Role-centric resource for neighborhoods of all shapes and sizes.
Gardener - Botanist - Agriculture Focused Individual
Provides self sustaining food foundation for...
Physical trainer - adept - spiritual guide unifying body, fed by Gardener's food, teaching the community
Psychologist - Behavioralist - Economic Guide
Guidance for healthy activities, community outreach, encouraging support of garden to help perpetuate cycle.
Sales Staff -
Sells excess food to the community.
Providing spiritual guidance / practices to the community.
Restaurant - Meal assistance classes. Ingredients provided, community building. Entry fee = Food (base ingredient for recipe of the day)
Garden / Restaurant / Physical movement space - probably already conceived of, templates available? Cost per sq/ft?
Work to Wealth services. Grants for Gardening. HUD / Section8.
-- Scalability. How many resources required to sustain "full group" of X number of roles.
Saturday, August 27, 2011
Sunday, August 7, 2011
World wide sadness and sharing our blessings
I think the sadness of the world just caught up with me today. I have been on the edge of tears, filled with this sense of compassion for the world, yet frustrated and sad by not being able to do anything about it. I am speaking generally of the great unrest taking place in the world right now. In Syria, the government has turned on the people and is violently repressing them. In London, riots just flared up and old social wounds were ripped open as racial prejudices between the police and the community were once again brought to the forefront. In Somalia people are starving. There are people leaving their families, and never coming home again as the cruel twists of fate make any given day their last.
As sad as things are in the world, I feel fortunate to live where I do. In America we know peace. There are not tanks rolling through the streets killing my family, and I have access to ample food and shelter. Even as our economy teeters on the brink of serious problems, I look around and see prosperity and opportunity.
I truly believe that on a higher level, the people of this planet are all connected. We share in the struggles, and on the opposite side of the coin, should also be able to share in the good things as well. Anyone who has had any experience with distance healing / reiki knows the power of a spirit focused with positive intention.
I write these words here to propose good deeds. I propose that those of us who are blessed with even a few moments of peace and tranquility, share those moments with others who are not. As we lay in bed at night and get ready to sleep, as we are there in our safe homes, having been able to spend the day more or less as we wanted to... as we have full belly's, recent memories of good times with friends and family, and the luxury of spending a few mindful moments relaxing the conscious energies and drifting off to sleep. There in moments like those, we can share them with the world. The sense that we feel, the emotions that are the energy of our lives, we can use our minds and bodies like tuning forks of positivity, allowing those energies to flow out to where they are needed most.
Pick a place on the globe where you know there are problems. Or perhaps just pick a negative emotion that you know others are feeling... distress, fear, etc. Allow the goodness that you are in, the relaxed state of being able to sleep peacefully.. allow it to grow from you.. project it, and share it with others. Beam it up toward the sky. Send it out through the walls and across the oceans. Let your exhalations bring peace and tranquility to the world.
As the earth travels through the universe and orbits the sun, as the planet spins upon its axis, the ritual of day passing into night, and night becoming day repeats itself. As some are drifting off to sleep, others are beginning their day... and yet others are in the middle of their days, facing challenges, trials and tribulations that most of us cannot even conceive of, and with many blessings... might be able to make it through our life times without having to face. Those people need all of the positive thoughts, and love and compassion and tranquility that we can manifest. Let us be good to each other, even those whom we might not "know".
Let us count our blessings when we are aware of them. Let us be compassionate with each other. Even a few moments of positive intention can make a literal world of difference.
As sad as things are in the world, I feel fortunate to live where I do. In America we know peace. There are not tanks rolling through the streets killing my family, and I have access to ample food and shelter. Even as our economy teeters on the brink of serious problems, I look around and see prosperity and opportunity.
I truly believe that on a higher level, the people of this planet are all connected. We share in the struggles, and on the opposite side of the coin, should also be able to share in the good things as well. Anyone who has had any experience with distance healing / reiki knows the power of a spirit focused with positive intention.
I write these words here to propose good deeds. I propose that those of us who are blessed with even a few moments of peace and tranquility, share those moments with others who are not. As we lay in bed at night and get ready to sleep, as we are there in our safe homes, having been able to spend the day more or less as we wanted to... as we have full belly's, recent memories of good times with friends and family, and the luxury of spending a few mindful moments relaxing the conscious energies and drifting off to sleep. There in moments like those, we can share them with the world. The sense that we feel, the emotions that are the energy of our lives, we can use our minds and bodies like tuning forks of positivity, allowing those energies to flow out to where they are needed most.
Pick a place on the globe where you know there are problems. Or perhaps just pick a negative emotion that you know others are feeling... distress, fear, etc. Allow the goodness that you are in, the relaxed state of being able to sleep peacefully.. allow it to grow from you.. project it, and share it with others. Beam it up toward the sky. Send it out through the walls and across the oceans. Let your exhalations bring peace and tranquility to the world.
As the earth travels through the universe and orbits the sun, as the planet spins upon its axis, the ritual of day passing into night, and night becoming day repeats itself. As some are drifting off to sleep, others are beginning their day... and yet others are in the middle of their days, facing challenges, trials and tribulations that most of us cannot even conceive of, and with many blessings... might be able to make it through our life times without having to face. Those people need all of the positive thoughts, and love and compassion and tranquility that we can manifest. Let us be good to each other, even those whom we might not "know".
Let us count our blessings when we are aware of them. Let us be compassionate with each other. Even a few moments of positive intention can make a literal world of difference.
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