May in Colorado

We’re loving the green growing things in the garden and are working to cultivate the pallet for some weeds in the garden too – dandelion, mallow, lambsquarter are all finding their way into our salads and stir-frys.  Such abundance and such nutrition and healing for the body! And yay for Alicia Michaelson and her sharing of the herbal traditions.

David has returned from his travels on the east coast to find the house rearranged and it’s been fun to play music together and work in the garden. It’s good to have him back in Colorado!

My brother, Aaron, and I are busily re-working the Embodying Rhythm website. I’m excited to share it with you but it’s not ready quite yet. You can learn more about Aaron here: www.northforkpermaculture.com. The biggest change for you will be that in a month or so all newsletter emails will arrive from a different email address and maybe have a bit of a different look. We’ll let you know more soon.

Here’s a youtube video for your viewing pleasure of David with some found percussion: youtu.be/IVGSzVkjM78

much love,

Arlyn (and David)

www.embodyingrhythm.com & ladyarlyn/wordpress.com

UPCOMING EVENTS

Friday, May 3rd, 2013

David with The Tierro Band tierro.net and The Sea Stars www.seastarsmusic.com

Lumonics Sound and Light Gallery 800 E. 73 Avenue #11 Denver CO 80229

8pm – midnight   $20

A powerful night of music and magic. Capacity is limited, tickets here:

http://www.lumonics.net/seastars_tiero.htm

Saturday, May 4th, 2013

David with The Tierro Band tierro.net and The Sea Stars www.seastarsmusic.com

100 Sunrise Ranch rd. Loveland CO 80538

concert at 7:30pm   $25

as part of a two day extravaganza including a dance workshop with the lovely Ixeeya. Find out more here: http://sunriseranch.org/ixeeya-tierro-sea-stars/
Sunday, May 5th, 2013

David with the SEA STARS www.seastarsmusic.com at Cavalcade

201 E. Aspen St. Fruita CO 81521 (970) 260-5413,

7pm, $10

Fruita, Colorado.  Home of great fruit, great mountain biking and a great music venue called Cavalcade.  We’ll be helping soothe folks into a sweet Sunday bliss.  The space is beautiful with a great sound system.  Come one, come all!  more info: http://www.cavalcadefruita.com/index.html

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This month’s inspiration is writing from Charles Eisenstein, author of Sacred Economics.

Read the full article here: www.yesmagazine.org/happiness/to-build-community-an-economy-of-gifts

“Community is woven from gifts. Unlike today’s market system, whose built-in scarcity compels competition in which more for me is less for you, in a gift economy the opposite holds. Because people in gift culture pass on their surplus rather than accumulating it, your good fortune is my good fortune: more for you is more for me. Wealth circulates, gravitating toward the greatest need. In a gift community, people know that their gifts will eventually come back to them, albeit often in a new form. Such a community might be called a “circle of the gift.”

“Fortunately, the monetization of life has reached its peak in our time, and is beginning a long and permanent receding (of which economic “recession” is an aspect). Both out of desire and necessity, we are poised at a critical moment of opportunity to reclaim gift culture, and therefore to build true community. The reclamation is part of a larger shift of human consciousness, a larger reunion with nature, earth, each other, and lost parts of ourselves. Our alienation from gift culture is an aberration and our independence an illusion. We are not actually independent or “financially secure” – we are just as dependent as before, only on strangers and impersonal institutions, and, as we are likely to soon discover, these institutions are quite fragile.”

“You don’t have to participate in a local currency or service exchange to be part of the cooperative gift economy. Any time you give (or receive) a favor for a family member, neighbor, colleague, or stranger you’re part of it. “  37 Ways to Join the Gift Economy by Beverly Feldman and Charles Gray