Rowan's Round of Days

Flyer:
People of the Earth in America: Building Relationships – Locally & Globally
Saturday, March 7th, 10am - 4pm
at the Interfaith Center at the Presidio

The American community of faiths is including an increasing number of practitioners of indigenous, nature-based, Earth-centered, polytheistic, and Pagan traditions. The San Francisco Bay Area is uniquely blessed with an exceptionally large number of such religions, spiritual expressions, and indigenous traditions. As the growing interfaith movement turns its attention to “intra-faith” communication, we invite practitioners of all these traditions to come to the Interfaith Center at the Presidio to meet their neighbors. This is an opportunity to build new relationships locally and learn about ways to connect with fellow Earth- religionists around the world through the United Religions Initiative and the Parliament of the World’s Religions. There will also be a special invitation from a coalition of indigenous tribes of Latin America to join with them in Pan-American networking of the peoples of the Serpent, the Eagle, and the Condor. The day will include lunch and ceremony, and a screening of the half-hour documentary of the first People of the Earth conference. We will be asking a donation of $10-20 to cover costs – any extra will go to the Interfaith Center.

( how it went for me )

Another week has gone by. Lots of work and lots of doing "stuff".

On Friday I drove up to Berkeley and gave Don the Maxine Miller statue of Danu to take to the indigenous summit in Brazil. It is so exciting! The falls of Iguazu were "The Father of Waters" to the natives but when the Europeans came they used this most holy place as a place of execution. There is going to be a ritual at the summit to resacralize the waters. So I sent Danu, our Mother of Waters, to join in the effort. This is a most beautiful statue, with the waters pouring out and the living tree on her cloak. I wrote a letter to go with her. I have no idea really how it will be seen by the recipients but Greg is going to video the ceremony of resacralization and I look forward to a chance to see that. I really wish I could have gone with them!

Then I dropped by Barbara's house (since she works from home in Oakland on Fridays and it saved me a trip to SF) to drop off our old computer as a donation to the URI where they plan to use it as a media server for the pictures and video from the assembly in Mayapur this fall. Barbara and I went to lunch and caught up on what we've been doing. It was really nice to touch base. I haven't been doing as much interfaith lately and talking to Barbara and Don this morning reminded me of why I love it.

Saturday was Pagan Pride Day in SL and I thought it went off really well. I was one of the scheduled speakers and did "Pagans in Interfaith" for an audience of about 10 avatars. And now that I've imported my slides I'll probably do it at the Interfaith garden on Info Island. Although I should probably redo some of it for a non-Pagan audience. I went to a couple of talks and two of the rituals. I missed the big live music concert and even events, I was just computered out. *grin* I thought it all went quite well though and I think it is totally cool that there was an SL PPD.

Sunday I had planned to go to Glenn's birthday party but my stomach was bothering me (anybody know where I can trade in for a new digestive system?) and I stayed home. I shopped and got started cooking the lamb for the moussaka for Tuesday dinner.

Monday after work I shopped some more (having figured out I only had garlic infused olive oil) so I could cook the eggplant for the moussaka. Did that, hung in WoW for awhile. mr_kurt has joined me and we are playing Draenei so I upgraded to Burning Crusade. I knew I should have just bought the package it Target! It goes much faster with a friend. Then the guys finally showed up about 8:30 to set up my new exercycle. By 9:30 they were done. Yay! Now I need to set up my computer desk and see if this plan to pedal whilst I compute is a sensible one or an expensive pipe dream.