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Walking for Water for Burkina Faso

esu — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 18:58:51 +0000

BARKA’s Walks for Water bring the rain! Don’t believe us? Watch the video…

The BARKA Foundation held its 1st Peace, Water & Wisdom Walk in 2009– a 500-mile journey through 20-cities-in-20-days to raise awareness and funds for clean water for the people of Burkina Faso, West Africa. On Peace Day BARKA held a walk for water in Ouagadougou, Burkina’s capitol. BARKA now walks with schools and communities in North America to build cultural bridges which help secure the human right to clean water & sanitation for all. Join us!

World Water Day

ali — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:30:07 +0000

It’s raining. Blessing.
Ina said today, let’s start a movement to switch the holidays, so instead of celebrating Columbus Day we celebrate the International Day of Peace. Let’s all take the day off on World Water Day and think about the billion people in the world who drink filthy water to stay alive, whose children die before their 5th birthday, who don’t have a fair chance. Let’s put our brightest minds to resolving this task in our lifetime.
We launched the website today- not without some drama- first it wouldn’t transfer to the live server, then it went live, the newsletter went out, but it hadn’t populated on all the servers, so at 10:34pm in France, our extraordinary volunteers Ali Thomson and Ed Dowding who had been working on this tirelessly for days, fixed it and informed us they were going to bed. This is what’s great about the non-profit world- the incredible devotion, dedication, service which comes from the heart- there’s no money involved, it’s an act of love. Non-profit work grows from love, and more of that selflessness needs to be spliced into the corporate DNA of capitalism IMHO… but that’s another subject best left to Michael Moore’s new film ‘Capitalism: a Love Story’.
Also today spoke with Procter & Gamble’s Children’s Safe Drinking Water (who put out PUR packets to filter water), had meetings with two school principals, one deputy superintendent, held a staff meeting, and treated our bodies to a pro bono spinal manipulation by a blessed chiropractor. Arrived late in the evening in Cherry Plain, NY, to our “village” here on Turtle Island, a place where we can rest, re-charge and plug into a force beyond ourselves.
Ina and I made beautiful music in Bertha, our Dodge Grand Caravan. The pitter-patter of the rain on the roof was accompaniment.

Mooserock

esu — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:35:55 +0000

Mooserock, our home in the bush of Maine, is just a few feet off a crystal clear spring-fed lake. We’re 17 miles from the nearest telephone pole. It’s pristine here. This place is an extraordinary vortex. No matter how challenging life gets, neither Ina nor I ever forget to be grateful to live in this sacred place. A small Honda generator, satellite dish and iMac keep open our window to the world and enable our work to continue moving forward even here in the middle of the woods. We had a conference call via skype with the co-founder and head of partner relations at Akvo.org and told them where we were—they thought we were pulling their leg! We told Jean Trudel of Cercle de Paix our living situation and he said, ‘that’s the vision of the future’. It’s largely about simplifying life, about being IN nature, about balance and sustainability and walking our talk and leading by example… it’s not always easy, but it’s delicious and alive and rich with the theatrical wonder of the universe- I’m attaching photos of the sunset I witnessed this evening.

Ina & I talk a lot about doing healing retreats out here, and if you’re reading this and are interested in learning more, let us know, because it’s feasible. Join us here in Eden for a night, a weekend or a week… re-charge your battery, find inner quietude, sit on top of the Oracle and listen deeply to the truth of your bones. We won’t even charge you a penny- would do it simply in exchange for a generous donation to The BARKA Foundation.