[SustainableTompkins] from Gardeners for Peace - A gardening proposition and hosting invitation

[Patricia Haines]

GILLES:
can you remind me of the phone number for joining in the Gardeners for Peace conference call on the 27th?

I also want to let you know that I'm passing this message along to Ithaca's sustainability network - Sustainable Tompkins - which is hosting a September 11th gardens/spirituality event. I see Gardeners for Peace as an inspiring example of how our passion for growing things can bring us together and build a peaceful world.

ST FOLKS:
Gardeners for Peace is something worth looking at - especially in light of our fast-growing local foods focus - It is also a reminder that the Sept 11th Ithaca event could be a superb start for what is coming to be known globally as "Peace Week" (Sept 11-21, the International Day of Peace)

Level Green's offering for Peace Week will be our 2nd EARTHDANCE gathering, on September 13th. This will be part of a global time-synchronized event that includes a meditation for world peace and dancing in the garden - with a webcast that brings us together with folks in the over-300 other locations around the world. For inspiring details, see <earthdance.org>.

- fostering sustainable community through collaborative initiatives in hospitality, education and the arts, in the 150 year-old democratic  spirit of the Danish Folk School


--- On Sat, 7/12/08, Gilles Asselin <culture at sococo.com> wrote:

> From: Gilles Asselin <culture at sococo.com>
> Subject: A gardening proposition and hosting invitation
> To: community at sococo.com
> Date: Saturday, July 12, 2008, 10:55 AM
> Fellow Gardeners, and friends of the Gardeners,
> 
> How are you all doing in this lovely summer weekend?
> Gardening a bit, or 
> not much today?
> 
> I was recently reading Debbie Frieze's intro to the
> July newsletter of the 
> Berkana Institute, and felt it was a very "gardening
> reflection" and 
> "proposition" in many ways.
> 
> In a literal sense, as she experienced gardening for
> herself on a farm 
> recently, and in many other personal and spiritual ways
> which deal with our 
> own consumption and buying habits.
> 
> Knowing the two are closely interrelated.
> 
> I invite you to read the attached "gardening
> proposition" from Debbie and 
> would like to remind you that we have a Gardeners of Peace
> phone council on 
> July 27, Sunday, at 3:30 EDT (New York time).
> 
> Some of you have already responded to my invitation on
> Facebook. Thank you 
> very much. I will make sure to send a reminder to those who
> aren't sure 
> they can attend.
> 
> Space is still open for one or two people to host our July
> gardening circle 
> - feel free to get back to me if you are interested.
> 
> An interesting question that emerged from our last council,
> and which could 
> be a theme for this month is,
> 
> "What is our garden? What fruits, flowers and
> vegetables do we cultivate?"
> 
> Happy gardening to you all!
> 
> 
> Gilles
> 
> A nice one from Gandhi that I reread last night:
> 
> "Civilization, in the real sense of the term, consists
> not in the 
> multiplication, but in the deliberate and voluntary
> reduction of wants. 
> This alone promotes real happiness and contentment, and
> increases the 
> capacity for service."
> 
> 
> 
> ______________________________________________
> 
> The more you listen to the voice within you, the better you
> will hear what 
> is sounding outside.
> 
> -Dag Hammarskjold
> 
> 
> --------------------------------
> Gilles Asselin
> SoCoCo Intercultural
> Princeton Junction, NJ
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