EARTHDANCE 2016 - Welcome to the world’s largest synchronized party for peace!! This is your chance to celebrate and connect with like-minded friends, to consciously celebrate, promote and be grateful for all the gifts in our lives.
Last spring my neighbor, Ghislaine (Jesse), surprised me by creating a path in the woods to connect our two properties. She laid down mulch and decorated it with potted flowers, lanterns and a red Adirondack chair to sit and relax in. Instead of building fences to separate our properties, she had created a path to welcome me in. I was thrilled and inspired.
For our last Awakening Cafe before the summer break we will be hosting a special celebration of the summer Solstice. Join us in sharing food, dance, expression and ritual around a fire circle. As night falls the light remains and the party begins. As we look back on a year of new ideas, new friends & new experiences, we rejoice in the the seeds we have planted, looking forward to the summer ahead.
Dover helps students understand what winter was like for our ancestors Last week, the children at Mount Pleasant Elementary School were treated to an extraordinary outdoor classroom experience, guided by two of our local experts in natural history and biodiversity, Gary Dover and Professor Christopher Buddle. The walk was part of the school’s Green Team program, which promotes environmental literacy and leadership. Helping kids connect to nature, along with reducing waste and conserving energy at the school are the main tenets of the program. Dover lead the kids on a guided tour and imaginary journey to follow the steps of our ancestors. He started by asking the kids to pretend they were living a hundred years ago building a log cabin. The kids eyes lit up with enthusiasm. “Our ancestors used the winter time very productively. It was a period of the year when they weren’t busy farming. They could dedicate their energy to other tasks, like building and repairing their homes,” Dover explained. He guided the children to look for the appropriate [...]
More and more people are responding to need where they see it. My first experience with these causes of the heart (which Nicholas Kristof recently coined as DIY Foreign Aid) was through the work of my dear friend, Maria Miller, and her friend, Sasha Bilar, who co-founded Toys for Thailand (T4T). T4T provides support for orphaned, abandoned, and refugee Hill Tribe children in remote villages in Northern Thailand.
