NOVEMBER 1ST ~ HAPPY AIRILLION DAY
Airillions are the new billionairies : recognizing inherent value and worth and acting accordingly, thereby creating a Surge (current/wave), a magnetic attraction to which we all respond (Vote of Confidence).... ever appreciating (increasing) value.

Paul Hawken once said "What if there aren't too many of us??" What if the quantum leap we are ready for at this stage in our great humanity journey needs ALL of us. What if ALL of us count, in keeping with our deep heart desire:

May all be fed
May all be loved
May all be healed

1n 1989 New Zealanders came out with the 'koru' flag for new beginnings. Koru is Maroi for the bud-frond of a fern leaf, right at that new-new stage when it starts to unfurl. Koru is a symbol of new beginnings, hope and rebirth. In 1989, the new flag was for the "Year of the White Heron"; maybe now the old wounds could heal, now that the Pakeha had formally acknowledged the broken treaties..

The symbol of 'Airillion' is a fractal fern:
We are each a reduced-size copy of the whole
ACTING TOGETHER, WE ARE breathtakingly awesome...
"We are each of us angels with only one wing,
And we can only fly by embracing one another"


"A fractal is generally "a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be split into parts, each of which is (at least approximately) a reduced-size copy of the whole,"[1] a property called self-similarity. The term was coined by Benoît Mandelbrot in 1975 and was derived from the Latin fractus meaning "broken" or "fractured." (thanks Wiki!)

TOGETHER, WE ARE WHOLE
"We are each of us angels with only one wing,
And we can only fly by embracing one another"

And thus, Airillions can literally shift the fortunes of the Land and Airillions 'Lything' (Lything: flexing & strengthening our giving and receiving muscles) can transform the world:

"Airillion" one who is actively AIRing views to change the news - because the news (what is new and emergent, tiny or mammoth, in every awesome person in our sphere) is in fact endlessly inspiring, uplifting, astoundingly beautiful, healing... and capable of restoring our Faith in Humanity.

The Airillion Movement has an iconic representation also (MAKE THE CONNECTION):

In the spirit of Airillions, check out 'PassThePound'; a newly launched UK initiative that set out to build a strong 'PassThePound' community in the Isles: http://www.passthepound.co.uk/ - In this model, inherent worth and value is declared in ourselves and each other by sending a Surge current (one pound to six people), just as often as the S/urge takes us; no questions asked, no strings attached.

So we take our currency,, whether we reside in the Pound or Dollar Realm, recognize it for what it is; a power current that surges by our say-so, and we send it with conscious intent, in single units to where we want to light up.

We are the marketplace, we are the economy, we are the currency (current/power). We proclaim inherent worth and beauty and value. Our Vote of Confidence is an AIRing of views that changes the 'news'!

We are proclaiming a Vote of Confidence in us; We The People..... We Move.....: I, little me, makes a Vote of Confidence, heralding the inherent beauty, worth and value of Six people (we do it in Sixes; 'A Six(6) Pass' because Six is do-able/manageable and numerogically significant for protection and strength, and anyone (by definition an 'Airillion'!) who feels lit up by the Six(6) Pass jumps in and powers-the-current that way....

Then said Airillion slides the first of the Six off the list, and adds themselves to the 6th place, now part of the wave..... in endless Daisy chains..

NOTE: You never have to worry about rocking the boat when you ARE the Wave!

I like the structure of PassThePound because it is actually like receiving the (USA-initiative) MacArthur Award, which is given freely with no strings attached because YOU have been identified as possibly a character who could make a significant contribution to humanity; you might not, but you might... (so we are going to fuel your little boat to increase the odds that you will...).. And if you don't, we never said you had to we just said we value you. That's it... and it transforms our world.. We just delivered the Roses...

"Our lives shall not be sweated from birth until life closes;
Hearts starve as well as bodies; give us bread, but give us roses!


(Thanks Wiki for open source/public domain rose images...
Actually, all the images herein are public domains, thanks to Wikipedia!)

First Lady...
Michelle Obama
We salute you

Tom Atlee of Co-Intelligence described his epiphany break-through around the progressive/conservative 'split' in this country, as so profound it was akin to the universe-changing shift from racism and sexism.. In one extraordinary weekend, holed-up with fellow Americans of every political persuasion whose only common ground appeared to be their love of their country, he made the shift to be able to see through to the humanity of every person there, to have compassion for their stance and how they got to see the world that way.... and from there they could forge heretofore unimaginable paths forward for the common good.

yes, we are a pivotal generation and we are essentially and quintessentially bridgewalkers..
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~~*
We just voted. Heavy turn-out, no lines. Paper ballot with Sequoia Optical Scan machine is an awesome system.

Added bonus for us was that a whole kindergarten class filed in to the polling station at the same time as we were casting our ballot. They were all given pencils and voting sheets with pictures of all the presidential candidates and got to 'cast their vote' for President and two ballot measures, and then all put them into a box with a posting slot. That was precious even while we know their votes don't technically count, and we are mightily relieved that we feel assured, at our polling station at least, that our vote wasn't being dropped into a toy box!

I walked in this evening and she said, "If Barack wins tonight, it will be the end of a Dark Age..."

And I said, "Yes, Yes!!!"

Over 20 years ago, I was stopped in my tracks by my 12 year old daughter suddenly saying to a visiting friend, "I believe that I have been born into what will be known as another Dark Ages in human history, but that I will live to see one of the most beautiful."

Time stood still in our London kitchen and the hairs on the back of my neck stood up..: "I want to be there too", was the searing desire that rose out of me.... And tonight I knew I was.

We are here. This is the beginning of that manifestation.

For years my mother, born of a Scottish father and a Scottish mother, has had the Statue of Liberty on her mantlepiece. For years my mother has had the poster on her wall; the "I have a dream.....". speech.  Now Barack's President Elect speech will join those treasured artifacts.

We are full tonight. Full to the brim.

Cycling home yesterday afternoon from sweet friend time, matinee Secret Life of Bees (LOVED it.. and {I hadn't quite registered from memory the powerful Civil Rights context of the story} the unexpected juxtaposition of Southern 1960s story with President Elect made it even more poignant...)...

Cycling home I get, completely without a thought process, more like a sudden gust of wind here and gone; the very first wisp of my birthday headed my way... inner sunbeam...

I stop at the garden gate to check the mailbox and there it is; one envelope, absolutely recognizable as my birthday envelope from my mother-in-law who never ever forgets... It was a lovely way to sail out of our Election high. I feel like my birthday, actually on 11:11, has truly announced itself and thus, begun.. "let the festivities begin!!

PS We came out of our movie with that wonderous clear headed feeling you get after  a good cry!

"We're coming to the edge, running on the water,

coming through the fog, your sons and daughters.

Let the river run, let all the dreamers wake the nation."

Carly Simon

OPEN LETTER FROM ALICE WALKER:

"DEAR BROTHER OBAMA"

".....We are used to seeing men in the White House soon become juiceless and as white-haired as the building; we notice their wives and children looking  strained and stressed. They soon have smiles so lacking in joy that they  remind us of scissors. This is no way to lead. nor does your family deserve this fate..."

Letter in its entirety: http://www.theroot.com/id/48726

Baby Bush (resident Bush) once said that the President's morning briefing (Superthreats) he received daily was the most sobering moment of his day. And my friend said, Yes! Have you ever tracked a man's hair color in that office over the course of 8, even 4 years??!!

What is a body to do when he or she cannot follow Dr Weil's advice in Spontaneous Healing, and get the news a week old so that it doesn't blow-out the immune system? Every single morning President Barack Obama will get a download of the Superthreats. And that's what we've been doing in Superstruct (Year 2019).

Barack apparently has sprouted some gray hairs through the grueling months of his campaign trail so now the question is how can we, Airillions All, hold him in such a way that we keep fueling the beacon that has now been kindled by an 'army of David's'...

 I woke on the morning of November 5th and a childhood rhyme (England/Scotland) kicked in like clockwork. Every 5th November across that Land, we burn an effigy of the man who tried to blow up Parliament, and the rhyme tells us we must never ever forget what this bad man tried to do. Now as I lie in my waking bed, years out of childhood, I make the connection: That happened in 1605, in the reign of King James I, the tortured man who tortured women in the 'witch' trials womens holocaust.......    Aaaah.... I am feeling this story now, in the Wake of our President-elect elation.... Aaaah.... I am feeling this story now, ... Why do we want to keep telling this story to generation after generation; half the story and a miserable story at that!!

Which stories do we want to summon and herald and feel and craft from??  What do we want to enliven for our immune-system's sake, for sanity's sake, for envisioning sake?! Which stories do we want to weave and re-weave in full techni-color? 

 "At your wit's end.. I'll meet you there." (PS it's fun!)

MAKE THE CONNECTION!

Sistine Chapel Ceiling (making the connection),
painted by Michelangelo; exhibited to the public for the first time on...

the First of November , 1512.

Waking up on November Fifth
in the year of two thousand eight (2008)
that childhood Guy Fawkes rhyme
got triggered by the date:

"Remember remember the 5th of November:
gunpowder, treason & plot"
(the rhyme enshrined an episode
that "should never be forgot")

The year was Sixteen hundred & five (1605)
Tyrannical King James the First
From his English throne decreed
Women/'Witch' trials: do their worst

So why should we remember this
so long ago; this hate for hate
Let's magnify the beautiful;
The Rise to a More Perfect State

Remember remember the First of November
fifteen hundred and twelve (1512)
Make the Connection, join the dots
dig and dive and delve!

The Sistine Chapel said it all
far better than the Guy Fawkes plot
This is BEST Remembered
And the basest  best... forgot!

CCR McF
5th November, 2008
Morning after USA Historic Election

NOTE: In the UK, observing Guy Fawkes night was compulsory, by fiat, until 1859, to celebrate the deliverance of King James I from the Gunpowder plot of 1605.

 *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

 To my mind, both Barck and Michelle are natural-born 'Airillions', speaking to the inherent wealth in  EVERY/WO/MAN

Here is my medicine man of 20 years. This rising is woven into our love story: "Wowed" http://ryansarn.wordpress.com/

 

 

 

Ziggy is a rescue cat
Minnie is a new human

Minnie has quivered with delight at Ziggy
from the first time she could focus her eyes

And Ziggy, street-fighting cat that she is
with chunks ripped from her ears,
Never never unsheaths her claws to Minnie

And Minnie, to her credit
never grabs or squeezes
But mostly always
quivers
with delight
just to be near this awesome beast

 

 

"What would Love do here.. What would the Cosmos want.."
...made it up as I cycled round and round in ever widening loops of my neighborhood, singing to dispel some unfathomable discombobulation... It worked!!
http://mypeace.tv/profiles/profile/show?id=3ijl6njoygg74

Airillions are the new billionairies : recognizing inherent value and worth and taking action based on that knowledge.

The symbol of 'Airillion' is a fractal fern:; fully unfurled we appear: Each a reduced-size copy of the whole; ACTING TOGETHER, WE ARE breathtakingly awesome...

The AIRILLIONS 'Superstruct' within the Game-for-the-public-good; Superstruct Year 2019 ~ which ENDS on November 14, is now a Top Contender for Superstruct Award: JOIN AND 'Rave' this 'superstruct' for a bright future:

Paul Hawken once said "What if there aren't too many of us??" What if the quantum leap we are ready for at this stage in our great humanity journey needs ALL of us. Airillions are a phenomenon because we are so many. ALL of us count, and all of us share one Planetary Picture:

May all be fed
May all be loved
May all be healed

"Fifty years from now our grandchildren will chuckle to think how hard our generation struggled to remember that economies are constructs of society nested within the ecological principles that guide every choice we make. Every choice is a natural resource choice. It's all interdependent. And that's the beauty of it. By the year 2050, perhaps sooner than that, nature's bounty will bloom all over again, this time in full partnership with the most clever of her creations. We are the bioneers of this effort." from SALMONPEOPLE (Peter Donaldson), a Meme translator of Salmon Nation http://www.peterdonaldson.net/Salmonpeople/index.html

Airillions MAKE THE CONNECTION:

FOOTNOTE: YOUR WISE & INSIGHTFUL INPUT TO THE AIRILLIONS WIKI  (no one person can weave it all together) IS WHOLLY WELCOME - http://superstruct.wikia.com/wiki/Mobilizing_Airillions

I post below excerpts of an open letter from Rick Ulfik, Founder and Director of
We, The World
Rick was beloved of our WomenRise for Global Peace Centenarian, Eleanor Wasson, who wrote a letter to Presidential Candidate, Senator Barack Obama on April 4, 2008, two days before she died..

 

Dear Senator Obama:
      Thank you for your wisdom in planning to appoint 
Al Gore as a member of your cabinet
 when you are elected our President.

      Extending such wisdom, 
I hope you will gain millions of votes by contacting my friend 
Dennis Kucinich, asking him to become 
Director for the Department of Peace when you are elected...

 ..My thanks and every good wish 
as you take our country and the world 
into peace and justice.

                                     Sincerely,              

                                     Eleanor Wasson
*~*~*~~*~*~*~*~***~*~*~*~**~*~**~*~**~*~*~**~*~**

 NOTE:: This is one of 2 letters that Eleanor Wasson wrote and mailed
directly prior to her death in April, 2008.

She got up and sat on the edge of her bed one last time,
calling for pen and paper, and wrote her final letters;
one to presidential candidate, Senator Barack Obama,
and one to Representative Dennis Kucinich.

Eleanor Wasson, lifelong activist-citizen,
founder of WomenRise for Global Peace, and author of
28,000 Martinis and Counting: A Century of Living, Loving & Learning,
was renowned for her poignant and lucid letters to members of Congress.
It was her firm belief that Barack Obama, along with his wife Michelle,
represents a new paradigm in this experiment in Democracy,
unprecedented in the history of the world.

Rick writes:
"Going home at 1:00AM after seeing Obama's acceptance speech at an election night party, the streets of New York City were like New Year's Eve, or maybe when the NY Yankees won the Baseball World Series! People were jubilantly screaming and cheering, bus riders were excitedly talking to each other.

A police car was driving around playing Obama's speech over its loudspeakers! It was symbolic of this historic time.

This is a moment when great change is possible......

........ To make the shift happen, we need "an irrepressible public mandate.....” Social researcher Paul Ray estimates that there are 50-60 million people in the USA and 80-90 million in Western Europe who are what he calls Cultural Creatives who would love to see such a shift happen. But they don't know that there are so many others with their values.

We, The World has begun to help make the Cultural Creatives visible to each other so they can begin to act collectively! But to fully implement this, we need full participation at this stage by those, like you, who share these values. Together, you and we have the potential to galvanize tens of millions of new people. This is a collaborative effort that I have written about recently."

See www.wetheworld.org/ShiftHappens

Your participation and support now will help make the most of what We, The World has achieved over the last 10 years:

• a world-class Team - www.WeTheWorld.org/wtw2/advisors
• Strategic Alliances around the world - www.WeTheWorld.org/wtw2/GlobalOutreach
• a track record of Accomplishments that have impacted over 2 million people - www.WeTheWorld.org/wtw2/highlights
• positive responses from visionary leaders and others about the impact we are having - www.wetheworld.org/wtw2/quotes
  
• a video made by Nobel Peace Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu for We, The World
• international organizing with 11 Days of Global Unity which now annually has more than 700 associated events in over 60 countries - www.wetheworld.org/11daysguide
  
• working relationships with Grassroots Communities/Partners around the world - www.wetheworld.org/wtw2/partners
  
• and a grand, but realistic, Vision for Change - www.WeTheWorld.org/wtw2/vision
  

• Take an active role in one or more of our Tipping Point Initiatives (www.WeTheWorld.org/tippingpointinitiatives)

This is the moment that REAL change can begin.
This is the moment for full participation.
This is the moment for your participation!

Thank you for helping us all to have a Livable Future!

Rick Ulfik
Founder and Director of We, The World
www.WeTheWorld.org.
www.GlobalUnityCalendar.org

Riding Waves of Hope - This is the Moment to Begin REAL Change

Mother Ninya write:
"...this captured a really lovely moment last night when Minnie climbed up on Michael's knee as he was working on his book cover painting at his drawing board and asked to do it too.

He set her up with clean paper and showed her how to dip the brush in the water, and them just a little bit into the blob of paint on the palate before making her marks. In true Minnie style she was very focused and deliberate with her movements and kept saying delightedly 'Minnie painting!'.

When I came over with Holly in my arms she said 'Look Holly - Minnie painting!'

Michael said that her painting looked like grass and water so then she decided that it was where Jeremy Fisher {Beatrix Potter character} jumps in the water and Michael completed the painting by adding a Jeremy Fisher behind some of the grass stems. The painting is now stuck to the bookcase in her room so she can see it from her cot.

Dear Gaians,

I am celebrating my Armistice birthday: 11:11

You have to know I was born on 'Armistice Day'. You have to know that it was instilled in me; it was a very very special day; my mum always said I was their Poppy Girl..(the peoples' hope; the Poppy; the symbol out of that bloody 'First World War').

They never said the Armistice broke down; they never said it didn't work out, they never said it was a day of broken promises. I received by osmosis that this was a day of Great Promise. And that is how I held it, all the days of my life.

 Then one day I met my dear Eleanor, who entered her 101st year in 2008 and she told me; Yes! we danced in the streets all night on Armistice Day 1918.. and truly believed it was The War to End All Wars...

When Eleanor relayed this seminal experience, she always had a radiance about her and I knew that it was the experience of Armistice that defined her life, the experience of Armistice that empowered her, not what happened to the construct that was 'Armistice Day' in the realm of political maneuvering.

Barack Obama; President-Elect... do you know, we danced in the streets; jubilant..; all ages, unprecedented..; every bit as momentous as Armistice, every bit as precious.. We did it, we did it, I say.. Oh relief, utter, utter relief. You always said "Only Love Prevails", and I said it too, but I had no idea until this weight was lifted, just what we had all lived under... Only Love Prevails... Oh blessed Remembering.

In the end, we delivered the Roses, thank God, we delivered the Roses;..:"Our lives shall not be sweated from birth until life closes; Hearts starve as well as bodies; give us bread, but give us roses..!

It's my birthday.. and I chose to cycle downtown with my dear Ryan and see the movie "W". It was perfect; properly entertaining, as astonishing  to me in a way as our British movie, "The Queen" (these characters are ALL still in office - unprecedented!!!) AND, cycling home, we are just saying ... utter utter relief, that it's over, that we can say, they were characters in a play, and it's OVER.

We are released.

We are ENORMOUSLY RELIEVED

Some are cathartic.

No wonder...

MY BIRTHDAY PRESENT. YOU ARE THE GIFT... OF A LIFETIME!!!!!

Thank God for Change Agents Everywhere...

Oh, speaking of  'Change Agents.., check out  "Obama Morning", Ryan's {first ever!} blog post): http://ryansarn.wordpress.com/

Listen 10 times straight off.... Brilliant!

There once was a ballot named 8

Whose aim was to legislate h8

It passed by a thread

Some old Church in my bed!

For my rights

I will now have to w8

Limmerick forwarded to me, author unknown(?) Graphic chosen from: http://www.blackplanet.com/users/PHYSH/canvas/view_canvas.html

IMPORTANT FOOTNOTE: A prominent long-and-happily married heterosexual couple (one an elected official in our city) have started a quiet but powerful Prop 8 citizen protest by taking their wedding bands off their ring finger. Now you will see wedding rings  worn around the neck until Prop 8 is repealed.

So I sampled these "GoodOnYa" bars at SF Green Festival yesterday, chatted briefly with founder and friend.. and was inspired to post; that's two hits for San Diego in the course of a month. First came BIOMIMICRY:

BIONEERS CONFERENCE (Oct 2008): City of San Diego were tabling...; set to become the "Biomimicry hub of the nation" - this is a good thing(!): we learn from nature how to survive... and, as mother of Biomimcry tells us, the fossils around us are the reminder of the ones that didn't make it....

"...For the City of San Diego, supporting the cultivation of biomimicry falls under the Mayor’s Cleantech Initiative. Clean technology is an emerging sector featuring a range of products, services and processes that harness renewable materials and energy sources, reducing the depletion of natural resources and reducing or eliminating pollution and waste to create sustainable and secure energy sources. Clean technology encompasses advancements in solar power, wind power, hybrid vehicles, fuel cell technology, tidal and wave power, biodiesel, green building materials and water treatment systems." http://www.enn.com/press_releases/2565

THEN CAME GOODONYA....
“Every question you will ever have, the answer you will find in nature”  Bryce Courtney, The power of one

GoodOnYa founder writes: "I founded this company in 2001 after a playing field hockey for the US National Team for 11 years. As an Olympic athlete healthy food was obviously a big part of my life. When I retired I was ready to be in control of my own life. I started with just one store, and with the help and support of many people along the way have ended up with 4 locations.

The bar is a natural extension of the deli... This bar is unlike any other on the market. Our motto is “Every Ingredient Matters” ...Our bar weighs 57g, and when you see one you will notice the size. There are bars out there that are 3x as big and weigh 40g...It’s not a protein bar, a fiber bar, a balance bar, a snack bar, it’s a nutrition bar... Kris Fillat, Founder, www.goodonyadeli.com

Another SF Green Festival find... My purchases at the San Francisco green festival this weekend were minimal. I knew they must include (for my delight) items from Lydia's Lovin' Foods over the course of the day (3!).

Then this was one of those happy occasions where delight meets equitable; I found two things I love in the "Baksheesh" booth ('Baksheesh', at its purest best in a Middle East/South Asia word for kind/caring/giving)
Both hand made things I found are exquisite. One is a corded rope upon which is strung green/blue/turquoise drangonflies. So delicately made by Vietnamese artisans - $12.  If you're familiar with the Animal Medicine cards, you know the medicine of dragonfly is illusion (the breaking of...). I'll take it!

The other is a holiday season 'garland', ingenius design, intricately woven palm leaves to create (all red or red/green/natural) a delicate spiral garland - $4 (such a deal!).

IT COMES PACKED-DOWN TIGHT LIKE THIS AND YOU UNTWIRL IT...

There's no web store to get this stuff so I guess you plan on a lovely lunch with a friend in Sonoma, or you email them and get them to ship(?!) - I hope Baksheesh sells every single beautiful thing their artisans make.

The co-founder has an awesome claim-to-fame as well!: "CANDI SMUCKER, who along with her husband, Brian, owns Baksheesh, is part of a group of 1,000 women around the world who have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize" http://www.sonomanews.com/articles/2005/06/30/news/top_stories/news01.txt


http://baksheeshfairtrade.com/

 

I found Barack's "mutt like me" moment disarming. I thought it was great but not as disarming as one woman found it who had been terrified that "black" for president would mean a rough deal for "whites".

This funny little comment was utterly disarming to her. She literally changed course: a new form was born.

MAY WE ALL BE ENDLESSLY JOYOUSLY WONDROUSLY DISARMED.

This is the American Revolution that dear Barbara Marx Hubbard said (back in the early 90s) was still to come; an evolution of consciousness, a non-violent revolution, a shifting of realms, from fear to love, sweet, easy, astonishingly graceful.

Sometimes we can catch a belief that no longer serves us.
And make a decision to choose differently.

Sometimes we can be essentially {in our essence} disarmed
And the old form literally dissolves.

My old Scottish/Irish grandmother used to say
"Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne"

You don't have to look far in either of those lineages to know how and why that belief was formed.. but we are always at the frontier of our Becoming and can choose anew. When we do, our potential expands.

"Love informs Life, creating...... New Forms!"

Van Jones at SF Green Fest this past weekend said (I'm paraphrasing); hold him; hold him kindly, hold President Obama, hold space, hold with love essentially, so that he can do what he stepped up to do.

And David Orr at this year's Bioneers, from his 10-point turn-us-around strategy, said (and I'm paraphrasing!), how about we make the shift, and restore politicians as trustees...

Barbara Marx Hubbard: {Foundation for Conscious Evolution}

"Mutt like me" quote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk_uGSBn__c

If you’ve ever had an interest in singing bowls (also known as Tibetan bells) here is a great opportunity to spend some time with a world class selection and learn about them from someone who has used them for decades.  Himalayan singing bowls are special objects that when rung make incredibly sweet tones.

Ryan (my beloved) just returned from a trip to the Himalayas with a spectacular collection of ancient singing bowls.  The bowls he brought back range from the size of teacups to powerful five pounders and sport a wide range of tones.

Deep in the Himalayas in the ancient past the singing bowl makers practiced their now lost craft.  For hundreds, even thousands of years these singing bowls were in use in Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan and Northern India.  For the past few decades these bowls have been making their way to the West but now the supply is starting to dwindle.

The talk will cover such topics as where the bowls come from and how they are made.  It will give you a flavor of their history and the surprising forces that are making them available now.

After the talk there will be a concert where bowls will be rung using a variety of methods singly and in groups.  The sounds you hear will be unique and powerful.  The body and soul workshop space has fine acoustics to enhance this unamplified sound bath.

The singing bowls are also on sale.  This is your chance to buy a rare hand selected bowl and specially selected ringing implements & accessories. NEXT ONE:

$7 at the Door 
Friday Mar 15  
body & soul, 738 Chestnut St (Squid Row) 95060 -  

Doors open at 7:15PM  
Program at 7:30   

Call Ryan 466-9570 for details.

These events have evolved into monthly favorites at Body & Soul.

Ryan Sarnataro has been collecting Himalayan singing bowls for 25 years and has made trips to Tibet and Nepal in order to learn about the deeper history behind these mysterious and amazing objects. He has rung many thousands of bowls and returned with a selection of the best sounding ones available. 

                              

We Are The Ones to turn the tide on the 'The Great Pacific Garbage Patch' (see link below). Recycle you last dispoable plastic drinking bottle responsibly and... never buy another!

EARTHLUST bottles are a perfect example of delight meets equitable meet eco-intelligence (it's got to be delightful!). They have the most exquisite designs on their bottles (see below).

Your astonishing hummingbird encounter stories are wholly welcome at: http://pods.gaia.com/1000hummingbirds/discussions/view/350310

This was at San Francisco Green Festival
QUESTION: FAVORITE GREEN THING TO DO?

So precious. Utterly heartening, especially if you need reminding that the human spirit is endlessly wondrously creative and that a critical number of us desire the same miraculous outcome... Love