Flashback Thursday - Madness

Those Nutty Boys From Madness "Our House"

By Faith...

I just wanted to take time to acknowledge this past Sunday Dec 15, 2008 marked two years since I left Los Angeles.

I had been working towards moving for over a year and half. I looked for a job, a place to stay but nothing was working out.

A friend, John Meeks had asked me earlier in the year to apartment sit for him to take care of his cat while he was in New York for about six weeks. I made the decision that while staying there I could save money and no matter what, by faith I would leave L.A. and move to the Bay Area.

I did just that. It wasn't easy at first but God has blessed me more than I can truly explain. It's one of those "you can't tell it, let me tell it" kinds of testimonies.

There are some things I am still trying to co-create. I am not writing and performing as much as I used to but it is being revealed that those things are on the way...

By Any Means Necessary If You Are Truly Trying To Bring About CHANGE

YOU MUST HAVE FAITH!!!

Buddha & Flower Coming Home to the Alphabet Sangha

The East Bay Meditation Center Presents

Buddha & Flower Coming Home
to the Alphabet Sangha

A one-day retreat
for the LGBTQI/SGL Communities

Sunday, January 25, 2009
9:30 am to 4:30 pm

with Larry Yang, Shahara Godfrey,
Joan Doyle & Phyllis Oscar

at the East Bay Meditation Center,
2147 Broadway@22nd, downtown Oakland

You are invited to join us in the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex & Same-Gender Loving communities, a.k.a. LGBTQI/SGL, a.k.a. "the Alphabet Sangha," for a day of sitting and walking meditation practice, dharma teachings, and friendly, supportive community.

Let us explore together mindfulness and awareness for cultivating an open heart in our everyday lives.

Registration Required

To Register: Please click on the link below, to fill out a registration survey.

https://www.surveymonkey.co/s.aspx?sm=nitVZ1w0D_2frpzAe_2bOMnUhQ_3d_3d

(If the link does not work, please copy it, and paste it into your web browser. If that still does not work, email us at admin@eastbaymeditation.org -- or reply to this email -- with your full name, and a message requesting a registration form for the "Heart Series".)

Cost: The teachings are offered without charge. You will be invited to support the teachings and our efforts by choosing your own level of voluntary donations (the practice of "Dana") to support the expenses of the East Bay Meditation Center and the teachers.
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Out of respect for people with environmental illnesses, please do not wear fragrance or scented products to these classes.

In The Name Of Love...

In the Name of Love

Balancing Rocks

A community celebration for the
People of Color Sangha

Monday, January 19, 2009

11:30 am to 4:00 pm

East Bay Meditation Center, 2147 Broadway, Oakland
Located near the 19th St BART station @ 22nd St.
Join us for a day of sharing, community and remembrance of one of the world's greatest spiritual leaders of our time. Dr. King laid his life on the line for our freedom and we can honor him through celebration. On this day the POC community is invited to share their own unique gifts of song, poem or movement with the entire community. We will also have a session of mindful drumming so please bring a drum, guitar or percussion instrument.

This event is for self-identified people of color.

Please bring a delicious dish to share with the community.

pot luck lunch * music * meditation * story telling * group sharing

11:30 - Meditation & go around
12:30 - Potluck lunch
1:30 - Community share
3:30 - Closing meditation & ritual

I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feeling; my wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love.
--Mahatma Gandhi


This event will be hosted by: Spring Washam and other teachers and activists in the community.

Registration is required.

Please click the link below to register.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=hZjLthnHqs55vSuz8lY5mw_3d_3d

If this link does not work, please type the above URL into your web browser. If that still does not work, please send an email with your full name and "Name of Love" in the subject line to: admin@eastbaymeditation.org or call (510) 268-0696.

Cost: The teachings are regarded as priceless, and so they are offered without a fee. You are invited to support the teachings and our efforts by contributing voluntary donations (the practice of "Dana") for the expenses of the meditation center and the support of the teachers.



Spring WashamSpring Washam is a meditation teacher and founding member of the East Bay Meditation Center. She has practiced meditation since 1997 with many renowned teachers and is known for her joyful heart and loving spirit. Spring is a Spirit Rock Community Dharma Leader and is in teacher training with Jack Kornfield at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. She has been a socially engaged Buddhist activist for over 10 years and has worked in the area of juvenile justice, universal health care, child abuse and anti-poverty issues. She currently teaches classes, workshops, and retreats throughout the U.S.


For further information about East Bay Meditation Center, please visit our web site:

www.eastbaymeditation.org

EBMC is wheelchair accessible.

Out of respect for people with environmental illnesses, please do not wear fragranced products or clothing laundered with fragranced products to EBMC.

I'm Bringing Adverbs Back, Them Other Poets Don't Know How To Act...

Feeling "Adverbian" Today

Look For The Purple Banana (Box)... NFL Player Exposed On National TV

It wasn't as widely seen as the Janet Jackson incident at the Super Bowl, but an NFL broadcast has once again unwittingly shown too much skin.
In a postgame locker room video that was supposed to capture Vikings owner Zygi Wilf presenting the game ball to coach Brad Childress, FOX cameras accidentally caught towel-clad tight end Visanthe Shiancoe in their shot. The problem? Shiancoe's towel was not fully covering his groin area.

"It obviously was an oversight on our part and we apologize," said FOX Sports vice president of Communications Dan Bell.
The overexposure, which was on screen for less than a second, was filmed after Shiancoe caught what would prove to be the game-winning touchdown in Minnesota's 20-16 win over Detroit. The win moved the Vikings to 8-5, and kept them a game up on Chicago in the AFC North.

"The televising network is allowed, upon request and with the permission of the club, to record videotape in the locker (room) after a game for use in its postgame show," said NFL spokesman Greg Aiello, according to the St. Paul Pioneer Press. "We will review the procedures with the networks this week in an effort to ensure that this does not happen again."

For his part, Shiancoe did not seem overly concerned with the incident. When informed that the story had become a hot topic on the internet, Shiancoe had only one question for a female columnist from the Minneapolis Star, "How'd It Look?"

"Prop 8 The Musical"

I think any time you can create a vehicle with Jennifer Lewis in it and make it funny and satirical you are doing something right...

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