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The heart is a door to everything. . .
By Kathleen
Volunteering in the Briar Patch,
Downtown Eastside, Vancouver
In the Fall of 2019, at an evening meditation circle in West Vancouver, I met Tory, a shamanic drummer, who spoke of participating in the Indigenous pipeline protests. Her courage was palpable and fascinating.
At another circle, in early 2020, she told me that she’d been asked to manage the Briar Patch neighbouring the Budzey, women’s housing, in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, and she was wondering if A Door To Everything Society would like to be involved. . .
I immediately said, “Yes” and since then we’ve been collaborating — mostly me watching Tory do amazing work — organizing this magical garden in the heart of Canada’s poorest postal code, Vancouver’s DTES.
Why I’m Making, Selling
and Donating Face Masks
My principal guide in January 2012 said to me in a reading, with Linda Dillon, channel for the Council of Love:
“Viruses are simply ideas that get transmitted.”
At the time I had no idea what she was talking about. Now it makes sense.
Recently I’ve had two emails telling me to stop making face masks.
There’s some controversy around them, and “good or bad” if someone would like to wear a mask, I feel it’s a personal choice.
June Ariano-Jakes
and Making Cards for the Ones on the StreetÂ
Recently the John Volken Academy women and I heard a talk from June Ariano-Jakes who has written a book called, Addiction: A Mother’s Story.
We listened spell-bound as this amazing woman, in a very soft voice, explained that she is incapable of anger and how that influenced her relationship with her son and his devastating addiction issues.
I highly recommend her book. It is an incredible look at the mean streets of Vancouver, the fall-out from the horrific life of an addict, and the gang activity.
John Volken Academy Graduation, January 5th, 2020
Congratulations to Brek, Lucas, Tylor, Tiernan, and Ellie!
John Volken Academy is a live-in therapeutic community in Surrey, BC, for recovery from addiction. Their excellent program focusses on life skills, striving to instil in each student the desire align with core values of self-worth, forgiveness, and humility.
For more details see here: https://www.volken.org/program/
Assisting Women and Children,
Cabos San Lucas, Mexico
December 3-10th, 2019, a group of us travelled with Kelly Oswald, owner of The Oracle, and her husband, James, to the tip of the Baja Peninsula, Cabos San Lucas, Mexico.
Kelly’s friend, Adriana, helped chaperone us as we visited foundations assisting beautiful women and children living in poverty and often violence.
We participated in sharing a simple drawstring back pack pattern for the ladies to sew and sell, lunch-time feeding and clean-up at a local school, lots of playing, and handing out requested gifts of crayons and colouring books.
It was hard to witness the dichotomy of rich and poor — I knew it was there having visited Cabos before — but not to the extent I saw it this time. There is a marina full of million dollar yachts and a few miles away dirt roads, not enough food, violence and abuse. . .
Bless the ones born into the physical poverty with the possibility of violence and abuse.
We are here to lift everyone up,
for gender equality to be reality here Now.
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