earth mender ARTS: Multi-Tasking, When to and When Not to.

I am a renegade gorilla grandmother, totally preoccupied with the search for inspiration.....

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2/28/2010

Multi-Tasking, When to and When Not to.

There are many things more important than material acquisitions, career savvy and social position. There is curiosity, creativity, confidence, comfort, competence and even cowardice. Does the last one shock you? Then just hear me out.

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Just stumbled onto a box of slides taken in the Caribbean when I was contemplating whether or not there was a God who cared for us. Looking at the sea and the sky I decided to choose the most pleasant sounding of alternatives which was to believe that there was a God and that She had no trouble understanding me, but I had to make a lot of effort to understood Her if I was going to ever be useful in this world. And since I believed that my happiness depended upon how useful I was to the world, it was imperative that I step up my search for understanding this being I call God. That is when I ran into the Hindus. Then I ran into the Buddhists. Then I ran into the Christians. And underneath all their spiritual teachings they all sounded just about the same to me. There was an incredibly similar golden thread through out all of them that bound them together. There was only one thing I I didn't like about them was they never mentioned any other prophets other than their own. It was as if they never traveled, never met and made friends with anyone outside their own little religion, which they all thought was enormous.

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In my journey of life I will make sure that every mile be worth my while. And I will go the distance to make the world a better place....

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We are fluid beings, walking, drinking, breathing in a sea of substances, many of them invisible. We are a cell of our mother. Our mother earth. We are intimate with our environment, just as lovers in bed. We are not standing above or beyond it. We are a cell within our environment, intermeshed. Co-benefiting each other.

Ah ha! Health is about making sure we are connected with a healthy environment. Exercise, running, connection with community and spiritual entities----

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I went to AA and found a family of choice July 4 1985, 25 yrs ago . I stayed long enough to reclaim my family of origin too.
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I am not an alcoholic, I go to AA meetings to feel like I have a family.

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I am a wildly passionate mixed old bag. I wear many hats and I walk in all kinds of shoes, including no shoes. I come from a long line of pioneer ancestors to whom I owe my tremendous spirit of curiosity, adventure and creativity. Neither getting into the rat race nor staying in a rut has ever been in my nature. I have lived as a surburban housewife, a single mother/grandmother, an excentric artist, a barefoot sea explorer, an inter-racial counselor and diplomat for the UN and the Peace Corps, an advocate for imigratant rights, a mentor for single creative entrapraneur mothers, and most of all a student of starting life all over again in strange situations.

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A woman on a big exciting mission: To help heal the world by working with others to educate ourselves and each other and to promote higher & healthier levels of understanding and action. Education then needs to be followed by creative-rethinking of everything we learned in school; and upgrade our meditation and actions. My personal focus is on down-sizing, going raw, organic, slow and small; reducing waste and increasing artistic self-expression. We live in a very addicted world, our life-styles and personalities are not built on factors that make us healthy, wealthy and wise in the deeper meaning of those words, but are built on community and global addictions. It's about power and control; a fear and greed based insensitive, vengeful attitude starting from the top that is contageous and it underlies the messy, bloody, dirty side of the world we live in. Huh? Horrors that I should say such things! But you know it's true.

am involved in urban-homesteading & living lean, green & simple with people of all races, religions and "classes". I have been organic, pro-active, holistic, and back to basics since the mid 1970's and very spent 20 years of my life living and working as the only white person in obscure villages of the West Indies and 10 years as a misfit back in my own USA. I know the pain of rejection from people of other cultures as well as from people of my own culture. I know the love of healthy acceptance too. I have the wounds to remind myself and others to keep on searching, learning, and practicing better ways each and every day to help others to do the same.