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Tomorrow I will mark 37 years around the Sun….

And I feel as if I may as well be turning 40. A mid-life moment. Not gonna say crisis, cause in a way that word is too small and too immediate. My whole life has been a crisis of sorts - always shifting, always questioning, always trying something new…” a time of intense difficulty, trouble or danger” as well as a time of intense joy, ease and safety. Life has felt very full.

And now I seek roots. I seek land. I seek connection to a place. My visionary image is that of a very old and beautiful tree - planted, rooted, majestic, life giving, and weathering what comes - being committed to a place.

And though I feel this massive Oak tree inside me, I am still but a tiny acorn rolling willy-nilly down the hill.. bouncing on the rocks, avoiding the squirrels, looking for that most fertile of places in which to hunkerdown, but mostly feeling cast by fate into the river of time… floating in spirals of possibility and watching the sky continuously change from grey to white to blue to orange to red to black….

My friends, for my birthday as ask for a simple gift from you. A magical gift of manifestation & connection.

I ask you to hold a vision in your hearts of a beautiful magical rural home - a place where many of you can come to gather in the summer time, retreat to in the winter time, a place that is vibrant and life giving, with clean water and fresh air and bountiful trees. A space to build things, a space to grow things, a space to learn. Good. Now imagine a string of hands reaching out to me… maybe one hand is yours, maybe in your other hand is a friend’s, maybe she reaches to another, and another, until that circle comes back around and a new hand reaches mine. And within that circle of friends there is a place called home. And I ask spirit to reveal this place to me through this circle - a real place of soil and rock, leaf and flower, house and shed. And may we someday soon stand in a real circle in that place and join hands and reside in the hearth of community. So mote it be.

Thank you!

I will be in Portland March 2nd - 4th, and dropping into the Bay Area Fri Mar 7th - Sun Mar 9th I hope to see some of my friends!

As this video shows, we can continue to waste time debating if global warming is true or false, or we can make a wise choice to act….
check it out:

HI!

Oregon is beautiful!

My first week away was a magical journey of work and ritual at California Witchcamp in the Mendocino Woodlands. Its really hard to describe how wonderful it was to have that week in the redwoods as a kick-off to this new chapter of my life. Working with good friends (old and new) in the kitchen - making delicious, healthy food for wonderful people working conscious magic for themselves and the world.. it’s a homecoming and a recharge and exhausting and fun - all at the same time.

My post-camp plans to visit friends enroute to Oregon fell through … so on the advice of Lisa I travelled to Witness Peak in Willits with two new friends/chefs from Witchcamp. It was a sweet decompression and chance to catch up on some sleep. We hiked the almost dry creek and dealt with broken shower faucets, leaky pipes, and a cranky caretaker. We stayed two nights and I barely made it out the dirt road with my loaded truck and motorcycle trailer.
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I just finished editing this 2 min promo video for The Crucible’s Fire Arts Festival - July 11th - 14th, 2007. My studiomate Kevin Paez did the music. There is a one minute and 30 sec version as well.

2 minute:

After 12 years in the Bay Area, I’ve decided it’s time for a break.

My current plan is to put stuff in storage, pack the truck and head north on June 24th. I’m targeting Southern Oregon. Its a nice midpoint between SF & Portland - two cities that I love and have lots of friends in, but it is also out of California proper and remote enough to feel far away. Actually its been more than twelve years - I’ve lived in the Bay Area since 1976 (with a 5 year hiatus in Santa Barbara for college) So I’ve been living here for 26 of my 36 years on this planet. That alone is reason to move!

I know that this may seem as a sudden shock to some of you; “How can this urban-party-hoppin-networking-multimedia-artist possibly survive deep in the woods?” Who knows?!? Its certainly an experiment. I really don’t know how I’m going to make this life shift. And there is a lot of sadness in leting go of that which is familiar to me - I will miss you my friends! However over the past six years, this intrepid explorer has been trying to reach escape velocity in my search for a life that feels sane. But for whatever reasons my spaceship has come smoking, skidding, crashing, back to this fair city by the sea. Allow me to explain a little about the planet I’m searching for.

I’ll start with the most esoteric reason first, because it really informs the rest, and if you only read a couple paragraphs, then at least I know you got the good stuff.

Reason #1: Sensitize Me

I’m seeking out a place where I can dive into a more intuitive-based way of existing. Natural Rhythms. Silence. Internal Visioning. Clean Healthy Living. I want to make some major changes in my mental, physical and emotional states. Read the rest of this entry »

Mother’s Day Proclamation, 1872
Julia Ward Howe

Arise then…women of this day!
Arise, all women who have hearts!
Whether your baptism be of water or of tears!
Say firmly:
“We will not have questions answered by irrelevant agencies,
Our husbands will not come to us, reeking with carnage,
For caresses and applause.
Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn
All that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.
We, the women of one country,
Will be too tender of those of another country
To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs.”
From the voice of a devastated Earth a voice goes up with
Our own. It says: “Disarm! Disarm!
The sword of murder is not the balance of justice.”
Blood does not wipe our dishonor,
Nor violence indicate possession.
As men have often forsaken the plough and the anvil
At the summons of war,
Let women now leave all that may be left of home
For a great and earnest day of counsel.
Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead.
Let them solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means
Whereby the great human family can live in peace…
Each bearing after his own time the sacred impress, not of Caesar,
But of God—
In the name of womanhood and humanity, I earnestly ask
That a general congress of women without limit of nationality,
May be appointed and held at someplace deemed most convenient
And the earliest period consistent with its objects,
To promote the alliance of the different nationalities,
The amicable settlement of international questions,
The great and general interests of peace.

Loyalty reigns in Bushies’ cult of incompetence

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070320/OPINION03/703200332/1068/OPINION
March 20, 2007
BY LEONARD PITTS JR.
KNIGHT RIDDER NEWSPAPERS

First, let me tell you what I’m not here to talk about.

I’m not here to talk about the role politics played in the sacking of
eight U.S. attorneys. Or the fact that newly released e-mail exchanges
and other documents indicate Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and his
deputies misled Congress when they said the White House had nothing to
do with the decision to fire those attorneys. Or the fact that Gonzales
is facing bipartisan calls for his head from angry lawmakers

All this I will leave to others. I want to talk about a word that
jumped out at me in news reports about this latest Washington scandal.
The word: loyalty.

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http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/cold_turkey/

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DieselMoto - Creativity Driven & Bio-Fueled

Introducing Die Moto, a custom-built performance diesel motorcycle capable of running on diesel, biodiesel, or straight vegetable oil (SVO) fuels. Designed and fabricated at The Crucible by a team of environmentally conscious vehicle enthusiasts, engineers and artisans, the Die Moto is out to prove the viability of alternative fuel technology in performance vehicles. As fuel efficiency and low emissions become increasingly important, diesel technology has responded with improved mileage and easy adaptation to biodiesel and SVO.

The team constructed Die Moto from a BMW motorcycle, replacing the motor with a high performance BMW automotive diesel engine only available in Europe.

Team leader Michael Sturtz, the Founder and Executive Director of The Crucible, has garnered considerable notoriety throughout the country for his wildly original synthesis of art and functionality in everything from vehicles to fire operas. The resulting motorcycle will be a motorized work of art—an automotive engine on a motorcycle chassis encased in a hand-crafted 3/4 aluminum fairing reminiscent of the GP racers, paying homage to the early pioneers of motorcycle daring.

Stay tuned as The Crucible team heads to the world famous Bonneville Salt Flats in 2007 to shatter the existing diesel motorcycle world record and establish new land speed classes for both bio-diesel and straight veggie oil.

Find out more and support the team by clicking here!

Video filming and editing by Tom Sepe. Music by Mark Growden and Random Rab.