May Art Class: It Takes a Village! Shrine to Our Mentors

ART CLASS! Make a Mentor a Timeless Gift

Show your gratitude to someone who has positively influenced your life...

a teacher
a family friend
an uncle or aunt
a grandparent...

IT TAKES A VILLAGE! ‘Shrine’ to Our Mentors
Friday, May 17th, 5-8p.m.
@ Danton Studio
708 RT 134 South Dennis
Register info@pandorapeoples.com
$15 class fee, plus $10 materials fee

Make a protective mentor shield, in the tradition of the family crest or the dream catcher. Mentors help us on our paths, and we learn from their journeys and wisdom. Share your story through your art piece and the written word.

Shields are wooden, 16 inches in diameter.

Your handmade artwork can be part of our reception at the Luminati Gallery in Dennis, Friday May 24th 4-7pm.

As such it will be displayed on an installation, our It Takes a Village! boat, in honor of the mentors of our lives and in honor of the collective work we do to raise the children of the village and create community together. You may bring your mentor, to honor them during our Ceremony of Gratitude at the reception!


Co-Teacher:
Paige is an artist, activist, and mentor whose passion is to create and support community. She has been mentoring for over twenty years with particular focus on honoring the sacred feminine. She is also the Founder and Director of WAVE ~ The Women's Avenue for Voicing Empowerment.

Co-Teacher: Pandora Peoples, artist, psychic medium, herbal practitioner, ceremonial workshop facilitator, writer and radio host of Healing Wisdom Thursday mornings at 9am on 92.1 WOMR-FM Provincetown.

A Mysterious Woman

A mysterious woman at a poetry reading the other day shared some profound thoughts. She called herself something like Earth-Sky-Heaven. In a kind, even and hypnotic voice she talked about quieting the mind for a few minutes each day. She said if half of the world could did this at one time, the results would be profound. I think she implied that out of this quiet mindful state, a higher wisdom and consciousness would be attained with the collective harmony. There's an idea within that premise that we are receptive creators who have a synergy and creative force together when we find our inner balance and set our intention to be present. She says world peace can organically grow out of this simple act. It's a nice antidote to the collective dramas that are creating knee-jerks reactions, instead of intuitive processing.

Regeneration and Rejuvenation

One thing we all need is rest and rejuvenation for balance and health. Children, cats, and dogs, are good at reminding us that we need this. They are constantly emoting love and healing energy. They heal us, when we let them in. Children never lose their ability to heal through love. We have to be humble enough to allow their innate wisdom to teach us. One of the things about co-sleeping, co-napping, or cuddling, is that just like bonding with babies, it opens and heals the heart. So much memory and wisdom is contained within the heart, that is expressly reminds you what you have forgotten to heal and how to do it. Kids give us these amazing tools, to remind us who we were before we were here on planet earth. They remind us of the experience of limitless love, so that we can learn to give back to them and to others in the most responsible, virtuous, heartfelt, and mindful ways. Gentleness and grace are what we are born with. If we can endeavor to return to this state, we are doing good.

You don't need a child, a mate, a cat, or a dog to put their hand or paw over your heart to open and heal you. Healing is only opening to the flow of universal love, acceptance and understanding.

*** On a personal level, I am so grateful to my incredible husband who has been healing me with humor and love for many years. He is a true beacon of light, love, and sanity. He is intuitive, nurturing and handsome and a darling and truly my better half. I think sometimes people are afraid to love their mates as fully as they can, for fear of losing them. It's akin to the fear of jinxing something. I love when I see partners and married couples who dare to love each other and care, and stay with it, patiently, with gratitude and a desire to grow. We have so few role models these days in popular culture. It's okay to love your love with as much love as you have. It's okay to keep loving your children like babies and not try to toughen them up. The world does that or us.

More Guests on Healing Wisdom

My Guests in the next several weeks on Healing Wisdom:

This week vocalist, musician and life coach will Larisa Stow of Larisa Stow and the Shakti Tribe!
April 18th Mystic Pete, musician, author of Book One: Sex and Mysticism and Los Anegeles' KXLU deejay.
April 25th rockstar cellist Joe Kwon of the Avett Brothers!!
May 2nd Naturopath Lisa Arnold discussing natural healing and herbs, and International Herb Day.
May 9th drummer & percussionist Orpheo McCord of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros .... and so many talented stellar beings...stay tuned!!

Thursday mornings at 9am EDT on 92.1 WOMR, 91.3 WFMR, and streaming love live at http://womr.org!

Podcasts available under Listen>spoken word>just scroll down & have a merry time of it!

Gaia's Trees

This is me communing with a tree. Plants have personality and energy just like we do. Trees and plants should be in our grateful thoughts every day. They give us life. They give us oxygen and food. Protecting their health is protecting our own. It is easy to see that the bark of a great many of our local trees is peeling. I also saw this happening in the Santa Monica Mountains. Young trees are uprooting quickly in storms. Broken branches cause power outages. So many trees look like spindly step ladders, because all of the branches have broken off. Bugs erode these dying trees, aerating the bark, allowing moisture to saturate it thoroughly. Perhaps the cause of the peeling. Many of the pesticides have been used in huge quantities here to keep areas around power lines in effect defoliated and to keep lawns green. We have a close to the surface water table, a very special environment with lots of sand, ponds and vernal pools, which keep everything t the surface. I wonder at the quantity of aluminum being put in the atmosphere from cloud seeding, and what the effects are. Trees are not naturally aluminum-resistant, but one company has put themselves in the position to have a monopoly on aluminum-resistant trees. Greed is a very toxic place to be. My Cahuilla Indian teacher said that time is speeding up, like a child moving to the outside of a merry-go-round. These days, bad dharma bites people pretty hard, pretty quick. Hurting the earth is hurting ourselves. Gaia may feel a bit put upon, but she's been around for billions of years...

Book Art Project: 'Clay' Box Turtle

"Mossy" by Jan Brett is a wonderful book about a little girl named Tori and her scientist aunt Dr. Carolina who find a box turtle with a carapace covered in a beautiful mossy garden. They bring her to Dr. Carolina's natural history museum for an exhibit, but soon realize she belongs in nature and misses her new friend Scoot, the dashing ruby-eyed male turtle with whom she has only recently become acquainted. I find it so charming and whimsical that this turtle is carrying a whole habitat on her back. She's like a little earth Goddess.

Today, my friend Jenny and I are helping the kids in the library to make their own Mossy turtles. Miss Jenny made dough for the kids and Raven & I collected moss, lichen and flowers. The moss is drying at 170 degrees F, so that it will not become moldy when the kids bring their turtles home. The flowers will wilt, but the moss will carry on.

Angel Babies

It seems people worry a lot about coddling children in a culture that exploits the loss of innocence and the corruption of youth. A quick look at cartoons today will show you what a cynical and sardonic world view we feed to the hungry young minds of our children. I think the world would benefit so much if we prolong our appreciation for the enchantment and imagination of children. They come to the earth so wise and pure, like little Buddhas or angels. In the West, we stick pacifiers (fake milkless nipples made of plastic) into their mouths and make them sleep in another room in a crib, which might as well be a mile away to a baby. Sleeping next to your baby provides warmth and connection. As adults, some folks feel they suffer from sleeping away from their spouse, why should we expect babies or children to be so different in regards to their parents. I love co-sleeping part of the night. It's really spiritually enriching and bonding. Nothing feels more natural. I also like to indulge in babying my child now and then. I treat him like a baby and coo over him in motherease. I tell him how much I adore him, his eyes, his smile, his toes. I think it's super important for kids to remember the feeling of being a pure innocent being of love and light. Adults thrive when they feel that pure love every now and then too. It feels so fantastic to embody that pure mama or papa love too.

I was listening to my beloved radio station on http://womr.org and Oh My Goddess, I found out that there is a Tennessee Williams Theatre Festival in PTown in the Autumn. It's no wonder I moved to Cape Cod. We have mutual muses! After Shakespeare he's my favorite writer. How thrilling.

The Body's Intuition

There is a wisdom in the body that is undeniable. It exists in a fusion of wisdom in the heart, gut and your intuitive center. Sometimes our intuitive center ("third eye") becomes blocked with psychic built up, in the same way calcium or fatty deposits can line the arteries, or morbid matter becomes stuck in the lining of the intestines. Dreams can help to reveal the contents of our subconscious mind, and what information your intuition has gathered resides there. Just as you can feel an electromagnetic attraction towards that which is truly good for you if you listen, you can get a warning from your body that something or someone may drain your energy or may be a person not working with your highest good in mind. If you feel like you are losing energy from your lower back (achy, soreness or heaviness) in someone's presence or under some circumstances, that is a solid indication to be apprehensive. Perhaps a sign to disconnect, regroup and figure out what is going on with you to get clarity on why you are losing your energy or 'power' around someone.

Counterweight

Genius, author and speaker Dr. Helen Caldicott has agreed to do an interview with me on the Plymouth power plant and to speak with me about about the other work she has done which includes her research on the lizard brain. She is a fascinating intellect. And she kindly addressed me "Dear Pandora". What an honor! She is a beacon of truth and sanity.

In its own small way, my radio program will help be a 'fair and balanced' counterweight to all of the anti-spiritual anti-compassionate anti global-consciousness propaganda woven into the narratives and threads of our popular culture, which is reflective of the disinformation campaigns launched for profit by conglomerates at the expense of the environment and our collective sanity. Many of my guests will undoubtedly bring a transcendental perspective with ideas about how we can transmute energy and heal our bodies.

Soothing a Cough

Coughs often precede or follow a common cold. For this reason, inducing sweating by use of ginger, holy basil, hyssop or yarrow tea will help begin to mend the underlying cause of the cough. A tea made from one ounce of horehound, ½ ounce of hyssop, and ½ ounce of comfrey root simmered in a quart of water down to one pint, strained, to which 1 ounce of licorice extract and six ounces of honey is added, will make a lovely strong tea/syrup. A tablespoon can be given every hour or two as needed. If the phlegm is difficult to expectorate, add a teaspoon of lobelia in the formula’s preparation.

There are many demulcent and anti-inflammatory herbs that soothe the throat. I have found slippery elm inner bark, calendula flowers, lily bulb, and coltsfoot to be particularly helpful in quickly speeding the healing of the throat.

Another useful combination care of Dominion Herbal College is the following powdered herbs:
Elecampane (one ounce)
Skunk cabbage (one ounce)
Aniseed (one ounce)
Pleurisy root (one ounce)
Licorice root (1/2 ounce)
Ginger root (1/2 ounce)
Lobelia (1/4 ounce)
Cayenne (1/4 ounce)


Mix these together. Infuse a teaspoon of the powder in hot water. Sweeten with honey. Take 3 tablespoons 3-4 times daily. Or better yet, Mix an ounce in a jug with a pint of hot water and 4-6 ounces of honey, administer ½ cup four times daily. This is good for bronchitis, asthma and coughs equally.

Healing Wisdom Debut

We had a wonderful debut yesterday of my radio show "Healing Wisdom" with the violinist and vocalist Onyay Pheori of Curious Blue, rock band Jayne and core member of the EarthHarp Collective. In the coming weeks we have kirtan vocalist and transformational life coach Larisa Stow, rockstar cellist Joe Kwon of the Avett Brothers, radio deejay, author & cellist Mystic Pete of KXLU's In a Dream, naturopath Lisa Arnold, drummer and percussionist Orpheo McCord from Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, phenomenal sound healer John Dumas, playwright, actor,& artist Taylor Negron, designer Elora Hardy speaking about sustainable housing, and author Dr. Helen Caldicott uranium expert & brain research scientist will be blessing my show as well.

(By the way, for anyone who listened live, the humming isn't on the original interview. There were some loose wires, but the issue has been resolved. You can hear it here: http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/womr/.jukebox?action=viewMedia&mediaId=1025335) Also, expect every show after my second to have a tag, concluding the episode.

This weather is crazy, last year was quite tropical by comparison. We had rainy Spring, not a snowy one. Thankfully, the crocuses are still vibrant. The daffodils are beginning to bloom, but the forsythia hasn't began to emerge. I recall in 2011, the summer was hot and filled rainbursts, thunder and lightning storms. Last year was fairly green, and we had a great number of perfect days to ride your bike to the beach and take a dip in the water at sunset. Perhaps, we can sing to the clouds, and summon another tropical summer.