Suzanne Suprabha Freed

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My mom defended Elvis Presley’s wiggling hips.

It all seems so wierd. Imagine a world where people were shocked and angry about Elvis Presley and his undulating hip-action! Hard to…

Apr 2, 2023

Suzanne Suprabha Freed

John Lewis and amazing grace.

I am so grateful to a friend for introducing me to John Lewis’ book, Across That Bridge, published in 2012.

Aug 24, 2022

Aug 24, 2022

Suzanne Suprabha Freed

Buddha’s Belly

Thich Nhat Hanh’s poem, Please Call Me By My True Names, was included in a book I read in the 1990s, I am not sure, if the book was by…

Feb 11, 2022

Feb 11, 2022

Suzanne Suprabha Freed

Leaf falls to my feet I pick it up, it’s green with streaks of brown and crimson not fully a fall…

COVID the big swirling whirlwind the hurricane blowing all our lives apart- the illusion of security of how I was in the same-ness day in &…

Oct 6, 2021

Leaf falls to my feet I pick it up, it’s green with streaks of brown and crimson not fully a fall…

Oct 6, 2021

Suzanne Suprabha Freed

Dancing Parents

Missy Ida and Sol Fried NYC Pride Parade 1980

Oct 6, 2021

Oct 6, 2021

Suzanne Suprabha Freed

Thank you Fatimah Asghar for your poem

May 1978 I arrived in San Francisco, the skies, the skies! Words do no justice after the canyons of Manhattan, glimpses of sky in NYC…

Oct 6, 2021

Oct 6, 2021

Suzanne Suprabha Freed

Parents of Gays- the old days long ago when we lived in caves.

In 1972 my younger brother Richard came home from a two month trip to Europe, back-packing with friends, with a golden tan from his time on…

Sep 14, 2021

Parents of Gays- the old days long ago when we lived in caves.

Sep 14, 2021

Suzanne Suprabha Freed

Rant about doing not doing my art, life on earth, all of it

The opening rambling thoughts:

Sep 4, 2021

A yellow stick figure holding up a wall leaning into it made of metal artist unknown gallery in Walnut Creek CA 2017

Sep 4, 2021

Suzanne Suprabha Freed

Sure do shine

November 26th, 2020

Feb 3, 2021

Feb 3, 2021

Suzanne Suprabha Freed

When the Metta teacher needs Metta

I believe we all teach what we need to learn- over and over again, I am not talking about mathematics nor literature. I mean that anyone…

Jul 19, 2020