Alima-Linda Salmon on Clubhouse

Bio

🦋🕷🐊🍠🧀💙🌓💋👣🐎🪶🐈‍⬛🖤
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