Harvest Time

  Gold Coast, Australia
Saturday, September 15, 2007

We are nearly ready to be world travellers.

It's the night before we leave for the very special Earthdance event happening near Beaudesert,QLD where we will say thank-you to some of the bushdoof dance community who have given so much to us throughout the past year & take part in the Prayer For Peace link up. The mass concentration of energy in one location is a superb feeling like no other, let alone when communities worldwide link up all at the same time in LOVE.

Earthdance Flyer

A collaboration of many energies make Earthdance happen with an aim to facilitate a comfortable, inspiring space to celebrate peace together as a community. The highlight of the Earthdance event is a simultaneous link up, when every event held across the world plays the Prayer for Peace. Morning in the Australian rainforest, midnight in London, and sunrise over the Himalayas. The Prayer for Peace is a profound and powerful moment that unifies our intentions for World peace and healing. In over 250 cities in 50 countries, the 10th annual Earthdance will once again unite in support of global peace and social justice, supporting humanitarian causes through the global language of music and dance. Earthdance has now grown to include a diverse cross-section of musical genres including world music, jazz, conscious hip-hop, folk and reggae.
We will also receive  healing through a  smudge ceremony which is perfect for starting us on our trip.

We've been  cutting cords, tying ends, saying farewells, throwing Birkenstock shoe parties, planning routes,  border crossings and  sorting out the daily operational paperwork jungle in order to have the freedom to roam, be fully present in every moment and satisfy our wanderlust. We've been nurturing and tending to our crops and are now looking forward to the mind-blowing harvest time..... and what a tasty crop it'll be. The time has come to stomp the grapes. Yipppiieee Yie yay! I'm getting slightly more manic with excitement each day. Life is grand.

There are some friends and family who we will no doubt miss whilst writing our next chapters in this masterpiece, the book of life. We also know you will be our lead characters further in our stories because we are so fond of you. We take all the memories we share of you with us on this trip. We love you.

Yippiieeeee!!!!!

Here are some quotations which have inspired us:

"I'm just going outside, i may be some time". Captain Oates

"A person needs at intervals to separate from family and companions and go to new places. One must go without familiars in order to be open to influences, to change"-  Katharine Butler Hathaway

"Never forget that life can only be noble inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to face many a danger, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle." -- Annie Besant

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."  -Henry David Thoreau

"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."-Helen Keller

"There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."-  Anais Ninn

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