I bring you now to my village, yes?‏

(Thanks Paul for the trip back to the homeland ..much fun!!! ~Hugs~)

Deliciously Intensive Tastes and Scents

Whoa.. I am burning frankincense, and I bought this cute little clay bowl last night, cause I wanted the charcoal in it to burn my frankincense tears.. and it came with this amber-patchouli powder (which I forgot to take out) and then I lit it & there was a big poof of smoke and I carried the pot upstairs, so the bedroom would smell great.. but its just smoking away ..and its great but I might be starting to get high, or feeling like I should be getting high. lol

Let's talk about food. I enjoyed my diner so much. It was simple really.. a salad with mixed greens and sunflower sprouts, lots of them cause I have a bag that I want to finish.. and silverleaf olives and pine nuts and this big incredibly beautiful, succulent, delicious tomato.. and then I decided that I would chop a whole clove of garlic in the dressing, cause I'm all alone & I love garlic (but hey, anyone close to me has got to accept the garlic once in awhile, comes with the package, just the way it is) oh & I mixed a spoonful of basil pesto in.. Mmm.. Oh it was soo good.

Then after I was on the phone chatting away and don't you just love when you get into automatic pilot and all of a sudden there was this bowl of granola sitting in front of me ..broken up straight from the dehydrator with almond milk and maple syrup drizzled on top. Oh, it was so good. I actually had to sneak in bites during the conversation (which, of course, ended within a minute or two because she got another call .. and I was really putting out there to the universe how I had to sit and enjoy this bowl of granola. lol Thats the way it works.)
& the granola is amazing!!! I was really into it last night when I was making it. I also bought a microplane grater from a commercial kitchen store last night mainly for the orange zest, Nice. It had chopped up dehydrated pineapple I had made a couple nights ago, and banana and apple, cranberries, coconut, vanilla, cinnamon, maple syrup, date paste, almonds, pecans, walnuts.. all the best stuff and the kitchen smells so great today.

Oh & I took pics of some pizzas we made at Rawlicious..

We make them, dress them up and keep them and serve them warm straight from the dehydrater.. Both of these have a cashew cheeze - one has a Tomato Marinara sauce and the other Basil Pesto.


The Marinara pizza has tomato slices, mushrooms, olives, red peppers and pine nut parmeasn toppings.
The Pesto piza, which was Angus's idea (I think) and a real hit has mango, cilantro and red onion toppings.
They are so delicious!

Pomegranates and Chocolatherapy

I just finished off another pomegranate and loving them so much I feel like going and opening another. I ate 2 yesterday and have been eating them every day for awhile. Love them!
Eat the whole seeds.. I remember when I first watched someone eat a pomegranate, they spit out the center hard part of the seed. Forget that, the whole thing is so great for you and you get used to crunching them up.
When you open a pomegranate, cut off the top part, where the stem is, the top 1/2" and then you will see the whitish skin part separating the sections, there are 6-7 of these sections. Score each section from middle out and down the side of the pomegranate. Pull them apart and then just pull off the seeds into a bowl. Mmm.. then scoop little handfuls of the seeds and eat them.. so beautiful and delicious!

Yes, I need another. Zoey is asleep at my feet, he is so happy! I am listening to Mike Adams on the Rawkathon, flipping over every once in awhile to see him. ..and organizing files, going to start typing out and organizing recipes for another recipe book, even though I haven't finshed the 1st. I just need a good design idea. Waiting for that flash of inspiration or design person to come, should be any minute now..

Don't you love when you see life flow. I have only noticed this since going raw.. I just got clear and start really noticing things.. It';s great when you start paying attention - flows of events and things which come into your awareness.. certain things are related, and sometimes it all makes sense and sometimes not as much..
Like last night, I went to Jims to have dinner with the family. I didn't get this flow at all, bt it was amusing - he buys me Hearts of Palm (for the big salad I always make there), then I watch the movie Irena Palm (don't ask), Marianne Faithful is in it, then the Stone's song comes on the radio right after, As Tears Go By, Mick wrote it for her .. so what's this all about I wonder.. maybe I should be sitting under palm trees!
& then I open my mail & James sends a link to the resort hes at this week, The Gamboa Rainforest Resort, which he tried to talk me into going with him. Yikes, am I crazy, being all responsible and working hard, etc, wow.. I didn't realize it was this nice - and they have Chocolatherapy there (I don't even know what that is, but I'm sure I need it!)

Well I am not there but I am still in the flow, receiving fun messages and clues from the Universe and having fun watching everything go by no matter where I am. & I am sure he will take me there another time, when it is the perfect time, and of course it will be.

For now I am going to go open another pomegranate, get a bid salad, then maybe have hot chocolate & Truffles (from Fred's Food not Candy) and then get back to work!! ; )


ps. I was just downstairs opening another pomegranate, haven't even clicked publish post and Mom calls - she just bought a pomegranate and asks how to open it.. oh yeah, we're flowing..

The Hang Drum!

I have not been at a computer long enough to post for a few days.. and I have been having so many things that I want to post about.. But later, right now I want to tell you about a drum performance I saw tonight. Maria called me after work and we went out tonight to bunch of performances at the Movement Centre - it was great - flamenco dancing, a clown, breakdancing, singing, acting .. but I loved and was so inspired by a guy, Gurpreet Sunhgh Chana, who plays percussion instruments - a Box Cajon, which originated in Peru but has become an important part of world music of various cultural influences, a Tabla, popular Indian perussion - a pair of hand drums of contrasting sizes and timbres, which has an incredibly beautiful sound..

and my favorite of all - the Hang Drum (pronounced Hun, actually the u is almost a soft o sound) I LOVED and was amazed by this!!! I would LOve to have one!!!
(ok, I was going to ask for one for my birthday .. But.. now I am researching ( at 2 am) for one.. to find out how much they cost and where to get them.. it seems they are only made one place in Switzerland by 2 guys, they are very expensive about 1500$ and there is a waiting list to get one. (..they are sooo cool!!)

PANArt Hangbau AG
Engehaldenstr. 131
3012 Bern/Switzerland
Phone international: +41 31 301 33 32
- from US/CDN: 01141 31 301 33 32
E-Mail: info@hang.ch

The Hang was developed in 2000 in by Felix Rohner and Sabina Schärer (PANArt Hangbau AG) and introduced at the Frankfurt Music Fair in 2001. They have a little workshop in Berne where every Hang in existence has been created.

The two deep drawn steel hemispheres of the Hang are hardened by a process known as gas-nitriding. The side considered the 'bottom' has an opening (Gu) in the center which is the bass note.. When it is played in a dampened way it can change in pitch similar to a talking drum. On the 'top' are seven notes arranged in a 'Tone Circle' in zig-zag fashion from low to high. All are tuned harmonically around a low note (Ding) at the center of the Tone Circle.

It uses some of the same physical principles as a steel drum (I love steel drums! ..and this is like a hand steel drum, even better!!) That being said there has been much metallurgical and acoustic research by the makers which have led to significant changes in structure, design, and process. It was the result of many years of research on the steelpan as well as the study of a diverse collection of instruments from around the world; such as gongs, gamelan, ghatam, drums, bells, etc. Udu-like sounds can be produced with theHelmholtz resonance that can occur within the clamped shallow shells. It also has the capacity to ring like a singing bowl.

Gurpreet Chana - Clips from Drum Festival


The ArtOfFusion, hand jam in Norway..

Relaxing Ambient Hang

It happened! I got a cold!

Mercury retrograde was officially over yesterday, but I (& this computer) are still feeling it today. I can't get into my mail and am having difficulty here.. but, yes, pics up and it seems to be slowly working (on & off)

Maybe the Universe knows that I really should be in bed sleeping!
ok, it finally hit me. I got a cold! no fair!!! ..Kaiya laughed at me "Ha, Ha you thought you were too healthy and wouldn't get it!! ..I knew I'd give it to you" teenagers! ..she's on her 2nd in a row and I think she was trying to give it to me. ..but I thought I could live through anything. Thats true. so the bad news is I got a cold.. the good news is it lasted about 1 1/2 days. : ) Although I have to admit it felt a little hardcore while it was here with me. I woke up in the morning with a sore throat, afternoon stuffed up.. evening dripping nose.. last night I even felt feverish and slept with lots of blankets piled on me, on & of.. got lots of sleep and I feel really good now.

Just got in from dinner with Jim & Kaiya.. he said I didn't look like I had a cold. I don't feel like it either. So, well, I got a cold even though I am raw.. but I did get rid of it quickly.

I do have to admit though that I did work at getting rid of it. Every couple hours I was doing something .. started off in the morning with oil of oregano drops, 3-5 drops under the tongue.. then water, wait 15 min and did it again.. I did that about 4 times before I got to work. Got in there and chopped up garlic. Ate a whole clove, chased it with water and then a spoon of honey. Got a couple people doing it at work with me.. its a remedy for the strong and brave (& those who can handle having garlic breath - it's worth it!) I love having company eating garlic - then I know at least someone will talk to me! lol I took Host Defense, ate healthy, of course! green smoothies, green juice.. and lots of water!
If you do get a cold drink lots & lots & lots of water - helps wash it away.

I feel almost back to normal (not quite superbeingish, but getting there) & one thing I noticed is that even though I felt kind of weak and sick yesterday, I was happy being sick.. watching it & feeling it in my body and passing.. and it was all good. I looked forward to coming and watching a movie (with spanish subtitles, although I was a little out of it and was only getting through part of the reading.. the lines were going by too fast.. I was on slow speed) but it was fun to just be part of it. So I know something good has clicked inside me.. I am happy just being, even if its being sick.. it really is all good.

& I know I am feeling better, I started off my dinner tonight with wheatgrass.. thats a good sign. I'm not sure if its from having worked at Toronto Sprouts and having drank so much of it (last year), sometimes 6-8 ozs a day!! but I have a harder time with it now than I used to , maybe I have just gotten out of the routine. But I know how good it is for you , have heard literally miracle stories about the stuff, so I usually do an ounce or two whenever I get a chance.
& then I had 1/2 a glass of wine, not much.. but I am soo sleepy.. and these crazy early mornings (which I love) but I am out of here so early & its so dark and the streetlights are on & it feels like the middle of the night.. then watching the sun rise by the time I get to work... it takes me almost an hour and half from here (L India) to Rawlicious in the west end.

So I am off to my wonderful fun-filled dreamland which I love so much. See you on the other side! *hugs, xo*

Thanks for Great Friends! ..Cute Pics of Us!

Chia seeds and Beautiful walks

Today was the most beautiful day ever! It was so sunny and warm.. Marie & I went out on an early morning 10 k walk through High Park down to the beach, wayyy out west in the boardwalk to a nature park area built out into the lake, speed walking and back, then shoes off, feet in the sand.. ahhh... mmmana! so Nice! Jacket off, tank top, so sunny and beautiful. Nature heaven, in my beautiful backyard!
(Mom just posted about my backyard also this week here ; )

I had been talking about taking off the 5 or so lbs I had put on last winter - it's not really that big a deal, but even that amount, not being at your ideal weight can make you feel not at your optimal best. I love the feel of a flat stomach, feeling your abs ..and lately I have been on it & feel like I am almost there, feeling the abs again.. and feeling the leg muscles, arms - it's a good, clear, optimal power feeling.

A lot of it is in the mind. Visualization. Seeing your body at it's optimal shape. Feeling like you already have that body. I went to the gym lots last week (such a good feeling), when you work out feel the muscles you are working on, really feel them and the workout will be more effective on those muscles. I got into eating more green! ..have been really conscious of my food choices. Eating the most nutritious foods.. consciously choose everything that you put in. High quality power fuel. & probably my biggest downfall, I stopped my late night eating habits, ..and my main new trick is not just to stop eating at night, but I am eating something with lots of chia seeds around 6 pm, that would totally fill me up so I really only wanted to drink water later. (which is really important if you get onto chia) These little seeds expand and absorb 10 x their weight in water. So you eat them and they expand and you feel really full. & they are so incredibly nutritious.. they have the best ratio of Omega 3, 6 & 9's .They are reported to be even better than flax for their oils and nutritional value - a real Superfood.

Chia seeds used to be a staple in the Aztec diet. The messengers and runners would carry a pouch of them with them and eat when they were doing long distance running. ..and eat them periodically to give them energy. There are stories of other warriors who went to battle and had a ration of chia seeds only which sustained them for long periods of time.
Now apparently what happened is that when the Spanish came over and took over in the 1500's, they made growing chia seeds against the law.. (I heard this was also the case with quinoa) they got everyone to plant their corn and wheat and banned chia, which hey thought was not important. ..and I heard that a few people kept the strains of chia alive and grew them up in the mountains, hidden.. and preserved them ..and it is only recently that they are being discovered as the superfood that they are.

& I have been hearing chia as the ultimate diet food. So I am going to experiment and look up and try out some chia recipes and am going to make them a big part of my diet for the next while.
After our walk Marie and I went to Sprouts and I picked up bottles of E3Live I had ordered from her, lots of sunflower sprouts ( my favorite!!) and even wheatgrass (Oh, I am so on it! - I set up my juicer at James, where I am going to be spending lots of time hanging out with Zoey, while he's in Panama) I even brought my dehydrater over. I'm rearranging his kitchen ; ) Hope that goes over ok! lol ..so, yeah Chia!!!

oh, 1 last thing - I got a newsletter from Matt Monarch's Raw Food World and it had a chia tapioca recipe in it. I deleted the newsletter but I just tried a version (it was very close to this) and it is delicious!!!

Chia Tapioca

1 1/2 c Almond Milk (blend 1/2 c almonds with 1 1/2 c water and then strain)
1/2 c Chia seeds
1/4 c Agave
dash of Cinnamon

Stir all ingredients together in a bowl. He suggested to put in the fridge and eat in the morning..but I ate half of it right away, really incredibly delicious and filling. Matt said he added and stirred in some raisins and more cinnamon in the morning. I may try that..if it lasts that long. My new delicious breakfast-dessert. Thank you Matt!!!

pic of mural of Aztecs harvesting of Chia Seeds ~ Courtesy of Missouri State

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

I am Thankful to be petting dogs and looking at pics of animals that are alive and celebrating their aliveness this Thanksgiving.

I am Thankful for the awareness that we do not need to eat animals to be healthy.. and the knowledge that it in no way helps the state of the planet or ourselves to kill and eat them.

I want to give thanks for all the animals on the planet.

Last night I watched a cat die.. it was really sad. He ran across the street and under the car ahead of us and I wont give details ..but I want to give thanks for cute kittens and cats to love.. and puppies and dogs, and those big licks I got on my face this afternoon and wagging tails.

I want to thank all the people who take care of pets and animals - they make our planet happy.

I want to thank my Mom for not buying the meat when she was asked, of Fluff and Star, mine & Barbs 2 cow friends who lived next door to our summer house ..we used to visit them often and sit on the fence petting them and feeding them apples and things. ..before they were killed for meat.
Mom's been a vegetarian for about 30 years.. she has always been a great inspiration. Thanks you Mom! (& thank you Barb for being my best lifelong friend)

Thank you Mom for caring so much about family ..and bringing everyone food and pumpkin pies today, even if they weren't raw. ; ) ((I know you would have been happy to make raw ones!!)) ..and taking care of people who couldn't get out.

Thank you Jim for being my loving partner for so long and still taking care of me and bringing me to the big Thanksgiving family dinner at Steve's! & for the lettuce and spinach to get me through tomorrow when the stores are all closed as I haven't had a chance to go shopping. ; )

Oh, last night was the big Raw potluck at Toronto Sprouts, 720 Bathurst.. and I raced home from Rawlicious to make a huge bowl of Olive Coconut Curry Pasta to take last night, & barely made it on time. More thanks to all the people who put so much into all the beautiful love-infused raw gourmet creations - which I don't have pics of cause Kaiya had my camera. But thats ok, I am so thankful for Kaiya, and Nicholas and Dylan and a camera..
and that I didn't drown in Panama.. and still get to experience all of the wonder and beauty and miracles that take place every second of every day. : )

Thank you universe for all of the miracles and wonder and beauty and the hot chocolate chia drink which is starting to get cold and yet still just as delicious and the inspiring book sitting beside me just waiting .. and thank you for all of the love radiating from everything around us always when we are clear enough to feel it.

Thank you for you and for being here on this journey with me! xo, Thank you!

The Power of Nothing and Huge Shopping Trips! Really, It's Nothing! )

It's late & I have been going like crazy.. what else? ..but this getting up at 6 am! wow. I love working early but if only I could get to bed early. Kaiya & I have been having some real bonding sessions.. tonight we took off last minute for a major fast paced shopping trip (Yonge St- Eatons Center) wow, we bought a lot really quickly! & we are so into working out.. but she keeps me up late ; ) ..she read me a story the other night before bed.. and now I am going to tell you one - This is an excerpt, an interesting thought (she has many) from Byron Katie's book - A Thousand Names for Joy.

"Mind is so powerful that it could take the imagined fist and beat it against a wall and actually believe that you are the person whose fist it is. Because mind in its ignorance is so quick to hold its imagined world together, it has created time and space and everything in it. Mind's ability to create is a beautiful thing, unless, as the terrorist that it often is, it has created a word that's frightening or unkind. If it has, I would suggest questioning the nightmare. It doesn't matter where mind begins to question itself. "'It's a tree' - is that true?" Or " 'I am' - is that true?" The world that mind has created can just as easily be de-created. It goes back to where it came from anyway. Your attachment to it is the only suffering.
Mind can't comprehend "nothing," the absolute, that from which everything flows, the original non-world. To name it "nothing" makes it untrue. It's not "nothing," because it's prior to words. "Nothing" is not only frightening to the world of mirrored thought - it's in comprehensible. Mind becomes frightened when it considers being what it was born from, since that can never be controlled or known. Without identification as a body, mind is left to die, and death never comes for it. What never lived can never die.
Eventually, mind discovers that it's free, that it's indefinitely out of control and infinitely joyful. Eventually, it falls in love with the unknown. In that it can rest. And since it no longer believes what it thinks, it remains always peaceful, wherever it is or isn't."

New Perspectives

In Praise of Iceberg Lettuce, In Praise of What Is

My appetizer (eaten while making dinner for Kaiya & I) was an outer leaf of iceberg lettuce, spread with some hummus (raw pate), topped with 2 tomato slices, 2 black olives (pitted) and then with the lettuce leaf wrapped around (bottom up, sides over, top down) into a cute little package .. it was so good. So maybe iceberg isn't the most nutritious lettuce, it is crunchy and has a great texture! & still raw.. filled with pure filtered water (plants filter water the best!!)

I have put down the Carolyn Myss book (Invisible Acts of Power) temporarily to read the one I bought this morning that Mom suggested. She is so into Byron Katie these days.. and I had to see what the big deal was about.. so I got her book: A Thousand names for Joy. & am devouring it (I'm devouring a little too much these days - but Kaiya & I are heading to the gym soon!) It really is quite fascinating - she really is quite fascinating. After just reading the bit I read on the subway today.. I feel really peaceful. Like a little piece of the puzzle just put it all together again. I usually feel incredibly peaceful and happy - but I have been going through something lately, something odd .. I feel like something huge has passed, there was some big sadness surrounding me on & off for the past month. I have been a bit baffled by it - questioned it - menopause? seems early but possibly, my relationships are great, but I have been through a lot with break up of marriage, relocation, new relationship, maybe just repercussions of that? could be .. work? also possible, but unlikely. I had thought maybe deprogramming something I wasn't even aware of, from my past, past life, ancestral memory, cellular memory? I even considered that maybe I had a spirit attached to me from opening portals into the spirit world via ayahuasca, also possibly. I had never been this sad before in my life.. I had periods a few weeks ago where I was waking up crying and going to sleep crying (I was usually ok during the day) but I often felt this deep deep sadness blanketing me.. & I couldn't figure out what I had to be depressed about, I am exactly where I have envisioned myself, and am really grateful for all the wonderful experiences I have had these past few years, all the amazing people in my life, such creativity - I have everything I need to be happy, and I have no doubt that life is just going to continue to get better, that it is totally an uphill journey, we can manifest whatever we wish and dreams really do come true. ..and Katie is just confirming what I already know and seem to have forgotten temporarily, that everything is perfect just as it is. Everything we think is just an illusion of our minds. We really don't know anything.. and we have lots of stories running in our minds, programs.

"In the end, "mystery" is equal to "manifestations." You're just looking from a new perspective. The world is an optical illusion. It's just you, crazed and miserable, or you, delighted and at peace. In the end, "desire" is equal to "end of desire." Desire is a gift; it's about noticing. Everything happens for you, not to you." ~Byron Katie

I remember walking down Bloor and seeing a guy with dirty clothes sitting on the sidewalk, he looked up at me, I read his knuckles "FUCK" on one hand and "HATE" on the other.. and I smiled inside, went next door and into Sonic Boom, used and new cd store and thought I love this city! That sort of stuff happens all the time. I don't listen to the news often. I just have this feeling it's for the most part controlled and negative and stay away from it - 'try to keep the vibes pure man!' (Jamaican accent) but when I do, I love it.. all the drama going on. It is what it is.. and I do believe that the external is a reflection of our internal..and when we all get it together, and I do believe we will, then there really will be Heaven on Earth. (& thats if we make it past 2012 ; ) but anything is possible and its all incredibly fascinating and as sure as there are spontaneous healings - Anything is possible! ..and in the meantime its all incredibly fascinating to watch.

Oh, & I am not even upset that after all my planning and excitement about the Moksha Yoga challenge, I am not doing it. It turns out that the subway doesn't run until 6 am on weekdays (9 am on Sundays!) Which I do feel is incredibly lame for a city with millions of people in it!! sheesh.. and I had a huge map with all the bus and streetcar routes, trying to figure a way to stay in the east end with Zoey and still get to a 6:30 am yoga class in the west - but in the end it came down to a choice between the 2 & I chose Zoey. But I can still do yoga on my own there. Kaiya and I did yoga-pilates last night. Cool.
& everything is exactly as it should be in this miracle-filled wonderful world.
& everything going on out there teaches us more about ourselves.
& we are all connected!
Peace-out and Love!

Ormus videos

White Powder Gold Secrets Revealed


Juicing, sprouting, and raw foods are all high in monoatomics (Ormus) and phytochemicals.

How to make an Ormus Water Bubbler

How to make Ormus at Home!

How to make a Magnetic Blender (in less than 3 minutes! ..for under 3$)

& lots more fun do it yourself video links!

Life: Moksha Yoga, Herbal Teas and Zoey

Here I am sitting at James, just Zoey and I are here.. and it seems kind of strange to be here in his house without him here.. but I better get used to it cause he is going to Panama for 3 weeks soon, next weekend & I will be here a lot.. cause I want to stay with Zoey. Although it's going to be a lot of commuting as James lives here in Little India (it's actually called the Indian Bazaar - but I like Little India) Coxwell/Gerrard area, so its a 5 block walk to get a bus to get to the subway and then a subway ride 30-40 min ride to the west side of town where I am working.. and will be doing yoga! Yes!! finally getting back into it - I am taking part in a 30 day Moksha yoga challenge - from Oct 4 - Nov 2nd. Alex suggested it, she does yoga there and is taking part and Angus is doing it & now I am also! the studio is at a Bloor & Jane ..so I am planning on getting lots of transit reading in.

I have been spending hardly any money lately, but went out today and bought a Metropass for unlimited TTC travelling, yoga capris, couldn't find shorts I really liked, but have some yoga clothes already, maybe enough..although I am new to hot yoga, a Carolyn Myss book to celebrate. & I bought a whole bunch of herbs. I was doing some herb researching again and made a list of ones I wanted.. I ran out of time to get to Herbies Herbs (he has so many!!) but still got most of the ones on my list. Ashwagandha, Cats Claw, Pau d'Arco. Chaste tree berries, Dong Quai, White Willow, Damiana, St John's wort, and Frankincense tears ( to burn) .. I am drinking a tea of a mixture of several of these and goji berries.. yumm!! now while I type.

I didn't get (& still want) : Suma root, Chanca Pietra & Chuchuhuasi. But I will get those soon.

& Zoey is doing great! Today was a big day for him.. he got to go outside for the first time in months. Hard to believe its been over 5 months since I have moved into the apartment. Zoey took to this place really well. It's a lot bigger more laces to run & play and climb. and James is really into cats and put a nice ledge up by the window and pays lots of attention to him. He's really happy ..he sniffed around checking out the front yards of neighbours on each side. The neighbour on one side was just coming home with a new really cute 9 week old puppy they had just gotten - who is going to be really big I think when she grows up, she already is.

So that was basically my day. I am a bit nervous about if I am up for the yoga challenge, have hardly been doing yoga at all since I moved, but really am feeling a need to get in shape, get myself together.. I am still not feeling settled, Went to my apartment and there was hardly any food. its a weird thing.. it feels a bit like a hotel/apartment, but one day hopefully I will get settled again (maybe just in time to take off and travel the world!? : )

Oh & about Alex and Kellan. Well, Kellan is on his way to beautiful British Columbia, Vancouver, his family is there and hes going to go live there at least until his girlfriend Jasmine gets back from the Dominican Republic where she is working/volunteering. He was over 30 days raw when he left, said he had lost count exactly, a good sign.. but he definitely planned to keep going with it. He said he would e-mail me when he got there.

Alex started Juice feasting one more time and made it to almost a few weeks.. but didn't want me to post it cause she was unsure if she was going to make it. She has stopped and decided that it's just not the right time, and maybe not the right thing for her right now. She is still following the Hippocrates diet with lots of green juices. She mentioned that it started becoming a pride issue, she was determined to do it, ..but was feeling like it was not the best thing for her health wise or emotionally ..it's great for many people, but was not feeling its the best for her right now. & so the Juice feast is over. ..but juicing and yoga are still in abundance!

Starhawk, 5 Sacred Things and Earth Activist Training

Declaration of the Four Sacred Things

The Earth is a living, conscious being. In company with cultures of many different times and places, we name these things as sacred: air, fire, water, and earth.

Whether we see them as the breath, energy, blood, and body of the Mother, or as the blessed gifts of a Creator, or as symbols of interconnected systems that sustain life, we know that nothing can live without them.

To call these things sacred is to say that they have a value beyond their usefulness for human ends, that they themselves become the standard by which our acts, our economics, our laws, and our purposes must be judged. No one has the right to appropriate them or profit from them at the expense of others. Any government that fails to protect them forfeits its legitimacy.

All people, all living things, are part of the earth life, and so are sacred. No one of us stands higher or lower than any other. Only justice can assure balance; only ecological balance can sustain freedom. Only in freedom can that fifth sacred thing we call spirit flourish in its full diversity.

To honor the sacred is to create conditions in which nourishment, sustenance, habitat, knowledge, freedom, and beauty can thrive. To honor the sacred is to make love possible.

To this we dedicate our curiosity, our will, our courage, our silences, and our voices. To this we dedicate our lives.

~ Starhawk - The Fifth Sacred Thing

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