On November 18th, 2009 Nina Raizel Orchowski was born to community member Markus Orchowski and his wife. In this photo, she is being held by her older brother Isaak born on August 18th, 2007. They are exactly 2 years and 3 months apart.

Welcome to the world of the Great Eastern Sun!

KI KI SO SO!

Interested in ways to be involved with our community as a family? Join us this Sunday for Shambhala Family Gathering and Household Teachings.

Get a preview of Shambhala community member Jim Infantino’s music at his upcoming Solo Show: “Voice and guitar, mostly”.

Falcon Ridge Folk Festival “most wanted to return artist”,2006

Jim Infantino

@ Jackson Homestead

527 Washington Street, Newton

Friday, January 29

Doors 7:45, Concert 8:00

Minimum suggested donation $15, $5 children under 12, $50 immediate family max. 25% less for museum members.

All donations go to the museum and artist.

Singer Songwriter, Rockstar Geek

CMJ Music Report says:
“Jim Infantino wields his razor-sharp poetic flair like a weapon, offering thought-provoking commentary that can sound both humorous and poignant at the same time. Infantino mixes a down-town Lou Reed-style hipness … that best illustrates the band’s smart, imaginative approach.”

The Boston Globe says:
“Jim Infantino, ground zero of the Boston trio Jim’s Big Ego, is one of those rare songwriters whose wit is as sharp as his sense of melody, and whose intellect is broad and beautifully skewed as his jumble of musical influences.”

To one and all
Among the snowflakes
settling on each other
like accumulations of karma or of understanding
or of neither,
To everyone who will enter this year -
every foot fall, every glance, every opening
that lets the wind come in -
May you be at home in the warm and vast
freedom to which the dharma points
with everlasting kisses for everyone.

~ poem by Arthur Dion

“The poem is intended as a salute to our sangha on the first morning of 2010. It was composed spontaneously as written; this is the original. It emulates the tradition of spontaneous poetry within our lineage, which I understand to have been given to us by the Vidyadhara.”