Open to Love

Ah, the wonders of life abound when you open your heart and spirit to Love, to Grace, to the miracle of being. With openness comes magic, in abundance, and with great speed and depth. Speaking of speed, I will be leaving the Bay on the 14th, flying back to my new home with my Love...Much to do until then, but mostly I am just celebrating and basking in joy!

The Beauty and Wonder of Life and the importance of Conscious Living

Inspiration for the day, maybe for a lifetime...at the very least, a beautiful reminder of the precious sacredness of life all around us - of our connection to one another, and the living beings that inhabit our planet...
Ashes and Snow (www.ashesandsnow.org)
This is an exquisite work capturing this divine majesty.

You can hear the artist, Gregory Colbert introduce his life work and vision, and view part of the film.

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In a rare public appearance, photographer Gregory Colbert shares an astounding film from his exhibit, Ashes and Snow, and announces his new initiative, the Animal Copyright Foundation, which aims to collect royalties from companies using images of nature in their ad campaigns. For more than a decade, Gregory Colbert has traveled the world and collaborated with 40+ species to create "Ashes and Snow," a ground-breaking exhibition of more than 100 photographs and three films, housed in the Nomadic Museum. Colbert's extraordinary sepia-toned images reveal a rarely seen poetic beauty in man's relationship to the animal kingdom. (Recorded February 2006 in Monterey, CA. Duration: 18:42).

This is an intriguing idea, especially given the positive intent versus the idea of establishing a patent on forms of nature with more insidious aims. I only just recently saw "The Future of Food," and was absolutely horrified of how our food sources are evolving farther and farther away from our natural connection to Mother Earth.

It is available on you tube in 7 parts, and I think elsewhere as 1 installment. It is well worth the time to watch, to be informed about where your food is coming from, and the importance of conscious food purchasing and consumption.


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Life is Magical!

A great Aloha from the islands of Love! Having an amazing time here, falling deeply in love with life and Love itself. It is true: there is only LOVE, and my entire being has never known such divine beauty. How expansive, and joyous, and blissful it is!

The dancing and hooping here is marvelous, connecting among the oneness with nature and within the loving community of beautiful beings here.

Let go of fear and open to LOVE! is the motto behind the cleanse journey I have emarked upon. "Miracles happen, one cleanse at a time." And I would have to say that it is completely true, because I feel completely immersed in greater miracles than I could ever imagine!

Home is where the heart shines in bliss and light. It could be anywhere, really, but Maui and her gifts sing so sweetly and bathes me in such joy...ahhh. Welcome home to me.

East Bay Hoopers' first performance

After having a super fun time hooping in the hot sun, trying valiantly to follow Lululemon's manifesto advice of "Drink fresh water and as much as you can," we joyfully cooled ourselves down with post-hooping ice cream. While enjoying our treats, it all of a sudden hit me, "Hey, that was my first time hooping in public. That was my first time performing!"

"Yeah, me too!" was the first reply. "Mine too!" was the second. And we all loved it.

And then of course, we couldn't wait to plan the next East Bay hooping get together...and so EAST BAY HOOPERS tribes.tribe.net/eastbayhooopers was born. Hooray!

I will admit that I was nervous about performing before I actually did it. But I told myself that the most important thing was to have fun, and I wholeheartedly went into it with this intention. Not hard actually, once the hoops began spinning and we were all shining our happy smiles. Thank you friends!

Dance to your Happy Song

Some folks go about the world skipping and dancing around much of the time, with a grin on their face for no obviously apparent reason...those who are not in this state of being might think they're crazy, looking so happy. Well, call me crazy then!

Music is such a great expression, inspiration and reflection of feeling.

Here's a song to feel today. I love it! Can you even listen to it sitting still? I can't!

Inspiration of the day: Find your Happy Song, whatever that may be, and dance to it, in whatever form that may take...and share your dance proudly with another being, experience what dance that inspires in them, and spread the Love!

The Good Vibe Hoop Tribe dancing to Ekova's Starlight in Daden (found on A Six Degrees Collection: Traveler '00)...
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More on the Ekova:
www.sixdegreesrecords.com/artists.php
What's in a name? In the case of Ekova, quite a lot. This French-based trio - which doesn't contain a single Frenchman, by the way - draws its name from a word coined by American-born singer Dierdre Dubois. "Its roots are in echo, and ova, signifying the feminine side," she explains. "But it's not supposed to have a literal meaning, just a beautiful sound. I wanted a word I'd never heard before." In that sense, the name Ekova perfectly represents what the band does. Dierdre Dubois has taken a page from the Cocteau Twins book and created her own improvised language, a kind of multicultural glossolalia that is as mysterious as it is musical. "I don't understand it all myself," she acknowledges. "It just comes out by itself. But I like that sense of mystery about it." The other two members of Ekova, Iranian percussionist Arach Khalatbari and Algerian guitar/lute player Mehdi Haddab, have invented a musical language to match. Inspired by many of the world's music traditions without literally drawing on them, Ekova has created a sound that is at once elusive but familiar.

"With World Music becoming so popular, people will think that's what Ekova is doing, but that's not it at all," Dubois says. The group, she points out, has taken advantage of their location in Paris to absorb a lot of the world's great musical cultures - African, Indian, Near Eastern, but also techno and trip-hop. "What comes out is music without frontiers or boundaries."

Flexibility and Grace

Is there anyone who has never at one point in their life thought of running away and joining the circus? Or is that just me? I so LOVE the circus!

Video of the Day:
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This act from the Circus of the Sun is just incredible. Course if it were me, I would just be ridiculously giddy and laughing with glee at the realization that I could do this that I would not even be able to muster looking quite so serious. This just reminds me that no matter how daunting, or challenging, or seemingly impossible a task is...I hope to always respond with great grace and flexibility, but most of all, in the end, joy and laughter!