🦋🕷🐊🍠🧀💙🌓💋👣🐎🪶🐈‍⬛🖤 artist, animist, anthropologist* grandmother of 5, gardener, visionary, midwife to mares — & ? Too old 4 tech ? Going with the flow 🌊 having two phones & now therefore two of me here! can’t combine — so, please patience! ♥️🌶s @ have IG @alimasalmon but learning it, so email can work: [email protected] Student of: 🎶 Raga (Pandit Pran Nath, U. Salamat Ali Khan & his son Sukhawat Ali Khan, Sri Karunamayee-Didi, Terry Riley, et al) — yes, mama sang jazz/played tenor 🎷 i still sing Kirtan & Gospel… 🎨 of Thangka painting (Andy Weber), of Mandala (Pieter Weltevrede), Hindu art w Ekabhumi SFAI in the 1960s, mentor Jay DeFeo — California new figurative etc 🤲🏼 Sufism (Sefu Abu Khan of The Gambia, Wali Ali Meyer, Vasheest Davenport (Zikr), Shabda Kahn, Shemsuddin Ahmed, imam Bilal Hyde)… & others 🌷Buddhism (refuge with HE Kalu Rinpoche (previous) & Chenrezig empowerment (current) — other empowerments Medicine Buddha (HH), White Tara (Lama Palden) etc 🌱🐴 studied herbs (Catherine Abby Rich) & medicine making - mostly treated horses - midwife to Lipizzaner mares for 20+ years with twin sister Multicultural ancestral background & going forward, also with grandkids… Many different “careers,” not in order but including faves: TEACHING: art & ESL & anthropology & how to teach. Other adventures: systems analysis, futurist, librarian, interior & landscape design, colorist; administrative, city planning (Brisbane CA), constituent correspondence/research for Senator McGovern (DC, Carter Administration), Florist & Event productions from weddings, concerts, staging, to memorials, More: facilities management & oversight, advertising, insurance, secretarial for legal & real estate jobs, short-order cook & candy-making… & saving a mountain & its wetlands *fieldwork & life in Seneganbia — own work with late husband’s & colleague of 40 years, Dr. David P Gamble, mostly archived at UCLA Special Collections & Ethnomusicology Dept, for other scholars, now & future 5 🪐s in ♑️ 6th house, ♌️ rise & 💜 Venus in ♐️… Vedic: Moola/Nirrti 🖤 Saturn rules