Comments on: Quan Yin

By: Angel Kelly

Angel Kelly — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 03:18:50 +0000

check out the portland japanese garden sometime. I enjoy the image you posted. thanks

By: Norma

Norma — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:22:19 +0000

WHAT A WAY YOU HAVE IN EXPRESSING EXACTLY WHAT YOU ARE FEELING.
You are good. Keep up with your blogging. I was at the Tea Garden 40+ years ago and believe me I did not get the same feeling that you did. I was only 19 at the time. Just a baby myself but I do remember it well. That was about 20 years before you were born. The years during the Haight-Ashbury popularity. Golden Gate Park was covered with Hippies everywhere. I was not one of them though. They were so friendly and offered me little yellow dots that looked like frosting stuck to wax paper. I said No Thanks. I wonder what that was???

By: Belen

Belen — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 08:34:02 +0000

I’m up late taking a break from closet cleaning and finally had a chance to read this. According to wikipedia, today is her birthday…

I have something I’d like to lend you Would you like to stop by?

By: Annika

Annika — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 04:51:45 +0000

I’ve never had a great love, but it’s still nice to reconnect with people and heal old wounds. I’m glad you can find this peace of mind.

I, too, always loved the Tea Gardens. When I can’t get there, I tend to head to the beach in the rain. No one else is around and it’s just Mother Ocean and me. She has so many lessons to teach…I am humbled when I take the time to learn.

By: carnen

carnen — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:18:19 +0000

Quan yin bring me much peace. I used to have a white porcelain statue, and on my 30th birthday, I knocked her over by accident and her head flew off. I know three other women who have lost only the heads of their quan yin statues…i put mine to out in the garden to rest with her head beside her. I have another one now and she has brought me much comfort.

Reading your words just now, I can feel you and picture you standing in the rain, full of so many emotions and memories.

The rain brings me much comfort too….so do you.

By: Barney

Barney — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:07:03 +0000

I have many fond memories of the Japanese Tea Garden, from when I was little. My great-aunts would take me there, I would scramble over the bridge that’s near the entrance, look at the fish and run around like kids do. I was perhaps a little too young to fathom what it meant culturally, but I enjoyed its beauty and tranquility. As I grew older it only became a more special place, as I started to understand why its peacefulness was important. I’m glad you found it.