TIME FOR OUR POWER!

The Time For Our Power: Women Bringing Change to the World conference I attended in Asheville last weekend was spectacular! Speakers like Starhawk (a feminist and environmental activist who has been on the front lines of advocacy since the 60s) reminded us to keep plugging away. When consciousness about destroying the planet FINALLY shifts, it will be profound. When we direct our energy, investment and brilliance toward health and wellbeing for all living beings, no one will ever believe we could have ever been so blind!

For example, when apartheid fell in S. Africa, within a matter of weeks a cultural amnesia occurred, and people couldn't fathom that they had once felt it was THE ABSOLUTE RIGHT WAY TO LIVE. Suddenly the veil was ripped from their eyes.



Here are Julia Butterfly Hill (left, wearing black) and Starhawk singing & dancing at the close of the event. Julia is the activist who lived on a tiny platform 200 feet above the ground in the giant redwood tree, Luna, for 2 years & 8 days to protest the decimation of these ancient forests (now more than 97% plundered). She described her great pain at hearing the trees around her being destroyed by the logging companies-- but ultimately she prevailed and logging ceased in that part of the forest.

Her advice to us: "Know that it is painful to care, but we MUST care." Every intention and action for the wellbeing of the planet counts.

She also laughed that it's important not to be "Granol-ier than Thou." Ri-i-i-ght. What a great way to turn people off!


Photographer Phil Borges, commissioned by CARE to document third world people who have made a difference (bridgesweb.org) described his changing opinion of missionaries when he learned they'd taught headhunters in New Guinea that they no longer needed to kill a warrior from another tribe whenever one of their own warriors was killed. (They believed the other guy's head would help their deceased get into heaven). Nor did the women have to chop off a finger any longer when a male relative died. Think of all the fingers and heads spared by this slight shift in thinking!



Yes, it's possible. We can have peace in the valley, one day. Here's proof: my cousins' place in Burnsville,NC-- Sweet Hollow, home of Selena Glass & Metal.

The Millennium Gate

For the Millennium Gate,opening in midtown Atlanta at Atlantic Station on July 4th, my client GLASS CRAFT USA has created three stunning pieces to surround and focus attention on the central bust of President George Washington in the main gallery. The US Presidential Seal is etched and inlaid with 23 1/2 carat gold, along with the Washington family Coat of Arms and Washington’s family crest, all in full color.




Here are Basil Haslett of Glass Craft USA and Rodney Cook, who conceived the Millennium Gate, holding the Presidential Seal.

With its unique, US-patented portable etching process, GLASS CRAFT USA engraves designs onto all types of glass, including tempered. This 'deep cut' etching permits engraved designs to be painted or inlaid for spectacular full color and precious metal finishes. Basil Haslett, artist and inventor of the process, derives his technique from a family monument business founded in Ireland in 1745. www.glasscraftusa.com

HER MAJESTY'S LOYAL SUBJECTS

Toasts all 'round during the British American Business Group's annual Garden Party at the home of Her Majesty's Consul General Martin Rickard, here shown congratulating Basil Haslett, businessman and inventor, who established the US headquarters of Glass Craft USA in Atlanta. Haslett's US patent was granted in January 2008 for his process of etching and engraving tempered glass.



Past president Sarah Gilbert of the British American Business Group and I toast Basil with Pimm's--an exotic gin-based liquor made in England from dry gin, liqueur, fruit juices and spices. It was created in 1859 by the English oyster bar owner James Pimm. The recipe is still a secret, and only six persons know exactly how it is made. I never knew it existed, but the Brits and I all thrived on it in Atlanta's heatwave!



Celebrating the 400th anniversary of Bushmills -- established in 1608 in County Antrim (Basil's home turf) when King James I granted a license to produce whisky--here at FADO in Buckhead, Atlanta, Basil displays the etched and gilded Bushmills logo-- just a small portion of the entire work he completed using the Glass Craft process at the Bushmills Distillery in Northern Ireland.

The Campaign Tail

Hillary Rodham Kitten, inveterate campaigner, has curled up in exhaustion on the porch. Certainly a great way to tolerate a hot June day!

I'm also thrilled to be invited to be interviewed by Jean Adrienne on her 7th Wave Network "InnerSpeak Soul Adventures" on www.VoiceAmerica.com
next Tuesday, June 10, 8pm EST. I'll be talking about "How to Convert Your Chaos to Cash"-- the Simple Recipe for Right Brain Entrepreneurs to start making money with their gifts. Tune in!