Spring Arts Event in NH

[by the way, if everyone who already expressed interest in this event registers, there are only 3-4 slots still open at this point, so get registrations in early!]

Announcing: A Spring Restorative: Exploring the Magic of Music and Dance, Song and Silence
Location: The Hermitage-North, Claudia and Chelidon's home and land in West-Central New Hampshire (near Hanover-Lebanon, NH)
Date: Thursday April 20 through Sunday April 23, Earth Day Weekend
Cost: Sliding scale $125-$150, you decide where you slide
Facilitators: Chelidon, Claudia, Crow, and Willow Kelly
We have space for 17 additional participants: Are you called to join us and create this magic?
(see end of post for contact info)

As Spring approaches, we hear the Call, and Gather together to make Music and Song, to Chant and to Dance in the Bounty of the Green World about to awaken, and to make space in our lives for Stillness and Silence and Grace to enter and dwell within us as well.

This will be a Restorative, invoking Time as an Ally. There will be enough Time for active learning and quiet contemplation, for group magic and private walks in the woods, for sleeping late or rising early to do yoga or journaling. There will be wonderful food made with Magic, Love, and Intention and shared together in a relaxed atmosphere around a single large table. There will be Time for each of us to listen and learn, to share and experience, to teach each other, and to create something new and powerful together.
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Are You Called To Be A Part Of This Magic?
For more information and/or registration info please email claudiach@adelphia.com or call us at 603-863-8393 before 9pm evenings. (FYI, A $25 non-refundable deposit will be required to hold your space when you fill out the registration info. There has been a lot of interest and spaces are limited so please contact us early if you wish to participate in this magical long weekend.)

good, very wicked good

A thousand thanks to contentlove for recommending Verve's release of Coltrane's "Live at the Half Note" 1965 recording.

Oh my gods.

::bliss::

Warning

Be respectful of Sabores Aztecas chipotle salsa. Now, I really like hot 'n' spicy, and I'm surprised that this stuff doesn't etch the glass jar. I ended up mixing it with some Stonewall Kitchens mango lime salsa, plus a big spoonful of sour cream, and it's still completely clearing out my sinuses and bringing a bumper crop of tears to my eyes. Wow. I like. But wow. ::coughs, wipes eyes::

engagement

Edited comment made to a post in yezida's journal:

Living fully is much about engagement, and true, deep intimacy with the world, not disengaging and becoming abstract, distant, and dead from the neck down. Even Bodhisattvas come back down the mountain...in fact, that's kinda the point of Bodhisattvas. It's no mistake that the biblical "knowing" of one person by another referred to sexual intimacy. To know something, truly know it, is to be intimate with it.

For me, I know that engagement can be damn hard, but it's also true for me that it's largely by caressing, touching, banging, sometimes fiercely smashing, against "the other," that I can start to know, not just know in my head, but really know, that there is no other -- not because I've egostically imposed my inner landscape on the world without, but because I've come to really, truly listen, know and identify what is within and what is without, to know they're one and the same.

One of the hardest parts of that process, I've found, is not closing down after the hard smash-ups. It's easy to do, retreat back inside, nursing the wounds, back to a safe place. But those moments of discord and chaos and pain are some of the very best times to listen, when I've learned the most. Learning to enjoy the quiet and calm is good, but ya sure learn a lot more about weather and how to steer your boat (or when to just let go of the steering) during the real tempests ;>

Chop wood, carry water. Engage with the world, and do the work. Just showing up is 90% of the battle. Easy, right? Yeah, right...