The fifth night approaches. The white lunar wizard year's begun.

It's time for me to come back into the Zaadz fold. Zaadz = seed.

Seeding the golden age.

"The time of the lone wolf is over. Gather yourselves! Banish the word struggle from your attitude and your vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for." - Hopi Elders

None of us can go it alone. Typically, I allow things and people to draw to me. But I'm putting out an open call....I seek a circle of peers, consorts, conspirators (etymology: "breathing together").

A circle of radicals.

"The differerence between revolution and revelation is elation." - me

If these two videos speak to you, shake you to your core, let's be friends, let's talk, let's play. We've got some digging to do in the garden.

Anyone whom exudes that sense of unconditional curiousity. They can be complete strangers, even, but there's this unmistakable presence of non-judgmentality that I pick up right away. In their presence, you feel you have the right to be you (you do anyhow, yet they acknowledge that).

Their heart is open to receive you -- just as you are. They want to know you at your quintessence, rather  than have you bend to any contorted image - theirs or society's.

That said, specifically my friends in New Orleans tend to be that way. I wish I could say that was truer generally as a whole - and I start off with the assumption in a new setting or new group or new accquaintence that being real is valued - but it's not quite true yet.

I imagine a time shortly when the "circle" we feel safe being ourselves within and being open will stretch to the whole galaxy.

Om shanti shanti shanti. Peace to eARThlings. It's officially Friday and it's International Day of Peace.

“Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.” - Peace Pilgrim

My partner-in-rhyme and I are headed to downtown SJ to set up a portable tea-house to offer passersby free tea and abundant smiles throughout the workday in a downtown San Jose street corner trafficked by people that may have otherwise forgotten about peace.

It's completely free so that others may experience a few moments of hospitality and gratitude (without obligation); appreciation and gratitude when coherent and heart-centered engender peace.

"I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty." - John F. Kennedy

p.s. Park(ing) Day also coincides with U.N.'s International Day of Peace.
p.p.s. If you'd like to participate from afar you can either stop at 11:30 a.m. Pacific (2:30 Eastern) and silently meditate on peace with us for two minutes. Or, you can give a little and help defray our costs, chip in via Paypal.

I AM... spiral revel)0(tionary. What always comes to mind is the present thing. On September 11th, I hosted a "Make Tea, Not War" neighborhood gathering as my participation in the General Strike, strike911.org (a day of "no working, no school, no shopping" intended to not make 9/11 just like "any other day" but one where we may reflect in silence or take to the streets).

Two days later, I decided to continue the "strike" until war is over. Viewing rebellion as another disguise of war, I prefer to not combat darkness but to simply flip on the light switch.

Etymology rebel - [Middle English rebellen, from Old French rebeller, from Latin rebellāre : re-, re- + bellāre, to make war (from bellum, war). N., Middle English, rebellious, rebel, from Old French rebelle, from Latin rebellis, from rebellāre.]

So this "strike" against to me is transmuted more to taking a stand for. No's to yes'es.




I've left my declaration vague so that even if Iraq is at peace, but another part of the world is not, I can go right ahead and continue playing, sharing, connecting and walking.

p.s. Yes, I had to tweak the "no shopping" guideline a little. I've sought out only transactions or exchanges that are "connective transactions" in the words of Burning Man's founder. Thus steering away from corporate establishments towards one-to-one person-to-person exchanges involving gifts, barter, cash or cash-like payment (Paypal). For instance, farmer's markets over grocery stores (I've had to succumb to some grocery shopping for staples until I get hooked up with a coop). Or, glean or grow your own.

I tend to rebel through "being the change" rather than preaching the theoretical and thus found this couple that tends a 1/10th acre edible garden, drives a biodiesel car, bakes in a cob-rocket oven they built themselves in smack middle of Pasadena as true rebels, er I mean revels, walking their walk.

If you're a revel)0(tionary, you may enjoy this video, Fifth Night of the Indigo Revolution:

LOL. That would presume that I have a bank account or hold a belief  in death.

One day this summer chatting with one the freest persons ever met and a friend I said "Everyone is chasing fame and fortune."

He replied "Not me. I'm about anonymity and currency."

You can't hoard or stagnate the stuff -- or the non-stuff of life.

celebr8 - circul8 - iter8

Art by Meganne Forbes