Beautiful!🙂

Yes thank you Ping. This is wonderful.

Thank you, this is a precious document, hearing Gary singing with the old way voice, you reading your poem, filming Gary's place, oui la joie juste ramasser des champignons.

That little girl's song is the best!

Another lovely video. Thank you Ping Wang! I loved your poem, and I love Gary’s singing voice! If you have a chance, please tell him there’s a musician in New Jersey who is a big fan of his singing! ☺️🎶

We have a long Chantrelle season here in Oregon this year as it's been a warm winter. The harvest has been plentiful! We have both white and golden Chantarelles. Lovely poems.

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love the mushroom calling song......

so lovely, thank you for keeping us updated!

Hello Ms. Ping Wang. I appreciate your work videotaping and recording Gary Snyder. Could I ask you a favor? When Gary is speaking, it makes it difficult to hear when you have the guitar music mixed in over his voice. Also it's a different rhythm than the poem, so we can't hear that clearly. Since you have been given the immense privilege of being able to document such a great man, I would hope you could let the man speak without adding in cutaways to other visuals, or drowning out his voice with background music. Again, I thank you.

So beautiful! Thank you, Ping Wang!

I need to get back to Shady Creek and the Ridge and see all my old neighbors and friends! Gary looks good!

Lovely

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immigrants write some of the best literature

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Bravo Jeff is a terrific guitarist! That's a beautiful stage for solo guitar..i'ts like an ocean of maple!

Miss Wang Ping , This Was A Most Beautiful Poem Brought Tears To My Eyes For All In The World😢😢😢That Suffer I Pray With You That This Suffering Will Stop ❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏

live recording at the concert. I was far away, so forgive me for the light quality, but the sound should be decent, because Sundin Hall has one of the best sound qualities in the state.

PLAY THAT FUNKY MUSIC, WHITE BOY.

Glad Japhy Ryder is still here!!! Om Mani Padme Hum🌸🏵🌺🌼🌻💮🌷

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I love the "Axe Handles" poem. Thank you

Whoa, that's where I live. I knew as soon as I started watching the video that water looked familiar. I would have loved to have been there. Thank you for coming here and sharing!

Mr Synder, Is That Beautiful Ping Wang Your Wife??? You Lucky Guy

Ping just lifts my heart with her amusement in questioning Gary Snyder. She is brave and does not get thrown off balance although he is cantankerous.

Nice to hear someone still alive, that is from the beat generation. I can see that his life is still meaningful, and hearing his wisdom is contagious. Thank you for this wonderful video.

Thanks for the video!! Nice to see gary again!!! ❤

I am from Paducah, Ky, live in upper east Tennessee now; I did farm work growing up also

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Thank you Ping for spreading your prayer flag journey far and wide! May you never thirst!

Be like water...my favorite Lao Tse piece Rivers are wonderful temples.

We all really desperately need your words and message right now. Thank you for this presentation and reading 🙏🏽

Ping this poem is so beautiful. Thank you for allowing me to find you and your words. I am listening.

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Wonderful !! What a treasure. Thank you so much.

It’s absolutely magical than the Diablo Valley, isn’t it?

Bless Gary Snyder one of the last connections to a time of great change and hope.

lovely...your dancing is very grounded, it's a lovely poem

I spent time a Hokoji Zendo in Taos with Stan ''Butan'' White who was a friend of Gary's and a student of Suzuki Roshi. At 93 he made a point of telling me not to waste my life as a monk in a Zendo but to use my time there to broaden my vision of what would come after. Stan was cantankerous, gruff and funny. He was right of course, the life inside a monastery is no different than outside, except it may be a little quieter.

Happy birthday to a great man and beautiful role model.

I heard Gary Snyder read his poetry at Kalamazoo College 50 years (!) ago. I was 18, and never forgot it. 😊

Riprap 😊🐢 ThankYou Both ThankYou ThankYou!!! Was Wondering if “Conversations aboard the Vallejo” would be in Print? I wish Druid Heights was somewhere we could visit , even if , just for the architecture ! It’s such a Great historical place!!! Needs to be preserved!!!

I Love Your Laugh Miss Ping Wang It Is So Cute ❤😊❤😊

Miss Ping Wang All I Can Speak In Chinese Is A Thank You Such A Beautiful Language I Wish You Could Teach Me ❤❤😊😊

Strictly from a production point of view, maybe better if they either faced each other, as in an actual conversation ( which they are having) or, if she was off camera, and his face was featured more directly. As in documentary style. This angle with them seated side by side is awkward for the viewer....I feel as tho she is ready to just slide out of the frame! He's really the one we want to focus on here anyway... I don't know who the woman is so, from my view, it would be so much more powerful to actually feature our 'guest', Gary! She being on camera but seated to his right feels as tho she is not really engaged in the conversation but 'just sort of happened by'....😯 I'd do this Ken Burns style documentary with cutaways of him maybe walking around his property, maybe holding one of his books and or more close ups on his face! The conversations just barely inches by - it could be so different! He's a fascinating and brilliant man!! You want to really bring that out in him!

A beautiful seamless meeting of east and west. Thank you

Ax handle is about teaching by a model nearby, perhaps your parents.

Used to hatchet kindling for my grandma's wood stove when I was five. I bet no kid gets to do that now.

Very enjoyable. Thank you both. First ran into wang ping on FB. She's a wonderful poet too.