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This four-series group welcomes complete beginners as well as experienced meditators, alike. Each...

Join Restorative Resources as we begin the healing process in our community. It starts with telling our stories and listening with compassion. We are now looking for volunteers to be trained to help...

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The County of Sonoma Commission on Human Rights Passes Resolution in Opposition to the Dakota Access...

Around 300 people gathered Nov. 15 at the downtown Santa Rosa Citibank to protest its funding the four-state Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) in North Dakota. It was one of hundreds of protests at...

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Thanks for reading – – I'm looking to form a discussion/dialogue group with other feminist oriented queer and/or disabled identified participants , open to all genders, to explore our own...

The following just went up on the Bohemian's Facebook page. I had been told by a reliable source about this sale, which she heard about from Barlow tenants. If this is true, it would not be likely to...

I'm finally chiming in on this as I woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning...
I'm sick and tired of these oligarchies! City councils, HOAs, and corporations are not always working in the...

Hello,

I have been on a long long long search for a medical doctor who takes Medicare / Medi-Cal and is accepting new patients in the Sebastopol (or surrounding West Sonoma County) areas. I would...

Are you still interested in this project? I am looking to live in a tiny house community.

This should be interesting to watch! Very good idea, with lots of possible pitfalls. Barry

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Sonoma County supervisors to...

FREE DROP-IN DISASTER COUNSELING

Redwood Empire Chapter of California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (RECAMFT.org)
is holding FREE drop-in counseling for those impacted by the...

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The waters still run! The trees will be reborn! As I join many, many friends in Northern California and around the world in feeling deep sadness over the burning of the structures of this...

From the Harbin website:

FIRE UPDATE: 9/14/15, 1:30 PM

Harbin Hot Springs was evacuated on Saturday afternoon, just before the Valley Fire advanced into our main valley. Although an official...

Here are several updates:

1) Valley Fire we will be holding a donation drive on Monday 9/14 at the Barlow Community Market. More info here.

2) The Sonoma Gazette has a good page of "Lake...

I keep reading about people's immediate, big-hearted gathering-up of STUFF to send for the Valley Fire people...also reading the Red Cross' and other insiders' pleas NOT TO SEND STUFF...seems like...

https://www.waccobb.net/forums/waccobb/keep90days/2015-09-13_17-26-37.pngI'm in shock as I read that Harbin has been "destroyed", along with many surrounding communities that was home to many dear...

Dan has Empire Too in Santa Rosa and he is an amazingly skilled, honest, caring, and affordable mechanic for Japanese cars. My family and some friends have also been using him for years. He has my...

Jason Miller at Miller Motors, off Hearn on Dutton Meadow 527 7124. Only does Toyotas, Hondas, has been my mechanic for ever, is a very meticulous, very honest one man garage with 3 lifts. He will...

I agree. Jason Miller's the guy. Been working on my cars for 25years.

Hi-
Although he's in Santa Rosa, Jason Miller (Miller Motors) is a great mechanic, only servicing Toyotas and
Hondas. He's super nice and very good rates. He'll explain everything to you and...

Does anyone have a recommendation for a yoga teacher/class that accommodates people who have injuries and also focuses on proper alignment? I'd like to take a class but need to work around some...

That's the bottom line here. This is a ZERO SUM GAME. For every dollar "manifested" there is a dollar less in some other "sister's" purse. Yes, some may choose to re-invest or sponsor someone else,...

Marilyn, Shandi's comment was not directed at you. It was a response to Hummingbird. Shandi was referring to the fact that Hummingbird has been praising pyramid schemes like the Women's "Wisdom"...

For those who are interested, I think this article does a good job of exploring this topic.

Controversy Over Women's Gifting Circles: Blessing or Disaster? ...

Hummingbird - I think you're projecting negative stories and judgments on this conversation and the people in it that have nothing to do with what we're actually saying. I don't think you're trying...

you really really do want to find a way that this is all good, don't you?

The willingness of women to sponsor others and start over is sweet of them, probably. It could still be cover, since...

....just a reminder of where this topic started. We probably won't hear from too many current participants, as it would be counter productive for them.

I for one would love to see all the energy,...

I was ripped off and I speak for my self.

Joy

The thing is that it is easy enough to see that these circles/pyramids are evolving in the direction of more evolved sounding rhetoric. But the nature of the scheme has not evolved. I did one 25...

Wow, Hummingbird, what a fascinating viewpoint. I appreciate you sharing it just so we can see it. Of course, anyone is allowed to steer their life by any viewpoint they want. However I think...

$5000 or $500 - unless you change the cover story and the structure it's still a pyramid scheme.

Joy

Very clearly stated -thank you
It's the COVER STORY that is the problem.
Joy

This is what confuses me. If it's a workshop, why not call it a workshop? If it's a group with an entry fee, why not call it that? If someone isn't going to get their money back, or if it's just...

I thought it might be helpful to state again what a pyramid scheme is. I think that what's key to protecting ourselves and others is to recognize the form, whatever name it goes under. This isn't...

I have a friend who belongs to two circles. She has found tremendous value in developing leadership, opening up to a community of women, empowerment, and other priceless gifts such as women...

I went back in this thread and read this article that was previously posted on 8/11/13 by MissElaineE
https://realitysandwich.com/176721/womens_circle_pyramid/
Wow.
I joined one of these pyramid...

What are these women appreciating? I'd really like to know that.
Do they really understand that this is a pyramid scheme? I didn't appreciate learning that getting my money back was near to...

It's California coffeeberry (Rhamnus [Frangula] californica).

Are you interested in melding the tiny home (say, under 300/400 square feet) and co-housing movements into one project? Living in an affordable tiny home would be all the more manageable if there was...