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Earth Day History--San Diego
(Plant Your Dream!)
Earth Day History--San Diego. Chris Klein remembers the history of the first San Diego Earth Day on the Earthworks web site. Here is a bit of history about the first drum circle at the first San Diego Earth Day, one of the largest Drum Circles the city had up to that point. I read a poem in that Drum Circle and was one of the instigators of this Earth Day special event that featured many different happenings.
Date: 5/12/2006 12:12:24 PM ( 18 y ago)
“If the environment is a fad,
then it's going to be our last fad. ...
We are building a movement,
a movement with a broad base,
a movement which transcends political boundaries.
It is a movement that values people more than technology,
people more than political boundaries, people more than profit.”
--April 22, 1970, Denis Hayes,
organizer of the first Earth Day
and Chairman of The Earth Day Network
May 12 09
9:50 AM
The largest Earth Day activity in the United States
is held in Balboa Park, San Diego
around the official Earth Day.
Here is a history of the first San Diego Earth Day:
http://www.earthdayweb.org/SDEW_About.html
The first Earth Day had a drum circle
that was sponsored by the local Creation Spirituality
group. This was made up of students and teachers
from San Diego State and the community.
Drumming was just becoming propular that day.
Today, drums are popular in Jewish Renewal Circles
as an example. Back then, there were no drums.
There was a drummer named Larry. He had
an Native American name, I do not remember it.
I first met Larry years before at Healing Waters,
Eden, Arizona, where we would gather for
the Equinox's and Solstices. IT had lots of Essene
as well as Native American vibes.
There was no Seed company back then called
Seeds of Change. Another of the early drummers
of Healing Waters was Gabriel Howearth. He was
one of the original farmers of the Seeds of Change Company.
Another of the drummers was named BlueSky, Bill Agin,
who is today a very successful green building in the Austin,
Texas area.
We would all see each other at the Rainbow Gatherings.
I visited Bluesky on a trip to Cottage Grove enroute to the
Oregon Rainbow Gathering of that year where the Tribes
would get together. Thare are still Rainbow Gatherings
around July 4th of each year, when the Tribes get together.
On that trip I also visited Gabriel, who then had a farm in
Oregon. In years to follow, he became one of the founders
of the Seeds of Change Company. I am still associated
with Seeds of Change. I am in their Seed Donation program,
and I use their seeds in rituals to plant 1000 years of peace.
Around 1989, Larry was living in San Diego. I wanted
to promote the sale of the drums that he made. I linked
him up with the Matthew Fox inspired local Creation Spirituality
group.
We offered up a Drum Circle in Balboa Park as part of the
first San Diego Earth Day.
The Highlight of the Drum Circle was a reading of the poem
"Sohg of the Homeless," that appears in the book
"The Rebirth of Mother Earth."
I have one copy of that book on my shelf. There were
about 130 sold, one biggest Best Seller to date, as far as books
go.
There were no less that 50 drummers.
They are did a heart beat to the Mother Earth
as these words were read.
"I am the crack.
I am the crack between people.
I am the crack in people.
I am the crack in the inner city;
I am the crack where weath does not see
the weatlth it has.
I am the crack in the ghetto that screams
out silently, then walks away injured.
I am the thrust behind the arm that propesl
the brick through the light in your window;
I am the unsettled feeling
as though someone was watching
outside the window as you sit in the light.
(In goes on...)
I am the crack inside the homeless.
I am every orphan in the world kicked out of sight.
If you want to hide the homeless
and orphaned part inside you,
keep me hidden and voiceless.
Keep me hidden, and I will be the last BB gun blast
the last child on earth fires
through the heart of the last singing bird on earth..
iii.
I am the crack.
Can you handle a little good news?
I am not all I am cracked up to be.
I was born to disappear.
I disappear into thin air during the ceremony
when you marry light and darkeness.
If you want to know how I am
look at how I am.
Look at me closely.
I cannot be erased.
I cannot be stopped.
I cannot be imprisoned
I cannot be fixed.
I can only grow into something else.
I am the crack.
Elevate me to righteous status.
Make holy ground where I am.
Be something beautiful in the crack.
Plant something beautiful
that will grow in the crack.
Make a holy sound in the crack.
Make a holy sound to the crack.
Dance in the crack.
Dance in the crack and I disappear.
May the crack crack wide open.
May the crack disappear.
May the last crack on earth disappear.
May I be the last crack on earth.
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© 1989, Leslie Goldman, Your Enchanted Gardener
He was a drum make
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