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August 16, 2015

I'm sorry to say I am having health challenges this summer. We did pitch our story tent in July and are happy for that. I cancelled August's event and may have to do the same with September's. If things change I will post them here. All the best of good wishes to you and your loved ones.

Mokihana

2015 The Year of the Green Goat/Ram/Sheep was welcomed at The Safety Pin Café, Saturday February 21, 2015. We chanted E HO MAI to ask for what we all needed, and with all the voices echoing we were blessed with a crisp and brilliant sunny New Year's day.

Pete and Peter complete the Blessing Dance for the Year of the Green Goat/Ram/Sheep

With the blessing and collaboration with South Whidbey Tilth we pitch our story tent and share more stories that hold life together.

Prescott and Pete watch the Mahealani Moon rise in March, 2015

Here is a link to the Moon Rise Calendar for Dates and Times

SUNDAY MARKET STORYTELLING EVENTS
We will pitch The Safety Pin Cafe storytelling tent on three Sundays during the Market Session at South Whidbey Tilth

Story Sunday, September, 2014

DATES:

JULY 12
AUGUST 9
SEPTEMBER 13

TIME:
11 A.M. until 1 P.M.

PACIFIC-WIDE LUNAR PRACTICES CONFERENCE, September 24-27, 2015

This important conference designed to share lunar practices among indigenous peoples for the purpose of addressing climate change will take place on O'ahu, Hawaii. In and of itself the conference has such hopeful application across the Pacific Rim and the whole of Earth. There is an additional value: the application of technology to facilitate on-line participation via what organizer Kalei Nu'uhiwa has coined HUBS. There is the potential for The Safety Pin Cafe to be one of those on-line centers or HUB to connect and participate in the conference called 'AIMALAMA. This is exciting news! Behind the scenes Pete and I are working to lay the groundwork for this to happen.

UPDATE:
We are moving very nicely through the details of bringing INTERNET and WIFI to the South Whidbey TITH.

We have opened our new gathering place HO'OMOKU in exactly the same place where The Safety Pin Cafe pitches its tent. On this place on Mother Earth, that is named in the Lushootseed Language "prairie front" we respectfully prepare stories and connections to make island. See more photos of the Opening Ceremony here, and the flow of activities here.

Aloha kakou. We look forward to telling stories with you, and send you all the very best of good cheer!

Mokihana and Pete

"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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