The Safety Pin Cafe : June 2015

Monday, June 22, 2015

The Safety Pin Cafe Opens for the Summer: "A Gathering of the Animals"

If you're a Whidbey local, or visiting in early July ... come join us as we open the doors, pitch the tent for "A Gathering of the Animals" (Chinese Zodiac-style!)

When: SUNDAY, JULY 12, 2015
Where: South Whidbey TILTH Farmers' Market
Time: 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM (give or take a little time either way)

A colorful story about Rooster, Centipede, and Dragon was re-told and read aloud by all who gathered. Sharing in the storytelling, the energy of community filled the space. The South Whidbey Tilth is flourishing with that vigor, the energy of The Green Goat/Sheep/Ram.

We gathered 'the animals of the Chinese Zodiac' in February ... and beat the pans to clear out the old and welcome the new.

Join us midway through the Year of the Green Goat/Sheep/Ram. Check in and make your 'animal' presence know. Help refuel the mana (spirit) of all animals together. Have fun, and leave with a Red Envelope and a penny to dance with.

Come fragrance-free please so we can get close to you!

"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."

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Monday, June 22, 2015

The Safety Pin Cafe Opens for the Summer: "A Gathering of the Animals"