#ArtNightPasadena -- March 9, 2012 6-10pm WHOOT!

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Tonight is gonna be blazin'!

12 venues in Pasadena (13 if you count the City Hall Transportation Hub) will be sending FREE vibes throughout the city!

If you are in or near the area it's so-o-o-o-o-o-o worth your time!

Find out about the event here:

www.artnightpasadena.org

Tweet much?  Then send word to your friends with this hashtag!

#ArtNightPasadena

On Facebook?  Well, like, check them out here!

https://www.facebook.com/artnightpasadena

Join in the Awe and the Fun!

Apprenticeship on the Streets - Invisible People

Being an apprentice is an excellent way for me to learn.  It gives me time to repeat experiences and absorb them.  I'm fortunate in that one of the non-profit foundations I believe in and support heavily is now facilitating what I call an "Apprenticeship Program."  I'm taking advantage of that, and have enrolled as an apprentice.

::preens:: You could call me an "early adopter" in the program.  ::chortle::

Had the opportunity to share stories on the street yesterday.  Not something that happens for me often, since my health imposes a few more limits on me than I like at the moment.

I want to share a bit of those stories with you.

Need your brainstorming minds! Thanks in advance!

I'm officially excited.

This child is due to be in New York City June 19/20 for the #140conf.

That's beyond exciting!

Imagine the opportunity to see

• Deepak, Gotham & Mallika Chopra; (whuff!)
• Dan Lewis, Director of New Media Communications at Sesame Street; (squeal!) 
• Jack Dorsey (Exec. Chair. of Twitter); (tweet heaven!)
• Alison Levine, adventurer & explorer; and
• Joe Trippi, author of "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised";
• among many, many others!

WOW, doesn't even cover it!

What would help you get through this moment?

Graphic copyright JaguarWoman
purchased use rights by Rd Plasschaert
purchased long ago, doncha think it's gorgeous?

I find it sometimes overwhelming to be on the listening end to so many people that are:

having difficulty getting disability benefits from “our social system” when they are disabled;

having difficulty getting housed;

having difficulty getting fed;

having difficulty being treated with respect, love and non-judgmental encouragement.

The overwhelm is not from listening, it's from my feelings of "what can I do?".

So this is a reminder to me, and perhaps encouragement to you …

You are ...

This is floating around Facebook walls,
I don't know who created it:
but kudos to them!
And yeah, I'd have said,
"Holy Joie de Vivre Batman!"
not "Holy Shit",
yet still -- it's a great pinup!

You are important.

You have value.

You have worth.

You make a difference.

You are inherently significant.

Three questions for you:

1) Do you say these things to your self?

 

2) Do you say these things to the people around you?

3) What if you did … and meant it?

THANK YOU skip1.org and Shelene Bryan

All right ... I wanted to have a lot more done for today.  It's not gonna happen.  This is a time when I truly wish I had already transformed the danged CFS symptoms that have made a visit to my life.

Today is a very special day for me.

For a number of reasons.

It's Groundhog Day.
It's a seasonal day of celebration for a number of disciplines and belief systems.

As a Shaman this day is the time in the season cycles of the known world where I celebrate the hidden potentialities that are transformed into the visible.

A youngster in me celebrates "National Baby Clam Day" which I always declare on 2/2.  You have to have grokked BC or was it Pogo (dang I cannot remember which one it is right now) in the days of newspaper daily black and white and Sunday colorful comics.

And a huge reason I wanted to have accomplished more for today (ie. the re-vamping of my website -- not yet accomplished to include my current goals and endeavors; a homemade graphic, video and spoken word piece that haven't yet manifested) is to say the THANK YOU I am using this blogpost for.

What's in a Title?

My calling card

     I have searched for 14 months for the means in which I may contribute to making things visible and feel whole, creative and balanced while doing it.

It’s been an interesting road.

When I first started volunteering for Mark Horvath — the founder of InvisiblePeople.tv and WeAreVisible.com, he told me I could pick whatever title I wanted just as long as it didn't have the word "dragon".  He knew, beyond the shadow of a doubt that I would choose something with Dragon in it 'cuz they are my kindred -- yes, sometimes I live in what you may perceive as a fantasy world. ::smile::

What freedom! What joy! What … oh my stars and garters, what confusion!

Brainstorm! Wanna help?

I am beyond impressed.

Apply this man’s speech to homelessness.  Apply it to anything you advocate for.  Go ahead, substitute the phrase that evokes passion in you for the phrases Patch Adams uses that describe his visions — can you hear it?

What is your ideal practice?

In sore need of encouragement today I came across this YouTube clip moments ago on www.patchadams.org (Patch Adams, M.D. & Gesundheit! Institute), moments ago.

Again, I am beyond impressed.  I feel motivated.  I feel patted on the back by a kindred soul.  Something I needed intensely.