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Holding on to the Beet with Life 13 y
Fighting to Hold on to the Beat of Life,
Reflections, Monday, January 17, 2011.
This is the week that in the Jewish Tradition
we celebrate the Birthday of the Trees.
I am resolved to take a very difficult,
yet important decision to hold on to the
Beat of Life.
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January 16, 2011
THE HISTORY OF PEACE
ON EARTH...
PHOTO CAPTION
FROM JANUARY !7, 2011
That’s me, leslie, holding on to the beat of life,
as I hold on to a bucket with a growing beet in it.
To grow a beet in a pot represents a desire to
stay connected and reconnect with the beat of nature.
This week, many in my world have been processing
death. I have too. It has come very close to my
home as I looked at either selling or staying here
where I have lived since 1982. There were days
when I thought I had found a safe haven, another
... read more experiment 13 y
experiment
Spent time at Suzie’s Farm stand.
Then when I saw Amy Zirk’s card,
Green Pea Gardens, I went over to the
JR farmstand where they had snow peas.
It seemed a perfect match.
HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT KEEP THE BEET MEDIA STAR?
This is her program for helping
us turn our beat around with nature:
Had a great time with Amy Zink of
Green Pea Gardens and her kids
Cloe and Blake.
HOW FAST CAN A BLADE OF GRASS GROW?
Keep The Beet Media Star
wants to know!!!!!
This is wheat grass I planted from
one of the many sprouting seeds
that Suzie offers at the Farmer ... read more Focus: HIllcrest Farmers' Market Stories Jan 16 11 13 y
Working on stories from the Hillcrest Farmers' Market.
If I do not do these stories now, the energy will sweep me
away into the full time job and a 1/2 of the house.
From Sarina
On Jan 16, 2011, at 9:04 AM, Sarina wrote:
Thank you Leslie,
I love the photo.
I love life.
I love you.
Praying for ease grace and courage
as you make your life a blessing.
Sarina
I sent Sarina a picture early this morning.
I was going through the iphoto Library
on this Mac Book Pro.
In recent days, I have not felt as safe place
to land, sort of like that story that Dr. Bernard Jensen
would tell about the strawberries.
Up above were bears chasing him down a cliff.
He was on a rope.
Below was a river with fierce crocadile.
Right in ... read more Fun with Keep The Beet at the Farmers' Market 13 y
Green Pea Gardens-Amy Zink, and kids Cloe and Blake
were among the life saving fun I had January 16, 2011
at the Hillcrest Farmers' Market.
Spent time at Suzie’s Farm stand.
Then when I saw Amy Zirk’s card,
Green Pea Gardens, I went over to the
JR farmstand where they had snow peas.
It seemed a perfect match.
HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT KEEP THE BEET MEDIA STAR?
This is her program for helping
us turn our beat around with nature:
Had a great time with Amy Zink of
Green Pea Gardens and her kids
Cloe and Blake.
HOW FAST CAN A BLADE OF GRASS GROW?
Keep The Beet Media Star
wants to know!!!!!
This is wheat grass I planted from
one of the many sprouting s ... read more Adam, The Realtor, visited here January 14, 2011 13 y
Adam, The Realtor, visited here January 14, 2011
9:34 am
January 14, 2011
Adam Pascu, Realtor visited the Enchanted Garden Intentional Community Growing Grounds January 14.
The purpose of the visit is to explore the value of the property
and the price this land might bring.
We spent hour hour or more together.
By the time, Adam, the name of the first man left,
he had received seed for his two little children and
a Kona Coffee plant to root his dreams.
I learned a lot about Adam who left with a smile on his face
and a mission to make the most of the plant he had been given.
I also gave him the bottom of a ... read more Birthday of the Trees Activity 13 y
Bithday of the Trees
The Torah Portion
What it is about seems to be parallel
my personal life right now.
I hardly want to call my life a passage now.
It is terrifying as I sit here.
Danger and things I have to deal with that
feel beyond my abilities seem everywhere.
http://www.sandiegojewishrenewal.org/services
9:01 am
January 15, 2011
Bithday of the Trees
Service will be led by
Rhonda Mason, and David Rafsky
Torah Service- Judith Lief will layne Shir Ha Shirim
Torah Drash by Nancy Handwerger
Followed by Tu B’Shevat Seder
and a vegetarian potluck lunch
(Excerpt from R. Shefa Gold’s Torah Journeys
http://www.torahjourneys.com)
IN Parsha BESHALLACH weare sent on a journey of purification. The path seems impossibly circuitous, doubling back on itself, spiraling around and through every place of darkness with ... read more Shock and Disbelief 13 y
I have to leave this place
to have sanity.
Shock and disbelief.
Just woke up from a nightmare.
I was at a weekend retreat of some kind.
I was feeling some distancing and lack of connection
from the group. I could not believe this.
I have a question mark in the dream,
I may have been at the Whole Being Weekend,
a place where I normally know my ground
and can express my magic and leadership.
Finally, a couple days passes and things did not
get too much better. I was about to connect
with one person. I was able to do my seed dream work.
Then, as I went to get my breakfast,
and I was about to go find them, ... read more Friday, March 11, Organic Center Dinner at the NPEW 13 y
Friday, March 11, Organic Center Dinner at the NPEW
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January 13, 2011
Friday, March 11, Organic Center Dinner at the NPEW
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January 13, 2011 visit the page The errors I have made 13 y
Morning thoughts
written while feeling unplugged
and undone.
I am feeling my human limits this morning.
I pain in my heart area expresses the fear
that ran through my body yesterday.
There was a point where I ran away from the house
to a meeting, simply so I could sit in
another energy. There were planning an upcomng
conference. I did not offer any suggestions.
When they people asked how I was, I was speechless.
This is quite unlike me.
Finally I borrowed a pen and began to write out
notes that I will transcribe this morning.
I have been living in an impossible circumstance
here at the house for many months.
Through the gr ... read more War for Cooperative Living 13 y
To be Continued...it is possible
for the Enchanted Garden Intentional Community Growing Grounds
here in San Diego to continue the dream of
Cooperative Living? Is is possible for eight people
to learn to live together in a world where we spend
trillions in Afghanistan to fight out our differences,
but do little value Social Experiments on the Homefront
where people still imagine it is possible to live in Peace?
8:47 am
January 12, 2011
The war for Cooperative Living is heating up
on the Homefront.
When last I check in with myself, about
18 hours ago, I had the shocking revelation,
once again, that the attempt to live together peacefully,
with eight others, here was causing potential undue
harm to my ability to sustain my life.
I keep ends together through Sponsorships
that allow to to write full time here on the Old
Plant Your Dream Blog, and on the emerging
New Plant Your Dream Website.
It would be impossible to do emergency
work for our food supply ... read more Watching the Funeral of Debbie Friedman now 13 y
Watching the Funeral of Debbie Friedman now
Rebrodcast....
http://www.tbsoc.com/debbie/
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January 11, 2011
Jewish music
12:51 Oritperl-1: May we learn to be a blessing as she was and is.
12:51 rabbiclaire: I agree.
12:51 rabbiclaire: amen
12:51 chaiteach: Amen
12:52 MaijaR: OK, finally... the tears.
12:52 AlexCohen: Amen
12:52 DaveHenig: it will be available on their archive 20-30 minutes after the end.
12:52 kadimacounselor: amen
12:52 rabbielizabethwood: amen
12:52 shari-w: This is where I’m crying - seeing her physically seprated from us. iI am singing, but find ... read more Lovely New Designs for Get BioSmart Campaign 13 y
Lovely New Designs for Get BioSmart Campaign.
Anthony Russo really has some lovely 100 susainable
packaging solutions that can help our remaining
styrofoam take out container users step up to the
plate.
LITTLE 4 oz for growing wheat grass seeds
http://www.biosmartpackaging.com/Default.aspx?cat=3273&prod=681
9:47 am
January 11, 2011
Spending some time this morning looking over the
new BioSmart website.
Sign up for BioSmart Alerts!
2011 is the year to Get BioSmart!
Now is the time to lessen the impact of Styrofoam on our oceans and landfills.
I want to salute Anthony Russo, Sustainability Expert for bringing out elegant designs that we can each take to local vendors who still use styrofoam.
There are various designs for almost every ... read more Unsettled feelings, Get rid of more stuff, do today 13 y
Writing to get a handle on reality today.
Staying positive in the midst of extreme
transition. Taking some next steps.
to see how I can land on my feet.
8:15 am
January 11, 2011
Debbie Friedman’s funeral in a few hours.
Many people will be griefing the loss of this wonderful woman.
How sad she was lost so early in life.
She has left a legacy of music and song
that will be enjoyed for generations.
I thought maybe to go up to Orange County.
It would be good to take a break from here,
but I cannot afford to leave this place now.
My foundation is too unsettled.
ADVENTURES IN COOPERAtiVE LIVING
THE HISTORY OF PEACE EARTH
My nighttime calm insights
do not match my day time requirements
for help and assistan ... read more How to you stop this "caughin' 13 y
Had a shameful thought.
I am in runaway coffin.
I better do some life lifegiving activities right now
to stop this downward trend that is very scary.
I am going to clean up some things
plant a couple beets in a pot,
take some FES Flourish Remedies,
and make take some necessary grounded actions.
Vital and important communications are needed now.
9:49 am
January 10, 2011
Freaking out inside.
Took some FES Fear Less Fourish remedy.
The Flourish line are my remedies of choice
for runaway emotions,
I know we are in a Shift.
It is one thing to experience this in our heads,
another to have runaway events,
so overwhelming, that the basis of our foundation
and stability is in earthquake
and we are shaking inside.
What do we do in times like these?
The other day, I spend more than eight hours
with the intent to organize and clear some things in my office
attached to my bedroom.
My original strategy was ... read more Debbie Friedman Funeral Tuesday, January 11, 2011 13 y
Debbie Friedman Funeral Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Embedded Funeral for Debbie Friedman link.
DEBBIE FRIEDMAN, deeply felt.
Debbie Friedman was a Jewish Liturgy evolutionary who took Jewish prayer and made it assessable through music and song. She was beloved by many, including Rabbi Stan Levy of the B’nai Horin, Children of Freedom Community in Los Angeles. It was through Stan, my rabbi, that I came to appreciate the work of Debbie. She would play music, sing songs, and add her wisdom to our high holiday services
over the years.
She was cordial to me and warm as we came to know each other. I would photograph numbers of the B’nai Horin High Holiday se ... read more I Want to be a Writer, January 9, 2011 13 y
I Want to be a Writer January 9, 2011
and tell a story with images and words.
Here is the story I saw today
regardless of a peripheral
uncomfortable dream.
Thank you for allowing me
one more time to have a guest
here to see the world as I see it.
Meredythe Dee Winter
in the Enchanted Garden
January 9, 2011
I want to be a writer.
I want to do something I am or can be good at.
I want a simpler life.
I want to tell stories.
I want to be pleased with the life I have lived
and go on from here to live in the magic
that I had today.
I want to accept that this place
has been a dream,
that somehow in leaving here
I do like a turtle coming out of my shell,
that I do not need this place
and the endless contortions that it has taken
and would continue to take to live here.
Oh how great this day!
... read more The Dream: Take Two, January 9, 2011 13 y
The Dream Take Two
10:03 am
January 9, 2011
When I touch grass,
I tough eternity.
It existed long before there were human beings
on the earth, and it will continue
to exist for millions of years to come.
Through the grass,
I tallk to the infinite,
which is only a silent force.
This is not a physical contact.
It is not in the earthquake,
wind, or fire,
It is the invisible world of nature,
or which, I, too, am a part.”
--George Washington Carver
as favorite quote that appears
in ”THe Tender Touch”
and other books by Edmond Bordeaux Szekely
THE DREAM
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