Carousel Teeter Totter Heaven

This rocking on a Teeter table is SO the motion
of a carousel horse. Am I stoked? 
You Bet I am. I LOVE this thing!

Raven on carousel

Why Don't You

Radiant Muse... in Santa Cruz

Hummingbird Magic

Making Peace With The Sugar Cane

SWEET AS!

"Making Peace With The Sugar Cane

Running Through My Veins"

"Sugar, because of its simpler chemical structure, was once assumed (without scientific research) to raise blood glucose levels more quickly than starch, but results from more than twenty studies demonstrate that sugar and starch cause blood glucose to rise at similar rates." Wiki

TOILET PAPER MADE FROM SUGAR (does not raise glucose levels)

AND:

Making decent business quality Paper for office use

Marriage Basket

A Marriage Basket is woven with many strands
It takes a thousand hearts and twice as many hands...

Different World

In a world of broken archetypes and ragged heart-strings
You saw a different world where each their talents brings..."

Traversing Planet Earth

See You In The Forest
love,
elf

"Long Live The Weeds And the Wilderness Yet.."

Inversnaid

THIS darksome burn, horseback brown,

His rollrock highroad roaring down,

In coop and in comb the fleece of his foam

Flutes and low to the lake falls home.

Degged with dew, dappled with dew

Are the groins of the braes that the brook treads through,

Wiry heathpacks, flitches of fern,

And the beadbonny ash that sits over the burn.

What would the world be, once bereft

Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left,

O let them be left, wildness and wet;

Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–89). Poems. 1918.

February 13: Self-Love Day MAKES V-Day P*h*e*n*o*m*e*n*a*l

St. Wanda's Day

IS YOURS

~ St Wanda ~

Why?

For the Bright Being

Inside of you and me

Whom we needs must honor

If we would truly open

To a rich-red-hearted

Full-throated

Exquisitely embodied

Valentine's Day

February 13^th

Take this Day

From dawn 'til dusk

To and from your secret bed

To dwell inside your

Ever-spacious heart

See what you find there

And fully embrace it

 

 So that on Valentine's Day

You may turn

With all your self

And all your Will

And say with all your hearts

I love you

I love Me

Come

Come inside……

WANDA

First seen

& acknowledged

Brought forth

& made real

by Britt Aageson

 ST WANDA'S DAY

Upheld

& celebrated

By Wo/Men

anima & animus 

(PlaNetweavers*)

Everywhere

*Captured on film: PlaNetweavers Treasure Store May Pole

Credits:

Red Balloon Lady is by 'Dryad' erstwhile Gaia/Zaadz friend..; wherefore art Thou Now sweet Dryad??

Wild Red Lady Golden Gate Bridge is Ana, my Axis Dance Teacher

'Reconciliation of the Sexes' by Pamela Matthews of The Grail (Kiwi/NZ/Aotearoa)

WATERSHED WIZARD:Brock Dolman & "Basins of Relations"

Brock is fun, dynamic, passionate, a total live wire untiring advocate for the water and how we as a species may honor our symbiotic relationship to all our precious, vital, integral, bodies of water, inside and out.

"Basins of Relations" is an absolutely accessible book that invites you to breathe your way back in to the Flow that makes Rivers and down to the sea.

THINK OF YOUR WATERSHED AS A LIFEBOAT YOU SHARE WITH ALL WHO LIVE IN THIS PARTICULAR CATCHMENT REGION

BROCK HAS A CHAPTER IN ALTERNET'S WATER CONSCIOUSNESS book.

AND APPEARS TOO IN THE VIDEO INTRO DIVINE WATER
In Santa Cruz County, Brock was a major presence behind raising funds to put signage throughout the region so that folk would know; entering/leaving which watershed...
Brock signs off variously; "In a Watershed Sign-Age I entrust"..., or;
Mostly Water,
Brock

Brock is director of the Water Institute at the Occidental Arts & Ecology Center.

BUY NOTHING WEEK {Re-Tweet}

Staff of Lifers opt to observe BUY NOTHING WEEK
Feb 7 to Feb 14


February 7th, 2011:

Good Bye Staff of Life (Water Street)

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February 15, 2011

HELLO STAFF OF LIFE1266 Soquel Ave!!!

On February 7th, 2011, the old Staff of Life building will close its doors for the last time.

One week later, on February 15th, the grand new Staff of Life location, directly across the street, will welcome all-comers to enjoy STAFF OF LIFE New Paradigm reality.

So we're having a stock-up-and-BUY-NOTHING-WEEK

(farmer's market excepted : )


Then, we all pile into the new Staff of Life on February 15th and buy up a storm!
PASS IT ON

Santa Cruz Eye Candy

His latest Guise: "Runneth Over With Cups"

It's the Great Morgani in yet another spectacular costume (busking on Pacific Avenue, always with his piano accordian inside his latest stretchy costume)

Way fun
Every time

Staff of Life buzzz (........on the Mooooooove!!)

The buzz inside Staff of Life right now is palpable; very exciting. BIG MOVE scheduled for Feb 15th... right across the street (still closely neighboring 24 Hour Fitness, which is a good thing for any Natural Food Store :)

Staff at Staff have been over the road for trainings this week and the word from the shop floor is that the spirit we know and love has been faithfully carried over into the new space.

Perhaps it is part of catching the excitement that I saw Chef Deanna's sweet PT Cruiser out back for the first time this morning...

About Staff of Life

Staff of Life celebrated its 40th Birthday recently. Their history is as colorful as the times that birthed this one-of-kind local grocery store; The Old Days

1000 Hummingbirds "It's About The Water" Concert & Silent Auction

"It's About The Water" Benefit Concert for
1000 Hummingbirds "All Nations, All Women"for the water

When: Saturday February 12, 2011, 7:00 PM to 10:30PM
Where: Inner Light Sanctuary, Santa Cruz County: Inner Light Ministries, 5630 Soquel Drive, Soquel, CA 95073

Advance Tickets: $20 from In Ticketing ($25 at the door)

If you cannot join us on the day, buy a ticket (tax-deductible donation) for someone who can!

Why we chose In Ticketing for Hummingbird Ticket Sales:

Through ‘In Ticketing’, one tree is planted for each ticket purchased. Tree plantings are sponsored by In Ticketing in collaboration with Trees for the Future. Your trees will be planted in worldwide tree planting projects that help restore devastated forests in developing nations.”

1000 Hummingbirds Concert details


A rocking, pulsing, joyous, empowering, utterly memorable evening; Concert & Auction benefit for the Waters;

Expect to be uplifted, moved, and changed by the astonishing alchemy of these musician-songwriters, medicine women, artists & artisans, drawn to the same stage by 1000 hummingbird vision.

"Here are your waters and your watering place, drink and be whole again beyond confusion" (Robert Frost)

Note: Ticket fee plants a tree!

WATER AT THE EVENT: Please note that water from deep inside Santa Cruz Mountains is being bottled in 5 gallon casks & trucked by our own little hummingbird/mountain dweller, Robin Coyote, to Inner Light for your hydrating delight.

There will be for sale (for fill-up!) a few dozen of our Hummingbird Water Woman blue glass bottles as well as a few dozen utterly delightful  ‘Cafe Gratitude’ “What Are You Grateful For” ceramic tumblers. Still, we are expecting 500, and you may wish to come with your own water cup/bottle.
Water fill-ups are free ..
1000 Hummingbirds Concert details

"He Writes The Lessons Of The Heart And Learns Them Well.."

Then rest in peace

now may you sweetly sleep

for we were tested and did find

our Love run deep

Then come the Winter Solstice

let us now our Vows renew

we enter into marriage

free and true...

CELEBRATING 20 PHENOMENAL YEARS