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Michael Franti: Hey World (Don't Give Up)

http://ow.ly/1FLm4

Added by Kathie Wallace on January 11, 2011 at 8:52am — No Comments

1.1.11.2011

On New Year’s Day, some of us are dancing in the new world with an 11:00 AM meditation for a couple of hours. It feels important to me to do so. Perhaps you will join us. May we move in wholeness.

(Picture from…

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Added by Kathie Wallace on December 31, 2010 at 12:57pm — No Comments

Yes to life!

Added by Kathie Wallace on December 29, 2010 at 10:32pm — No Comments

Farmers on 57th: growing living food

Gardens are a natural way for a community to come together: at the farmer’s garden on 57 and Cambie, people come to picnic, exercise, commune with the stars,

learn about gardening, sit in the garden, suntan and even the coyotes

drop in at dusk. Gardens are a dimension of our lives that affirm

life for all things.

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Added by Kathie Wallace on July 16, 2010 at 3:42pm — No Comments

How Vancouver reclaimed the 2010 Olympics from IOC's dominator energy

International Olympic Committee (IOC), as a controlling dominator energy, cast a dark shadow over Vancouver during the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. This third article on the topic explores

IOC’s attempt to manipulate and control the people and their Olympic

stories. http://ow.ly/2aORe…



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Added by Kathie Wallace on July 13, 2010 at 8:53am — No Comments

The Walk Away Movement





Join the walk away movement & dance …into the green beautiful. - Part 1/9



It’s simple: sing reciprocity of joy, gratitude, and beauty.



May we all bless-ed be! http://ow.ly/26Qg0 Please spread widely.…

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Added by Kathie Wallace on July 6, 2010 at 6:06pm — No Comments

Oh Canada! Canada Day

Canada

Day 2010 saw Vancouverites doing what we love to do: coming together to play

and celebrate being a community. Community celebrations like Canada Day are one

example of what Mark Lakeman of City Repair

in Portland, Oregon calls “placemaking” where people

claim their space in their community. Read more http://ow.ly/26qUQ…

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Added by Kathie Wallace on July 2, 2010 at 1:38pm — 1 Comment

Canopy helps re-claim caribou’s forest home: 170 million acres

This Agreement is the largest conservation initiative in the world at a time when less than 1/4 of the world’s original forests remain in the large tracts necessary to maintain the critical diversity of a functioning
forest. Read more http://ow.ly/26iFY

Added by Kathie Wallace on July 2, 2010 at 8:07am — No Comments

How we enter the new world



…no dominator energy allowed…just joy


Added by Kathie Wallace on June 30, 2010 at 8:03am — No Comments

Running the dominator energy off planet-first step is naming it





At Vanc Olys and TO #G20 we claimed our space: Canada, land of the free, saying “no” to the dominator energy Oh Canada! Yes to

life! Thanks to our youth.



IOC's false patriotism and disrespect of indigenous peoples http://ow.ly/24crX…



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Added by Kathie Wallace on June 28, 2010 at 8:54am — No Comments

Let’s Move Beyond Oil-Hands across the Sand







On June 26th please join thousands across the world to draw a line in the sand against offshore oil drilling. The image is powerful, the message is simple. NO to Offshore Oil Drilling, YES to Clean Energy.



Hands Across the Sand is a movement made of people of all walks of life and crosses political affiliations. This movement is not about politics; it is about protection of our coastal economies,…

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Added by Kathie Wallace on June 26, 2010 at 8:35am — No Comments

Magnificent Human

http://ow.ly/1Qp80


Added by Kathie Wallace on June 24, 2010 at 9:43am — No Comments

Vancouver’s First Nations’ DTES smudge ceremony

Vancouver’s First Nations peoples have always held ceremonies calling all people to come together to connect with themselves, each other, Mother Earth and the Great Spirit.


Read more http://ow.ly/20RRi



Added by Kathie Wallace on June 20, 2010 at 9:46am — No Comments

Thank you!


I want to thank all my Village Vancouver friends and allies for reading my posts.
May we all bless-ed be!
Dancing in the new world
in joy
Kathie Wallace

Added by Kathie Wallace on June 20, 2010 at 9:30am — No Comments

The True Story of the Olympics-When the dominator energy came to town: the real IOC

There is a darkness that keeps calling me to its story. It is the story of the International Olympic Committee (IOC)’s tactics to control and dominate Vancouverites leading up to and during the 2010 Vancouver Winter

Olympics
.



Whoever tells the stories of our experiences influences millions of minds. The…

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Added by Kathie Wallace on June 14, 2010 at 4:53pm — No Comments

We will not save...

The Environmental Crisis is a Spiritual Crisis


‘We will not save what we do not love’


from “When the Trees Say Nothing”



Added by Kathie Wallace on June 5, 2010 at 11:19am — 1 Comment

There are a hundred ways...

There are a hundred ways to kneel and kiss the earth


[Adapted Rumi]

Added by Kathie Wallace on June 2, 2010 at 6:21pm — No Comments

Lovena Galyide's backyard garden: life lives here



Gardens are sprouting up everywhere in Vancouver. It is one sign of being in the energy of the new world which is a dimension of simple deep joy, interconnection with Mother Earth, freedom and play.…

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Added by Kathie Wallace on June 1, 2010 at 7:56am — No Comments

Vancouverites connect with Mother Earth



What is it about Mother Earth that we cannot live without? Our North American dominant existence seems to be an increasingly one-dimensional possibility of

limits, fragmentation, and disconnection with all the stress that naturally

ensues for us, as multidimensional beings. We have lost our ground in space and

this has resulted in a profound anguish and alienation. To read…

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Added by Kathie Wallace on May 27, 2010 at 11:59am — 1 Comment

tenderly



-tenderly, I now touch all things, knowing one day we will part-


(From Facebook friend Diane Smithers)



Added by Kathie Wallace on May 14, 2010 at 8:26am — No Comments

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