Industrial pollution

Industrial pollution

Trebbe…and Christi,

I feel that our Sand Creek Earth Exchange went very well. We sat along the river in two different sites and reflected together on experiences and learnings in active gestation. We wandered and we played, each of the four individuals present finding his/her own space and steps. We gathered at a third site along the river to create our Rad Bird and drummed its song of healing, beauty and strong joy….both enduring and fresh…in an otherwise silent reverie of gratitude. 

For me personally it was an important venture outward and into some simple, but profoundly new sacred action away from my desk and books in order to open new living waters of awareness and connection. I needed to do this. And it was such a treat…such a gift…that Christi made the drive down from her Longmont environs into Commerce City on a very warm June day to gather and guide us with such practiced skill and clearing presence and gentle, but firm pace. It was wonderful for me to simply be a participant and to see and listen and move and capture the scent of Earth Exchange facilitation. Christi, you are marvelous, as I wrote with those pics, and a beautiful person! 

Christi has the pics from my IPhone and her own so I am sure you will receive them, Trebbe, once she funnels them forward. My only regret is that two other colleagues texted me on Saturday morning to convey regrets for not being able to participate as planned. I have no doubt, however, that I will be able to engage them in Rad Joy for Hard Times networking and another Global Earth Exchange event…to be continued…not too far out. ( Both of these colleagues have leader roles in Colorado Interfaith Power and Light)

Christi, I am thinking that we’ll do a return trip to the Sand Creek site next year, if not before, and maybe generate a “crowd” of persons each and all resolved to bring beauty and gratitude, creativity and joy to Sand Creek. A more distant goal time wise, but fun to imagine it today.

Trebbe, the web’s slide show is expressive of the diversity of events, creativity, places and people getting on the map of the Rad Bird’s flight across the earth. I expect that it will be informative and delightful to visit the slide show growing and expanding over the next few weeks as reports of events continue to collect on the Rad Joy website.

One last thing. When I arrived home later in the afternoon my wife, Charlotte, was arriving home understandably weary from assisting her younger son’s “moving day”. Her older son, Matt, had been with us at Sand Creek! She asked if I was tired from the adventure and being out in the sun all day, as might be only natural. And I realized in that moment that I felt light, energized and happy as a lark…and my sense of this well-being remained with me into the evening!  And love to you.

From Christi:

I received these from Tom and assumed he had included you, until I actually stopped to read the message :) Sand Creek, Commerce City, CO—Thank you Sand Creek for bearing the burden of dumped toxic sludge from the oil refinery and many industries on its banks. We are so sorry. p.s. some of the oil processed here comes from the Canadian tar sands