Smiling is infectious; 

You catch it like the flu, when someone smiled at me today, I started smiling too.

I passed around the corner, and someone saw my grin, when he smiled I realized, I"d passed it on to him.

I thought about that smile then I realized it's worth.  A single smile, just like mine, could travel 'round the earth.

So, if you feel a smile begin, don't leave it undetected.  Let's start an epidemic quick and get the world infected.

Poverty is a result of the socioeconomic system we have designed for the world.  The fault of poverty, therefore lies with the top of society, with policymakers and academics.  It does not reflect any lack of capability, desire, or effort on the part of the impovershed.

~Muhammed Yunus

Lately I've been feeling a great loss of energy, sleep and feel tired.

I feel that someone may be throwing something against me.
would like a ritual to recover these energies, and one of defesa.por please, thank you friends.

sorry,my english is terrible.

I heard a new term for women today.  'Turkey Vulture....' means twenty years past cougar, "still likes to hunt, but too old to take down it's prey."

There is a rare Blue Moon comming on August 31!

            I  have recently watched the chat room and the differences between the old chat room and the new one i found that if someone within the chat room created problems for the others they were told to be brought into a pm . so it does not effect the main room. I am not one to speak up on things but i have noticed within this chat room that there is bad energy going down and lots of people that i know are being wrongly judged.  for an example in a courtroom we…

Transition Media Center for Permaculture Arts - Video Vision by Willi Paul, CommunityAlchemy.com

Video / Post - http://wp.me/p14SHM-H2

Design Elements -

Storefront - Local…

Sustainable Living & The New Mythology

A cop pulled me over the other day and said, 'papers.'

So I said, 'sissors, I win.'  and drove off.

Have a relaxing weekend everyone!

The Plastique Sea Barge Tribe. New Myth 26 by Willi Paul, openmythsource.com

An ironic twist to the localization movement throughout Cascadia, the Plastique Sea is a moving permaculture experiment, a bobbing and…

My son recently decided to shave his head completely.  He now shaves his head everyday with one $5 razor, and then throws it away, claiming it isn't any good anymore. 

This is getting a bit costly.  Can anyone out there give me some pointers?  Would that cream that women use instead of shaving work?  Should he just shave once a week?  I'm open to any and all suggestions, but I can't afford a five dollar razor daily.

Thanks

Oh you know the drill... there is a box, and in this box, there is a kitten... or is there?

When it comes down to belief, faith, whatever you wish to call it, I believe what we find in our box, is whatever we believe we will find in our box.

To those who believe the box holds that miraculous entity, oh kitten, lo and behold, when they open the box, the proof is there for them, voila, kitten. To those who believe the box is empty, the proof is there for them, the box is empty.…

Transition Tales from the 2012 Reskilling & Sharing Expo

Neighbors Sharing Stories

Sponsored by Transition Palo Alto and Common Ground Organic Garden Supply & Education Center

August 12 - Palo Alto. Video Interviews - Willi Paul,…

When we have had people in our lives who have hurt us or done things in the past to cause us to question who we are, its very easy to go down the road of hate and vengeance.  Often times the people who have done the damage have continued on without giving the pain they caused us a second thought and yet we choose to go into victim or 'martyr mode' and carry the pain around with us.

This applies to anything in life.  We have a choice.  To let it all go and move forward or to remain in…

Curling, swirling, spiralling

Like a whirling dervish.

Wrapping its fingers around one and all

Like tentacles, gripping and choking.

Invisible to so many

And visible to so few,

It permeates everything

And exists outside and inside.

This is no kind of weather

No kind of light.

This is Energy, grasping, holding,

Caressing and soothing.

A vortex surrounding us

Puling and dragging at…

"When the start of these times gets written, we want to say that we did all that we could, and it was more then anyone imagined.

~Bono

"When the stay of these times gets written, We want to say that we did all we could, and it was more than anyone could have imagined.

~Bono

“Our Own Bread” – Interview with rani Jayakumar, Transition Palo Alto, by Willi Paul, Permaculture Exchange

 …

Thirty six Grandfather stones placed carefully in the sacred circle, each with a purpose and gift to offer.In delicate tendrils, the sage smoke rises from the shell, my small offering to the universe this night

In the center, near the Creator Stone I stand, like a waiting child, arms outreaching, in supplication, waiting for direction and wisdom from the ancient ones.

Here am I.... in this eternal compass, and cosmic map that carries within it the wisdom of the…

In your 20's you dress for fashion.

In your 40's you dress for sucess.

In your 80's you dress for the bathroom

~paraphrased from Hot in Cleveland

HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!