An Email From Tina DeWeese, Daughter Of Robert and Gennie DeWeese Soon After My (Henry Gurr’s) Visit To Their Home Summer 2002.

Dear Henry,

The pleasure was ours to have your spirited presence in our lives for
a couple of days! Your passion for you mission is admirable and
contagious. All of us have expressed new intentions to reread Zen
after such long, engaging discussion and reminiscence of those times.
The most interesting thing is how it all touches back into an issue
that is, indeed, timeless...in each of our lives, this search for
Zen, which Pirsig brought so eloquently into the collective
consciousness of our times. Though different generations, we all
share in that essential quest (archetypal hero...), that he brought
into focus through the cultural lens of our western culture. He
pioneered a movement which is ongoing and perilous in our present
global circumstance, but there have been many perilous global
circumstances through TIME, and still, we have that uniquely human
capacity to transcend, to follow through with an inner thread of
personal mythology that, by nature, seeks its way to peace. My
brother, Jan, said it well one night, his wife tells us, when he sat
bolt upright in bed, sound asleep, with a revelation, "The last
frontier! Little pockets of nothingness!" It is in those deep breaths
and moments of rest (Langohr Campground a wonderful retreat!) that we
can be present in the moment. All the rest of our activity is in the
effort we make to get there. And there are many teachers along the
way. I think of Herman Hesse, Carlos Castenada, certainly Jung and
his many progeny of followers - Joseph Campbell, James Hillman,
William Irwin Thompson...Micheal and Linda Sexson. It's an exciting
thread of western consciousness to follow, applicable to all that we
do along this path. The Grateful Dead - so many artists that are
tapped into the journey of perception. Revelation/revolatin,
evolution. I suppose it is our own little reserves of energy that will
guide our way and dropping out from the world and fury gives us the
strength to carry on with whatever tasks we need to attend in the
process of becoming present in the moment, be it with our sticky pads
of notes, or with the horses. Like the zen story that my mother told
about the guy being chased by a lion, falls over a cliff, but hangs
on to a tiny shrub on the side of the cliff. He looks up to see the
lion and, looking below, sees another lion. He sees beside him on the
cliff a strawberry plant with a little red strawberry...and he plucks
it and tastes it for its sweetness. It is in that tension we all live
to find our presence in the moment, eh?

Thank you for your patience in sharing you knowledge of Physics, a
field of science I, like my father, have only an intuitive sense of.
It is a treat to have it all laid out, brings it to life/into context
of a world I know by heart, and through psyche/soul/dream. Psychology
and physics - Psyche/soma. We're all juggling the same pieces.

We're happy that your stay in these parts has been helpful to your
research, and hope your further travels will be as rewarding. Thank
you again for your gracious presence. We were very happy to meet you,
too.

Warm regards, Tina

The Following Email From Tina DeWeese, Is Her Thinking On The Subject Of Robert Pirsig’s Death.

Hello all,

Looking out my window on this snowy April day I can see the tree that fell part way at the very moment I was reading the email from Anthony in December of 2012, only days before our MSU Chautauqua event. Anthony was reporting that Robert had had a fall, was in a coma in ICU and none knew at the time whether he would live. We celebrated his life and honored him with an honorary doctorate while he was sleeping, hanging in that limbo state like our tree, leaning into the community of others still standing in the battle.

He did rally…and in cryptic, unflamboyant ways, continued to teach, when he thanked you Charlie for all the acknowledgement that he wasn’t sure if he deserved, but that he would accept with gratitude. This note from him reverberated for me through years of conversation with family and with friends, a lot wit Tom’s mom, Zona, also a very big reader of ZMM when it was first published. This was his note, from September 6, 2014.

When I related this message to Zona, enticing her to a discussion about the ‘undifferentiated esthetic continuum” , she thought for a moment and replied, “In other words, ‘the beat goes on’.”

The "undifferentiated esthetic continuum”, like Orpheus, transcending the boundaries of death while his head floats singing downstream, our friend Bob’s words travel downstream through time to remind us of the spiritual practice of maintenance in Zen and the Art of whatever context our life draws us into the Chautauqua of inquiry and into the metaphysics of Quality. Undifferentiated esthetic continuum, MOQ…the beat goes on…and the Time Falling Bodies Take to Light, through the anguishes of history, replays through time and through every individual and every individual moment of life to re-mind…that all points are connected.

I am mourning the death of another friend simultaneously to this farewell…emotion which opens the floodgates of grief, living in the wake of all our departed loved ones. Our task now only to celebrate the joy of intersection we have had with these lives … and carry on … toward the Metaphysics of Quality and the undifferentiated esthetic continuum.

The Hopis said it well:

Oh spirit of the desert
Of the mountains and the sky
We give our brother’s (sister’s) body back to you
To feed the trees and grass,
The deer and the lion,
And all living things, big and small,
That live in this land and need us,
As we need them.

Where this man’s (woman’s) spirit has gone
We do not know
But we shall remember him (her)
For as long as we can
And when we forget, as we must,
Everything that has happened,
We, too, will be part of the earth
And the worlds to come
Until we arrive once more
At the beginning again.

For Further Reading

…A) To read much more of Tina Deweese’s writing about Boseman, Montana’s, Intellectual, Artistic, and Literary University Community, go to the following link. ALSO you will see that it is a HUGE page containing content not included in our Sarah Vinke biography.
http://venturearete.org/ResearchProjects/ProfessorGurr/Documents/BiographySarahVinkeResourcePage

…B) Above Tina DeWeese Email has 5 times mention => "Undifferentiated Esthetic Continuum" (UEC).
…This is a major Idea created by Yale University Philosopher F. S. C. Northrop, In His Groundbreaking Book => '' “The Meeting of East and West: An Inquiry Concerning World Understanding”. (1979), which was read (with difficulty), by Robert Pirsig back in ~1946, on a ~16 day, 6600-mile troopship voyage from Korea back to the USA.
…Here we notice that Northrop’s book tittle surely influenced Robert Pirsig To SubTitle his ZMM Book => “An Inquiry Into Valus” AND subsequently To SubTitle his LILA Book => “An Inquiry Into Morals”
…Click Here For Extensive Reading To Help You Understand UEC. … AND Learn Just How => Robert Pirsig’s ZMM Book Was Deeply Influence By Northrop's Book “The Meeting of East and West”.

What Tina DeWeese Means To Us, In The ZMM Community, Was Stated on Our Facebook.com/zmmquality =>
…January 5 2023: Happy Birthday Tina DeWeese! A Montana artist carrying forward the legacy of her artist parents Robert & Gennie DeWeese (along with her brother Josh), Tina and her husband artist Tom Thornton live in the DeWeese home in Cottonwood Canyon immortalized in Robert M. Pirsig's book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. There she often greets many Pirsig Pilgrims. Tina and her brother Josh have been essential contributors to the community of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance scholars and fans, helping make 2012's Chautauqua Honoring Robert M. Pirsig happen by serving on the organizing committee, helping archive DeWeese papers at Montana State, and of course answering ZMMQuality's many questions.
Thank you for being a friend, Tina!
LEARN MORE...
Official DeWeese Art page:
"Life in the Balance: The Art of Tina DeWeese", Bozeman Daily Chronicle article.
Who Were the DeWeeses? Bob and Gennie.
ATTENTION: After The 2 Blue Gallery Links NEXT BELOW Come Up, Click On The Photo Several Times To Get The Largest View. Then Upper Right, ClickOn The [>> ] Icon, To Go To the Next Photo.
The DeWeeese Home in Cottonwood Canyon & Who Were the DeWeeses.
A 2019 Visit with Tina DeWeese In Cottonwood Canyon & Retracing the 1968 ZMM Hike, Of Robert Pirsig & Son Chris.

NOTE: The above is from Facebook.com/zmmquality:

A Googe Search For” Bozeman Montana Tina DeWeese”, Finds The Following Interesting WebPages,Each With One To Many Photos => .

…ATTENTION: AFTER EITHER of the ABOVE 2 Blue Links come up. you will find this DeWeeseArt.com WebSite, has an unusual format & organization: THUS YOU WILL HAVE TO mover your mouse around, and watch then a “Hand” shows, and then look at lower left that shows the URL where you might go, if you CliclOnIt.

This Charming Photo, Was found on Tina DeWeese Facebook Page, There Saying “Cathie DeWeese-Parkinson, Gretchen DeWeese-Bainum Tina DeWeese:” August 31 at 12:24 PM, Thus This Photo Appears To be, Likewise A Delight To The DeWeese Family.

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| [- A Marvelous Photo Of => “A Little Girl Reading To A Young Calf”, Found On Tina DeWeese’s Facebook Page..
Photo Is From above Blue Link.]

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