Earth Day~ Should be Every Day

I have been so busy tending my own plot of Earth that I almost forgot today was Earth Day..

So I hope you will not mind that I re-share a post I did for Earth Day in 2013. Along with a poem I wrote back then

Today’s Post  has  the comments Closed as I need to get more things done in my home garden and allotments as we prepare for our vacation. My thanks go out to all of those who regularly comment here upon my posts I so very much appreciate the time you take to leave me your lovely words. I am trying to manage my time here on WP, along with getting some posts ready to schedule to post for next week as When I am away.. You who are regular visitors here know I get around to you eventually but the volume I follow is huge so again I ask your patience .. .. You are all loved and appreciated so much.

May we all keep sending out our thoughts of Love, especially to Ecuador’s Earthquake  Victims   where so many are in need of help right now.

Looking at my Followers listings today as I logged onto my site.. I was amazed to see the number of followers has reached a magical 1,000..May I take this opportunity to thank all of my followers it gives me great pleasure to know so many now follow Dreamwalker’s Sanctuary..

Sending you All Loads of Love.. Have a wonderful weekend

Oh Earth Mother oh Earth Mother we come to you this day

We come to you in gratitude to honour you and say

Thank you for your bounties and wonderful gifts

For your rivers and your mountains and desert sand that drifts

Your forests full of life from insect to humming bird

Thank you for all wonders like migrating wildlife herds

Of Wildebeest and Elephant whose numbers now decline

I hope you will forgive the errors of Mankind

I’m sorry for the pain, for the scars upon your skin

Forgive us for the wars we’ve waged,Mankind will never win

I wish I could take back all the poisons from your skies

And undo all the damage as we Humans tell our lies

I hear you creak and groan as you shudder and you shake

I feel your falling tears in the rain and snow you make.

You show us with your storms the power you possess

Oh Earth Mother sweet Gaia your beauty you have brought

Please forgive your children whose damage we have wrought

Your beauty in each flower in the Seasons now all mixed

Have we stepped beyond the boundaries our damage never fixed

Oh Earth Mother our Earth Mother we come to you with Love

We come to ask forgiveness as we remember we are One.

 

 

 

On April 22nd is Earth Day Earth Day was founded back in the 70’s, We are all now more aware how our planet’s climate is changing, each of us have witnessed weather patterns that have gone haywire. We see daily the pollutants in our skies, Rivers and Oceans.

There are many things we each can do to help the environment, as we recycle, and embrace greener alternatives.. In our own area School children have been on a clear up campaign collecting rubbish from the streets, parks and hedgerows . Its also good to see the junior school with their own allotment near our own growing their own produce learning how to grow their own food and care for plants and wild life.

One of the greatest things each of us can do which costs nothing and that is to respect Nature, take your rubbish home with you, Don’t pick wild flowers. If you fish don’t leave your line and hooks in the water.. Simple things like helping Mother nature along, planting Bee and Butterfly friendly shrubs and plants in your garden.

Encourage Hedgehogs who keep your slugs down by leaving gaps in your garden fences. Many little things go a long way to helping Heal the World.. Respecting our environment in which we live and learning to respect each other will go along way to creating a better future for our Children to live and grow in our world..

Blessings

© Sue Dreamwalker – 2013 All rights reserved.

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Why Are we so Afraid?

This photo is from  Kindness Blog and if you are not following then I recommend you do .  The Words to this post are~

To those who attack ‘migrants’ online. Please take a few moments out of your day to really look at this photograph. And rethink.

Here is a father fleeing the war in Syria, crying whilst cradling his children.

Should he stop searching for a place of safety for his young family and take the children back into the war-zone?

What do you think he should do? What would you do in his situation?

Rethink!

I did.. And I wrote a Poem today as what I saw in the links below breaks my heart. 

Why are we afraid to share?

How is it we humans forgot to to Care

What would you do to protect your own

Wouldn’t you want to Flee a War zone.

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They gave up everything to seek a safe place

What is happening to the Human Race?

That we fear so much to give them a home

Didn’t our Nations escalate their War zone 

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What will it take to open our hearts

Imagine your Family ripped apart

These people have risked all in life and limb

Yet still we are afraid to let them in. 

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Why are we afraid to share?

We have to Change and Begin to CARE!

 Poem © Sue Dreamwalker  2015 .

 

Sources:

Photographer who took this photo Credit: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/21/taking-picture-cared-people-image-greek-syrian

http://kindnessblog.com/2015/08/21/migrants-how-about-a-rethink/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-34021665

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-34014353

 

Hobbit Round House Due to be demolished~Friday Facts

Sometimes you just have to speak out against Rules.. And While I so understand the need to have planning permission, Can any of you reading this see the need to demolish this perfectly blending home built of natural materials on privately owned land. In Pembrokeshire Wales UK,  Hand built by the couple living in it? 

Have you taken a look around your towns and cities in the UK or your area and seen the monstrosities that are built, do they blend in with the countryside, do they take into account an eco friendly environment? Just take a look inside this fabulous place built with natural woods

I  know I seem to be posting a few petitions recently and received this one from Change.org . I only got around to reading today having sat in my overcrowded email box for 8 days. So I am appealing to you to click the links and ask if you would sign this petition…  We are being squeezed left right and Centre and this piece of architecture should be given a prize for its innovation not be condemned to be pulled down, this would benefit no one .

The petition has gone world wide, so I am asking you to spread it a little further by signing and passing it on..  Many thanks in anticipation of your support for this couple. 

Below is the wording on the petition email and the links to press to join the petition ..  Love and Blessings and Thank you Sue

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“Locals call it the Hobbit House, for Charlie, Meg and one-year old Eli, it is their family home.

Charlie and Meg built their home entirely by hand using all natural materials on Charlie’s parents’ private land in North Pembrokeshire. The unique, environmentally friendly house has become well known in the local area.

However Charlie and Meg built their home without planning permission and now the Council have told the couple that they must return the land to its previous condition. This means destroying the house that they took a year to build.

The couple have applied for retrospective planning permission and Meg has started a petition on Change.org to try and save her home.

“We have built a home on private land in the area that we both grew up in. It is built out of low impact, natural and recycled materials. In building the house we have not caused any negative effects on the surrounding area or its population, we have simply created shelter as is our human right. We understand that the planning system is there for a reason, however we feel that big steps need to be taken in order to make low impact living more achievable and accessible to the population. Our application contains a One Planet Development management plan which sets out our plans for living lightly on the land. This management plan follows One Planet Development Practical Guidance Technical Advice Note 6 dated October 2012 guidelines set out by the Welsh Assembly and therefore our home is in accordance with these targets.”

Over 75,000 people are supporting Meg’s petition. What do you think? To help the family defend their home sign Meg’s petition.

Thank you,
Katherine and the UK Change.org team”

Update… Here is the link to the One Planet Development Practical Guide Technical Advice Note 6 guidlines which this couple complied with 

 http://wales.gov.uk/topics/planning/policy/tans/tan6/?lang=en

 

photo credits below

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/hobbit-house-global-support-grows-5692848

In Jail for trying to save the Arctic from Oil Drilling.

While you and I crave for cleaner oceans, less pollution, as we speak our speak. Others are walking their talk, and doing something to raise awareness in defence of our Environment in one of the last untouched places on Earth by man..  The Arctic….  I hope that if you are already an Avaaz member you will have already clicked and signed the petition, but if you are new to the organisation, then please feel free to read and pass on and I hope you will add your voice to that of others who want to stop this injustice for these Greenpeace warriors who want a greener peaceful world. 

This only came in my email box today and already 594,675, have signed..

Thank you for reading, and I am still in catch-up mode so trying to work my way down my email lists..

Blessing to you all for a Peaceful Weekend Sue

Update 

Update: 28 October 2013

Breaking news: last week the piracy charges were replaced with charges of hooliganism — still a wildly disproportionate punishment that carries up to seven years in jail. Let’s continue to stand with the brave Arctic 30 until these false charges are dropped entirely. Sign now and forward this campaign!

 

 

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Dear friends,

Ana Paula and 29 of her Greenpeace crewmates are trapped in a Russian jail for trying to save the Arctic from oil drilling. But our community could set them free if we help Greenpeace build a massive global outcry targeting Russia’s biggest global partners. Let’s reach 1 million to free the Arctic 30 — sign now by clicking below:

Ana Paula is a 31-year old from Brazil who wanted to peacefully protest Russia’s plans to drill the Arctic. Now she, along with her 29 crewmates from the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise, is locked in a Russian jail with no release in sight. But we can throw her and the rest of her crew a lifeline.
The Greenpeace staff, some in solitary confinement, are now facing fifteen years in prison on trumped up charges of piracy. Their crime? Hanging a banner on a Russian oil rig to protest dangerous deepwater drilling in one of the earth’s most beautiful and fragile places. Many western governments have already spoken out, but now Ana Paula and Greenpeace are asking the Avaaz community to help build a truly global outcry.
Together we can call on some of Russia’s strongest trade and political partners — Brazil, India, South Africa and the EU — to call for the release of the Arctic 30. Let’s reach 1 million to free Ana Paula and her friends. Once we hit that mark, Avaaz will project their faces in key public places to keep this story at the top of the news:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/free_the_arctic_30_loc/?blGazab&v=30393
This is what Ana Paula’s sister said about her: “In many ways, my sister is a typical Brazilian — talkative, friendly, and full of life. But she’s also simply extraordinary, passionate about nature since she was little, and never hesitating to stand up for it even at great personal risk.”
Now Ana Paula and her crewmates could lose 15 years of their lives, all for trying to hang a banner on a Gazprom oil rig, the first of its kind in the Arctic. This is an aggressive backlash against defenders of our environment — stopping oil drilling in the Arctic is about protecting the last great wilderness on earth, where oil spills are almost impossible to clean up.
Greenpeace has hired great lawyers who point out that the 30 were arrested in international waters, making Russia the one violating the international Law of the Sea. But being on the right side of the law may not be enough to regain their freedom, and their dreadful fate may be sealed soon unless the international community lets Russia know that this is a scandal that’s not going to go away.
Avaaz has a particularly powerful voice in many of these countries with huge memberships — 5 million in Brazil alone! If we all weigh in now and build a one million strong petition, Avaazers in Brazil, South Africa, India, and the EU can ramp up the pressure. Sign now to help build 1 million people to help free the Arctic 30:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/free_the_arctic_30_loc/?blGazab&v=30393
These Arctic 30 were brave enough to confront the oil industry in one of the last untouched places on earth. They are being silenced and intimidated by the oil industry for their bravery. Our community has stood strong for campaigners across the world — now let’s free these 30.
With hope and determination,
Jamie, Alex, Emma, Lisa, Ricken, Marie, Julien, Diego and the rest of the Avaaz team

MORE INFORMATION
Russia accuses Greenpeace crew of ‘piracy’ in Arctic (BBC)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24222392
Dutch sue Russia to recover ‘pirate’ Greenpeace crew (France24)
http://www.france24.com/en/20131004-netherlands-russia-greenpeace-oil-arctic-piracy-justice
What Russia’s Treatment of Greenpeace Activists Reveals About its Arctic Policy (The Atlantic)
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/10/what-russia-s-treatment-of-greenpeace-activists-reveals-about-its-arctic-policy/280352/
Legal analysis by International law professor Prof. Dr. Stefan Kirchner
http://fr.scribd.com/doc/173374193/Comment-on-the-institution-of-arbitration-proceedings-between-the-Kingdom-of-the-Netherlands-and-the-Russian-Federation-concerning-the-case-of-the-shi
Black Ice: Russia’s ongoing oil spill crisis (Report, Greenpeace)
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/campaigns/climate-change/arctic-impacts/The-dangers-of-Arctic-oil/Black-ice–Russian-oil-spill-disaster/

Petitions Do Help! ~Friday Facts

As some of you may know I support Avaaz and from time to time I have shared a particular petition with you, Its good to know that when we click those petitions we get results…. Below I received an email which I want to share showing how our clicks have helped in various campaigns… and to all those who I know support Avaaz The World in Action, 

A BigThank you too… 

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“Dear amazing community,
I often get asked by Avaazers, “what happens after I sign a petition?” And the truth is, a HECK of a lot! Every Avaaz campaign springs from a massive global mandate, and then zeroes in on the best way for our voices to win. Here’s just two of our victories from the last few weeks:
Remember when 2 million of us came together to stop the flogging of a 15-year old rape victim in the Maldives? Her sentence has been quashed! Here’s what our team did to win:

Our ads threatened the profits of officials who owned parts of the tourism industry

1. Spoke for hours with the Maldivian Attorney-General and Ministers and emailed the President at his personal account.
2. Commissioned opinion polls showing massive support for reforms to protect girls. And wrote an Op-Ed in a major national paper.
3. Persuaded a top Islamic scholar to speak out against flogging.
4. Threatened to run an ad (right) in tourism publications, affecting the country’s major industry.
5. Visited the Maldives and the location where the girl was held, pressing officials directly.

Ahmed Shaheed, former Foreign Minister of the Maldives said “The Avaaz contribution was the spearhead of the campaign to overturn the flogging sentence; a petition signed by millions, a country visit, a public opinion survey, and persistent follow-up all proved irresistible.”

Another example: Remember how almost 2 million of us rallied to stop the Maasai tribe in Tanzania from being kicked off their land for a hunting reserve? Last week, the Prime Minister announced they could stay! The petition provided a powerful basis for what the team did next:

Maasai women gather to protest the eviction. Photo by Jason Patinkin

1. Got CNN and the Guardian to visit the Maasai and break the wider story to the world.
2. Advised Maasai elders on their campaigning strategy.
3. Flooded Ministers and the President with messages — forcing a debate in cabinet and Parliament.
4. Ran a hard hitting newspaper ad in an influential paper which publicly shamed the government.
5. Persuaded diplomats worldwide to raise the issue — embarrassing the government.
6. Financially supported Maasai elders to travel to the capital where they gathered to ‘occupy’ land outside of the Prime Minister’s office for weeks, refusing to leave until he met them.

Gordon Brown said: "A million dollars has been raised via the brilliant Avaaz.org, in just a few days."

Key Brazilian Senator joins Avaaz "open vote" naked protest sending a clear message: "we have nothing to hide"

The victory belongs to the Maasai people, but our community helped them win by making this a global issue the government could no longer ignore. This hopefully ends a 20 year land battle!!
Of course, our community does a LOT more than petitions. Last week, we raised a $1 million challenge grant in a few days to donor governments to put Syrian refugee kids in school. At a UN meeting, I was able to put a cheque on the table and issue the challenge on behalf of over 40,000 Avaaz donors. UN Education Envoy Gordon Brown, who chaired the meeting, called our community’s effort a "magnificent and impactful intervention" in getting other governments to give!
And often it’s not the Avaaz team but our community that does the direct lobbying. For example in Brazil, we’re inches away from winning a massive fight to end the shady practice of ‘secret voting’ in the Congress. Our huge push helped win the vote in the lower house and right now, Senators’ telephones are ringing off the hook as Avaaz members across Brazil use our online calling tool to directly tell them to stop this corruption — experts say a win is likely in days!
It’s this unique magic mix between a gigantic and spirited community of citizens able to speak out, donate, and lobby, and a small team of top notch advocates able to take smart, strategic actions at the highest level with democratic legitimacy, that makes our campaigns increasingly unstoppable.
If we keep believing in each other, and growing in size and in commitment, there’s no limit to the good we can do in the world. Thank you so much for the honour and the joy to be part of and serve this community. It’s something truly precious we have here — let’s keep building Avaaz.
With love and appreciation,
Ricken and the team

PS — You might not know that Avaaz is different from just about every other global organization in that we are 100% funded and guided by our community. Every campaign we run is first polled and tested to a random sample (you might think of it as a jury) of our community, that tells us exactly how the whole the community will react. I may be the CEO, but you’re my boss. If you don’t like something (and I don’t mean 51% like it, but 81% like it) then our team go back to the drawing board and come up with a better option for you. We have never, ever, broken this rule. So at the end of the day, it is your wisdom, the collective wisdom of our community, matched with the smartest suggestions the team hears from you and come up with ourselves and from our partners and experts, that determines what we do every single day.
When you add to that the fact that 100% of our funding comes from small online donations (we strictly refuse any donations from corporations, governments, foundations, and even individual donations over 5000 Euros), I think Avaaz may be one of the purest organisational expressions of people-powered change in the world today. Make that an organisation served by a beautiful team of wonderfully talented and deeply committed people that I wish I could introduce you all to, and we’ve got a kind of magic that can build the world we dream of.”

 

Sources:    http://avaaz.org/en/

Friday Facts ~ What has happened to our Hearts?

Do we really understand the fragility of Life?

Have we ever thought of consequence and all the Strife?

So we can run around in cars and have our pretty things

Have you ever thought of all the pain we Human’s bring?

Have you ever thought just what it’s like to have your home bulldozed

And have you thought how hard it is to find enough to eat

When driven from your home

To Walk for miles to find a drop of water

And then to find you face a gun and you come up for slaughter

Have you ever considered just how you’d feel if orphaned you were left

As your mother became a trophy with her skin stripped from her chest?

Did you never spare a thought for the Ocean and her depths?

A dumping ground for all our waste no longer we respect,

It’s time to understand that we cannot turn away

For we are each responsible for the world we live today

We humans have tipped the scales as we destroy with tools of greed

It’s time to re-awake and replant a caring seed

By Sue Dreamwalker

If you click the Links below the Facts speak for themselves..  If you prefer I hope to have linked the photo’s from their original found source where you can read more about each subject.

Wishing you ALL a Very Peaceful Weekend and loving weekend with your families, and I would just ask one thing…

Please keep sending your thoughts of Peace and Love from your hearts to the World and All who are in need

I hope you also enjoy this Video

~All around the World-Open up your Hearts~ Forever United .

Sources :

http://www.worstpolluted.org/pollution-facts-2009.html

http://worldwildlife.org/threats/deforestation

http://www.survivalinternational.org/tribes/guarani

http://www.ifaw.org/sites/default/files/publications/woa/woa16/woa_uk/index.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2312483/Disney-documentary-Chimpanzee-Alpha-male-Freddy-saved-Oscar-orphaned-baby-chimp.html

http://www.savetigersnow.org/problem

http://www.projectaware.org/project/marine-debris

http://michellemasters.com/stationery/blank-notecards/plant-love.-grow-peace.

http://18deviki.wordpress.com/2011/02/02/

Friday Facts~ Prayer- Emotion – Healing

Prayer Circles..

 

 

Prayer Circles are now global phenomena and possibly the main means of bringing people together in unity for the purpose of healing and reconciliation.

 

I believe that the power of our thoughts/prayer works. Our thoughts in them selves are living energy, and if used in this collective way, can bring about an amazing energy shift to a person or situation it is then directed to.

 

If we could but realise, that surrounding what looks to us like empty space, are millions of tiny particles of energy which react and conform to the expectations and beliefs that we have about our world.

If we could all but realise that all of us are connected to this intelligent field of energy the Matrix.

And that by attuning our thoughts, or directing them, we then create our own reality. Which is our experience.

 

If we could all accept with out any doubt, that this energy surrounds all of us, Miracles Can Happen take a look here how Thought cured a Cancerous Tumour 

 

And if we could allow our thoughts to change from our perception of a world where we are limited in our beliefs of what is not possible, to one where anything is possible, we could change our lives, to become healthier, and fuller in every sense. By manifesting by that power of thought.

 

I now try very hard to manifest the positive into my life. This is the most difficult. For each of us are conditioned by our belief systems that have been indoctrinated into us since early childhood.

But scientists are now discovering that we are not limited to the laws of physics and biology as we know them today. And that our very DNA of life, is a code that may be changed by choice.

 

 

 

At this moment many places around our globe are in need of healing prayers. And at the forefront of my mind at the moment is to the People of Syria especially to the children who are suffering so much 

The next place is Egypt another volatile place for pending disaster to occur on a huge scale. 

Please send these places your love and compassionate thoughts as we ask for the healing of these lands and unity and stability as we ask for peace for their peoples and those of the whole world.

For we are not separate we are One  

 All of us are Connected 

 

Use the power of your own prayers, your thoughts, to bring about that change to your own, lives also which will  ultimately affect the whole world.

 

Peace and Health to you all and please spare some time to listen to Gregg Braden who shows us how on that terrible day of 911 our thoughts ALL Connected and Science saw how it affected the Energy of our World 

Sources

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-23803308

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-23777201

Friday Facts~ Sound Healing

Have you ever wondered why we so enjoy Music? and why various styles seem to either lift our mood or sooth our spirits?or some grater on our nerve endings!  

Sound Healing comes in various forms,  I have personally received healing from various sources. Crystal Singing Bowls, Tuning Forks and the Mighty Gongs. The Gong Bath  in particular shifted something within my being as I physically felt something leave my aura to be replaced with a new found peace within.

Sound Healing isn’t new, and if you research back to ancient times many ceremonies were done through sound.

I know in the 90’s when I was going through my own major self healing after listening to some tapes by Deepak Chopra called Magical Mind Magical Body In which he speaks about our vowel sounds, I remember driving to work, and on occasion still do chant out Very Loudly the vowel sounds in a chant, each vowel holds its own frequency…  Chanting brings an awareness of our own voice, as we express outwards our feelings, and there are some interesting theories as how certain frequencies are powerfully connected to our body. This includes the frequency of 528hz,referred to as ancient solfeggio frequencies which has been researched for its proposed ability to heal and resonate with human DNA I did my own research on the net, and came across this site and post here called ( Forgotten in Time: The Ancient Solfeggio Frequencies ) 

Interestingly too the Author of this post went on to explain How Deepak Chopra was a big inspiration and listened to the same tapes I did where Deepak Chopra explained saying “ "Quantum physics has found that there is no empty space in the human cell, but it is a teeming, electric-magnetic field of possibility or potential.” this made me smile as it seemed as synchronicities seemed to be playing their roll. 

Within that same article the author went on to say- how music makes waves which produces shapes and patterns and quoted a passage from a book by the first to make that connection who was a German scientist, Ernst Chladni who in 1787, detailed his findings in his book "Discoveries Concerning the Theory of Music." These patterns and figures are called Chladni figures . Each note has a corresponding pattern or vibration.

My own tool is the Drum, And if we look back through time we see how the Drum beat has been used not only in rituals but also within our military as we march to its beat!.  The Drum is very powerful and many join within Drumming circles, You can find out  how to call Healing  within a Drumming Circle from an article in the magazine Sacred Hoop of 2003 in an article called Healing Power of the Drum Circle 

Sound Healing works, because we are all vibration, we all resonate with our own frequencies,  for those wishing to learn more the links are below and of course there are many many articles covering this subject upon the web..

For those who have not much time I will leave you with this one note of vibration from a Singing bowl.. if you go to the YouTube site you will find more about this One note and how it heals…

 

And for those who have 5 minutes to spare this Om Meditation.

 

 Have a Wonderful Weekend, and I will visit and catch up with you as soon as I am able..

Sue~Dreamwalker

Sources:

 http://www.holistic-resonance.com/

http://gongsofjoy.com/articles/

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Magical-Body-Mind-Connection-Well-Being/dp/0743530136/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1376658622&sr=8-1&keywords=magical+mind+magical+body

http://www.somaenergetics.com/forgotten_in_time.php

http://theworlddrum.com/more.html

http://shamanicdrumming.com/healing_power_of_the_drum_circle.html