¡Hola Friends!

Here is a music video of Michigan born singer/songwriter Seth Bernard with his musical partner Daisy May Erlewine giving us the lowdown about getting our food sustainably, and joyfully, from your local community farms.

Seth and Daisy May are a part of the Earthwork Music collective which “believes in the intrinsic and historical power of music to raise both community and self-awareness and serves to facilitate and encourage original music in the state of Michigan and beyond. ” Few things build community like music,  and the communities Seth’s music nurtures are compassionate, cooperative and aware.

Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farms are springing up and evolving all over our country.  For a really lovely website with maps to find CSA’s and other organic, local sources of hearty, healthy food, check out Local Harvest  at http://www.localharvest.org/ !

¡Hola Amigos/as de Compasión!

Mother Earth likes to come out once in a while.

She wants to tell us that she loves all her children.  We are all facing drastic changes, but Mother Earth wants us to know that, if we hold compassion in our hearts, are creative, and work hard, humanity can build societies that provide all that each of us need to thrive and that are fully in harmony with the natural world.   Where there is crisis, there is opportunity.   We already know much of what we need to convert our economic systems holistically to better feed and serve all the worlds people and to be truly ecologically sustainable.  Mother Earth also reminds us that we can gain great insight from humbly studying living systems for figuring out the rest.  We just need to keep working at it, and let compassion be our guide. The job of fundamentally changing the way human world works is enormous, that is why we need the diverse talents and skills of each of us.

About this aspect of Mother Earth, this papier mache puppet was created in 2001 in Eugene Debs Cooperative House by Chris Bednash.  She comes out for a wide array of peace and ecological events around the Ann Arbor area.

Anyone can make big puppets with relatively inexpensive, even recycled materials.  Puppet-making can be a fun, community building project, as folks figure out how to construct them.  Puppets can be used to confront or amuse, dazzle and amaze, drawing the public’s attention toward the story and ideas you wish to share.  If you would like to get more information, including many free, adaptable designs, check out the awesome website of the Puppeteers’ Cooperative at http://www.gis.net/~puppetco/

Welcome to Dream Seeding, for a Better World!

We hope to be a place where people’s visions of what a more peaceful, compassionate, just, and ecologically healthy world can be found. We want to see and show photos, art, and ideas from people of all ages and backgrounds that show us how compassionate creativity can save our world.

Please contact us if you have something you would like to share with us, as we seek contributions for both dreamseeding.org and our Dream Seeding Art Show in Ann Arbor this February!

Thanks!

¡Adios!

Christopher Bednash, Dream Seeding Lead Organizer

As we begin, I invite in the deity of Ganesha, who is known by many names & forms and helps us with many things, such as beginnings, overcoming obstacles, critical education, and creative wisdom.  May we all use intelligence, humility and compassion to overcome the obstacles of social dis-empowerment, corporate/imperial economics, and our cultural legacy of violence to transform our societies and communities to become more joyful and spiritually abundant.  As we see that we all really are better off when we all, most especially those least fortunate amongst us, are better off, we can understand that it is generosity that brings true prosperity.  Thank you, Ganesha!

Dream Seeding for a Better World hopes to show art and activism from around the world.  Yet we also hope to consider spiritual dimensions of the transition our world seems to be going through, as well.  This is not try make anyone believe in anything, rather perhaps to help us all to believe in everything.  That is to say that there is meaning, grace, and love to be found in our world.  This isn’t about using fear and judgment to dominate people or about spiritually justifying unjust systems.  Regardless of beliefs or traditions, we need to find the stories, rituals and practices that will help us create a culture where we love ourselves, love all we meet,  and love the Earth herself.  When we gather stories and experiences from a variety of perspectives, we can incorporate even the worst events in our world into a bigger picture that is full of beauty and hope.

More to come!

Dream Seeding for a Better World is a spontaneous attempt to reach out across time and space to find glimpses of another, more compassionate way of life and to share them with others. Fundamental systemic change is needed, although we need to dream up a new reality in order to bring it forth. Dispatches from the forefront of change and the wild ideas of artists can help us to see that another world is indeed possible. Dream Seeding seeks to spread the seeds of a more humane culture, in harmony with the living planet, a bit wider into the “collective consciousness.”

 

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