enigmaha
07-07-2010, 08:46 PM
Hi all ~
Here's a sharing about our gathering at Stinson Beach for Hands Across the Sand last weekend. It was a wonderful gathering! Many thanks and blessings to all who were there, as well as those joining hands on other beaches around the world, including those who couldn't come to a beach but were with us in spirit!
Andrea
PS. I heard there was a wonderful gathering at Doran Beach, too. Anyone have any photos to share?
Visit this youtube link to see some beautiful photos of the Stinson event:
Stinson Beach, CA – Hands Across the Sand 6/26/10
YouTube - Hands Across the Sand Stinson Beach, California (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak-9uqvOBAs)
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Created by: Pacific Image and Film
Photoreflect.com
Soulful musicians playing drums, flute, guitar and didgeridoo set the tone as folks arrived at Stinson Beach for our Hands Across the Sand gathering.
People had made a point of carpooling. Others walked or came by bicycle to attend.
We gathered into an opening circle and expressed gratitude for the gift of life and the beauty of our ocean planet, to Dave Rauscholb for conceiving of Hands Across the Sand, and to each person in the circle for joining in solidarity with others on beaches around the world for this important cause.
We acknowledged the suffering of all the inhabitants of the Gulf— marine, avian and human— as a result of the oil spill disaster.
We affirmed that this day we were setting intentions as to how each of us can contribute to the healing of the planet by consciously lessening our oil and plastic usage while we continue to lobby for a clean energy policy in our country. Just as peace is every step, so is environmental sustainability.
The Sierra Club has a slogan, “Don’t get mad. Get energized” encouraging each person to channel the energy that is being called up inside into action that serves positive change.
The Sioux Elder’s call for an international day of prayer for the Gulf Region was read aloud as was Dr. Masaru Emoto's Healing Prayer for the Gulf
Sioux Elder’s call for an international day of prayer for the Gulf Region
My Relatives, Time has come to speak to the hearts of our Nations and their Leaders. I ask you this from the bottom of my heart, to come together from the Spirit of your Nations in prayer.
We, from the heart of Turtle Island, have a great message for the World; we are guided to speak from all the White Animals showing their sacred color, which have been signs for us to pray for the sacred life of all things. As I am sending this message to you, many Animal Nations are being threatened, those that swim, those that crawl, those that fly, and the plant Nations, eventually all will be affect from the oil disaster in the Gulf.
The dangers we are faced with at this time are not of spirit. The catastrophe that has happened with the oil spill which looks like the bleeding of Grandmother Earth, is made by human mistakes, mistakes that we cannot afford to continue to make.
I asked, as Spiritual Leaders, that we join together, united in prayer with the whole of our Global Communities. My concern is these serious issues will continue to worsen, as a domino effect that our Ancestors have warned us of in their Prophecies.
I know in my heart there are millions of people that feel our united prayers for the sake of our Grandmother Earth are long overdue. I believe we as Spiritual people must gather ourselves and focus our thoughts and prayers to allow the healing of the many wounds that have been inflicted on the Earth. As we honor the Cycle of Life, let us call for Prayer circles globally to assist in healing Grandmother Earth (our Unc'I Maka).
We ask for prayers that the oil spill, this bleeding, will stop. That the winds stay calm to assist in the work. Pray for the people to be guided in repairing this mistake, and that we may also seek to live in harmony, as we make the choice to change the destructive path we are on. As we pray, we will fully understand that we are all connected. And that what we create can have lasting effects on all life.
So let us unite spiritually, All Nations, All Faiths, One Prayer. Let us make a prayer for all life, for good decision making by our Nations, for our children's future and well-being, and the generations to come.
Onipikte (that we shall live),
Chief Arvol Looking Horse
19th generation Keeper of the Sacred
As we left the circle and joined in our line at water’s edge each of us was invited to call out our intentions for ushering in a clean energy future, or anything our hearts felt moved to express to the victims of the gulf spill, or to Ocean upon whom life depends. Some folks sang chants. People reported seeing dolphins (but I missed them).
After this, we gathered again into a circle to listen to the speakers.
Our speakers included:
• Marin author and peace activist Norman Solomon, who is co-chair of the Commission on a Green New Deal for the North Bay. (I’ve posted the video of him speaking on youtube).
• Frank Egger who is former mayor of Fairfax and California's first Proposition 20 Coastal Commissioner.
Angelina Frost who is the regional director for What’s Your Tree, an organization founded by Julia Butterfly Hill to help people find their life path. She’s based in Fairfax.
A woman named Theresa who lives in the town of Clearwater on the Gulf which is being directly impacted by the oil spill. She tearfully encouraged people to donate to the wildlife organizations who are helping to clean the oiled wildlife in the Gulf region.
We were blessed to have Betsy Rose, a world-renowned vocalist/peace activist who sings for peace and justice, able to come join us.She started the Bay Area Singing for Peace project, a group that offers their voices in the name of peace and justice to help renew strength and hope in listeners.
The Singing for Peace singers believe that a world without violence and domination is possible and they use song to help bring this into being.
Betsy offered a peace blessing, that we recited with her, for all who are suffering due to the oil spill, including those who work for BP, and to all other beings on our planet, as well. She then led us in a song to heal the earth through love for our closing circle.
Betsy’s voice is amazingly beautiful and stirs the heart of anyone who hears her sing! It was a great gift that she was able to join us and lead us in singing together!
From space, one of our astronauts observed that the earth looks like a beautiful blue marble. Inspired by this image, Wallace J. Nichols, a renowned sea turtle researchist and dedicated ocean conservationist founded Blue Marbles.org to encourage people to be loving protectors of our earth’s oceans. Blue marbles have been given out around the world, each one carrying this message. As we were singing with Betsy, a blue marble was given to each person in the circle asking them to cherish and protect our beautiful ocean planet and to pass the message along.
The other great musicians who played at our gathering were:
Jeffrey Jon Whitebear Domalski – wonderful singer/songwriter/guitarist from Forestville who played both traditional and original songs. He has a band called Bear Bones Band.
Schawkie Roth - bamboo flute and Native American drum
Vlad Cardema (owner of Ancient Rhythm Music Store in Fairfax) – drum and didgeridoo
Christine Hodil – conga drum (Christine is a wonderful healer and vocalist, too).
Jerry Beaujeste – conga drum
Trenton Smith - conga drum
Trenton leads a monthly drum circle in the San Geronimo Valley in Marin County called Forest Circle to which all are invited to come. Special gratitude goes to Trenton for his invaluable help with printing and handing out flyers for the gathering and also for painting the beautiful sign and banner for the event.
Here's a sharing about our gathering at Stinson Beach for Hands Across the Sand last weekend. It was a wonderful gathering! Many thanks and blessings to all who were there, as well as those joining hands on other beaches around the world, including those who couldn't come to a beach but were with us in spirit!
Andrea
PS. I heard there was a wonderful gathering at Doran Beach, too. Anyone have any photos to share?
Visit this youtube link to see some beautiful photos of the Stinson event:
Stinson Beach, CA – Hands Across the Sand 6/26/10
YouTube - Hands Across the Sand Stinson Beach, California (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak-9uqvOBAs)
<object height="505" width="640">
<embed src="https://www.youtube.com/v/ak-9uqvOBAs&hl=en_US&fs=1?rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="505" width="640"></object>
Created by: Pacific Image and Film
Photoreflect.com
Soulful musicians playing drums, flute, guitar and didgeridoo set the tone as folks arrived at Stinson Beach for our Hands Across the Sand gathering.
People had made a point of carpooling. Others walked or came by bicycle to attend.
We gathered into an opening circle and expressed gratitude for the gift of life and the beauty of our ocean planet, to Dave Rauscholb for conceiving of Hands Across the Sand, and to each person in the circle for joining in solidarity with others on beaches around the world for this important cause.
We acknowledged the suffering of all the inhabitants of the Gulf— marine, avian and human— as a result of the oil spill disaster.
We affirmed that this day we were setting intentions as to how each of us can contribute to the healing of the planet by consciously lessening our oil and plastic usage while we continue to lobby for a clean energy policy in our country. Just as peace is every step, so is environmental sustainability.
The Sierra Club has a slogan, “Don’t get mad. Get energized” encouraging each person to channel the energy that is being called up inside into action that serves positive change.
The Sioux Elder’s call for an international day of prayer for the Gulf Region was read aloud as was Dr. Masaru Emoto's Healing Prayer for the Gulf
Sioux Elder’s call for an international day of prayer for the Gulf Region
My Relatives, Time has come to speak to the hearts of our Nations and their Leaders. I ask you this from the bottom of my heart, to come together from the Spirit of your Nations in prayer.
We, from the heart of Turtle Island, have a great message for the World; we are guided to speak from all the White Animals showing their sacred color, which have been signs for us to pray for the sacred life of all things. As I am sending this message to you, many Animal Nations are being threatened, those that swim, those that crawl, those that fly, and the plant Nations, eventually all will be affect from the oil disaster in the Gulf.
The dangers we are faced with at this time are not of spirit. The catastrophe that has happened with the oil spill which looks like the bleeding of Grandmother Earth, is made by human mistakes, mistakes that we cannot afford to continue to make.
I asked, as Spiritual Leaders, that we join together, united in prayer with the whole of our Global Communities. My concern is these serious issues will continue to worsen, as a domino effect that our Ancestors have warned us of in their Prophecies.
I know in my heart there are millions of people that feel our united prayers for the sake of our Grandmother Earth are long overdue. I believe we as Spiritual people must gather ourselves and focus our thoughts and prayers to allow the healing of the many wounds that have been inflicted on the Earth. As we honor the Cycle of Life, let us call for Prayer circles globally to assist in healing Grandmother Earth (our Unc'I Maka).
We ask for prayers that the oil spill, this bleeding, will stop. That the winds stay calm to assist in the work. Pray for the people to be guided in repairing this mistake, and that we may also seek to live in harmony, as we make the choice to change the destructive path we are on. As we pray, we will fully understand that we are all connected. And that what we create can have lasting effects on all life.
So let us unite spiritually, All Nations, All Faiths, One Prayer. Let us make a prayer for all life, for good decision making by our Nations, for our children's future and well-being, and the generations to come.
Onipikte (that we shall live),
Chief Arvol Looking Horse
19th generation Keeper of the Sacred
As we left the circle and joined in our line at water’s edge each of us was invited to call out our intentions for ushering in a clean energy future, or anything our hearts felt moved to express to the victims of the gulf spill, or to Ocean upon whom life depends. Some folks sang chants. People reported seeing dolphins (but I missed them).
After this, we gathered again into a circle to listen to the speakers.
Our speakers included:
• Marin author and peace activist Norman Solomon, who is co-chair of the Commission on a Green New Deal for the North Bay. (I’ve posted the video of him speaking on youtube).
• Frank Egger who is former mayor of Fairfax and California's first Proposition 20 Coastal Commissioner.
Angelina Frost who is the regional director for What’s Your Tree, an organization founded by Julia Butterfly Hill to help people find their life path. She’s based in Fairfax.
A woman named Theresa who lives in the town of Clearwater on the Gulf which is being directly impacted by the oil spill. She tearfully encouraged people to donate to the wildlife organizations who are helping to clean the oiled wildlife in the Gulf region.
We were blessed to have Betsy Rose, a world-renowned vocalist/peace activist who sings for peace and justice, able to come join us.She started the Bay Area Singing for Peace project, a group that offers their voices in the name of peace and justice to help renew strength and hope in listeners.
The Singing for Peace singers believe that a world without violence and domination is possible and they use song to help bring this into being.
Betsy offered a peace blessing, that we recited with her, for all who are suffering due to the oil spill, including those who work for BP, and to all other beings on our planet, as well. She then led us in a song to heal the earth through love for our closing circle.
Betsy’s voice is amazingly beautiful and stirs the heart of anyone who hears her sing! It was a great gift that she was able to join us and lead us in singing together!
From space, one of our astronauts observed that the earth looks like a beautiful blue marble. Inspired by this image, Wallace J. Nichols, a renowned sea turtle researchist and dedicated ocean conservationist founded Blue Marbles.org to encourage people to be loving protectors of our earth’s oceans. Blue marbles have been given out around the world, each one carrying this message. As we were singing with Betsy, a blue marble was given to each person in the circle asking them to cherish and protect our beautiful ocean planet and to pass the message along.
The other great musicians who played at our gathering were:
Jeffrey Jon Whitebear Domalski – wonderful singer/songwriter/guitarist from Forestville who played both traditional and original songs. He has a band called Bear Bones Band.
Schawkie Roth - bamboo flute and Native American drum
Vlad Cardema (owner of Ancient Rhythm Music Store in Fairfax) – drum and didgeridoo
Christine Hodil – conga drum (Christine is a wonderful healer and vocalist, too).
Jerry Beaujeste – conga drum
Trenton Smith - conga drum
Trenton leads a monthly drum circle in the San Geronimo Valley in Marin County called Forest Circle to which all are invited to come. Special gratitude goes to Trenton for his invaluable help with printing and handing out flyers for the gathering and also for painting the beautiful sign and banner for the event.