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Claiming Aliveness!
Delicious Morning Dream...
lots of lovely relationships
here at home. Reflections on
Jack Soule's Birthday, and angry
feelings about day at Whole Foods.
Date: 5/22/2006 9:15:37 AM ( 18 y ) ... viewed 1430 times 7:05 AM
May 22, 06
Woke up with a delicious dream.
I was in a house meeting of the home based
community. We were in water, mainly men,
casually talking. I was feeling so good about
the mix, amost overflowing with joy to have
such a rich community life. Then, in the next
scene, I was in the kitchen, and some of
my favorite women showed up,
including Cynthia Lamborne. They were
all living here too. I felt so good about this.
Part of these good feelings may have been
inspired by going to Jack Soule's 65th birthday party
last night. Fell into snaping photos. This is one
comfortable role I can play at events where lots of people seem
to know each other, and much of the group is new to me.
Plus, there was so much beauty here in friendship, and Feng Shui,
and energy that showed life fully lived. My Spirit wanted
to record and remember what I was seeing.
Jack Soule is a man I run into from time to time
at the Farmers' Market and lately at Whole Foods
Hillcrest. He calls the store Whole Paycheck.
For me Whole Foods is now a test tube where
where a local model can be found that will help
the survival and thriving of the local organic farmings
I work with.
Jack just retired from being a professor of Political
Science from SDSU; He taught for 36 years.
We interacted last Sunday at WF. It came up
that he was having a birthday party. I invited myself.
tt was a wonderful, enlightening experience.
I was at WF in and out yesterday, the fourth week
of investing a lot of life energy there. I am doing
my best to pave the way for locally grown,
fresh picked that morning strawberries
to come into the commercial setting of
Whole Foods (WF) Hillcrest.
I was doing this mainly to because it is something
that needs to be done. We are losing more and more
of our local farmers in San Diego. Some of the ones
I love do the Farmers" Market (FM), but they would benefit
and the shoppers of WF would benefit if this very high
quality food was in the store.
Yesterday was the most difficult of the four Sundays.
I will talk about that in another blog. For now
I want to share what I learned from being with Jack
and his lovely Circles of friends.
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That's Jack in the center with his arms to the left on Jeff Salz,
and old friend, and to the right to Chess Edwards, who aside
from being an organizational trainer, is an outstanding photographer
and co-adventurer with Jeff. In the good ol' days at the Whole
Being Weekend, they would do a Friday night slide show and talk,
Shamanically oriented, often about their spiritual adventures
in Nepal. Jeff was one of the most popular teachers
at SDSU in those years. He now is a successful author and
travels and speaks to corporations.
_____
Jack left was time for a roast as part of his birthday,
but no one had much to say about him that wasn't lovely.
He spoke of real wealth being friendship.
Attending were circles of friends from many places.
Jeff Salz, who has become quite a well known speaker
and author, came down from Idylwild. I hadn't seen him
in many years. He was nice to be remembered by name.
He and Jack were part of the old I-House Community,
a lovely little house a few blocks off campus, and within
walking distance of the EG Intentional Community here.
For many years, I did not miss a single Tuesday night
Vegetarian dinner. It was one of the regular events of my
life through the 80's--the I house Tuesday night dinner.
We always began with a circle. Jeff and Jack would come
some times. This was a place for those who would become
the Cultural Creatives, they were the students who were like
the Thoreau's and needed a place to come together.
The Peace Resource Center was in the I-House. Dave Burnight
ran into for many years, and it was stable until he retired.
There were little rooms in the back, where some of the students
lived. That was where I met Penny Casanova, the mother of Nadine,
and Clint Shaw, the father, who was my solid friend for many years.
I felt a sadness seeing the rich life that Jack had,
in the sense that here he was leaving now for a year in Mexico
and this was the first time I have ever visited his home
or stepped into his circle of community.
Bianca, who has an annual Christmas party, was there.
Bianca travels as well to distant places and has been an ally
over the years. I would see her with Jack over the years
at the FM.
It was enlightening seeing how well kept Jack's home was.
I could not see any clutter at all. The bedroom I looked in
was totally a bedroom. No shelves full of notebooks
signaling disorder and incomplete projects, no TV I could see.
Lovely floors. I couldn't even see an office. Jack said, that he kept
his office, I imagined for the most part, at the nearby SDSU.
He had a wife of 20 years, Maureen, and Bob Mooney,
a lovely man I met, said that was part of the reason
Jack's life seemed so well arranged.
The property was very well done and homey from a Feng Shui
point of view. There was a succulent garden out front, and the backyard
seemed to go on and on until it reached a canyon that came as a surprise,
kind of like at my house. No one would know that we are on a canyon
until they enter the backyard. Our backyard is its own world
and gives the feeling of entering an Enchanted Garden without even words.
Jack's place was less a jungle that ours.
I am so lucky to live here, so very blessed.
I mean, I am looking out of the corner's of my eyes right now
through windows all around me, seeing lush greenery of trees in
both directions. I can hear birds in the canyon. This is truly
a place of destiny that deserves to become all it can be.
IT was sad when the Church that allowed the I-House to exist
caused them to exit prematurely. That was a real community loss.
SO much happened there. I am not sure if this place could ever
place such a role. I am just too much the hermit, and very locked
into my patterns of doing too much.
It would be nice to allow at least more frequent Enchanted Garden Parties wherea community of local gardeners comes together
That was basically exactly what happened here on Saturday.
A lovely, possible new beginning of this Seed Dream.
Bob Mooney and I had this conversation.
He was speaking about Leonaro Da Vinci and how
this renaissance man had so many things going that he never
finished too much. Bob was saying that this also went for him.
He always came back to his projects, but some of them would
be finished in 100 years. Someone spoke about that--that the things
worth doing in this life--many times cannot be finished in one lifetime,
but we still need to do all we can to make them happen.
Bob has been friends with Jack for over 30 years.
There were also neighbors here from old homes where Jack lived.
There were friends from the Tennis Club. There were friends
from various other circles.
Bob said that if he ever told the story of he and Jack,
he would have to use ficticious names. Jack seemed an adventurer,
indicated by this swing that was attached to a tree
at the edge of a porch at the very end of a wooden deck.
I would never have gotten on that swing in a 100 years.
His daughter did. I took her photo swinging off the deck.\
There was a drop into the canyon of about 20 feet
below her. She told me she would be off soon
to Europe to do research on political
values of the youth. Like father, like daughter,
fully alive and into life. No holding back here.
Jack was saying goodbye on this his 65th birthday.
He was downsizing, now that he had retired from teaching.
He and Maureen were going to some small town in Mexico
to live for a year,and then
then would go to live in Canada as well. They would
return here to San Diego on occasion.
When they returned, they were going to live in a smaller lovely house
that Jack had built here in the back.
Jeff Salz had once lived in this smaller dwelling.
Jack and his friends liked to drink. No big deal.
There was a fun band playing in the backyard and people danced.
Jack had some moments at the mike.
He spoke of wanting more love, on top of all he obviously had,
and so I took the mike and saw a natural opening to do a Love Cure.
I asked the group to surround Jack. Everyone ouched him and said
the wonderful words that include, "How can I encourage you?"
"Can you feel my love for you?" from the poem "Your Creation."
When I left, I felt I had met a number of really great people.
I love this neighborhood, so many homes with lovely unique gardens
obviously lived in my people who make the most of life.
Lots of fairy energy, and sense of wonder in these unique
landscapes, many vary different, few with lawns.
Some of the neighbors had chicken coups. I met Merle who told me
how much he enjoyed chickens at his home. There was a coup right
next door. Ee talked about Coyote's coming to eat the chickens.
There are coyotes in our canyon as well.
In the backdrop of my throughs was the difficult day I was having
at Whole Foods. I was going to go back there, and check on the results
of how many berries had sold without me being there.
At Jack's I ate like a fiend, my drug of choice in the moment.
I was really angry about some of the difficult things
that happened at Whole Foods that day.
I saw Jack at Whole Foods earlier buying the best meat deli stuff
you can find. I brought some of the lovely berries, and then when
I saw the lovely spread of foods, but few greens,
I went out and got one of the fresh
organic lettuces to balance what people were eating.
I still had the FM Foods from Sunday morning in my car.
So here I am, I have unloaded the photos from the party.
I had some other wonderful nudges this weekend,
lovely experiences here at home, I want to share.
I will write about that.
All in all, I got a lot from being here with Jack and his
friends. I received hope and encouragement to clear my own space
and allow this land to get on with being all it can be.
I want that kind of richness Jack experiences
on a daily basis.
your eg
related links:
Jeff Salz:
http://curezone.com/blogs/m.asp?f=92&i=1669
Chess Edwards:
http://www.Chesswork.com
11:22 AM
May 22, 06
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