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Nina Gitana V: The Art of Dying

Nina practiced “the art of dying.”  She had started dying many years before I met her, even if her body didn’t manage it until 2002.  She saw it as Alan Watts did: “Dying is an art.  It’s also an adventure.” One example was that, during the time I knew...

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Nina Gitana II: A Bad Somersault

This is the second entry in a series about my meetings with Nina Gitana, a truly remarkable person. Rick and I parked near the road, walked past some large boulders, down into a stream bed that probably once had a bridge over it, then up again to Nina’s place. ...

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