Magazines, mandalas & fruit wrappers

Dates for your diary

This Sunday 26th February there will be a beach clean at Colwell Bay, meet at 10.30 in the car park to pick up bags (end of Colwell Chine Road).


On the 1st March at Quay arts, Red Tie theatre will be performing a play called 'The Consultation' written by a local poet and playwright. There will be a short performance of '7 Jewish Children' to follow. For more information click the link.         
  http://www.islandpulse.co.uk/b2/double-feature-for-redtie-theatre-9389/


To mark International women's day on the 8th March the New Carnival Company will be holding accessory workshops on Saturday 10th March for more information call Alison on 717868, or text 07807370179

Cloud scape yesterday

A peace walk will take place on Sunday 11th March at 11a.m. in Appley Park. More details to follow on this.

'A poetry evening with a difference' at Quay arts features the poet Mario Petrucci. Which will take place on Friday 23rd March.
http://www.quayarts.org/search.aspx?searchTxt=mario+petrucci

Crane mandala & card

More generous gifts of assorted card for displaying the crane mandalas on

Picture mandalas

More mandalas from re-using the 'Big Issue' & weekend magazine

Fruit blessings

Double helpings of gorgeousness while making mandalas. Pretty pictures on fruitwrappers and delicious fruit to eat. Particularly liked the stalk still on some of the fruit, a link with the person who wrapped the fruit so carefully, so that it arrived with all its sunshine intact. Thank you Spanish soil, sun etc.

oops! camera strap wanted to get in the shot too!

Gifts & mandalas

Thanks to generous friends donating gifts of card and foreign newspapers added to resources to use for mandalas.

Card donations

Mandalas made re'using 'The Big Issue'

Colourful fruit wrappers

Peace Meeting

PEACE MEETING

On Thursday 23rd February 2p.m. - 4p.m. at the Co-Operative conference room in the Funeral care centre, The Fairway, Sandown. Included will be paper rose making for those who wish to join in. No charge, all materials provided.
Please come along to discuss and plan future events. All welcome, if you are new to the group please contact this site for more information.

Ruminations

Wise words

This we know. All things are connected like blood which unites one family. Man did not weave the web of life - he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

Chief Seattle

A human being is a part of this whole, called by us 'Universe', a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to apportion for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Albert Einstein

I would add that the word 'he' should also be widened to include 'she', or whatever term the reader feels most comfortable with.

More wise words from Noam Chomsky, click on the link below to read this prescient piece 

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/9963-focus-hegemony-and-its-dilemmas-part-1

 

Paper roses valentines gift to you

                                

Follow this link to learn a simple way to make stunning paper roses from tissue paper & pipe cleaners.
 http://how-to-make.blogspot.com/2010/03/how-to-make-paper-rose.html

Click on this link to read an article on rose history of Iran.

http://www.avesta.org/kerr/The_legendary_Rose_of_Iran.pdf

Peace, paper, mandalas, fruitful recycling & friendship

Fruit wrapper & paper bags to make cranes from

A friend shares origami skills, making tiny, exquisite butterflies, stars and cranes

Three hundred more cranes in mandala form, made by re-using paper bags, fruit wrappers and xmas wrapping paper.

Random Acts of Kindness

Next week, according to the calendar is 'random acts of kindness week'. It also happens to be a week when the children don't have to be in school. Kind acts can happen anywhere at anytime, so you don't have to wait for next week - begin now. You've probably been doing this all your life, just not calling it anything special. Sometimes we can get a little rusty if we don't practice.The more you make it a part of your life the easier it becomes, and the better for our lives and others. Its infectious try giving it to someone else.

Share this video for nourishment and inspiration 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvG1iVw8IjQ



Mindfulness

Date for your diary

A one day course on Buddhist meditation and other mindful practices.

Saturday 18th February 10a.m. - 4p.m.

Venue: The Unitarian Hall, The High Street, Newport

£15 - including light lunch

Phone Angie on 01983 404740 or email angieboltoncox@aol.com to book

Nurturing the wild things

This morning a hard frost settled on trees and grass, a beautiful scene. Blackbirds, sparrows, finches, robin, blue tit all eager for food. Wild things struggle to survive no matter what the weather, but in particular when the ground is frozen. A badger lay in a heap on the bank of a busy road, probably hit by a car during the night whilst out scavenging. A buzzard perched on a telegraph post scanning a field ahead, a little further on a kestral on the lookout for signs of life below, all hunting for their next meal, for some a matter of life or death. 

So when you look out of your window remember the wild things. They need our help, a little shelter, a little food will aid them, get them through the lean times.

First one thousand cranes for January 2012

Just scraped past 1,000 peace cranes for January. 4 to take forward for February. Big thanks to the following people for helping get the project started by making cranes and donating:- Gareth, Angie, Mark, Lisa, Anna, Claudia, Yolander, Wendy, Malcolm, Nim, Rachel, Judy. Coming soon to the blog a sponsor form for you to print out and join in.





Thanks to the Peace Group for contributing to the project with 12 cranes made using origami paper & plain paper

Previous 3 mandalas = 266 peace cranes made from assorted re-used xmas wrapping paper