{"id":4486,"date":"2024-05-17T04:51:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T12:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/?p=4486"},"modified":"2024-05-19T09:17:30","modified_gmt":"2024-05-19T17:17:30","slug":"4486","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/?p=4486","title":{"rendered":"East and West by Catherine Ann Jones in Ojai, Sat, May 25, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">OJAI<\/span><\/em><strong><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\"> LIBRARY\u00a0 Saturday, 2pm, May 25, 2024<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2>111 E. Ojai Avenue, Ojai, CA\u00a093023<\/h2>\n<h1>www.vencolibrary.org<\/h1>\n<p><strong>Saturday, May 25, 2024, 2pm <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4377\" src=\"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/East-and-West-Jpeg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"372\" height=\"574\" \/><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><em>East &amp; West: Stories of India<\/em><\/strong> <\/span>\u2013 An author- talk with <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><em>Catherine Ann Jones<\/em><\/strong><\/span> \u2013 at the Ojai Library<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCatherine Ann Jones writes with\u00a0the clarity and delicacy of butterfly wings.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0&#8211; Roshan Seth, actor<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExcellent stories of India \u2026a memorable work of art.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Dianne Skafte, Ph.D., <em>Listening to the Oracle <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Available on Amazon.com<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>DATE:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Saturday, May 25, 2024; 2pm<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Local Ojai Author <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Catherine Ann Jones <\/strong><\/span>will visit the Ojai Library at <strong>2pm on Saturday, May 25, 2024<\/strong>, to give a talk on her book <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><em>East &amp; West: Stories of India<\/em><\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><em>East &amp; West<\/em><\/strong><\/span> is a captivating book, in which contrasting and complementary aspects of Indian culture are explored through stories of seekers, stories of ordinary Indians, and stories of heroes, frauds, and victims.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the best tradition of storytelling in India, this new book by Catherine Ann Jones is a modern classic. Seemingly covering the entirety of Indian culture, values, current events, and philosophy, the fifteen stories in her collection will long be treasured for capturing the ethos of the twenty-first century. In spite of the 114th sloka of the Dharma Shastra that intones \u2018The essence of dharma is hidden and elusive,\u2019 it is true that the Catherine Ann Jones dharma is storytelling.\u201d \u2013 R. E. Mark Lee, <em>World Teacher: The Life of J. Krishnamurti<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Catherine Ann Jones<\/strong> has played major roles in over fifty productions on and off-Broadway, later becoming an award-winning playwright. She has authored eleven plays produced in and out of NYC and films including <em>Unlikely Angel<\/em> (Dolly Parton), <em>The Christmas Wife<\/em>, and the popular television series, <em>Touched by an Angel<\/em>. A Fulbright Scholar to India studying shamanism, she has taught for several years at The New School University in NYC and USC Film School in LA, as well writing workshops globally. She is the award-winning author of eight books including <em>Heal Your Self with Writing<\/em>. To learn more about Catherine Ann Jones, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/\">wayofstory.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This event is free and open to the public. For additional information, contact Ron Sol\u00f3rzano, Regional Librarian, at (805) 218-9146 or <a href=\"mailto:ron.solorzano@ventura.org\">ron.solorzano@ventura.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Ojai Library is located at 111 East Ojai Avenue in Ojai, CA. Hours of service are 10am to 8pm Monday through Thursday and 12pm to 5pm Friday through Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OJAI LIBRARY\u00a0 Saturday, 2pm, May 25, 2024 111 E. Ojai Avenue, Ojai, CA\u00a093023 www.vencolibrary.org Saturday, May 25, 2024, 2pm East &amp; West: Stories of India \u2013 An author- talk with Catherine Ann Jones \u2013 at the Ojai Library \u201cCatherine Ann Jones writes with\u00a0the clarity and delicacy of butterfly wings.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0&#8211; Roshan Seth, actor \u201cExcellent stories [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,1,37,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-movies","category-catherine-ann-jones","category-blog","category-eventsworkshops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4486"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4500,"href":"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4486\/revisions\/4500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}