Your devotion to the community is a tremendous asset.
It was great to meet the faces and spirits behind the posts. I know that I made great connections with people and encourage you to support the Wacco Community. Thank you everyone!!!
Love and peace,
Linda
SNOWSTAR MEDICINE
susienpaws
06-04-2006, 09:08 AM
Hello fellow wacco picnickers.
Was interesting meeting everyone and experiencing the conversations, food and sunshine sharing. Maybe there can be meetings at Solstice to continue the fabric of our supporting web.......
Dance with the sun and moon, Susi & Paws
Becky
06-04-2006, 10:12 PM
I couldn't agree with you more. I had a wonderful time yesterday and I'm so glad I met you all.
Becky
Becky
06-04-2006, 10:15 PM
Hello fellow wacco picnickers.
Was interesting meeting everyone and experiencing the conversations, food and sunshine sharing. Maybe there can be meetings at Solstice to continue the fabric of our supporting web.......
Dance with the sun and moon, Susi & Paws
Hi Sweety, I'm so glad you were able to make it to the picnic. It was great seeing everyone. We need someplace on this thing to post who came and what was thier business and such so we can further our network connections.
The picnic was great! Thanks to everybody who came! After a while of schmoozing in the lovely setting with the bountiful potluck feast and a keg of beer, we gathered in a circle (well, actually a square!) and we were treated to some poetry recited by the longest serving Green Party elected official in the U.S. - our very own Larry Robinson -former Mayor of Sebastopol and currently running for re-election to the City Council.
Afterwards Elizabeth Moriarty led us in a playful introduction ritual. Then I said a few words about WaccoBB.net's history, present and future and then we went around the square with everybody having a minute to more fully introduce themselves and share what they wanted with us. We are an amazingly talented, dedicated and creative bunch!
One bit I thought I share with you: One woman, named Julia, shared that she had been searching for us on the web for weeks but couldn't find us. However she just happened to be strolling through the park that day and happened to run into our picnic!!! There are no accidents!
The referral contest was a big success with over 200 people joining during the month of the contest! Ron Rozewski (username: Ronaldo) won the Harmony Passes. I want to thank all of you for spreading the word! We have over 2,000 members now! Thanks everybody!
We unveiled our new logo (see above) designed by Waccovian Julia Stege of GraphicGirlz (https://www.graphicgirlz.com)which everybody liked. Fellow Waccovian Patrick of Looks Good on Paper made it into a beautiful banner. Thanks Julia and Patrick! I also had lots of flyers printed and asked people to help distribute them around the county. I was delighted this evening as I went to post one at Andy's market to see that one was already there! Thanks!
Afterwards we continued networking, feeling even closer to everybody. Lots of new personal and business relationship were being explored!
Thanks again to everybody for all your support! I'm thinking of doing another picnic in the fall.
Barry
Barry
06-05-2006, 11:36 PM
...we were treated to some poetry recited by the longest serving Green Party elected official in the U.S. - our very own Larry Robinson -former Mayor of Sebastopol and currently running for re-election to the City Council.The poems that Larry read are below.
We discussed the idea of a Poetry/Prose category here on WaccoBB.net where local poets and writers could post the poems and pieces, perhaps discussing it. Anybody interested???
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Bugs in a Bowl
by David Budbill
Han Shan, that great and crazy Chinese poet a thousand years ago said -
We're all like bugs in a bowl.
I say that's right.
Every day climbing up the side, sliding back, over and over again.
Sit in the bottom of the bowl, head in your hands, cry, moan, feel sorry for
yourself,
Or, look around, see your fellow bugs.
Say - hey, how ya doin'?
Say - nice bowl.
Ritual to Read to Each Other
If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and I don’t know the kind of person you are
a pattern that others made may prevail in the world
and following the wrong god home we may miss our star.
For there is many a small betrayal in the mind,
a shrug that lets the fragile sequence break
sending with shouts the horrible errors of childhood
storming out to play through the broken dyke.
And as elephants parade holding each elephant’s tail,
but if one wanders the circus won’t find the park,
I call it cruel and maybe the root of all cruelty
to know what occurs but not recognize the fact.
And so I appeal to a voice, to something shadowy,
a remote important region in all who talk:
though we could fool each other, we should consider--
lest the parade of our mutual life get lost in the dark.
For it is important that awake people be awake,
or a breaking line may discourage them back to sleep;
the signals we give--yes or no, or maybe--
should be clear: the darkness around us is deep.
--William Stafford
Snowflakes
Ecclesiastes says “for everything there is a season.”
You say “It’s tax season;
it’s baseball season; it’s allergy season;
I’ve got to season the steak on the barbie;
besides, I don’t have time to change the world.”
Goethe tells us of the genius, power and magic in boldness.
You say “What can I do, anyway?
The foxes are guarding the henhouse;
the juggernaught is out of control;
we’re all just snowflakes in a windstorm.”
The mountain asks “Which snowflake, falling,
will be the one to send down the avalanche
to change this entire landscape?”
-- Larry Robinson