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Lovely day - isn't it?
This can't wait for the print edition of my newspaper, the
West County Gazette, scheduled to come out on February 12th. So I want to use YOU to hep me spread the word!
We need rain NOW! Let's see if we can make it rain!
Yes, it's quite wonderful - all this sunshine in the middle of winter. Makes me want to jump on my motorcycle and go for a ride to the coast. But seeing starving cattle in Argentina, wilting crops in the Central Valley of California, etc. It's not a pretty picture. Trees dying for lack of water creates HUGE fire hazards. It goes on.
I contacted local Native Indian tribes to see if we can put on a rain dance and what I learned is that Rain Dancing is more a Plains Indian tradition. Here, we celebrate the forces of nature and thank them for their gifts to our lives.
So I contacted Pagan faiths (thank you Sylvia for the suggestions and contacts) and they, too celebrate the forces of nature, turning of the seasons, appreciation for all the gifts our planet and universe bestow upon us. And I have to say, in both cases, they spoke to me of accepting our responsibility for this current state and hoping that nature crying for help will wake people up to the destruction we are committing to the very planet we live on. I get that as well! No water - use less. Bad air, clean up your act, etc.
In the mean time, innocents are dying. Innocents are paying the price for our transgression while we take showers, wash our hair and water our lawns. It's much like war where it's not the soldiers alone who die - it's the innocent civilians who go out with them.
So my mission is to manifest rain for the innocents.
I propose that we all start carrying umbrellas, wear rain boots, bring rain coats and slickers with us and use them as coats to keep us warm until it starts to rain - then keep it up so that we stay dry! Hey - what's the harm!?
I'd like to have an event, but that's an awful lot of work and could take too long to put together. We need rain NOW! So how about we just start wearing the gear - spreading the word for others to wear the gear and if we care to - gather together with drums and musical instruments and sing and dance for rain. Any where - any time. If we want to set a date, time and place to make it even more fun - let's do it.
Let me know how this is going and keep spreading the word.
Vesta Copestakes -
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