&R woman extraodinaire based in NYC (1938-2006)
Vicky Bijur - literary agent and daughter of Hilda Bijur (1918-2013)
David Bither - leader of NONESUCH RECORDS and a better tennis player than me
Malgorzata Braunek - actor and zen teacher in Warsaw (1947-2014)
Alice Brickner - if didn't know better I'd say Alice was in her late 20's. Alice is an artist. Plus these WORDS
Phil Brickner - Doctor and creative force in the community medicine movement (1930-2014)
Moshe Cohen - Mr.Yoowho, who reminds me of Charlie Chaplin, is a leader of CLOWNS WITHOUT BORDERS
Kate Crisp - executive director of THE PRISON MINDFULNESS INSTITUTE based in Western Massachusetts
Theo Croker - jazz leader out of Oberlin, his second record on Sony is
Dr.Robert M. "Fogseeker" Cunningham - cloud physicist, fog collector, and Peter's father (1919-2008)
Alison Hawthorne Deming - poet, professor and pathmaker based in Arizona and Grand Manan
Michel Nocando Dobbs - family man, industrialist, high priest of THE ORDER OF DISORDER & more (or less)
Ara Fitzgerald - professor and solo dance/theater performer in NYC
Grover Gauntt - A Zen teacher who escaped Wharton to lead retreats on urban streets and in Indian country.
Vera Graaf - writer and filmmaker, Vera Directed STRANGER FROM AWAY about Michael Zimmer's creations.
John Jesurun - experimental theater writer and director, NYC
Jim Hall - guitarist and composer based in Greenwich Village
Paul Kaiser - artist, writer, and philosopher based in NYC
Dan Kaufman - journalist and musician who leads the band BARBEZ is based in Greenpoint, Brooklyn
Peter Kovach - A State Department "Public Diplomacy Officer" specializing in interfaith religious affairs.
Adam Kurtzman - artist based in LA
Aleksandra Elenai Kwiatkowska - designer, photographer, and dancer based in NY, Paris, and Wroclaw.
Jerry Lavin - former lab director at Spectra Photo in NYC
Ed Levine - founder of SERIOUS EATS and recently inducted in James Beard's Who's Who in Food.
Gaetano Maida - photographer, tea master, and founding director of THE BUDDHIST FILM FOUNDATION
Morley - singer-songwriter and peace activist based in NYC
Florent Morellet - my neighbor in The Meat Market, map-maker and social-adventurer. Florent's father.
Denise Petrizzo - filmmaker and editor based in Soho
Gus Powell - photographer and writer based in Brooklyn
Mark Schapiro - investigative journalist who's latest book is SEEDS OF RESISTANCE
Anton Seimon - knows about the sky and the earth and is father's reincarnation, based in snow
Jon-Marc Seimon - photographer, "information architect", and wise guy who is based in New York
Duston Spear - artist, filmmaker, and activist based in New York
Kevin Swanepoel - President of THE ONE CLUB, excellent photographer, and frequent world traveler.
June Tanoue - hula master and zen teacher in Hawaii and Chicago
Tim Trompeter - artist in NYC
Michael Zimmer - architect, eccentric, and arranger of THE HERRING HALL OF FAME (1934-2008)
(note to self, add: Cliff Chenfeld, Julian, dragon, Cynthia Kittredge, Brigitte Reiss-Anderson - , Pamela Stickney - , Florent - , Mark Shell - Stefan Collignon - ,Ed Levine - SERIOUS EATS, special sauce podcast, Bob Mauck - ,Nat Wheelwright - , Alice Brickner - Bonnie Marranca - Janis Ian - , Wall Matthews - Eric Blumenson - elana Gutmann - , John Jesurun - , Danny Carter - , Amy Hollowell - , Morgane - Duston Spear - Ellary Eddy - Barney Miller - Kankan Liu - Nocando - Tano - Peter Mayer, Robin Bierstadt - Cliff Chenfeld - Danny Goldberg - Wei Ming Ye - Vera Graaf - Danny Tunick - Theo Croker - Nick Browning - Jane Moss - Jaune Evans - Caren Martineau - Chris Panos - Andrzej Krajewski - Wendall Harrington - Eve Marko - MJ Edwards - Ivory Madison - Rob Marx - Zoe Carter - Karejoy Greenberg - Ricky Ian Gordon - Grant Couch - Merrinell Phillips - Carly Fleet - Andy Friedman -Jeff Seawald - Frantz Juin - - -)