by Phoebe Hoffman | Feb 23, 2024 | News
Today marks a year since my Subud brother and dear friend Omson moved on. Omson was an inquisitive, interesting individualist, interested in the world and all its ramifications. I first met Omson not long after I was opened in Seattle in 1994, and last saw Omson in...
by Phoebe Hoffman | Feb 16, 2024 | News
Welcome to our Spring Celebration of Rebirth and Resurrection, a blending of the Jewish Passover Seder this year in April, the Christian celebration of Good Friday on March 29 and Easter on March 31, the Pagan practices for Spring Equinox on March 19, and Ramadan...
by Roberta Hoffman | Jan 19, 2024 | Poetry & Literature
No boulders block the way and the words find their way to Source, to the sea from which her life emerged. “Swimming in Stories: The River of my Life” begins with her parents’ stories, each immigrating before they knew each other to South Africa to escape the...
by Roberta Hoffman | Jan 12, 2024 | News, Poetry & Literature
It was approximately three years later that by mutual decision, my parents and I decided I should go to boarding school. I would only return on holiday breaks, as would my brother, who also attended boarding school. I was thirteen, growing close to fourteen, and had...
by Roberta Hoffman | Jan 6, 2024 | Poetry & Literature
The apartment building I grew up in was on East 57th Street near York Avenue in fashionable Sutton Place, Manhattan, New York City. There were a number of noteworthy individuals who lived in the building, one of whom was the renowned fashion designer Bill Blass. Mr....
by Roberta Hoffman | Dec 23, 2023 | News
Twenty-five years ago, I was developing and running art and multicultural programs for children in Vancouver, BC. I had received when I did talent testing that I had the talent to promote culture. I worked at Arts Umbrella, Canada’s largest and very wonderful arts...
by Roberta Hoffman | Dec 16, 2023 | News
Kirkus Reviews: CASCADIAN ZEN BIOREGIONAL WRITINGS ON CASCADIA HERE AND NOW by Paul E. Nelson & Jason M. Wirth with Adelia MacWilliam & Theresa Whitehill Link to Kirkus Reviews of CASCADIAN ZEN A many-layered and deeply spiritual collection celebrating the...
by Roberta Hoffman | Dec 8, 2023 | Events, Seasonal
Winter Festival of Lights Presented December 15, 2023 at the Portland Subud House Assembled by Fayra Teeters As a theatre-worker/devotee, I’ve reveled in the cooperative nature of theatre my whole life. It takes a village to rehearse and perform any public piece. I...
by Roberta Hoffman | Nov 24, 2023 | Poetry & Literature
Reading Latifah Taormina’s article in Subud USA’s October Newsletter, I was inspired to pray for peace during my personal Latihan at home, currently more useful for a restful night’s sleep than all the warm milk in Wisconsin. During women’s testing at Menucha, the...
by Roberta Hoffman | Nov 3, 2023 | News
There have been literally dozens of books about Subud written by Subud members. In the early days, to be sure, we mainly had John Bennett’s Concerning Subud, Husein Rofé’s two volumes, and Ilaina Bartok’s Worth Living For. There were also those mysterious blue...
