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Arise Then, Women of This Day - The Roots of Mother's Day

Did you know that Mother’s Day was created as an opportunity to stand against war?

Here is the first stanza of a piece of writing called The Mothers’ Day Proclamation written by Julia Ward Howe, a feminist and abolitionist, in 1870.

Arise, then, women of this day!
Arise, all women who have hearts,
Whether our baptism be of water

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Beltaine, Full Moon in Scorpio; Deep Healing with Turtle Medicine - Willits, CA

Image from: http://www.manakastudios.com/

with Lasara Firefox Allen; local author, coach, and spiritual guide
May 4, 2012, 6PM, at The Muse; 30 East San Francisco Avenue, Willits, CA
Sliding scale, $5 – $5000 {wink!} donation. No one turned away due to lack of funds.

The Scorpio Full Moon occurs May 5, 9:36PM. Astrological Beltaine occurs 7:15 on May 4.

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Five Weeks to Deeper Spiritual Alignment and Greater Physical Health - with Lasara Allen

*Register NOW and get a bonus coaching session!*

GUYS who’ve been wanting to work with me;
this is a CO-ED teleclass series! Don’t be shy.

Ready to get ALIGNED, deeply happy, healthy, and IN YOUR BODY? Join us!

Participate from wherever you are, yet still have a great, and interactive support system!
Deeply inquire into your

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After a coaching sabbatical, as of 3/6/2012, I have openings for three three-week, individual, personally tailored coaching and mentoring programs. I also has slots in a cohort-model group coaching program available for a limited amount of time. (Details TBA.) I’m also available for single-session commitments as well. Make whatever commitment

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My DIY (do it yourself), Organic, Container Garden

Some poor kids – not me – toiling in a big-ass garden.

When I first thought of building/creating my own garden, I felt daunted by the idea. After all, my most successful gardening experience to date was my little plot in my parents’ huge, back-to-the-land garden about 30 years ago.

Perhaps it was the memory of

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My Grandfather's Flag - In Memoriam

This memorial day, I hope you’ll take a moment to remember, to pray for, all those who have fallen in the lines of fire – not just “our” men and boys, wives and daughters, but all of those who have fallen, everywhere around the world.

In Memoriam

Written Memorial Day, 2009

My mother grew up 
with photos 
of

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Your Seminar Guide: Getting to Know Mendocino County

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Brain Magick: Exploring Consciousness with Philip H. Farber
Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Magick, and Altered States

August 27 – 28, 2011 in the Greater Ukiah Valley, Mendocino County, CA.
An amazing weekend of fascination and fun in beautiful Mendocino County, CA! It’s a straight shot up from the Bay Area

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The Roots of Mother’s Day: Protest and Pacifism

Arise Then, Women of This Day

When most people think of Mother’s Day, they may think of roses, champagne brunches, “mother’s rings,” and a visit to mom’s place. While the idea of family togetherness is a lovely sentiment, there was a different, and perhaps even deeper, original meaning to the beginning of

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Brain Magick: Exploring Consciousness with Philip H. Farber

Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Magick, and Altered States

August 27 – 28, 2011 in the Greater Ukiah Valley, Mendocino County, CA.
An amazing weekend of fascination and fun in beautiful Mendocino County, CA! It’s a straight shot up from the Bay Area on the scenic 101.

Join world-renowned Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) trainer, author, and Meta-Magick creator Philip H. Farber for

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Fasting Against Hunger

“Day five of water-only fasting. No food at all since Friday night. And I’m not the only one. Hundreds of thousands of faith leaders, secular leaders, workers’ rights activist, and poor folks nation-wide are fasting too. I happen to fall into more than one of those categories.

And still the collective silence is deafening. Too many

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All Fools Day - An Auspicious Time for Coaching!

The Fool is the card of infinite possibilities. The bag on the staff indicates that he has all he needs to do or be anything he wants, he has only to stop and unpack. He is on his way to a brand new beginning.

But the card carries a little bark

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A Course in Deep Acceptance

a telecourse with Lasara Firefox Allen, MPNLP – Begins May 3, 2011. Register NOW!

Sometimes you strive too little. Sometimes you strive too much. Sometimes you strive so hard you don’t know any more that you are striving.

What do you do when this is the case?

Sometimes your ideas of who you should be get in the

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Help Doctors Without Borders and yourself, all at once!

Help Doctors Without Borders and yourself, all at once! Coaching proceeds to MSF, through April 21.

Have you thought about getting a coaching session – or sessions – with me? Well, there’s no time like the present – for so many reasons!

It’s spring and…

* maybe you want to get your fitness and dietary choices on

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Lent: A How-To for Mystics

(Reprinted from Elephant Journal. First publication 3/8/11.)

I am not, nor have I ever been, your typical Christian. Most wouldn’t even call me Christian, though I would say my spiritual reality is very catholic (small “c” intentional) and I do have my own special relationship with Christ.

I am in no way claiming to be your spiritual

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Lent: A How-To for Mystics

Read my latest at Elephant Journal, Lent; A How-To for Mystics, TODAY!

Excerpt:

I am not, nor have I ever been, your typical Christian. Most wouldn’t even call me Christian, though I would say my spiritual reality is very catholic (small “c” intentional) and I do have my own special relationship with Christ.

I am in

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I Am Documentary - review at Elephant Journal

Read my latest at Elephant Journal; I Am; The nature of humanity (Film review.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Breaking Out of Isolation

Lonely, by John Arsenault

There are lots of lonely people in the US. According to a study titled “Social Isolation in America: Changes in Core Discussion Networks Over Two Decades“ that was published in 2006, one in four Americans have not a single person in their lives with whom they discuss “important matters.” And,

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For My Love...

This is the beginning
all possibility and nubile gestures
the soft, damp dawn
touched with dew and whispy, whispery fog
we live in a valley of green
hills of gold
crowning moist, damp earth

there will come a time
where we gather these days around us
an aged bounty of petals
strewn whimsically on a sturdy, well-worn floor
and, creaking with the walls
flesh earth-like and joints

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The Gift of Recognition

Altruistic Fostering: http://balneus.wordpress.com/2010/01/30/chimps-altruism-and-helping-with-the-kids-of-others/

This week in my teleclass series, A Course in Deep Acceptance, we’re working on the theme of “Family”. Here I’ll share one of the exercises from the course materials with you.

The Gift of Recognition

Sometimes when I’m in the middle of a project it’s hard to hear a request for my attention as

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Coaching Sessions Available

I have a few coaching sessions available for the month of February. Get in touch to reserve your session now!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nahalin at Dusk – Memories of a World Apart

Since 2007, memories of Palestine have been resting, sometimes silently, sometimes urgently, beneath the day-to-day breath of my life.

Having made a new friend who walked some of the same roads I did, the memories rise again to the surface, unanchored:

Sunset on the edge of the village of Nahalin, a family gathers on the

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In Honor of Dr. King - Lest We Forget

On this day, and everyday, let us remember those who have gone before us, engaged in the ongoing struggle for recognition of the rights of all. Let us not forget the strides that have been made through applied inspiration, engaged activism, and movement toward the Greatest Dreams. And, let us not shy away

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It's never the same river twice.

Winter Solstice brought 2010 to a powerful close with a solstice/full moon/eclipse, and 2011 began with another astrological event that was intense. And while I don’t put store in the “determinist” theories of astrology, I do find many models and modes of exploration worth incorporating into my personal practice and path.

So, the full moon/lunar eclipse

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A Course in Deep Acceptance - Registration Closes January 5

a telecourse with Lasara Firefox Allen, MPNLP

Sometimes life is rough. Sometimes what shows up isn’t what you wanted. Sometimes crappy things happen.

What do you do when this is the case?

Sometimes you strive too little. Sometimes you strive too much. Sometimes you strive so hard you don’t know any more that you are striving.

What do you

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Looking Forward to 2011!

Looking Forward to 2011!

(Instead of Resolutions, Try Dedications, Intentions, and WHY NOTs Instead.)

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Jump into Your New Year: Mind, Body, and Spirit Renewal Program * New Year’s Coaching Sessions – Start the Year with Clarity

Dedications:

Self:

To keep working toward my best over-all health:

Exercise.
Diet.
Rest and Relaxation.
Meditation.
Mental

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New Year's Coaching Sessions - Start the Year with Clarity

Are you ready for the coming year?

No?

Let me offer you a “lazer” (quick and to the point) coaching session to help you find your starting point for 2011.

$30 for 20 minutes. (Limited offer.)

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Jump into Your New Year: Mind, Body, and Spirit Renewal Program

Get the support you need to start your new year right! The three-week Mind, Body, and Spirit Renewal program offers you a fresh start to a new year.

We’ll put a new spin on an old celebration; by creating and enacting “New Year’s Dedications and Commitments“, you will begin your year with a new dedication to

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A NEW New Year's Tradition; Give Up Resolutions! — Try Dedications, Intentions, and WHY NOTs Instead.

— It’s Never Too Late to Try Dedications, Intentions, and WHY NOTs!

by Lasára Allen, www.LasaraAllen.com

Are you planning on making any resolutions for the coming year?

Many of us make New Year’s resolutions – and then fail. A whopping 88% of well-meaning New Year’s revelers will “fail” in achieving the resolutions they set out as a

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Self-Care for the Holiday Season

The holidays are upon us. No matter what your spiritual persuasion, you’re probably going to be finding time within this season of cold days and long nights to gather with family and friends, sit around the feast table, and celebrate some light in the darkness. What a wonderful thing!

But even so, the most joyful season

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To My Witchy Friends...

First and foremost, Merry Yule! The upcoming Solstice is going to be a powerful one with many major astrological and astronomical add-ons. I hope you have an amazing time ushering in the new light, and that all your best intentions come to fruit in the next revolution of the continuous cycle

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My Holiday Gift to You; A Complimentary Coaching Session

Start Your New Year Right with a One-on-One Coaching Session!

Find your coupon here!

Happy season,

-Lasara

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Ladies and fellas; start your new year with a commitment to great self care!

You’re the creator of your destiny! Who better than you to divine your path?
Give yourself the gift of Transformation – it’s a gift that keeps on giving.

Whether you work better in a group setting or a one-on-one environment, there’s an option that’s the perfect fit for you.

Holiday Bonuses Available though

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Baby, It's Cold Outside - A Very Groovy Christmas Collection

Happy holidays! Enjoy this fun and funky Christmas mix!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Of Dark Nights and Wood Stoves - A Christmas Reminiscence

I got our tree today, and some special new ornaments for each of us. (My own little tradition. Actually, I think my mom passed that one on?) We have lights, and candy canes. And a box of paraphernalia from Christmases past waiting to be unpacked.

Memories are flooding back this year.

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Hey ladies; you've gifted everyone else. Now, gift yourself!

You’re the Creatrix of Your Own Destiny! Who Better Than You to Divine Your Path?

~ Personalized Gift Certificates Available on Request. They can be from Santa, if you like! After all, your stocking needs some filling, too! ~

Holiday Special; Bonuses Galore!

These gifts are green; All electronic and telephonic, no packaging waste, and nothing to toss into the landfill in a year or two. And, they are truly one-size-fits all – because each experience is actually tailor-made to fit YOUR needs and

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Holiday Special; Gifts of Transformation, Powerful Bonuses

Lasara’s Black Friday Alternative: A THANKSGIVING WEEK SALE! You don’t have to leave home to participate, and these gifts are green! The sale begins now, and continues until Midnight, Pacific time, Nov. 31….Looking for an unique gift for a loved one? The gift of experience is gift that keeps on

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Give the Gift of a Happy, Healthy New Year!

Stay, grateful, stay graceful, stay GREEN!

All gifts on this page are zero-waste. Electronic and telephonic, these gifts of transformation also lighten your ecological footprint!

Three-Week Mind, Body, and Spirit Renewal Program

Looking for a unique gift that shows how much you care? This three-week Mind, Body, and Spirit Renewal program offers your loved one

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My FINAL Sexy Witch Teleclass Series. Register now!

My next and FINAL Sexy Witch series starts January 10, 2011. My work is heading in exciting new directions, so this will be your last chance to enter into the Sexy Witch Experience with me!

“LaSara Firefox is a genius! You couldn’t ask for a better guide to take you on this emboldening

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Three-Week Mind, Body, and Spirit Renewal Program

Looking for a unique gift that shows how much you care? This three-week Mind, Body, and Spirit Renewal program offers your loved one the gift of a fresh start to a new year.

We’ll put a new spin on an old celebration; by creating and enacting “New Year’s Intentions”, your loved one will begin her or

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Give the Gift of Spiritual Transformation

Looking for an unique gift for a loved one? The gift of experience is gift that keeps on giving. Two of Lasara’s nine-week teleclass series – Sexy Witch, and Deep Acceptance – are starting in January, 2010. Both of these courses offer your loved one an amazing opportunity to work and play in a supportive

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The Answer to the Season's Biggest Question; Yes, Santa IS Real!

When it comes to the delicate matter of belief, there are creative ways to answer our children’s questions without taking the magic out of life.

When my oldest daughter was about five, she asked whether Santa Claus was real. Her dad and I told her that Santa is real — to those who believe.

Is love real?

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Happy Holidays! Stay Grateful, Gracious, and Green!

Gift Buying with Consciousness – A Guide to Compassionate Consumerism

Often my anti-consumerist, smaller footprint, “live simply” self, and my “the kids deserve the joy that materialism so easily delivers”, acquisitive, affluenza-suffering self war with each other.

Especially during birthdays, and holidays. During these special days I, like every other conscious consumer, enter the

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Thanksgiving is Just One Day, But Gratitude is a Gift We Can Share All Year Round!

Some Thanksgiving Fun and Games, for Thanksgiving Day and Everyday

A GREAT Set of Games Designed to Help Bring Gratitude Into PLAY

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A Gratitude Round Robin – Gratitude Games

A Grateful A to Z – A Gratitude Game for Kids of All Ages

How to Create a

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Coaching Services

Are you ready to invite rapid and lasting change into your life?

Coaching allows you to define and reach your

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Sexy Witch by Lasara Allen (formerly LaSara Firefox)

“LaSara Firefox is a genius! You couldn’t ask for a better guide to take you on this emboldening adventure.  Accessible and engaging whether or not you consider yourself a ‘witch,’ Sexy Witch is a fabulous book full of serious fun.”
- Ariel Gore, author of the bestselling Bluebird: Women and the New Psychology of

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Thanks and Thanksgiving - Gratitude is a Gift, and so is Remembrance

Most of us know something about the far-from-glorious fall-out that followed that first, mythical “Thanksgiving Day”. It’s easy enough to get attached to the negative political connotations of this holiday, and to have Thanksgiving become “Guiltfast” or “Guiltfest”.

In no way do I want to belittle the horror and carnage that followed the “founding of a

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A Gratitude Game - Gratitude Round-Robin

Definition of Terms

a. Round is a go-around where everyone in a group gives their answer.

b. Round-Leader is the facilitator of the round. This position transitions at the conclusion of each round. The role of round leader can go to the person who wants it next, or you can

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A Gratitude Game for Kids of All Ages

When I was a kid, we played alphabet games in the car to pass the time on long drives or road trips. I’ve recreated one of those games, with a gratitude theme. A Grateful A to Z includes players of all ages – from talking age up.

A Grateful A to Z is an adaptable game.

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Eid al-Adha Mubarak!

Happy festival to you! If you made Hajj this year, mabruk! Alhamdulillah.

For those of you who are not Muslim, I offer a link to a “controversial” article I wrote in honor of Ramadan – Seven Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Islam. In honor of the Greater Festival of Islam, I hope it brings us

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Workshop Testimonials and Endorsements - Workshops with Lasara Firefox Allen

“Thank you so much for your facilitation and for holding space for our group in the Sexy Witch course.  You’re an amazing woman, with such a wide array of different experiences!  I love how willing you are to keep asking the really tough questions, keep unearthing more and digging deeper and

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Upcoming Classes, Teleclasses, Seminars, and Events

A Course in Deep Acceptance Teleclass Series

“With Deep Acceptance, you will release attachment to who you think you should be, and begin accepting yourself for who you truly are. Deep Acceptance will allow you to build comfort with your own unknowns, even as you begin cultivating your innate wisdom.”
Where: Wherever you are! This course is

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Holiday Health: Compassionate Consumerism, and Self-Care.

The holidays are (basically) upon us! Since starting to do the Holiday Season binge-shopping (yeah, me too), I thought I’d offer a link to my article, Gift Buying with Consciousness: A Guide to Compassionate Consumerism.

And, since we’re all prone to losing track of our self-care during the season, I am also linking Self-Care for the

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A Course in Deep Acceptance Teleclass Series, Starts 1.10.11. Register now!

a telecourse with Lasara Firefox Allen, MPNLP

With Deep Acceptance, you will release attachment to who you think you should be, and begin accepting yourself for who you truly are. Deep Acceptance will allow you to build comfort with your own unknowns, even as you begin cultivating your innate wisdom.

You will allow yourself to stop striving

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My Grandfather's Flag

Marcus A. Golczynski, 30, the father of this child, was killed in Iraq on March 27, 2009. "We fight and sometimes die, so our families don't have to."

“…I hope you’ll take a moment to remember, to pray for, all those who have fallen in the lines of fire – not just “our” men

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Sexy Witch January Course Still Open.

Sorry for the false alarm! The January Sexy Witch class series is still open. The page that showed up on my news feed and front page was supposed to be a private link for redirect for paypal payment for class. It’s designed so that the class cannot overfill, should anyone try to register after the

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Subscribe to Lasara's Lists!

Lasara’s announcement-only newsletters and e-zines will let you know about upcoming workshops, teleclasses, webinars, series, and other opportunities to work (and play) with Lasara Firefox Allen! You’ll be the first to hear about workshops on:

* Self Awareness
* Deep Acceptance
* Sexy Witch
* Sexuality
* Women
* Men
* Women and Men
* Relationships
* Communication
* Sex Literate Parenting, and more.

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Book review: The Face Behind the Veil

The Face Behind The Veil: The Extraordinary Lives of Muslim Women in America by Donna Gehrke-White

Great read on American Musalimahs. Amazing bios on Muslim women from all walks of life by a highly qualified journalist who is also a very fluid and engaging author.

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Ska-P - Ska-Core band take on the Intifada in Palestine

‎”Who would ever imagine…that David turned out to be Goliath?”

AWESOME, high-quality ska-core with some really relevant lyrics.

Want more on the topic? Read my article, What Middle East Peace Talks, over at elephantjournal.com.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What Middle East Peace Talks? (My latest at elephantjournal.com.)

My latest at elephantjournal.com — please click the link below to read.

(Author note: This is an opinion piece. I am posting it in response to a lack of awareness around the Middle East Peace talks. I respectfully request that you click through the links included in this article before commenting. The links offer

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The New Anti-Muslim Wave, Eid al Fitr, and 9/11 - What Will YOU Do?

Reprinted from elephantjournal.com. Original publication date; 9/7/2010

Crazy fact:
The Jewish Holy Days move from year to year, the Muslim Holy Days move, and 9/11, of course, stays right where it is.
This year:
Rosh Hashanah: September 9, 2010
Eid al Fitr (the three-day feast/celebration at the end of Ramadan): September 10, 2010
And, 9/11.
Interesting line-up.

And a very frightening one

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Seven Things You Probably Didn't Know About Islam

Reprinted from elephantjournal.com, first publication date 9/4/2010

Bismillah, ar Rahman, ar Rahim. (In the name of Allah, most beneficent and merciful.)

Ramadan kareem!

1. Mystical Oneness with God
In a mystical sense, Islam is a non-dualist religion. When I first read these words by ‘Ali ibn Abi Talib and Fatima bint Muhammad, I was overwhelmed with a sense of,

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My latest at Elephant Journal, The New Anti-Muslim Wave, Eid al Fitr, and 9/11 – What Will YOU Do?

My latest at Elephant Journal, The New Anti-Muslim Wave, Eid al Fitr, and 9/11 – What Will YOU Do?

“Four news stories from the CURRENT wave:

UPDATE: Holley teens charged with targeting mosque

CARLTON — A Holley teen-ager was charged with a felony count of criminal possession of a weapon after allegedly firing a shotgun outside

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9/11 Happened to Us All

First Writing Since
(Poem on Crisis of Terror)

by Suheir Hammad
New York, New York

Suheir Hammad is the author of “Born Palestinian, Born Black” (Harlem River Press, 1996, $12.00, ISBN 0-863-16244-4) and other books.

1. there have been no words.
i have not written one word.
no poetry in the ashes south of canal street.
no prose in the refrigerated trucks driving

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Eid Mubarak (Happy Festival) to All My Muslim Brothers and Sisters!

For my NON-Muslim brothers and sisters, here’s an article I wrote recently: Seven Things That You Probably Didn’t Know About Islam, and another, The New Anti-Muslim Wave, Eid al Fitr, and 9/11 – What Will YOU Do?

A Translation of the Islamic Adhan, or Call to Prayer

Ashhadu an la ilaha illa Allah
I bear witness that

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My Latest at Elephant Journal - 7 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Islam, In Honor of Ramadan

My latest at elephant journal: 7 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Islam, In Honor of Ramadan.

“In honor of Ramadan, the most holy month in Islam, I hope we can all take a moment to honor the diversity of faiths that hold the world together, as much as they might tear it apart.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Islamic and Sufi Mystical, Metaphysical, and Religious Quotes

In honor of Ramadan, 2010

In the name of Allah, most beneficent, most merciful.

“The foremost in religion is the acknowledgement of Him,
the perfection of acknowledging Him is to testify Him,
the perfection of testifying Him is to believe in His Oneness,
the perfection of believing in His Oneness is to regard Him Pure,
and the perfection of

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In Honor of Ramadan

Even the idea of love is separation. In claiming a beloved, earthly or divine, we put ourselves into separation. Through this separation we have the chance to seek

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Sexy Witch Classes and Groups with Lasára

From time to time Lasara offers small working groups based on Sexy Witch. These groups are conducted through teleclass and/or “webinar” formats, plus a private e-group.

“LaSara Firefox is a genius! You couldn’t ask for a better guide to take you on this emboldening adventure. and engaging whether or not you consider

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The Lost Art of Masculinity - My Latest at Elephant Journal

Read my latest at elephantjournal.com. Link at bottom of excerpt:

The Lost Art of Masculinity

In the heart of the divorce boom (starting in the ‘60s, peaking in the ‘70s) a generation of women ended up parenting (mostly) solo, and a generation of boys ended up being raised (mostly) without a positive father figure,

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Tonglen Meditation as Self-Healing

Tonglen meditation is a simple practice of transmutation. It’s the process of breathing in “dirty” energy, thoughts, or feelings, and releasing them with compassionate non-attachment as pure light.

As opposed to the idea of breathing peace and calm into the body and mind, in tonglen we breathe in pain and suffering (dukkha) and transform it into

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I Love You - A Daily Practice

As you move through your life today, think “I love you” to everything and everyone, ALL THE TIME! Or at least whenever you remember to. Most importantly, think “I LOVE YOU!” when you are feeling sad, angry, separate from another, or from source, or alone. Don’t forget that YOU are

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Untitled (vortex i)

I come awake at night these days
My man sprawled sweetly next to me
Rhythmic breathing
almost lulling me
But in the quiet of night
there’s something puling me
Awake, awake

I come awake at night
the cars rush by my country home
Rhythmic roaring
nearly pulling me
In this rush of night
there’s something lulling me
Awake, awake

Virginia said
a woman should have a room of one’s own
This

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18 Rules for Living

Often referred to as “Dalai Lama’s 18 rules for living”, this piece of writing does not actually originate with the Dalai Lama. Regardless, it’s a great piece of writing, with many important reminders. I needed some of them badly today, and thought you might, too. Enjoy. I hope this list provides some sweet upliftment for

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A Poem for Palestine

August, 2007

here,
in this place of unyielding hardship
the soil trembles
with subtle urgency
without moving

bodies quiver
electricity dancing on the surface of
straining skin

restraint
oppression
desire
fear
all held
in abeyance -
a sacred secret
voiced in harsh-edged whispers
in the dark of night
and lost to forgiving winds

here,
trees bend low
branches heavy hanging
with over-ripe fruit
no way to pick the figs
beyond the shadow of the wall

still,
roses grow
dawn kisses sweet-smelling earth
with

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The Wall - Who's the Terrorist?

Imagine you are sitting in your home. …When you look out the window, you can see a wall growing closer and closer, day by day, straight toward the walls of your home. You know that the larger wall will not correct its course. You know that soon, very soon, your walls will be gone, leaving only the larger wall

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Sixty Years of Temporary - Arroub Refugee Camp, Palestine

Entry to Arroub Camp (Al Arroub).

August, 2007

Yesterday I went to Al Arroub Camp. Remember, you take the bitter with the sweet…

In 1948 the Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands began. Palestinians were driven forcibly from the homes their forefathers had built, whole villages were emptied of the Arab population. Villages that had been built of

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Apocalypse Now…and Now…and Now…and Now

The world is ending.

The world has always been ending.

For as long as humanity has had creation myths, we’ve also had destruction myths. Old wine in a new skin, enter the destruction myth du jour. The End Times as we know them; the Apocalypse.

“An Apocalypse (Greek; “lifting of the veil” or “revelation”) is a

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For my love, on his 45th birthday

This is the beginning
all possibility and nubile gestures
the soft, damp dawn
touched with dew and whispy, whispery fog
we live in a valley of green
hills of gold
crowning moist, damp earth

there will come a time
where we gather these days around us
an aged bounty of petals
strewn whimsically on a sturdy, well-worn floor
and, creaking with the walls
flesh earth-like and joints

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Finding Dr. Right

Yesterday I had a first appointment with a new psych doc. Never something I look forward to, but just like the search for a good care-provider of any type – massage therapist, chiropractor, general practitioner, gynecologist – sometimes finding Doctor Right takes some time.

As with ending any relationship – getting fired from a job, losing

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Exercise is Not Optional

(Wanna play yoga with us? Join our Community Yoga Experience – yoga everyday, from now until the autumnal equinox – Sept. 23.)

Physical exercise for me, from asana yoga, to running, to Pilates, to dancing, is not an optional part of my self-care. Yet I still act sometimes like it is. And end up back in

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Community Yoga Experience - Summer Solstice through Autumnal Equinox

Commit to doing asana (posture) yoga daily from now until September 23 — with all of US! Come to this page daily and use the comments feature to share your practice.

Let this be your forum to share your practice, ask for support, offer encouragement, and track your own practice.

Consider this an experiment in collaboration –

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On Writer's Block - From a Writer to her Reader

I didn’t write my 800 words yesterday. It wasn’t a case of too few ideas, but too many. So many possible things to write about, and so much to write about them.

On the other hand, it was a desire for a royal flush in the writing department. After a number of articles that have struck

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Sex Positive Parenting

Teaching Our Children About Sex.

(Reprinted from elephant journal, June 19, 2010.)

As a child of the ‘70s, and more-over, a child of the counter-culture, I can say there is such a thing as too much permissiveness. However, sexual positivity and sexual permissiveness are not by nature the same thing.

Conscious parenting has many focuses and aspects. But

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To Hell With Chicken Little!

A while back my ten-year-old kid came home from school and said, “Mom, is the world really going to end in 2012?”

This moment was one I hadn’t even known I had a secret dread of.

I was raised as part of the Back-to-the-Land movement. If you weren’t there, you probably don’t know that a big chunk

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A New Generation of Fathers - A Shout-Out to the New Dad

I know very few peers who were raised by both parents. I have very many peers whose fathers were at best absent, and at worst abusive. Though really, abandonment leaves scars nearly as readily as any other kind of abuse does.

Most of us lived through our parent’s divorces as kids. Divorce is as prevalent as

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Breathing for the Liberation of All Beings

For the first day in this 21 day experiment, I am not feeling overly inspired to write. As another writer taking part in the experiment asked this morning, “where do I start?” I answered; “Start where you are! Trite, but still good advice. ”

And here I am. Stuck.

Over the past few days I have

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Confessions of a Bad Polyamorist

Polyamory (from Greek πολυ [poly, meaning many or several] and Latin amor [love]) is the practice, desire, or acceptance of having more than one intimate relationship at a time with the knowledge and consent of everyone involved.
-Wikipedia

Love is God, God is love, both are the same, and as God, love is limitless.

This

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Learning to be Human

Today I start with frustration. It’s not the topic I want to write about. I am dead-tired of self-introspective, self-indulgent, self-aggrandizing writing, yet here I am today, finding my self starting with my own self-indulgent expression of dissatisfaction.

Yesterday at therapy my (very awesome) therapist and I were talking about summer break. About how it’s easy

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The Devotion of Presence, The Presence of Devotion

Dilemmas of a Householder

There was a time in my life where I so strongly desired to be in perfect Presence all the time that my desire for Presence became the greatest pain I had ever felt.

I sought absolute ego death; annihilation of self into Self, the surrender of “I” into that which is greater than

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Fearless in the Face of God - my journey to the Holy Land, part I

God was, literally, talking to me. It (my gender-neutral pronoun – I just can’t say He!) was waking me from my dreams every night. It was giving me clear directives. It was telling me how to live my life, what to do, and how to do it.

When I wasn’t awakened by The Voice, it found

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Arab Cawe

The Arab cawe (coffee) is thick and bitter-sweet. Dark and steaming, I take a sip, sitting in the square in Bethlehem. I love this square. The vast expanse of worn marble in front of the church, the seats of carved stone.

When seated in front of the church, you see a mosque at the other end.

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Send me the Sunset

I ask you to
send me Arab coffee
but i want to say
send
the coffee vendor
crooked teeth and gentle smile
who stands with burnished cart
at the far end of the square

I ask you to
send maramia
but i want you to
send me
the scent of water and wild weeds
at Solomon’s Pools

I plead
send me a
strong smelling, rosewood rosary
frankincense
and myrhh
zatar

but deeply,
I long to walk

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In Memory of Mahmoud Darwish, 13 March 1941 – 9 August 2008

I wrote this piece on the day Mahmoud Darwish, Poet Laureate of Palestine, the voice of the Palestinian people, died. It is dedicated to him.

Filistina, Ya Habibi

(Palestine, My Beloved)

I invite you
to come inside
the sitting room
of my life

to smell the scent of the dirt that holds
the roots of jasmine
to smell the flower
to smell
the coffee brewing in

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21*5*800 - Day 5 - The Stability of Fear

(Today’s 21*5*800 post is harder to publish without serious revision. It’s deeply personal, and intimate, and may not make sense. None of those are things I love to publish without serious work, serious thought, and serious introspection.. But yesterday Bindu suggested we write on fear, so here it is. Raw and wild, as fear often

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21*5*800, Day 4 - The Presence of Devotion, The Devotion of Presence

Today you will have to go over to elephant journal and read The Presence of Devotion, The Devotion of Presence for my 800 words.

I feel slightly like I cheated today, though I probably wrote (and unwrote) 800 words anyway. Somehow editing doesn’t seem to count as writing for me, which is silly, since as you

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21*5*800 Day 3-There is a balance between dreaming and living

Here is today’s writing. It’s become the basis for my weekly column at elephant journal. Tomorrow I’ll post the edited version, titled The Presence of Devotion – Dilemas of a Householder II, at ele. But in the spirit of my commitment to post my writing for this experiment daily (or mostly daily), here is the

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2*5*800, Day 2: This is how the world ends...

(Read about the 21*5*800 challenge here.)
Today’s exercise began as “What to do when the world is ending…” and ended up being “This is how the world ends…” It’s not finished, and never will be; a creative expression of my own overwhelm at the state of Things As They Are…and my own eternal and present solution

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21*5*800, Day 1 - Practice Makes Presence

(Read about the 21*5*800 challenge here.)

Practice is called practice for a reason. We never reach the end of it. There is no end point to practice.

When we apply the word practice to spiritual pursuit, it can tend to gain some onerous weight, like there’s some goal to be reached. Some final gate to walk through.

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21*5*800; Community Event STARTS TOMORROW, June 8.

21*5*800; 21 days, yoga five days a week, writing 800 words a day. STARTS TOMORROW, June 8.Perfect timing for me!

Join in a community endeavor designed for the writing yogi/ni, the writer who wants to do more yoga, or the yogi who wants to do more writing.

It’ll be easier than you think. Here’s the low down

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My latest at Elephant Journal: Where are the Plus-Size Yoga Clothes?

My latest at Elephant Journal: Where are the Plus-Size Yoga Clothes? Click here to read!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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