The Safety Pin Cafe : March 2015

Wednesday, March 25, 2015

The Safety Pin Cafe 2015 Event Calendar

CHECK OUT THE NEWLY PUBLISHED 2015 Event Calendar.

Saturday, March 7, 2015

Like the tides

Slowly and in movement much like the tides we are finding ourselves in sync with what and who is important. That's a photo of our friend Prescott and Pete on the night of Mahealani (one of the full moons according to the Hawaiian Moon Calendar). I have many words written on my other blogs, here and here. If you are interested in what that slow and tide-like activity is like, please go to my other blogs.

The Safety Pin Café, born as a myth, on a day in winter only a duck could love is feathering into a story with feet and a good heart. Pete and I grow older and root in a community with room for us. We give back and the story grows. As Spring Equinox approaches (March 19th) we look forward to more light and honor the darkness that is responsible for growth.

Enjoy your today!

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"we tell it slant"

We're not social realists, we're fantasists. We tell the truth, like poets, but we tell it slant -- we clothe it in symbol, archetype, and metaphor. But if we are to write or illustrate fantasy well we must do the work of understanding the classic tropes we use as best we can. Through reading. Through research. Through curiosity and sensitivity about lives and traditions far different than our own. Through building a relationship to the wild wherever we are. Know the place and the land on which you are rooted, and then move outward from there. - Terri Windling

THE SAFETY PIN CAFE'S MISSION

From the original medicine story The Safety Pin Cafe, its "Introduction" is the foundation upon which we offer what we know:

"We cross borders without regard, ignorant or arrogant of the protocol native to the transitional spaces that take us from this place to that place. Traditions remembered and practiced would maintain and pass along the right things to do, at the right time, and in the right frame of mind. Have we all become wanderers with passports un-stamped with the memory of teachings from the Ancestors and Nature? There are rituals to remember and common magic to induce respect and reverence for the beings and places that share this planet."

"When an activity raises threats of harm to human health or the environment, precautionary measures should be taken even if some cause and effect relationships are not fully established scientifically. In this context the proponent of an activity, rather than the public, should bear the burden of proof. The process of applying the precautionary principle must be open, informed and democratic and must include potentially affected parties. It must also involve an examination of the full range of alternatives, including no action." - Wingspread Statement on the Precautionary Principle, Jan. 1998

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Wednesday, March 25, 2015

The Safety Pin Cafe 2015 Event Calendar

Saturday, March 7, 2015

Like the tides