Gaia Community: TimeToShine's Blog

TAKE BACK THE TAP

http://timetoshine.gaia.com — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 05:20:25 GMT

The Facts About Bottled Water

Did you know that….

Bottled water costs consumers 240 to 10,000 times more per gallon than tap water, and is less likely to be ensured for purity.

What you don’t know about the bottled water industry could be costing you hundreds of dollars a year. Get the facts on bottled water and find out why tap water is a better bet.

Ready to shift from bottled to tap? Learn how to interpret your Water Quality Report,how to choose a filter, and how to host a bottled water-free event. http://takebackthetap.org/

Tags: tap, faucet, water, bottle, bottled, bottles, plastic

"Up the Tall White Candlestick went little Mousey Brown..."

http://timetoshine.gaia.com — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 10:56:45 GMT

Up the Tall White Candlestick went little Mousey Brown

Right to the top

and he couldn't get down....

So he called to his gran'ma;

"Gran'ma! Gran'ma!!!"

But Gran'ma was in town..

So he curled himself up

in a tight little ball and

He rolled himself

all the way down.......

(to the utter delight of our nearly 3 year-old : )

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pure pleasure

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Tags: joy, play, laugh, delight, Minnie

Joy Days

http://timetoshine.gaia.com — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:09:26 GMT

How

could

not

glad...

{Kin by volition..)

Freddie morning suit and Holly May

Jess veil Ninya Minnie

Groom Simon bridesmaid Minnie dance

Tags: heart, tender, wedding, Minnie

Nottingham in a Tudor Tent : )

http://timetoshine.gaia.com — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 07:16:30 GMT

Always delightful to sojourn again to my Nottingham family but this is the first time we pulled out the Tudor Tent and erected it in their very small garden (to accommodate my being here along with Freddie grandson).

Fabulous, awesome, magnificent!! We set it up as darkness was falling. I awoke this morning to the sight of (much beloved) 'Harebells' in the grass inside the tent canvas, which, to answer Meenakshi's question, are pale blue, and similar to Bluebells but more delicate (see picture). I love that I only ever saw them growing wild in Scotland. But then I found them wild in Wounded Knee, South Dakota.

Tudor Tents

Harebells Campanula rotundifolia pic

Tudor Tent in Notts back garden

Tudor Tent from inside to roof

Tudor Tent front door

Freddie still sleeping

Tutdor Tent from back

Tags: Tudor, tents, Nottingham, summer, love, Harebells

Ishtar Cerridwen Agathe Inanna Isis Artemis Sophia Athena Coatili

http://timetoshine.gaia.com — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 04:07:05 GMT

Ancient Mother I hear you calling

Ancient Mother I hear your sound

CHANT:

"Ishtar Cerridwen Agathe Inanna Isis Artemis Sophia Athena Coatilicue Aphrodite Mielikki Astarte Gaia Saraswati Kali Pele Pasowe Demeter Parvati Hera Diana Nidaba Chicomecoatl Lilith Shekinah Morgana Maya Izanami Shakti"

Ancient Mother

Tags: sing, chant, water, song, Mother

The Magic of the Singing Bowls

http://timetoshine.gaia.com — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:06:46 GMT

After this particular session, he asked, cocking his head with his twinkly smile;

"Any questions?"

To which someone in the audience said; "Can we take you home?!"

And he said, well, my lovely wife gets to take me home :) but you're welcome to come up and play with the bowls..

So, I'm the lucky (lovely!) wife... and we both are LOVING how beautifully Denise Gallant captured the essence of Ryan's other Love.

Magic of the Bowls

Tags: singing bowls, Tibetan, singing, ringing, Denise Gallant

Let me teach you how to dance...

http://timetoshine.gaia.com — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 06:28:49 GMT

Musical boxes I already loved....

Let me teach you how to dance

Tags: Beatrix Potter, Miss Potter, dance, magic

How did you pray, Grandmother?

http://timetoshine.gaia.com — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 02:05:52 GMT

Mayda del Valle at the White House Poetry Jam: 2 of 9

Delivered in what Michelle Obama introduced as "The Peoples White House"

Tags: White House, poetry jam, Michelle Obama

"There you go Kennedy.."

http://timetoshine.gaia.com — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:18:12 GMT

Obama pardons girl for missing school

Tags: Obama, school note, president, girl

Slamdunk Inspire Us All!

http://timetoshine.gaia.com — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:30:03 GMT

Josh wrote: "this is the finalist video for the youtube slam dunk contest promoted by nissan, it has been a fun ride and at the least i hope i can inspire younger people..."

AND I SAY...: INSPIRE US ALL!!!

youtube slamdunk finalist

"I am Josh Sherrod, this is the finalist video for the youtube slam dunk contest promoted by nissan, it has been a fun ride and at the least i hope i can inspire younger people to work hard for what they want to acheive like i did. a special thanks to the "theverticalsummit" friends to help me to re-evaluate my ambitions and get back in the game, if it wernt for yall i wouldnt be back again or in the jumping shape im in...thank you all for viewing!!!!!!! "

Tags: inspire, slamdunk, Nissan, YouTube, finalist

Horses & Humans: Bright Beings All

http://timetoshine.gaia.com — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 03:34:45 GMT

Thank You Thank You Thank You Lori, Ana, Ella, Teresa, Jen, Grace, Kuwumba....;

awesome time we had

with these precious four-leggeds

May All Be Healed

May All Be Loved

May All Be Fed

Horse Whisperer beginning

Note: this is beginning of the Horse Whisperer to Hymn to the Sea by James Horner

Tags: horse, horses, whisperer, love, joy

MAKING SPACE

http://timetoshine.gaia.com — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:02:24 GMT

This morning in that surreal hypnagogic state between sleeping and waking, the day ahead was entering my consciousness; 'space' (I 'heard'); it's something about 'space'... Who are we meeting today... cousin Jerry... what is happening for Jerry later this year...?

S*P*A*C*E.... Then.... boom... I was awake.. and congnizant that the aspect related to both cousin Jerry and us, that I was seeing into was upcoming hip replacement (his scheduled for Fall, 'ours' {Ryan's} not yet for sure).

This blog post is to 'honor my inklings' {I always vow to do!}

Albino peacock

Space is a state of consciousness

Time is a construct of wo/man

money's the medium and message

Love indeed comes in a "Can"

Say "I can't" and you predict it

Say "I can't" and you concede

Say "I can't" and you surely have tricked it

into playing the game of "great need"

Fear is a state of contraction

Despair is a leaky drain

energy prices are raised by the vices

of "exhaust" and "deplete" and "no gain"

Royal jesters come forth in the knowledge

that your energy comes from the source

Not 4 Star, Not 5 Star but boundless

Green, clean deep eco of course

Armistice proper escaped us

Mother's Day wisdom Hallmarked

Profound Fool Day diminished to play

an April Fool's prank for a lark

But heed this true merry-minder

the mark of this day is the mirth

deep bubbling forth

from the south to the north

from your gut to your grin to your girth

The mirth is the Knowing remembered

the girth is the World Around

the tumbling Fool is the true wisdom tool

of all stardusty offspring earthbound

Do these words have you breathing

and grinning?

Hey presto! You opened the door

You're destined unless you block it

for more and exceedingly MORE

Ample is our birthright

Plenty is our Lot

A~bun~dance is a jolly thing

You have already got

"dance like nobody's watching

Love like you've never been hurt"

And please embrace the naked man

Who offers you his shirt

All Fools All Jewels All Kindred

All Precious All Received

The World we birth; our own Green Earth

By vision-heart conceived.

CCR McF

Tags: space, consciousness, shift, hips, cartilege

War: Forever Raw...

http://timetoshine.gaia.com — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:55:39 GMT

"So the first lesson to be taken away from the Bush administration's two military adventures is simply this: war remains today what it always has been - elusive, untamed, costly, difficult to control, fraught with surprise, and sure to give rise to unexpected consequences. Only the truly demented will imagine otherwise." pg 109/110

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Quoting: professor of history and international relations at Boston university, Andrew Bacevich, retired from US Army with rank of Colonel, in his book THE LIMITS OF POWER/The American Empire Project... which Chalmers Johnson calls "this utterly original book".

Tags: war, empire, clarity, lucidity

Just like me....

http://timetoshine.gaia.com — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 05:20:20 GMT

Recent photo of a little boy visiting the White House. He wanted to feel Obama's hair because he wanted to know if the President's hair felt just like his. Obama obliged. Priceless.

Does your hair feel the same as mine

This came to me by email with no credits but how could I not post and.. wow, there's a picture for that young boy to have for the rest of his life!

Tags: Obama, boy, hair, President

The Lakota-Scottish connection

http://timetoshine.gaia.com — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 20:52:44 GMT

All the pain that you have known.. oh
all the violence in you soul.. oh
all the the wrong things you have done.. oh
I will take from you when I come.....

Sinead O'Connor - This is To Mother You

It was the first time I made that journey to Lakota... 1500 miles by road. For someone who was raised in the British Isles (small land mass!), the distances blew me away. We set off in convoy, 4 vehicles (or was it 5?), the drive orchestrated by the Lakota who had come for us. We set off after we filled each vehicle with gas and after a pinch of sacred tobacco had been put on each tire of each vehicle. It was surreal.. and comforting. It was dusk.

We drove to friends in Sacramento and there we stayed while we loaded up with final essentials for Pine Ridge under canvas. Then we pointed the whole convoy toward South Dakota and, to all intents and purposes, we never stopped again until we pulled into what would be our first year's building camp at Wounded Knee. We drove and drove and drove and drove (.................can you feel it?!). It was utterly immense, single-mindedly focused as this Lakota was, to arrive on-site in time for summer solstice & Lodge.

An old van had been donated for the Lakota and this was part of the convoy. At some point out along the endless highway, I took the wheel and drove the van without passengers...; drove and drove and drove.... drove into some altered state to the point where Sinead's 'This is To Mother You' song fairly erupted in me. I sang it and sang it with tears streaming sang my voice into husky, sang and sang and drove.

All mistakes made in distress
All your unhappiness
I will take away with my kiss, yes
I will give you tenderness
For child I am so glad I've found you
Although my arms have always been around you
Sweet bird although you did not see me
I saw you
And I'm here to mother you...

I can say unequivocally it was the song that drove that van through miles and literally hours, driving with a strength fueled by extraordinary Presence. It was the first time I 'saw' White Buffalo Calf Woman'. It was the download that had to happen before I ever set foot in Wounded Knee.

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How astonished I was to find wild Harebells there, there in the desolation of Wounded Knee. Harebells quivering in the breeze, or flattened in the sometimes daily(same as Scotland!)gale-force winds. Delicate Harebell; most beloved flower of my own mother and only ever grew wild to my knowledge in our Scottish soil.... If men of Scots/Irish lineage were here, the story would be full of shadows and sharp things, that much I knew... but Harebells caught me completely by surprise and took my breath away, in a wondrous way, just as they always do.

Much to tell you of the stunning inter-weavings of Scots-Lakota.. but here to remember this song came in like a transmission on that first sojourn.

skull and white buffalo card

For I'm to Mother You
To comfort you and get you through
through when your nights are lonely
through when your dreams are only blue

This is to be with you
to hold you and to kiss you too
for when you need me I will do
what your own mother didn't do
which is to Mother you

Tags: Wounded Knee, Lakota, White Buffalo Calf Woman

I Send A Voice

http://timetoshine.gaia.com — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 18:25:16 GMT

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Elmer Bear Eagle welcomes California Bears

Wounded Knee Lakota home builders are heading out again this summer (5th consecutive year in relationship with Lakota). This time by invitation to Gran'ma Claudia after she attended the 1000 hummingbird epic gathering in SF Bay Area Coyote Hills through April full moon, attended by her granddaughter, Jacquie. So Gran'ma Claudia wants a cob house..

There's a very particular dynamic about taking the cob house buiding techniques to Wounded Knee. In other places, we do now have plenty examples of cob houses going up in weeks due to a critical number of folks converged with momentum to see that apparition. That has not been the path in Wounded Knee and, if you know its history, you might guess at some of the complexities inherent there.

Cob house building is deeply deeply about relationship.. and so we have been building, building, building..... relationship. And it is beautiful. So here to have an elder 'Send A Voice', is precious beyond words....and we will build, building, building.. and she is planning on being back here for next years 1000 hummingbirds... weaving, interweaving... irridescent ribbons of faith, kinship and relationship.

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LET'S GO HOME.....
Can you feel that deep belly sigh
Everyone is worthy
Everyone
Goes Home...
Everyone
Has A Home To Go To
That they love
and feel
that deep sigh up-welling...;
Let's go Home

Building with the Lakota in Wounded Knee

This movie is from our unforgettable, tender summer with Leola One Feather & family, when Yinka Selley came too, with intent to capture on film some essence of Lakota-we-evolving.

We are thrilled to avail ourselves of the newly imagineered 'TipJoy' giving-stream. We are building escrow with increments of $2 giving, via TimeToShine & 1000hummingbird blogs and Twiterring (& loving people inspired to 'ReTweet'):

TWITTER:
Raise the Roof! http://bit.ly/LakotaHome/1000hummingbird using @tipjoy

TipJoy contributions this summer (2009) will help with all sundries as the building crew commences (from June 15) to build Gran'ma Claudia's cob house. As with previous years, much has been donated, from food to feed the builders, to tools and equipment necessary on-site. But cash-in-hand comes as a great relief each year, making sure that crews are not stranded without gas to get supplies as work proceeds. Some days the cash that WomenRise sent meant that we had fresh fruit to eat (can you imagine our delight in the dust & heat!). Sometimes, the cash meant the difference between having the right tool for the job or doing without. And, ultimately, the biggest single cost is the roof. So let's see what Tip Joy can do for Lakota this summer!.

So let's see what we can do this year with TipJoy!
Well, seems like the TipJoy widget doesn't work inside the Gaia software

So here it is in VOX: http://bit.ly/TipJoyWidget

1000 hummingbirds is a program of Natural Villages
Natural Villages is the 501c3 that has evolved out of building with Lakota
http://www.natural-villages.org/

Tags: TipJoy, Twitter, Lakota, building, Pine Ridge

Let's go home.... xo

http://timetoshine.gaia.com — Sat, 23 May 2009 01:55:34 GMT

Recycled Houses

'PLANTING SEEDS THAT ARE BOSSOMING AND BEARING FRUIT...
A man on a mission determined to make cheap, affordable housing for the common man in an Earth-friendly way. Dan Phillips, Huntsville, TX. www.phoenixcommotion.com.

Tags: recycled, house, home, people, love

"Beauty beheld beauty and was spellbound.."

http://timetoshine.gaia.com — Mon, 18 May 2009 21:43:28 GMT

Celebrating this morning in our own funny way, the 18th anniversary of our Half Moon Bay wedding ceremony...

beauty beheld beauty and was spellbound

Solemnize = to celebrate:

Heaven on Earth Returns

Do you remember mirth?

That quality

that plays around the edges of

our glorious Divinity

The Fool Profound is rooted in infinity

And has the Will and knows the Way to

Light-heartedly

Whole-heartedly

Solemnize the Play...

Yes; Laugh

And Let your Laughter Ring

Yes; Smile

With all the love you bring

Yes; Shine

Both Free and unashamed

Yes; Come

Both Thankfully Untamed.

CCR McF

*~*
And was inspired to begin Squidoo 'lens' on:
"Dreaming Each Other Awake":
http://www.squidoo.com/dreamingeachotherawake

Tags: beauty, love, marriage, longevity, joy, mirth

YURT HOME JOY LOVE HEART SING - (build yours)

http://timetoshine.gaia.com — Mon, 18 May 2009 17:51:08 GMT

Earth, Air, Wood, Fire – YURT! Build a hand-made basket yurt of wood & mud, with William Coperthwaite, Kiko Denzer, Margaret Matthewson, & friends
A special 10-day yurt-raising at Margaret Matthewson’s Ancient Arts Center near Alsea, Oregon.

10/6-15 (10 days, or two 5-day sessions), at the Ancient Arts Center, in Alsea, OR (http://www.ancientartscenter.com <http://www.ancientartscenter.com> )

William Coperthwaite has spent decades learning and documenting traditional craft around the world in the interest of finding simpler, more peaceful ways to live. His signature design is the multi-level, rigid-walled, permanent yurt, an adaptation of the traditional Mongolian traveling yurt, or ger. Bill has led hundreds of workshops and is the author of A Hand Made Life (Chelsea Green Publishing); his work has been featured in Becky Kemery’s Yurts, as well as Lloyd Kahn’s Homework, among others. [His three- storey circular home is one of the most beautiful buildings I’ve ever been in, and the only round building I’ve ever been in that really works. Photos are easy to find on the web if you search on “Coperthwaite.” – Kiko.)

Kiko Denzer is a craftsman who has worked with earth as a sculptural and structural material since 1994. He has built ovens, buildings, art installations, and done decorative work for settings both industrial and traditional.
Margaret Matthewson is a basket-maker, willow-grower, martial artist & teacher. Her Ancient Arts Center attracts students and teachers of all kinds.

In this workshop, we will build a two-tiered, rigid-walled yurt, using hand-skills in carpentry, basket-making, and earthen plasters (wattle and daub). The walls will be woven from willow withies grown and harvested on the property. We’ll plaster them with a combination of lightweight, insulative mud, finished with earthen and/or lime plasters. The roof will be a “living roof” planted with native plants and setums; depending on time and interest, we may build some ovens/stoves on the side.
INFO: contact Kiko at 541-438-4300 (handprint@cmug.com), or contact Margaret through ancientartscenter.com.
FEE: $900 for 10 days of framing, weaving, mudding, plastering, eating, and sleeping (dorm bed or your tent). A $400 deposit holds your place. 15% discount for full payment before August 10th. Fees are refundable (less a $50 administrative fee) if we receive notice before August 31st. After August 31st, we will refund as enrollment allows. Please inquire about scholarships/fee-reduction. If you can’t get free for the full ten days, there may be some room for 5-day enrollments at ½ price.

About the Center

Ancient Arts Center is situated in Lobster Valley, one hour from Corvallis and one hour from Waldport in the lush mountains of Oregon's Coast Range. Facilities include a 700 square foot round classroom, guest house and kitchen, campfire circle and outdoor house, rambling country gardens packed with colorful flowers and a serene green woodland and shady creekside for swimming, dabbling in rocky pools or basking on the bedrock benches. http://www.ancientartscenter.com/about/

WITH THANKS TO JANE HILLHOUSE FOR THE TIP!: http://www.finalfootprint.com/

Final Footprint

May we tread lightly on the Earth

from birth

to vibrant life

to our triumphant

Passing….

CCR McF

*~*~*

Bury me in a basket

Curled around

A spiral coil

Of gratitude

In the ground

Let me go like compost

Turning to earth

Morph into topsoil

Till my worth

Let Earth rejoice
when you lay me to rest

Make me food for the ones

Who gave me their best

CCR McF

The 'Bury Me In A Basket' poem is not portending my imminent death(!) but one of our friends did Pass and his burial arrangements came to $13,000)... besides which, he was so trussed up for burial that I was looking on aghast; how the heck was that body supposed to de-compose (compost as it should!!). all this just reminded me these things must be in place if we are to reclaim all the acts of our lives.

Love,

Corrina

Tags: yurt, workshop, build, home, William Coperthwaite, death, burial, green, eco

Remember What Anita Roddick (Body Shop) said about cosmetics?

http://timetoshine.gaia.com — Mon, 18 May 2009 03:36:22 GMT

CHECK THIS OUT:

Raw Mineral Makeup

Coleen Jones responds to the question:

What is mineral makeup?

No dyes, fragrance, petroleum or mineral oil.

The raw materials are rocks from the earth raw materials are sourced from all over the globe, different rocks give difference clarity and coverage.

The quality is determined by the raw materials and the recipe. Too much of one ingredient can make the formula too shiny or too heavy, which will make it appear cakey on the skin.

You can get a 9 piece kit worth $175 for just the cost of the shipping and handling which is $7.32.

Included in the kit is:
2 mineral foundations
Mineral veil Finishing Powder
Mineral Bronzer Warmth Powder
Foundation Brush
Contour Brush
Concealer Brush
Designer Cosmetic Brush
Designer Bruch Pouch

http://www.skincare-and-beauty.com/

Tags: raw mineral, makeup

Gaia Community: TimeToShine's Blog

TAKE BACK THE TAP

The Facts About Bottled Water

"Up the Tall White Candlestick went little Mousey Brown..."

Joy Days

Nottingham in a Tudor Tent : )

Ishtar Cerridwen Agathe Inanna Isis Artemis Sophia Athena Coatili

The Magic of the Singing Bowls

Let me teach you how to dance...

How did you pray, Grandmother?

"There you go Kennedy.."

Slamdunk Inspire Us All!

Horses & Humans: Bright Beings All

MAKING S*P*A*C*E

War: Forever Raw...

Just like me....

The Lakota-Scottish connection

I Send A Voice

Let's go home.... xo

"Beauty beheld beauty and was spellbound.."

YURT HOME JOY LOVE HEART SING - (build yours)

About the Center

Remember What Anita Roddick (Body Shop) said about cosmetics?

CHECK THIS OUT:

Raw Mineral Makeup

MAKING SPACE