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Speak; only for Love to share.
Touch; only for the Healing Care.
Feed; to Nourish the Hope for Dreams.
Make; to Give where Sadness Brings.
Wish; for ways that give us all another chance..
Move; with Intent and Joy, with Life, as a Dance.
Dance with me,..as Meaning makes beats in our hearts,..
Make with me,..a future that shines like all stars!
Grow with me, seeds, Love and Gardens of Eden,..
Enshrined, and entrusted to Spirit's Freedom,..
Reciprocal medicine of Heart's Bliss,..

Shout and scream and sing out-loud,..if your answer is "yes".

The More. (The inSIDE kind!lol) ;)

The More I use this light,
The More It grows into Love
The more I grow this Love,..
The More I'm knowing of.
The More Light, Love and Growth I share
..The More There
..is, with which to be fair..
(many Hearts, does Fair, re-pair..)
And the Greater the Number that learn to 
..Light, Love, Grow, Share and Care..

The More we'll Be THERE!

Wrinkles,..thank-you. {Why a Village? Reason #3(or maybe #1)}By:Kat Sol.

{A thought on getting older, wrinkles, my Elders, and their role in a Village.}

Bring on the listening.
Bring on the decorations that give me my five minutes to say how I might help..
There on my face, where they're stamped like a backstage pass to see the Rainbow's end..
Where my Elders can see, as I smile, that I am nearing their circle to listen,..and one day speak.
I welcome these fancy little badges of recognition.
And,..I welcome their wearers and appreciators too!
Gather your sacred, wrinkle-gilded unto the Village Hearth!
We build a Village to honor them !!
Because we need a place to keep near and to know our Elders!
Before we lose the chance to glean Knowledge of the Mistakes,
..and the Story of Kindness from them..
And then, we can share in OUR joys and accomplishments also,..to tell and to SHOW OUR
Story of Kindness to them will be part of why we're all there!!
We cannot hope to sustain without the wisdom of time that has been so kind as to do so much of the figuring ahead by it's sheer example of living.
Elders,..you are Welcome.
Namaste`

A Village to raise a Family.

The things that go un-done are immeasurable.
As individuals,..as families,..as communities,..as beings..it seems as if there isn't any extra time to tend to those little importance's that make life worth living in a mutually joyfilled way. Must work..mutter, mutter,..must bring home the bread!..and I must go far away from my family to be a success!wait...what??

Families are falling apart. We go farther and longer in between good-times together,..and for all it takes from us,..we (many at least)..go unfulfilled still! We begin to un-know our shining, individualistically beautiful children,..and each-other. And the money that's made, that we miss our lives earning?..it pays for things we don't even want..i.e..daycare(because we're working)gas(because we work far from the house)food(because we don't have the time or where-with-all to keep a garden)..and then..lots of things to buffer the empty feeling that "living" like this gives.(What a gift!?):op

In a Village?..The Agricultural rings would sustain(i'm guessing)..maybe 70% of the food. Orchards, grain, and livestock, of course would also be integral to self-sustained abundance.

In a (newly, techno-yes)Village,..there would be solar, wind, micro-hydro, and geothermal energy and heat sources, to allow for less need as far as working just to get to work and to heat the home..etc..

In a Village?..Top- notch education would have to be standard,..as would child-education(for adults)..The central lodge would be most beautiful if it were also the School and younger child-care facility..I imagine this lodge as a multi-functional and dimensional facility..where all members of the Community can come for education,direction, interaction, information and centering.

This is where the Village Council would take it's office, as well as any other community-outreach programs.
And a Tea and Coffee House...

If you hhad the need to work away from your yurt,..your children could come to the Lodge for either schooling, or Younger-care activities!
I imagine in the beginning it will all seem as much a tangle of time as any other place to dwell,..but after time is untangled..and we each re-set our internal clocks to greater intentions,..the internal workings of the Village would run smoothly,..yet in such a way as to allow for personal and family and community time,..to celebrate each-other and what this life might BE! :o)

Too big to work well..

I love Cities. First off,..I will start there. Cities are flowering centers of activity, possibilities, and are multi-hued pools of culture to soak yer cranial spongespheres in.
So,..why are they not working so well? Why does it feel like we bow to them and not the other way around?We created them to serve us, but are they? Can they anymore?  Could it be they are just TOO big to work well anymore? I think so.

This is the beginning of a time when I see a shift in thinking in us as a people; to find and re-configure "purpose".( In this vision, I am only one of a multitude!)The broad (and truly) all-encompassing nature of that re-analizing lens is immense!!
Though I do not claim to re-invent the wheel or the World; I CAN be just myself enough to say what I see, and maybe have THAT be one in a million happy catalysts which I believe are readying (and  indeed, currently) INSPIRING the current of the future into BEING a happier flow to BE in and of and from and with!

So,..what is it?What do I see? High-Tech? Futuristic? Super-Engineered?Yes!..and no.

Sometimes the past IS the future. Looking back to the roots of our varied ancestral histories,.. I see a common thread that is SO apparent,..one walks right past,..without REALIZING what it is they just overlooked!(.. or simply didn't fully see the benefit of.)

They take that thing for granted,..as if it never mattered,..when TRULY it tied life together, and gave birth to every dream man ever shared and made manifest from the side of a kindled flame.

It fed in groups.
It cared in celebrations.
It mourned in arm-linked, life-linked marches.
It protected(in every sense of the word)innocence, wisdom, truth, honor, and validation.
It WAS Community.
It was and IS...(native drum-roll, please,..).... THE VILLAGE.

(Like the "neighborhood",..but where each had a purpose and role to play on the Community Stage.)

And you know,maybe... juuuuust MAYBE it's time to re-enter village thinking and acting and doing and vision-questing TOGETHER.

In a Village,..who ARE you?

In a Village, where you FEEL like you belong(which IS priceless)...what are you giving your community in return?
For every job, is a burden lifted from your brother's back. And every burden lifted,..is a place where a new dream can be raised and lifted instead!Together,..we do this. Together, we dream bigger! Together, we fly, where alone, we fell!