Date: 7/9/2011 6:54:17 PM ( 13 y ) ... viewed 7547 times
I started this Plant Your Dream Blog
yesterday, July 9, on Shabbat.
I was feeling disconnected and sad when
I stooped to write.
This morning, as I get ready to go to
the Hillcrest Farmers' Market,
a lot of threads are coming together.
I am a morning person.
The Joshua Tree Remedy wants to remind
me of this pattern I want to remember
when I become sad.
HERE IS THE ART THAT GOES
WITH THE HALLOWING OF THIS PATTERN
MY STOMACH HURTS
AND MY SPIRIT IS DOWN
I have a photo of my mother holding
a little baby in her warm arms on my desk today.
The little baby is me. My mother
was the centerpiece of our Jewish home
when I was growing up, but she died
in 1960. I was 12 at the time.
That experience marked me
and pointed me in the direction
of wanted so very much Sacred Foods
for our world, and in particular our Jewish
world. In the Jewish world that I know,
I see I very high level of
ethics, and high sensitivity to justice causes,
but very little connection to the Food Justice
cause of making sure that we personally
have good food.
"Everybody deserves good food" was a
catch word phrase of our Cultivating Food Justice Event
April 9-10. I taught there.
How many of us make sure that we
get the food we deserve?
How many of us recognize that
food is intended to be Sacred,
that food is intended to connect
up to the Four Worlds of Creation,
from inner world to outer world?
THE FOUR WORLD MODEL
The Four World Model,
a Kabbalistic reference to creation,
is one that I have naturally adapted
to the Enchanted Garden Teachings.
I will explain this in further lessons
in the Sacred Foods Project.
TO CLARIFY
I want to clarify.
Food is sacred.
It is has Soul inspired purpose behnd it.
Food is here to help Plant Your Dream.
Most of us do not realize that we are
seriously lacking the micronutrients that
carry the electrical charges to translate the
and Soul inspired Bioterrain to Earth.
We are living in a mad, mad work here
on earth with no healthy relationship for the most part
to food.
This is one reason I say we need an
Organic Uprising, each of us Standing Up
for Nature's Original Technology.
We have strayed very far from
Nature's Original Technology.
We have strayed very far from each of us
living our lives as an Organic Uprising.
[ A FLOWER IS AN ORGANIC UPRISING
What do I mean by being an Organic Uprising?
I will explain this further, in other
plant Your Dream Blogs in this series. ]
WHY SHOPPING THE FARMERS' MARKET
IS SO IMPORTANT
This is why I love the Farmers; Market so much.
I see and feel a life cycle that is extremely life given
and the closest connection I find to a connected
community.
I better go now.
I will continue this later.
LEAVING NOW TO SUPPORT A BENEFIT
There is a benefit at the Wild Willow Farm now
for Peace Pies, JP Alfred's company that has been shut down
since May due to a fire that happened nearby.
JP Alfred is an advocate of raw food and vegan living.
He is one of
one of our most consciously food
connected food preparers. I want to honor the gathering.
I will upload photos later from this gathering.
This is a teaching about support of our local community.
one of the ideas I want to share within the Sacred Food Project.
THIS PART WRITTEN SATURDAY
JULY 9TH:
edited
July 10, 2011
7:10 am
THE ALEPH KALLAH WAS SEVEN DAYS AGO
We are one week out form the ALEPH Kallah 2011.
I was seeing and seeding the regenerating of
a Sacred Food Project with ALEPH and for the Jewish People
as a whole.
I AM SAD
Garden Management Journal
for Saturday July 9, 2011
This morning, I sent to
Shir HaYam, our local San Diego Havurah.
Many of the people there attended
the ALEPH Kallah 2011.
I have been writing about this event all week
extensively.
The links are below in my signature.
David Rafsky is married to Rhonda Mason.
I met Rhonda in 1993 in Berkeley, CA
at my first ALEPH Kallah. She has been
my greatest witness of continuity locally
since that time.
This is a rare special gift.
Rhonda has wisdom filled eyes.
She sees the world.
Ofter when I look into her eyes,
I see something deeper looking out.
She is married to David Rafsky,
who is a member of the Board of ALEPH.
They generally go out to lunch after
the services we do at the First Universalist location
that we often use in San Diego.
I came into the services Saturday morning
early. This is the first time I have ever arrived early.
I began the day prepping and organizing my notebooks
for the Kallah.
I did not have time to show the materials to anyone
at the Kallah. I barely made it through the Gate.
I spoke for the first time to the assistant Kallah organizer
Sheri Friday morning.
"From Yelling "Help!!" to Saying "Wow!!!" at the
Aleph Kallah 2011.
ASIDE
At the JP Alfred Peace Pies Gathering,
there were a number of local San Diego friends
who wanted to know how the ALEPH Kallah went.
Harmony said she heard about it at the last minute.
Her busband Brad Wolff said that he had a friend
in New York named Akiva the Believer.
Akiva the Believer was at the ALEPH Kallah.
His name came up twice yesterday.
David Rafsky mentioned that he had learned
some drum techniques from this master teacher
who is also a friend of Brad Wolff.
POINT
A number of local Jews I know,
who are connected in with Sacred Foods
are disconnected from the ALEPH Kallah.
This is interesting to note.
This is a bridge to be built.
UPCOMING EVENT
Sometime in August there will tentatively
be an opportunity for me to embroder these strands
together.
Wow!!!! There is an opportunity to help
co-create an event with Sharon Alexander Dreyfus,
who is one of the key ALEPH Kallah partiicipants
I met at this year's event. She was an ally from
the past Kallot for me.
This is significant of my Job Return Cycle.
I will write about that later.
I reference the poem
"Job;s Prayer:
READ JOB'S PRAYER AT THE GATHERING
IN AUGUST
This poem is in the Video
below as well as in the Signature below....
FOLLOWING THE MORNING SERVICE
I wanted the companionship of David and Rhonda,
two of my allies in Jewish Renewal. About eight of us
eight at a lovely little food eating place off Alabama
street and El Cajon.
I have heard of this little food place.
It is called "Momma's"
They served the food in styrofoam.
The chicken I ate was very likely Factory Farmed.
I have not eaten at this level of disconnection in many, many months.
David was hurting from arthritis.
I have had my run with arthritis in my life,
in part due to not living an organic lifestyle
from top to bottom.
[Reference: Being an Organic Uprising!]
MY MOTHER
In conversations with R'Goldie this week
she has asked me twice my Jewish name.
You reference your hebrew name and the names
of your parents. My mother's name is Chana.
I believe that is my sister's hebrew name as well.
My mother, Ann, she died when I was 12.
I have written about that in
my autobiography called
"Rekindling of Faith."
My aunt Rita, my father Solomon's sister,
developed cancer as well in the throat five
years later. She discovered
alternative natural therapy and changed her diet.
She lived at least 50 more years.
I missed those years I did not have my mother.
That, in part is why I am doing what I am doing today
for Sacred Foods.
ASIDE
Weaving the Four World's together.
Wow!!! R'Goldie used the word
"Embroder" in her quote about
the Sacred Food Project.
It threw me off. Now I see.
This is a Kabbalistic reference,
a good word that I am seeing this morning
working through my mind.
ALSO NOTE
Mindful, FES Flower Essence Remedy
is for this...it weaves the Four World's Together.
We are intended to be all of one piece.
All of one Peace.
4:54 pm
PHOTOS FROM THE NORTH PARK FARMERS' MARKET
TAKEN JULY 7, 2011
I was stunned by the feeling of continuity,
the lovely women full of life force;
the young mothers with babies and small children;
the pregnant, The good looking men, the young fathers;
the ripe fruits; the healthy meats; the good people
seeking the best foods possible; the lovely farmers,
so caring, wanting to do their best and deserving
support.
_____
SIGNATURE FOR THE
SACRED FOODS @ KALLAH 2011
LESLIE GOLDMAN
YOUR ENCHANTED GARDENER
PHOTOS FROM THE ALEPH KALLAH 2011
WHERE THEY CAN BE FOUND
(add in here)
SOW IN TEARS. REAP IN JOY.
ALEPH KALLAH 2011 HARVEST
Watch this video for a sense of the project
of healing I envision that will influence
Sacred Foods at the ALEPH Kallah and for
the Jewish People.
YOUTUBE NOTES
Spending time writing Plant Your Dream Blogs looking at my return visit to the ALEPH Kallah 2011. ALEPH is the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet; Kallah means gathering. The ALEPH Kallah in the international Gathering of the Alliance for Jewish Renewal Communities held every two years. The last time I was at an ALEPH Kallah was in 1997. Tremendous healing happening inside within a few days of this marvelous test tube for growth and community building within a Jewish setting. I highly recommend the ALEPH Kallah and the richness of the Jewish Renewal Communities in the US and around the world as a place to regain our roots in Judiasm and its healthy future. My continued dream is that Sacred Foods, Organic Food Growing, and ALEPH become one. --Your Enchanted Gardener, Leslie Goldman. To share in my
personal journey bringing Sacred Foods to the Kallah and Jewish people,
Google: Going from Yelling "Help!" to saying "Wow!" in Less than 48 hours at the ALEPH Kallah 2011
"Leslie, thank you so much for making this precious little video and for your dedication and your life's work to bring awareness of healthy foods to our community. So glad you came again to Kallah and that we reconnected. May you be blessed."
This is a photo with Debra Kolodny, the new Rabbi at the Jewish
Renewal community in Portland She is moving on from being
the executive director of ALEPH. I met her through the work
she was doing years ago on the Sacred Foods Project through ALEPH.
This photo was taken on July 3 at the Closing Ceremony.
THE FARM?
ARRIVING IN THE PROMISED LAND
I went with AriellaShira Lewis And Gloria Krasno
twp ALEPH Kallah veterans.
I heard upon arrival at the University of Redlands,
through talking to the staff in the kitchen how they supported
Organic food, a cornerstone of Sacred Foods.
They bought local organic foods
from farmers. They had a farm right off campus
where the students grew organic food that the kitchen would
buy. It took determination to find the Farm. For future reference,
This treasure called the University of Redlands Sustainability Farm (URSF)
is located behind the Brockton Avenue Apartments
at the back far end of a fenced gate
within view of the Soccer Field.
The Brochton Avenue Apartments are located at the corner
of Grove Street and Blockton Avenue north of the
soccer field (307) on this map.
Sunday morning, July 3, 2011.
It was difficult to find, but I persevered.
I went looking three times.
When I finally found it later in the day,
People on campus said the Gate would be locked,
but I found it open although no one was there
but we who entered.
FROM R'GOLDIE
"Let's embroider the farm into a kallah should it be held at the same site. environmental care and sacred foods is so important and actual central in Jewish renewal, Recon, etc."
July 6, 2011
WORK IN PROGRESS
ORGANIC OUTREACH TO THE UNIVERSITY
OF REDLANDS
Summary of work done thusfar.
Seed Dreams for this school as a model
for other Universities. Remarkable progress
toward Organic and Sacred Foods are being made
here!! They are to be congratulated!
My spirit is asking that I rejuvenate the Sacred Food Project
This was on my list of intentions when I attended the final
couple days of the Kallah.
I knew that to make progress I would have to step through
some Original Pain Work reflected in a handful of relationships
I left uncooked at the Kallah back in 1997.
At the Kallah I saw a new generation of youth
that need to be supported now.
I made some new allies.
I am willing to do the Soul Growth
that I might continue to serve my purpose.
QUOTE FROM R'GOLDIE
On Jul 5, 2011, at 7:02 PM, Goldie Milgram wrote:
Dear Leslie:
Just saw the video and your blog re Kallah.
I deeply admire your approach to healing.
The honest way you spoke your truth and points of wounding
with Jewish renewal in the past.
When you told me about your "planting dreams" work
with the school students, I recognized our friendship
would blossom with the years.
That is the kind of supportive education
that is so needed. Tears flow as I reflect we would not have met
if not for our courage to come and confront, discuss,
connect and reconnect. Your gifts are
so timely for Jewish renewal and all peoples.
I look forward to future connections."
God made a rainbow covenant
in the heavens with each of us.
How is it that there are so
many rainbow colors
on earth reflected
in all our flowers,
fruits, herbs, and vegetables?
Our health and happiness
comes out of partaking
in the full rainbow
of flowers and foods.
This fulfills our part
in the covenant.
Started July 6, early in the morning.
Healing proceeding through completing
the video. There was a tremendous rainbow
in the sky July 6, an hour after I finished
the Video. I wrote more on this Blog today.
"Dear Leslie,
You have always been one of those folks
out there on the fragile growing edge of things,
sniffing way ahead of most of us.
And you have had the courage to be quirky and insistent,
and to proceed even when you weren't understood.
I choose to believe that what you have already planted in this world
---in the earth, or in people's hearts--will quietly take root,
and perhaps go unnoticed for long enough to really dig in
without provoking opposition, and therefore acquire depth
and strength to burgeon forth. Thank you for your generosity,
for all you do, and for persevering even when it's been lonely.
You have been seen and appreciated;
please forgive me for not letting you know sooner.
Warmly,
Eve
DANNA ASHBAKER, SOUS CHEF
AT THE U OF REDLAND'S TALKS
ORGANIC FOODS WITH LESLIE GOLDMAN
YOUR ENCHANTED GARDEN
Saturday morning, July 2, 2011
in the U of Redland's Kitchen
Silk, a product in the NON GMO Verified Project,
is one of the foods I found already served at the
U of Redlands. I see and seed using my Organic Trade
Association Resources to suggest and develop more.
READ THIS PLANT YOUR DREAM BLOG HERE
Organic Support for the University of Redlands Kitchen
PHIL BELL
Head Cheerleader
from my alma mater, Fairfax High School,
1960.
A GREAT INTERFAITH MINISTRY
IS DESCRIBED HERE IN RABBI ARYEH HIRSHFIELD
I felt the presence of Rabbi Aryeh Hirshfield, the former rabbi of Portland with me during my journey
to the Kallah. I took his CD with me. He was one of my favorite
Jewish Renewal rabbis, and died in the Ocean in January 2009.
I have permission of Beth Hirshfield to use music of
Aryeh in an upcoming video I have in mind.
This is a remedy I have been using to work with bioenergetic patterns
carried from generation to generation in the bloodstream.
It was recommended to me by Richard Katz of the Flower Essence Society
last March.
I highly recommend this to all who wish to work with their
own bioenergetic patterns embedded in our Jewish experience.
ARE YOU DRAWN TO THE
ESSENCE OF JOSHUA TREE ESSENCE TOO?
QUALITIES OF THE JOSHUA TREE FLOWER ESSENCE
Yucca breviflora
Joshua Tree
Positive qualities:
Individuation of soul forces through conscious transformation
of family patterns and related cultural conditioning;
enhanced freedom and compassionate insight
for family and culture of origin
Patterns of imbalance:
Generational karma which shackles the soul's potential; inability to break free from family or cultural patterns of dysfunction, such as alcoholism, addiction, depression, violence or hereditary illnesses; loss of individual identity and freedom due to lack of insight regarding familial and cultural influences
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