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Creativity, Healing & Shamanism: Workshop
A special event for your creative spirit.


Celebrating a season of growth.

One quality of the creative process mentioned by many authors is “resistance to premature closure.”  That is allowing your self to remain open to ambiguous ideas as they appear and resist judging them too quickly.  The results can be a rich and rewarding creation.  It may also be quite unexpected and expanded from that on which we originally focused.  The creative process changes us as we engage in it.

I have experienced this process many times but this year has been especially evolutionary for me.  My life, like yours I imagine, has been a kaleidoscope in constant change.  Once in awhile I get the opportunity to step back in wonder at the pattern unfolding and ask:  “Wow, what is this becoming?”  Coyote Oaks is one of those expanded ideas wherein the creative process changed me.  Therefore, in this moment of wonder, I am inviting the many of you who are near enough to come to share in this season’s last event at Coyote Oaks.  Come connect with other like-minded creative spirits and celebrate a season of growth with us on Saturday, Oct. 20.  We will gather about 5:00 PM, have a potluck dinner at 6:00 and then enjoy the sunset.  After sunset, we will have our final drumming group followed by socializing around the fire.  There is no charge.  Bring friends and family, a food dish to share with others and, libations to suite your taste.

In contrast, the kaleidoscope of current world events is now an unsettling view.  It is a time when we must consider our thoughts carefully if our thoughts are to create a world we want to live in.  My heart goes out to everyone who has suffered in this time along with my prayers for their personal healing.  I do not claim the wisdom to solve this conflict but I feel certain that justice must address global conditions that allow this hatred to fester.  Destitution nurtures desperation.  I also know I must not allow the seeds of hatred to sprout in my heart no matter how zealously they have been sown.

I realize this newsletter goes far beyond our local area and that most of you cannot attend our event.  If you are near enough to make the drive I hope your will join us.  I have posted directions on the site at: http://www.vantagequest.org/Coyote_Oaks/directions.htm.  For the rest of you around the world, I hope you will join with us in spirit as we drum and lift up our hearts.  Together, let us evoke the Divine, as we each know it.  Let us bear the ambiguity of the Divine’s greater creative process and, though we do not understand, open our minds to become vessels overflowing with the balm of healing.  May our hearts become the soil in which the seeds of love and wisdom flourish and that long after Oct. 20 and, for reasons greater than Coyote Oaks we continue to celebrate a season of growth.


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