Last week on my way to work I was listening to NPR on the radio in my car.
I was thinking about where I was going and what I would be teaching today. I was headed to Crispus Attucks - thinking "how amazingly lucky I am to go to this school - of all schools". Thinking of history and pride, culture and conflict, differences and kids.
I was hoping and praying that whatever comes out of my mouth today with my students - would be guided from the "Powers that be" - and not from just "me". Then I heard this NPR radio cast.
Wow.
Many of my friends came to mind - and I was grateful.
Grateful for the time we have to sing and share, teach and learn, talk and listen, dance and laugh, cry and scream, love and hate....but especially to just --- be.
One never knows what simple moment will ripple out to the all in all of us. What 3 a.m. moment of clarity, flash of insight, tone of voice or timber of song --- will make all the difference in the world!
I hope you enjoy the pod-cast about the awe-some opportunities we have each day, to think, speak and share from an energy knowledge called "Mana" - a sacred source of spirit that flows from nature, the divine and each human.
To listen to and move from Mana in every word, sound and action we invoke and evoke. Much sacred peace to us all this new year, next year, new moment, next moment and in each moment of NOW!
http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=131812500&m=131842319
Saturday, December 11, 2010
Saturday, January 2, 2010
Avatar the movie vs. the "meaning"
"Avatar": The movie
I am probably the only one on the planet that thinks this movie is a DUD!
I get tired of all the special affects used now...that yes, are awesome...but without a deep story-line,are distracting! Digital-awe when "depended on" by the director......shows weakness.
Heck I thought "Dances with Wolves"....(which is basically the same theme used in "Avatar")....at least gave us a message with depth. "Avatar" used the same story/format and fell flat. Bummer.
Jeez...I hope people take the chance to google the word Avatar and understand it's true meaning re: the Divine and Spirituality. Jesus was an Avatar - and many faiths believe he was not the only one. But, I'm guessing the movie does bring home good points to a large group of people.
I LOVED the side references to George Bush "shock and awe"...and the U.S. taking the step of using preemptive strikes as a new U.S policy/concept (i.e., totally about the Iraqi invasion by the US).
Ok call me crazy to not have liked this movie....but I'd rather focus on the positive. So, I'm hoping, yes, the movie will wake up the minds of the majority to understand that it is the indiginous wisdom that will save the planet and ourselves. If you are into it...check out the book "Grandmothers Council the World".
If you are a grandmother, I'm pretty sure you know what is like to have your heart opened by the birth of a grand child. Gotta give it to those grandmothers. The book is about the 13 indigenous grandmothers who found one another in 2000...and started meeting in 2004.
Time to listen to them. Perhaps the movie will get people thinking....and maybe reading this book...instead of only being dazzled by incredible digital cinema.
I AM loving the book I mention vs. the "shock and awe" of digital movie-making. Especially with the fact that we are only 2 years away from 2012 - when a new time is prophecied to begin. Just ask those grand-mothers!
I am probably the only one on the planet that thinks this movie is a DUD!
I get tired of all the special affects used now...that yes, are awesome...but without a deep story-line,are distracting! Digital-awe when "depended on" by the director......shows weakness.
Heck I thought "Dances with Wolves"....(which is basically the same theme used in "Avatar")....at least gave us a message with depth. "Avatar" used the same story/format and fell flat. Bummer.
Jeez...I hope people take the chance to google the word Avatar and understand it's true meaning re: the Divine and Spirituality. Jesus was an Avatar - and many faiths believe he was not the only one. But, I'm guessing the movie does bring home good points to a large group of people.
I LOVED the side references to George Bush "shock and awe"...and the U.S. taking the step of using preemptive strikes as a new U.S policy/concept (i.e., totally about the Iraqi invasion by the US).
Ok call me crazy to not have liked this movie....but I'd rather focus on the positive. So, I'm hoping, yes, the movie will wake up the minds of the majority to understand that it is the indiginous wisdom that will save the planet and ourselves. If you are into it...check out the book "Grandmothers Council the World".
If you are a grandmother, I'm pretty sure you know what is like to have your heart opened by the birth of a grand child. Gotta give it to those grandmothers. The book is about the 13 indigenous grandmothers who found one another in 2000...and started meeting in 2004.
Time to listen to them. Perhaps the movie will get people thinking....and maybe reading this book...instead of only being dazzled by incredible digital cinema.
I AM loving the book I mention vs. the "shock and awe" of digital movie-making. Especially with the fact that we are only 2 years away from 2012 - when a new time is prophecied to begin. Just ask those grand-mothers!
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