10 posts tagged “love”
- VOTE
- Dance at Lucent L’Amour (I’ll see you at the door!)
- Advocate for the displaced worldwide
- Find a new talent in your arsenal and use it wisely
- Make something and share it with your closest friends
- Give your sweetheart something personal and close to your heart
- Travel somewhere new and take time to listen to an unheard voice
- Follow your passion with the people who can help you reach your goals
- Make Mitt Romney go away soon (oh sorry to let that slip in, he’s just so wrong)
Most of my day is spent envisioning ideal environments.
Here's my life desires:
* Collaborative safe spaces for creativity, innovation and invention
* Surrounded by sweet people in vibrant communities supporting each other through interlaced networks
* A vibrant mix of flora and fauna respected and integrated with human life
* Low cost local energy production from existing materials and resources
* Easy to find resources without searching multiple websites and real world locations
* Immediate supply and material retrieval for projects
* Low cost exchanges and shipping of objects with little friction or time wasted
* Secure access to basic survival needs: water, air, food, shelter
* The right to cultivate and consume any food or medicine known to man that's still available and not extinct
* To be surrounded by beauty, filled with art, living in love
What do you want most? What do you need?
We are up against some epic challenges in these coming decades. We have each other and only this awareness that will chart our future. Where do you see us going?
Inspired by a look ahead ten years on Wall Street Journal: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120119369144313747.html
Start doing this NOW if we want to survive and thrive these next 50 years:
- Stimulate green industries and build local alt-energy solutions into daily life
- Challenge the US FDA, the WTO and World Health on issues regarding the Codex Alimentarius
- Local water purification systems available to all people (and animals, plants, ecosystem)
- Stop deadly practices like Mountaintop Removal and chemical dumping in our waterways in favor of clean mining
- Gut parts of the USPS and our local post offices (I'm a Postmasters' granddaughter -- this is heavy to say)
- Rethink our entire transportation system and reduce automobile use
- Work from home in virtual spaces, attend business gatherings without unnecessary travel
- Create a foundational framework for international transparency and governance that is decentralized and democratic for the vox populi
- Restore Habeas Corpus
- Provide universal internet access, public computers and basic training to all students at a young age
- Learn to see ourselves as infinitely abundant, free and capable of reshaping our experience
- Love without fail: no abandon, no boundaries.
Tell me your path, your desires, your challenges.
There is a place where we all come together, where nothing separates us. We are water, metal and earth, ashes and spirit, love and energy. Everything we breathe and share together creates us and the world where we collide.
We also create the boundaries, the limitations, the weakness of will that tells us that we cannot succeed at ____________. Think about the one thing you feel you are failing at now, and think again….is there anything insurmountable that’s keeping you from meeting your goals? Is your failure a true inability or a lack of intention?
In the sweat lodge with Daniel Hawk this week I struggled deeply, fumbling to breathe in the burning hot darkness of the Lakota womb. As my brothers and sisters sang I kept a wet towel close to my face, breathing deep and reminding myself of the very basics. Self love. My handsome partner. The beautiful tribe we share, our family and friends. The land we envision sharing with our global community, the unifying forces that bring us together in that space.
Then the fear hit…hard. I clenched, struggling to breathe. An asthma attack set in that kept me tight all night, reliving the last year and my incomplete failures, the measure of my love and how it spills out. I WANT it to spill out more freely to find new ways to be a loving being in this world.
The book the abbot gave me was “The Miracle of Metaphysical Healing” by Evelyn Monahan. My meditation practice now has a new challenge….is my will strong enough to heal my body? Can the fear and its symptoms find rest?
Evelyn Monahan challenges her readers to find their 3 WISHES, 3 WANTS and 3 NEEDS. I like this exercise as we begin 2008.
3 WISHES:
* An end to tyrannical regimes, imperialist wars and shameful propaganda
* That every one of us find the strength to face our fears openly, with love
* A healthy revolution across the world that protects our freedom to stay close to nature
3 WANTS:
* To identify where we will locate the AMO land
* Flying lessons, working toward the pilot license
* Solid partnerships and opportunities to produce groundbreaking media that educates and inspires
3 NEEDS:
* 365 blog, vlog, archive and tweet the signal and beat of our people
* Integrating the real and virtual with participatory arts culture, opening new doors through immersion
* Peace in my home and in my heart
Lying in bed with my handsome last night we talked about the heartbeat, how it channels the flow for the body and sets the rhythm for all movement. If action that inspires is the goal, the heartbeat must be the drumroll that makes our actions most authentic and true. The heart unifies my global wishes, my focused wants and my essential core needs as a creative human being.
Post your 3 wishes, wants and needs here or in your own blog, and tell us why you do what you do. As you think through how you will achieve your desires, consider your will and the strength within the cells and consciousness that swarm to become YOU. Who are you and who will you be? The photo above is from Mia Farrow’s blog, 3 Needs from Darfur from Sand and Sorrow, a documentary by Paul Freedman featuring Darfur advocates from around the world. I can’t wait to see your 3/3/3 in blog, vlog or tweet.
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Elucidate my friends!
Holden @ GiveWell challenged us this week to speak from the heart and get to the core of why we support our primary cause. This is your AMO Challenge for the week....write your own blog post explaining your contribution to the Giving Carnival and link your blog back to Holden by 8/4/07.
Why Do You Do What You Do?
My friend Tony Deifell asks it this way...wdydwyd? When he asked me a few years ago back when Omidyar Network was young, I considered love to be the renewable resource that could move us beyond our complex problems; love is the gift within all of us that must be held as primary for all other solutions and opportunities to arise. What I was seeing back in 2005 was a fundamental closedness and hardness within us towards the world, many layers of walls and boundaries set in place to keep away the pain and fear thrust upon us by unfriendly fire.
LOVE is still my primary cause, it's the root of the Amoration inquiry. But has my pursuit of wisdom through love brought greater or less impact in the lives of others around me?
There are certain things our avatars cannot fully do for us. For the past few years I have grown deeply quiet, speaking more through blogs and threads than through direct hand and eye contact. DIRECT CARE AND TOUCH is what we need now more than any other gift we can give to one another. As much as we need to plug in, we also need to feel the flow that we share with others as a direct current, a circuit formed every time we invest in each other.
Every motion we make in this world is an investment.
Our lives are full of practices that bring us closer to the world or away from it.
To be honest, right now I feel deeply wrong at some level, a bridge with little land to anchor in.
We have a great time moving others into AMO Action Dances, PeaceTiles project workshop, OYA and Sugar Arts there are missing pieces, ways that I have not been able to successfully bridge in my community. Serving on my local neighborhood council has been a trial by fire and I'm not made for long meetings in hard chairs. At heart I want to be home, creating, mentoring and working with others to amplify and spotlight their dreams in development.
Admitting imperfection in love gives me room to grow
There are so many things I would like to change about myself...first on the list is my weariness with the homelessness and displacement so common in our world (and on my doorstep!). It is inhumane how we allow so many people to suffer right in front of us without care or compassion. I do this every day, pass a homeless person without offering them food or anything that can help them. When I think of 10,000 people here, another 70,000 ejected from another refugee camp in Darfur forced to close by the Sudanese government....how can we let our people die right in front of our eyes in silence, without a tear? Have we lost all touch with ourselves?
Sometimes it saddens me that two decades of love inquiry has not moved me past these fundamental fears. I still feel every emotion in the book and struggle with the silly ideas and presuppositions that my culture tries to thrust upon me. Inundated with messages on beauty, fear and imperfection as airbrushed fantasy....here is my ocean to bridge, the walkway to a reality where you are beautiful no matter what is going on at surface level. I strive to give room for these passions to grow into fruitful endeavors, large and small. Every movement, every moment.
Each of us has a glow to share....we choose how to let that out, how to share it with others and use it to power the lives we manifest. Love is the access point, the opening to life and energy in movement. I do not know if it will change the world, nor would I make such presumptions or claim to know The Path to Transformation....I know one path, my own, the smiles I see and eyes I look into every day. Making that decision to look into others eyes is the first step for me in an endless process of reaching out and holding those around me, no matter what background, cause or party they support.
I want to be more for you, and for me too
There's nothing too big, too impossible. We specialize in dreambuilding and love creating new visions for the future. I feel so blessed to live this life of creative pursuit yet want to do much more with this space, with you. Help me help you grow by telling me here what you need most and how we can help you create more love throughout your circles.
Visit the OYA installation in Black Rock City from August 27-31st for a demonstration of free energy flow using water as the primary source of electric power.
Make a gift to the AMO Arts team for supplies to help build this project: we currently need ~$2000 in construction materials to manifest OYA for this unique green technology project; you can help by picking up AMO goodstorm shirts, OYA edible love rocks and other gifts to help us grow. Our Next Toyshoppe Thursday Theatre (and OYA fundraiser) in Los Angeles will be August 16th; in Boston on August 9th we will also host an OYA resonance event.
Special thanks to Ryan Wartena at MIT, Elizabeth Marley (Farmlab, Growing Architecture), Brent Heyning (Toyshoppe Productions), Evonne Heyning (Toyshoppe/AMO) along with Carmen, Blue, Tomas, Crimson, Larry and the Burning Man community for helping this project grow from seed to full power.
Gabriel, Consuela and YuenLin are in Chad visiting Sudanese refugees and those affected by the genocide in Darfur. You can help by watching videos and taking action every day to share these stories from survivors.
I'm looking forward to finding LOVE in 2007 in every possible form. It's a new summer of love, a new year of inquiry into what transformations are happening in our culture that are allowing us to connect in ways never before imagined. We are aligning. We are communicating. What do we need to understand next?
Join me, Beth Kanter, Susan Tenby and Jeska D. from Linden Lab at Games for Change in NYC, June 11-12th:
http://.gamesforchange.org/conference/2007/program.php
The genii are congregating at AMO Island, the game is on. See you there.
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