January 31, 2008 

"The brain speaks through words; the heart in the glance of the eyes; and the soul
through a radiance that charges the atmosphere, magnetizing all."
— Hazrat Inayat Khan

Welcome to the HeartStream Pulse Newsletter!
The HeartStream Pulse is sent as a service to our HeartStream Sufi Community as a communications forum. The Pulse will include: notices whenever a personal need arises, services to offer, housing available, items for sale, notices about interest/discussion groups, and community-related information to share.

Dedication of This Month's HeartStream Pulse
We dedicate the HeartStream Pulse this month to our Visioning of the new year. In this season, we honor the sowing and tending of new seeds for a future that we will co-create with the beloved within and without, for ourselves, our loved one's, and our community. We also honor Visioning as it is practiced in all the world's cultures, philosophies and faiths.

For more on Visioning, you can read Al-Basit - Our Collective New Year's Evolution and Sharing Baraca - The Talking Stick in this months issue.

This month's HeartStream Pulse may have events not yet posted on the current
HeartStream Local Events Calendar.

The HeartStream Sufi Community Invites you to come celebrate with us at “The Gathering”, which is a seasonal celebration that includes a Potluck, Dances of Universal Peace, Zhikr, and Live Music with your beloved community.

The Gathering is a Heartstream Community Fundraiser. The theme of this season's Gathering is Open Hearted Friends - "Awakening to Love".

The Gathering will be held on Saturday February 2, from 6:00-10:30pm. It will be at the Quaker Meeting House, at 225 Rooney St. Santa Cruz (off Hwy 1, at Morrissey Blvd).

The Gathering's Schedule of Activities:

6:00 pm Crystal Zhikr with Amrita playing the singing crystal bowls.
(You can bring something comfortable to sit or lay on for this, like pillows, mats, blankets.)

6:45 pm Potluck Bring a delectable finger food appetizer or entree to share

7:30-10:30 pm Dances of Universal Peace and Zhikr

$15 asked at the door.

Children come in for free and there is Child care provided. Please call to let us now the ages of the children you are bringing to reserve childcare call Leela Ball at 465-1123.

The move to the Palomar Ballroom is just around the corner. At the beginning of February is The Gathering at the Quaker Center on Saturday night the 2nd, then on Sunday the 3rd, we will have the last Sunday Night Dance Meeting at the Garden.

On Sunday, February 10th, we will be inaugurating the Palomar Ballroom as the new home for the Sunday Night Dances. The ballroom is host to lots of dances events, including Cynthia's Nia classes. The elegant ballroom dates back to the 1930's with its ornate architecture and large wooden floor. This gives you plenty of room to move back without obstruction and you can whirl like a dervish.

The Palomar Offers A New Opportunity
Since moving here over 5 years ago I have loved the inner and outer spaces at The Garden. I have also wanted to dance with more people as I had in Sacramento . My vision for this new year is to be dancing with 50 or 60 people every Sunday night at the Palomar Ballroom. As a dance leader this means I will be able to increase my skills at leading large groups and rounds and countermelodies. In addition it gives us all an opportunity for outreach to our larger communities. Ultimately this will mean we can help spread the message of Sufism far and wide. Alhumdullilah. - Leela

The Palomar Ballroom is located at 1344 Pacific Avenue in downtown Santa Cruz. It is on the Mezzanine (2nd floor-- the level of the Palomar Inn Hotel) above El Palomar Restaurant. Once you are inside the Palomar Inn, take the stairs or the elevator to the second floor. The ballroom will be on your left (down a couple of steps). For information and directions to the Palomar, see http://www.palomarballroom.com/ballroom.php. For a map, see http://maps.google.com

The Mezzanine has an area where people can meet and chat before and after the dances. You are in downtown Santa Cruz where you can go to coffee and tea shops, ice cream parlors, cookie stores or even bookstores after the dances. Have dinner and then dance.

I have felt so very blessed over the past 7 years to have our community gathering at The Garden and pouring forth blessing to the world with our song and dance. The baraca grows with each dance and its field of influence deepens and widens. From our new location down town we will send out wave upon wave to the greater community of Santa Cruz changing forever its vibrational field and blessing it with love, harmony, and beauty. I hope you will all be a part of anchoring this new presence in the heart of Santa Cruz . - Tofah

People have asked about parking. There is plenty of parking garages and parking areas around the Palomar. For a map of the parking areas in downtown Santa Cruz, see http://www.ci.santa-cruz.ca.us/pw/trafeng/parking/1.html. Next to the Palomar is the Soquel/Front Garage located at the corner of Soquel Avenue and Front Street. It is a $1.50 for 3 hours. Directions from the garage to the ballroom are on the website http://www.palomarballroom.com/ballroom.php.

There is a free garage a block away (#10 on the map.) The River Street Garage is located between River Street and Front Street next to the Galleria Office Complex. The ground floor of this parking lot has no charge and is open 24-hours a day. On Sundays, you can use the upper levels of the garage for free also. By the way, the top floor of the garage gives you a great view of downtown Santa Cruz. There is plenty of parking available on Sunday nights as well.

Through our move to the Palomar in downtown Santa Cruz, my vision is that the Dances continue to be an ever-expanding source of light, upliftment, presence and transformation, and that the loving intimacy of the Beloved we experience in communion with each other be available to a widening circle of open-hearted friends. Vanessa Hafiza

Join us....help us make the dream of an ever expanding Dance circle a reality.

The Sufi Healing Circle has decided to meet every Wednesday at 7pm, led by Jamila Rose. In addition to our individual prayers for Nancy Grace and others in challenging transitions, the circle offers strength and support to all who are in need of healing prayer.

Please contact Jemila Rose at 464-1552 or bjrose@cruzio.com if you would like to be on the healing list or have been contacted by someone who has requested healing prayers.

Where: 912 Capitola Ave., Apartment #18 (ground floor) in Capitola

Directions: Drive 1 1/4 streets up the hill on Capitola Avenue from Gayle's bakery. Second driveway on the right past Hill Street. Walk to end of driveway, facing a 2 story building. #18 is on ground floor. Call for more detailed directions if needed.

Please park on the street as parking is limited to tenants.

HeartStream Women - You are invited to join with your Sufi Women's Community in a Play Day Celebration each month.

Our 'Henna' play date in January was amazing and fun. We enjoyed the potluck snacks we brought, re-connected and shared what is going on in our lives, and were decorated with henna body art by Anita (from the last Gathering).

You're invited to come and join us at our next Sufi Women's Play Day!
The date and other information will be emailed out on Wayne's 'Sufi Community Events Calendar'. To be added to Wayne's email list, send an email to events@sufievents, and include your name and email address. Wayne's email list is private and never sold to or used by another organization.

You can email me, Adora, at adoradeva@got.net or call 566-9678 for more information or with your Play Day ideas.

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one
- From "Imagine", by John Lennon

The Santa Cruz HeartStream Sufi Community particapes in "Last Night Santa Cruz" a "Do It Yourself" parade and celebration which is a decentralized, collective, open, public New Year's Eve celebration.

Sufi Heritage
Beloved Ones of God, by Pir Zia Inayat Khan

Beloved Ones of God,

It is said that when God created the world, every creature was given a unique quality from the divine treasury for the formation of its essential nature. When the treasury of qualities was expended, one creature remained to be created: the human being. In the absence of any remaining quality, the human being was given a special dispensation. God delegated to the human being the right to determine its own way of being.

This Trust is the greatest privilege and the greatest responsibility imaginable. It is the root of all that is evil. Every act of self-aggrandizement, rancor and violence is an abuse of the freedom bestowed by the Trust. But the Trust is also the root of all that is good. Every act of compassion, kindness, creativity, and inspiration – every act, that is to say, that Bows from a direct experience of the unity of being – fulfills the hope implicit in the Trust and advances the horizon of meaningfulness in the Universe. In offering this Trust for the sake of love, the One Being has taken an enormous risk, and the tragic results and even deeper dangers are everywhere to be seen. Still, God’s hope is in our hands.

The Sufi Order exists for the sole purpose of supporting human beings to fulfill the Divine hope that is the true basis of our freedom. We come together because we recognize in one another the same ideal, the ideal of sacred service to the cause of wholeness – wholeness in ourselves, wholeness in the world, and wholeness in reality itself. Rising above all distinctions and differences of race, nation, and religion, we come together to awaken to the Divine life as it transpires within and between us, illuminating the path that leads out toward the open horizon of all possibility.

May we all deepen in our faith, in our dedication, and in our capacity for conscious and conscientious service of the One.

With loving thoughts and heartfelt prayers,

- Pir Zia Inayat Khan

A woman when asked by a lama how she was handling her enemies replied –“oh I don’t have any enemies.” He replied “oh, I am so sorry”.

The sangha or spiritual community that we live and work within are not only our great support but as well our great reflection and source of constant growth. Bawa Muhauyaddeen, a beloved 20st century illumined Sufi said: in the realm of the Beloved there is no fight or enmity between you and me. The real war is between the truth and your lack of wisdom - between truth and falsehood. The question is whether we can stand in the balance of the right and the truth, willing to face our fears, our addictions, our attachments, and aversions – in other words free of the ego or nafs.

Our first job as a Spiritual Warrior according to Hazrat Inayat Khan is to crush the Nafs or ego (the Satan within). Hazrat Inayat Khan says: The ego always wants feeding, and the more you feed it the more energy it has. We feed it by our inclination, by getting praise from people or attentions, benefits, help, or love. Whether these come justly or through injustice, rightfully or not, this ego is never satisfied; it keeps on wanting attention. As a result it begins to rule over the higher faculties of inspiration and spiritual power, of wisdom and reason, and justice – all the beautiful qualities.

Murshid Samuel Lewis suggests lulling the devil to sleep rather than rousing him to wakefulness with opposition. He says: the two possible ways to get rid of the Nafs are either opposition to unrighteousness or cultivation of righteousness. Opposition is like pulling weeds – but it is easy to miss the roots and they will grow back. Opposition to unrighteousness sometimes leads to self righteousness and we need to be careful of moral crusades in which we strengthen our pride and agitate our nafs. The cultivation of the heart qualities is the superior way often which can be likened to planting a ground cover that chokes out the weeds. In the same way, Inayat Khan recommends the development of heart qualities like will-power to control outbursts of emotion, leaving self-pity behind, and letting go of strong attachment of likes and dislikes which keep the fires going.

I am reminded of Krishna’s teachings to Arjuna in the great war depicted in the Mahabharata - that even though they were his family he must fight their evil. They of course are his family and represent the aspects of self that must be brought under control.

There is a story in Spiritual Mastery that Hazrat Inayat Khan tells that depicts the nature of the spiritual warrior who has freed himself from control by the Nafs. The story is told of a great Sufi master who lived in Arabia. During some war a certain battle was fought. Now in those days battles were hand-to-hand fights, and this man’s enemy was overpowered by him and he was about to kill him. But at this moment the enemy spat in his face. The teacher immediately let go of the man and did not kill him. The enemy was greatly surprised at this and said, “You were about to kill me; why did you not do so?” He replied, “The reason is that you did something that was bound to rouse my anger, and if I had killed you while under the influence of anger I would have acted against by principles. Therefore, as soon as I caught myself in this fault I became unable to carry through my first intention.”

Inayat Khan says that this development is really for yourself, and once you have attained it the course of action is in your hands. As for example you are taking the part of a king on the stage and your part calls on you to become angry with a servant, you do not really become angry. You just play the part of a king who is cross. Thus you can be cross without being actually angry. When once the Nafs is crushed you will never find it necessary to be angry again, though you can act the part of one who is angry and pretend to be angry. In this way you are justified in whatever course you find before you in life, as long as you really have freed yourself from control by the Nafs.

From Buddhism we are given a similar teaching: Simha says "One doubt still lurks in my mind concerning the doctrine of the Blessed One. I am a soldier, and am appointed by the king to enforce his laws and to wage his wars. Does the Tathagata who teaches kindness and compassion permit the punishment of the criminal? Does the Tathagata declare that it is wrong to go to war for the protection of our homes, our wives, our children, and our property? Does the Tathagata teach the doctrine of a complete self-surrender? Does the Tathagata maintain that warfare waged for a righteous cause should be forbidden?

Buddha replied: He who deserves punishment must be punished; and he who is worthy of favor must be favored. Yet at the same time the Tathagata teaches to do no injury to any living being but to be full of love and kindness. These injunctions are not contradictory, for whosoever must be punished for the crimes which he has committed, suffers his injury not through the ill-will of the judge but on account of his evil-doing. His own acts have brought upon him the injury that the executor of the law inflicts. When a magistrate punishes, let him not harbor hatred in his breast; and a murderer, when put to death, should consider that this is the fruit of his own act. The Tathagata teaches that all warfare in which man tries to slay his brother is lamentable, but he does not teach that those who go to war in a righteous cause, after having exhausted all means to preserve the peace, are blameworthy. He must be blamed who is the cause of war. The Tathagata teaches a complete surrender of self, but he does not teach a surrender of anything to those powers that are evil, be they men or gods or the elements of nature. Struggle must be, for all life is a struggle of some kind. But he that struggles should look to it lest he struggle in the interest of self against truth and righteousness. He who struggles in the interest of self, so that he himself may be great or powerful or rich or famous, will have no reward, but he who struggles for righteousness and truth, will have great reward, for even his defeat will be a victory. Self is not a fit vessel to receive any great success; self is small and brittle and its contents will soon be split. Truth, however, is large enough to receive the yearnings and aspirations of all selves.

We are at times asked to be willing to wield the compassionate stick of the Zen Master. It is not solid wood that can become a flute, but the empty reed. It is a blessed soul whose heart is empty of self, who is filled with the light of God and is available to be an instrument of the King. If we can realize that the world of God is one of splendor and magnificence as seen in the wise and the foolish, in the good and the bad, then we would think tolerantly and reverently of all mankind. Fighting the war of truth over ignorance, we are victorious even if defeated.

Click here to print the full text of Spiritual Warriors, by Tofah Eileen (pdf).

Gratitude for HeartStream Partners' Support in 2007

Heartstream Sufi Community is deeply grateful to all of the friends who generously supported our Partnership Fund in 2007. Because of their support, Heartstream Sufi Community has $1,100 in a fund earmarked to provide emergency assistance to members of our community. We are in the process of developing a program of "navigators" who who are trained in accessing community resources that are available.

If you donated to the partnership and did not receive an end of year thank you/tax credit letter, please contact Jay so that we might correct our records and so record your meritorious deed. jdravich@yahoo.com

With much love, Jay

EnJOYing E-X-P-A-N-S-I-O-N

The wise and ever present council of "they" have told me that 2008 (28/10/1) is numerologically a ONE year. "They" concur that a one year is auspicious because it is a twofold beginning. For one, it is a new year, a traditional time for planting seeds for the upcoming year. And, what makes the beginning of 2008 even more auspicious is that we are also at the beginning a new ten year cycle. The seeds of your/our intention now will continue to grow and manifest throughout the next ten years!!! Now more than ever, is the time to E-X-P-A-N-D your vision outward beyond limitation and enJOY the manifestation of your dreams right here, right now.

At the Dances on Jan. 13th , with as many hands as would fit, we poured our collective energy into a woven basket that held cards with the 99 beautiful names of Allah. As our hearts held the intention that guidance for the highest good of our community be revealed, our voices harmonized Hu. The wazifah Al-Basit, briefly surmised as Expanding Boundaries, was drawn as the pathway for our community this year.

As divine synchronicity would have it, Al-Basit (expanding boundaries) is naturally occurring in our community as we move the Dances of Universal Peace to the Palomar Ballroom to accommodate our ever expanding community. Furthermore, acting as an instrument of Al-basit, the Heartstream community expands outward in an interfaith outreach program. Heartstream will be meeting with various leaders of the many faith communities in Santa Cruz to share ceremony, meals, Dances, prayer and heart space together. We will be inviting several leaders of the other churches to each of The Gatherings to light the candle of their faith and offer a prayer in the Universal Worship Ceremony. Please contact us if you know of any organizations which you would like us to expand outward towards.

Let's take a deeper look into Al-Basit so that we may consider possible ways in which to employ the guidance of Al-Basit into our personal lives. Neil Douglas-Klotz (Saadi Shakur Christi) in his book, "The Sufi Way of Life", writes, "When you are guided to this pathway, take the opportunity to allow Allah to gradually expand your boundaries-physical, mental, emotional, and psychic". Saadi goes on to speak of the various ways being hurt may have either caused part of us to close or caused us to create, "very dense boundaries, a sort of emotional-somatic scar tissue." Saadi goes on to suggest that the choosing of this pathway may be calling us to expand beyond our self imposed limitations and become more porous so that we are more receptive to the flow of the One. Saadi uses the Qur'an to continues his exploration of Al-Basit

"Spend your life in the cause of Unity-
consider it a loan to Allah.
Your life will double, at least, in interest.
Only the One expands and contracts you-
no other source of need or bounty.
And only to the One do you return."

An hour before the dance on Jan. 6th, I sat in meditation holding "The Sufi Book of Life" in my palms, and our community in my heart, with a deep exhalation I used my breath to open the pages of the book to Ar-Rafi, briefly surmised as "exaltation". While I effort to accept all the beautiful 99 names of Allah as so, I certainly have my preferences. Given my reputation in our Monday evening Mureed's group for drawing some more of the, shall I say "challenging" wazifah's, I was somewhat relieved, and doubly overjoyed to see Ar-Rafi before my eyes. Saadi suggests, "When you are guided to this pathway, take the opportunity to contact the part of your being that feels like jumping for joy, honored and exalted." Alhumdullilah! Several people shared their inspiration for embodying Rafi and Basit at the end of the Zhikr. Our beloved Brigid says that she finds joy in, "tapping into the innate energy of spirit within everything".

Ren, visiting from Ellensburg WA, finds that being with children brings her joy. She declares that '"children are the embodiment of joy" and looks forward to expanding the vibration of the Santa Cruz Heartsream community outward to her home in WA. May you find a myriad of ways to resonate with your own innate joy to expand it outward in 2008 and always.

EnJOY, Cynthia

Sharing Baraca - The Talking Stick
The Value of Visioning a Future that Calls to You
by George Chipman

Why do we want things to be better for us? Aren’t we already enlightened? Maybe, but if we’re enlightened why are we still suffering – even a little? God loves to give, but that requires there be someone there who will receive. Will you be there, awake with heartful imagination to receive all that is possible in your Life – beyond what you so far have been willing to imagine is possible? I know you can, and you are the one who must be willing to co-create it.

Visioning is about creating a future, one that will be this moment when it arrives. How you shape your actions (what you are choosing to have your actions align with) to allow for such a moment as 'now' to be the home of such a future of ‘fullness’ as you are choosing with your imagination, can be called Visioning.

In a more real sense, Visioning is also about co-creating who you are, who you are being in the moment. It is about inventing and committing to new ‘ways of being’ in the world using self inquiry, intention and imagination in the moment, out of which new possibilities will flow into our world as perceived in the domain of time. Thus, Visioning methods focus on what we are choosing in this moment and what we are committed to (be it consciously or unconsciously) in this moment.

In other words, if you aren’t creating and living from a consciously created Vision which is about what you are creating and standing for in the moment, then your conditioned mind will decide your actions for you on an unconscious level based on its own priorities – past-based survival fear. You may have noticed this when it feels like you’re going round and round getting nowhere because the conditioned mind is incapable of choosing anything actually new.)

Spiritual advancement is still available in either case, but living from your Vision provides the possibility of aligning with the intentions of Spirit without as much of what, for instance, Buddhism calls the third or deepest state of suffering, the ‘pervasive suffering of conditioning’ which we and other animals filter out for survival purposes, but must confront and overcome when we are ready to advance beyond conditioned egoic identity (by means of spiritual practices including Visioning, loving kindness, studying scripture, selfless service, forgiveness, prayer, meditation, etc which help weaken the grip of ego and encourage the realization of oneness with all humanity as faces of the beloved.)
So, consciously creating your Vision for the year and for your Life experience, is a powerful act of creation that allows you to move your world into alignment with your deeper yearning and commitment. In practice, Visioning occurs for us as intention and action, in the inner world of thought and feeling and in the outer world of the action that must and does follow as we are holding our Vision in the activities of our daily lives.

Realize that your actions are always aligning with what you are holding in front of your imagination and are committed to, be it your unconscious belief system or your consciously created Vision. When you have discerned and committed to your Vision, then your actions begin to align with that Vision, and the conditioned beliefs have less and less grip on determining what is, or is not, possible in your life.

One Visioning method:
Step 1: Choosing to inquire with Love and intention into our heart's yearnings. This step takes some time, intentionality and integrity to stick with what you have set out to accomplish – listening to your heart, telling the truth to yourself on what you find there, looking toward guidance and inspiration on the path and purpose that calls to you in your LIfe. You may notice the rewards that arise as possible in new ways of being and doing for you, as well as what old ways of action have cost you and others.
You can make a few notes afterwards on what you are discovering in this, and each step of the process. You may choose to make several sessions of this inquiry over several days always committing to continue the clarifying process into deeper and useful levels of awareness and realization. Remember to look for inspiration not perfection, and then take who you are at that point in the process to the next step. Use your notes to focus on what you are willing to be committed to in your Life. Let all your feelings be there – notice then and release past beliefs and dramas that no longer serve you.

Step 2: Create out of the inquiry process a conscious Vision for what is actually possible in your live (even though that Vision may seem greater than what you can currently believe could 'be' - that's fine). If the Vision is just so big that you are overwhelmed, you can piece it down a bit – but still make it a stretch – it helps exercise your wings of Spirit. It is not important that you can currently believe it possible. Fulfilling on your Vision will be about your willingness to hold that Vision in front of your imagination, even if you don't know how to get to that goal.

Step 3: State your Vision, write it down when it has become clear enough. Just write it down. Later you will add to it, clarifying it as needed, receive what inspires. Distill it into language that is clear and simple – listen to your heart. Your Vision comes from your heart and the still mind quieted by Love entering the heart. So let the language that expresses your Vision become as simple and clear as possible. Simplifying the language allows the unconscious mind to align with it which is most persuasive in governing our actions. We want the body’s buy-in to these new possibilities too, otherwise it will just be our heads talking – the conscious (but not necessarily ‘awake’ mind whose effort may add complexity rather than clarity. The unconscious mind is the other 99% of the mind, so we’ll work with it not against it, because we want the entire body mind naturally engaged.

Step 4: Read your Vision, re-create it and hold it in front of your imagination daily. Affirm it as what you hold near and dear, as what is so, what you are committed to, and that every day moving toward your Vision in ways you do not yet fully realize – and this is true. Be grateful for all that is occurring in your Life and express that gratitude daily inwardly and outwardly.

You can begin to share our Vision with others who share your insights, eventually filling your world with that Vision as spoken evidence for the fulfillment of the miracles that Visioning is creating into our world.

Continue to clarify, add milestone steps in creating the greater goals, begin to formulate time frames in which pieces of your Vision will be accomplished, take notes, include changes and inspirations, bring others into your Vision who may be benefited or who may assist you in fulfilling your Vision. Write down any new steps, new facets, timeframes that will be useful in accomplishing your Vision. Follow through on what you have committed to, keeping notes on your accomplishments.

Step 5: Expand and/or re-invent your vision whenever it serves you (your highest good). Repeat the process regarding any issues that arise in your Life. It is better to be pro-active than waiting for the universe to deliver the bill. You can begin it now.

Pointers on your practice:
If you are practicing Visioning and you are saying to yourself, "I don't know how to get there from here", then simply re-create and hold your Vision clearly in front of you and just do whatever is next - it doesn't have to be 'the perfect thing’, and yet it may be, but just do whatever is next. Remember, when you are holding your consciously created Vision in front of you and have stated your commitment to it, your conscious and unconscious imagination notices, and your actions naturally align with your Vision and in ways you can’t imagine.

If you need to, take some time and re-inquire into what you want and are willing to be committed to. Remember, the heart quieted with Love can enter the heart, so don’t rush it. Take the time it requires. Honor the process of your own self awakening.

Actually, don't need to know the 'how' of reaching your goal – although that may become clearer as you proceed, but it is not fundamental. Many people say they have no idea “how” they accomplished such wonderful goals, that ‘things fell into place’ miraculously – and this is true here too. Because your actions are always aligning with what you are committed to, not what you know, like the river follows a path of least resistance all the way to the sea.

So just do what's next keeping your Vision in front of you.

So…are you holding your created Vision (ie, in front of the imagination)? Did you sit down, inquire and create your Vision? Did you write it down? It’s already tomorrow, let's begin it. Yes, you do it, and it work great!

And one day you look back and say, "Wow, my Vision is really manifesting. It's happening like I said, and even better!

In five years, you look back and see easily that ‘your Life is a miracle and you’re so happy it is so.’
PLEASE RESPECT THE POWER OF THIS WORK, IT IS REAL! So make it really good and have fun with it.

Sharing Baraca/The Talking Stick – Do you have something to share? We want to hear what inspires you, fills your heart, and makes you go Ahhhhhla. Please submit your article or story or ideas for an upcoming issue to Tofah Eileen at tofaheileen@cruzio.com

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