We are very pleased to announce that EarthSong is now officially incorporated as of September 8th 2008.
Here are two of our founding members Misters John Hartley and John Williams holding our certificate of Incorporation.
If you are interested in learning more about EarthSong, who we are and what we are doing, please checkout the Facebook EarthSong Aboriginal Healing PathwaysFoundation group here: EarthSong….Putting Action to the shared Vision for Change…
My buddy Deanna and I were both a bit tired, a bit low on joi-de-vivre… We work in human services / personal development and we know that this kind of tired and hearing sadness all the time needs very specific treatment!
It requires packing the picnic basket, spending hours amongst Nature with a cup of tea in china mugs, accompanied by a piece of apple-crumble cheesecake from the Yankalilla bakery…. taking time out of the city away from the mobile phones waves and relentless traffic….noise traffic, mobile phone traffic, people traffic and the news, news, news…
Nothing else will remedy what only Nature offers the weary 21st Century gals!….(;-)
Here is where we went…and if you look really closely you can see the Spirits of Nature all around…
Ingalalla Falls…nestled in between hilly country that is green and clean and lush….
We are having the launch of the heART of the Apology exhibition on Wednesday.
There were 11 posters created during the Apology at Elder Park here in Adelaide in the ‘heART’ Space that we established as a way to give ordinary Australians, of all colour, culture and creed a place to express their thoughts and feelings in a way that was divorced from the political footballing and rhetoric that was flooding the media in the months….and years … leading up to the Apology.
There was sadness and there were years and there was joy…
My buddy Katrina has worked for justice for many years and like so many other Aboriginal Women. her courage and resilience in the face of systemic racism have been out standing.
This fountain sits in the centre of the City…
The plaque reads: This fountain is based on the three rivers from which Adelaide draws its water. The Murray-Aboriginal Man and Ibis…The Torrens- Woman and Black Swan and The Onkaparing-Woman and Heron
The Aboriginal Flag was blowing in the wind behind the fountain…the flag was raised in that very spot for the first time over 30 years ago….
I came across the following interesting info on the Beacon of Light page [click here]… Recently the Adelaide Fountain Group sought to establish a beneficial lift in the energies over Adelaide starting by focusing on a sacred site in Victoria Square. The intention was to use this as a focus, linking out to problem areas to create change. Their work was developed from the original Fountain Group, based in Brighton, England, whose work had created a reduction in violence. The effects of that work are properly researched and documented.
The Adelaide Fountain Group was founded by Roger Brown, who has, unfortunately, now passed over to spirit. This group worked tirelessly, to create community healing, through the use of visualisation techniques to generate positive energy flows in Adelaide.
My very dear friend was deeply affected by the Apology Day as the high profile, political build up brought to the surface many things that happened to her that still have impact today.
It was not a celebratory week for her and she refused the offer to go to Canberra as part of the group representing the Stolen children who have survived.
On the weekend after the Apology she spent a couple of days with Sal and I and I invited her to create a piece of empowerment art to honour the Mother she never knew and the Sisters who were lost to her.I created the ‘base’ beads using Das clay, they had a Mother / Goddess theme you can see here:
I painted the base coat in the colours she requested and then she took the beads home with her after we spent a bit of time in the market picking the black and orange ‘filler” beads:
Words could not express the joy in my heart when my friend came to see me yesterday on the way back from a gathering of her colleagues who work with the Stolen Generation and she showed me her “Empowerment Necklace” in progress…
As I held the amazingly energised, vibrant beads in my hand I knew beyond any doubt that “creating” offers avenues and pathways that ‘counseling’ rarely travels along..
My friends Mother, Sisters, Daughters, Aunty and Grandmothers were all there in this beautiful strand of ’story beads’..
Pretty cool hey? I LOVE my friend…her resolve not to let the shocking events of her childhood overwhelm her never ceases to amaze me…
Honouring the Fathers, Uncles, Brothers, Grandfathers and Sons is the next story unfolding…
On October 11, 2004, 13 Indigenous Grandmothers from all over the world—the Arctic Circle, North, South and Central America, Africa, and Asia—arrived at Tibet House’s Menla Mountain Retreat amidst 340 acres of forests, fields and streams in upstate New York. Within a few days of convening, the grandmothers agreed to form a global alliance; to work together to serve both their common goals and their specific local concerns.
The first council gathering was a time of hope and inspiration.
The Grandmothers are both women of prayer and women of action. Their traditional ways link them with the forces of the earth. Their solidarity with one another creates a web to rebalance the injustices wrought from an imbalanced world; a world disconnected from the fundamental laws of nature and the original teachings based on a respect for all of life.
A large part of my life is spent creating Art with people who are walking the journey of healing and recovery I experience first hand the power of ART as a vehicle for connection and change.
I came across the following video created by the Foundation for Hospital Art…it is an inspiring and up lifting testimony to not only the power of ART …but the necessity for people to have a creative, uplifting outlet during times of trials and tribulations… and this includes the Staff as well as the patients / clients!
