Banana Rose (44 page)

Natalie and her mother at the beach in 1996. “My mother was beautiful and removed,” Natalie has said. “I took care of her a lot when I was older. I would drag her to the beach with my father, who is a champion swimmer.”

Natalie smiles in her Zen robe alongside a framed photograph of Katagiri Roshi, with whom she trained for twelve years. A student of Zen Buddhism for over twenty-five years, Natalie is ordained in the Order of Interbeing with Thích Nhất Hạnh.

Natalie, center, with filmmaker Mary Feidt and a friend of Bob Dylan’s in Hibbing, Minnesota. In 2004, Natalie traveled to Hibbing to explore Bob Dylan’s hometown and his roots in Feidt’s film
Tangled Up in Bob
.

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Grateful acknowledgement is made for the permission to reprint from the following: Line from “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night,” from Dylan Thomas,
Poems of Dylan Thomas.
Copyright © 1952 by Dylan Thomas. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp. Two haiku from
Haiku, Volume One
by R. H. Blyth. Copyright © 1949, 1981 by R. H. Blyth. Reprinted by permission of The Hokuseido Press.

Chapter 47 was first published under the title of “Lakestone, Minnesota” in
The Sun,
November 1988.

copyright © 1995 by Natalie Goldberg

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