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A farmer contemplates socially responsible economics

LILIPOH Staff — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:06:57 GMT

As part of her CSA newsletter, biodynamic farmer and author Anne Morgan (MidHeaven Farm, MN) found inspiration from a new book by John Bloom titled The Genius of Money: Essays and Interviews Reimagining the Financial World (SteinerBooks 2009). Mr. Bloom is Director of Organizational Culture at RSF Social Finance. -CK

Food for Winter's Thinking
CSA news February 1, 2010�
Anne Morgan
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The Genius of Money Part 3: "What an invention money is-one of the evolving mysteries and wonders of the modern world."
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John Bloom writes, "Money is linked to our material needs and our participation in economic life, and yet what it represents is entirely abstract, nonmaterial and, to a degree, faith based. ...it is a medium of expression, as a social technology, and one that also makes the invisible
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Shortly after America won its independence, Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton wrangled over our country's economic foundation. Jefferson argued for a land-based (agricultural) economy. "Hamilton's vision of economic trade required a monetary system as a tool for accounting to accommodate intra- and inter-national exchange of goods and currencies. He presumed that all things physical could be monetized -labor and natural resources as well as commodities.
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"Hamilton, along with international counterparts, set the groundwork for financial innovation that has transformed money from a physical substance minted and held in treasuries (Fort Knox) to an almost purely electronic record (most money these days is actually generated by the banks as debt).
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"The United States officially left the gold standard in 1971 under President Nixon. Today's money is simply made legal by governmental decree, meaning that it is actually a fiction declared as fact. [Recent] Wall Street transactions, such as sub-prime loans and other "exotic" financial instruments, [try to keep] the invisible invisible."
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The inner, spiritual aspect of our nature becomes engaged when we acquire and spend money. It is revealed through our individual processes of weighing the merits of a potential purchase, and again when we buy, sell, invest, and gift.

Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote in 1860 "that wealth or money had become the new 'natural resource.' [Could he have envisioned that the creating of wealth] could be separated from direct work, investment, or natural resources? But that has happened. Much wealth, but certainly not all, has become self-generating through public stock trading, hedge funds, and other well-orchestrated financial instruments."
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Eva Hoffman, the Polish immigrant who wrote Lost in Translation: Life in a New Language in 1989, believes contemporary media and marketing have a profound effect on the identity formation of young people. She writes," How can a young person today know the source of desire or wants? Are they, for example, part of some image of myself subtly created by someone else's commercial agenda to get me to buy a product that I may not really need?
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"Purchase takes on the mantle of ritual. Desire is connected to the worldly and material. Value resides in gratification, not celebration. Money's sheer impermanence, presence, and absence create fluctuations in one's emotional life that are a far cry from the consistency of faith that one might have in a higher being."
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John notes, "As money is reduced to nano units, .there will be less time to exercise choices that are now the privilege of the conscious consumer. The moment of purchase [may become] almost simultaneous with the thought of the purchase."
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This reminded me of infomercials. Call in the next 60 seconds and we'll double your order! It also reminds me of the Battleship game my granddaughter received for Christmas. The pegs you use to mark the lobs and hits are shorter than in my 1980s edition. If the board gets jostled, game pegs on the raised grid fall out. It was bigstore cheap, but it is inferior. (Hannah prefers now to play with the older version.)
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What are the ramifications of instant money transactions? How can we hold onto the right to assess quality? To kick the tires, test the knife's blade, or examine the fabric's quality? Do stores factor in 10% or 20% to the selling price to cover returns and exchanges? People may buy fast, but they often return fast.
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My youngest daughter was vulnerable to peer pressure when she entered high school. Her shoes HAD TO BE Doc Martins (big, clunky, and expensive). I, of course, relented; wardrobe stress was not an excusable absence. Over time, her self-image grew more independent, and in college, she discovered second hand stores, both for herself, and for wardrobing actors and decorating sets.
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We will phase out of this economic crisis. Booms always follow busts. We must learn from the past and craft a more sustainable economic future.
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John writes, "Social finance holds that the purpose of money and finance is to support human initiative and to foster the evolution of new communities. Social finance recognizes that in the context of a global economy, we are fully interdependent. It is no longer possible to stand outside this reality, regardless of political boundaries, accumulated wealth, or dire poverty."
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Socially responsible economics strives to recognize, anticipate and balance human and environmental needs.

Life, Liberty & Pursuit of Happiness

LILIPOH Staff — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 18:46:40 GMT

Kaye Williams, Associate Editor, LILIPOH

I often tell people how much I love the sound of the words, Cumberland County, Kentucky. My experience of being here these past 25 years is a feeling of freedom of soul.

I am grateful for my low-income life that is simple to live, how I don't need to shop at big-box stores. Because of the food co-op and all of my friends, gathering food (what others call shopping for groceries) is a low-stress, comforting experience that centers around human relationship. My animal-foods (meat, dairy, eggs) are all provided by farmers, in person. I visit the farm and get what we need. It feels good to give money to these local providers. With each payment I am telling them: I value what you do. I am grateful for trustworthy providers who meet my high standards of healthy natural animal food.

My husband Greg also gardens and he brings to the table so many more vegetables, too. Our garden produce is now in the freezer, and home-canned in jars. I dried strawberries in our home food dehydrator. We also receive even more, different vegetables each Monday, delivered by CSA farmers in the county; as well as a new bouquet of dazzling flowers to sit on our kitchen table.

I am living in a food paradise. Are you too? It is all around you, but maybe you haven't connected with it! You may never have thought about such things. Sometimes I think; this way of gathering food is something so good, I wish it were also true for everybody in this land. Think of how so many more farmers could be supported, if most of the money that flows through the grocery stores went directly to our neighborhood producers instead.

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There is so much calamity in the news, big problems that need to solved. The financial world is still shaky at best: this is either an unexpected disaster or . . . the natural outcome of wrong ideas taken to the extreme. It can be, the opportunity to reconsider our financial assumptions. This much I know: standard of living, measured by dollars earned or spent, (GNP) is not the same as quality of life.

Sometimes I hear people say "let's go do something" and really they mean "let's go buy something" burn up gas, at least. Going shopping for another new something isn't how I entertain myself. Consuming is not as fulfilling as creating, or connecting.

The most enjoyable times of being alive, for me, are quality time with my family members, good conversations and laughter with friends, solitude for rest and connecting with the Divine guide within, and the creative expression I experience when reading or writing. Once I had the great good pleasure of seeing a play I wrote being enacted. None of those things cost any money to do. But if I were running in place to keep up with payments on debt or other high expenses, that could interfere with being able to enjoy those things.

Being rich really means owning my whole self, provided that my basic needs are met. Being free is pretty much the same thing. Liberty = owning my own body, and owning my own time. Doesn't matter how much money flows through my month - if I don't own my own body or my own time because of an alienating or forced work life - life is poor.

I like to think about what it means to be a citizen of the United States. What do you think? Opinions may vary, but some facts do remain. The Declaration of Independence is a founding document, and therefore a defining document of what it was originally intended to be.

"We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

The pursuit of Happiness as a phrase is a doorway into a wide opening of interpretations and meanings. If I'm chasing happiness and never quite catching it, that would be pursuit, wouldn't it? That could be a problematic definition, because it could turn into running in place, never quite reaching it.

I prefer to think about another definition of pursuit. A pursuit is not just a chase. Here is what a free dictionary online says it is:
pur.suit (p r-s t ) n.

1. The act or an instance of chasing or pursuing.
2. The act of striving: the pursuit of higher education.
3. An activity, such as a vocation or hobby, engaged in regularly.

Definition 2 is interesting - but I like definition 3. Put that idea into the declaration and it says we are endowed by our Creator with the unalienable right to Life, Liberty, and whatever regular activity of hobby or vocation that makes us feel happy.

Lucky for me, I have two part-time jobs reading and writing, my favorite things to do; and with a flexible schedule, so I own my time. Being a citizen of the USA is working for me. I want it to work for you too.

I have an idea about a group participation project, which we could call "The Pursuit of Happiness Project." If you think of a better name, let me know. The goal of the project is to liberate all of us into whatever regular activity, as hobby or vocation, gives each one of us happiness.

The economic system that requires the surrender of soul; when it takes your body and makes it do things that hurt, makes you slave to the clock and not to the beating of your own heart; that economic system is in the way of too many people. It's un-American!

I'm thinking we can do something different: an economic system that, instead, is actually founded on soul - vocations and hobbies of happiness - and that this is what is promised by the Declaration of America. This is what it is to be an American. Let's do it!

So many people have been captured by duty into the workplace for so long - they have lost their ability to really know what they would even want to do, if free. It might take a bit of time to unravel all the programming and get down to the personal truth - and that is the reason for sabbatical. Everybody can follow their own unique path of interest and curiosity.

I have this theory that we all have different interests for a reason. I just believe that if we each and all reach inside and find our own unique purpose, and then express that, our world, our economy, and everything else will play out so much better.

What I propose is this. I propose we each take some kind of respite from the drudgery world - so that we can listen close to our own heart's desire inside. I think of this as a voice of the Divine - the organizer, let's say. That might take only a moment, if you've already been thinking about this, and who hasn't?

Then we say to each other (without fear of being clobbered or made fun of) what those heart's desires are, write them down, pass them around so everybody reads of each other, and everybody looks at the similarities and differences between all of these. Then, as we see commonalities emerge, we get together in small groups to talk and listen with people who have matching desires, and we put on our thinking caps together and make good things happen.

What I just described in the 2 paragraphs above is classic First Amendment activity. Here is the first Amendment in our Bill of Rights, Article VII of the US Constitution (another founding document.)

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

The syntax of this is kind of backwards, because it talks about making sure that the US government itself won't interfere with the free exercise of religion, or free speech or free use of the press, or peaceable assembly and then the grievance thing.

If we state this more positively, we can describe what it would look like if those protected things really were happening; not being interfered with by the government nor by anything else. . . we would say something like this:

Everybody relies on the Divine for their own guide; everybody speaks freely, and writes for others to read, and reads what others have written; everybody gets together peacefully and acts together to make things better all around.

That is a simple description of what First Amendment activity is. Our founding documents not only name the goals of (life, liberty, pursuit of happiness), they spell out exactly how we are supposed to do it. So this project I'm dreaming about, this experiment to prove God, actually, this is exactly what the US of A was made for. This is just citizenship!

There is something magical that happens when we put something into words. It's a creative act in itself. In the beginning was the Word, and we share this faculty, this ability to speak. Now I invite you, look within, come and tell your answers, and lets play with this.

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Questions to prompt this soul connection and free speech:
What is your heart's desire?

What is your wildest dream?

What have you always wanted to do?

What would you do if you were completely free?

What would you do if you won the lottery? (just to loosen up your thinking)

What would you do different, if you could start over as a 21 year old person, with all that you now know?

If you had five wishes, what would they be?

What would you most like to give?

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Conference: Nurturing Resilience: The Power of Storytelling to Build Healthier Bodies and Communities

LILIPOH Staff — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:37:35 GMT

Margaret Thom writes: I'm writing to tell you about a conference I've been planning for the first weekend in March in Milwaukee. I hope you can attend and/or tell others who might be interested. Here's my story.

In summer 2008 I met Nancy Mellon and bought her new book, Body Eloquence: The Power of Myth and Story to Awaken the Body's Energies. In the next months I became more and more impressed with her and her work, partly from reading her book and partly from speaking with her on the phone. Nancy has great kindness, insight and depth.

As you may know, I've worked in natural health for several years. I'm interested in holistic perspectives. It makes sense to me that:
health is not only about our bodies but also our souls and spirits,
that things happen to us that we might not know how to process so they get "stored" in our bodies,
that we can become healthier by listening to our bodies and by listening to what we tell our bodies.
I also know that being able to speak honestly from the heart is healing and that accessing our creativity is empowering..

I had not thought much about storytelling as a healing art before, but Nancy has been a pioneer of this work during her career as a therapist, educator and author. Through conversations with Lori Barian of Great Lakes Teacher Training in Milwaukee, we decided to hold a conference on this topic and invite Nancy Mellon to be the keynote speaker. She teaches on the East and West Coasts, in UK and Brazil. This is the first time in several years that she'll present in the Midwest.

Conference: Nurturing Resilience: The Power of Storytelling to Build Healthier Bodies and Communities
Details: March 5-7, 2010, Mount Mary College, Milwaukee, WI
For more information/registration, visit www.waldorftraining.com, contact me, or call Lori at 262-642-9672.
For more information about Nancy Mellon, go to www.healingstory.com or www.bodyeloquence.com.

I hope you will be able to attend. I also ask that you tell others who might be interested, especially parents, teachers, and health practitioners. Nancy works experientially so everyone should take home rich content. She also encourages people to attend to help raise the consciousness of their community.

In addition to the three keynotes on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, there will be three workshop sessions on Saturday with 18 diverse, exciting workshops to choose from. Our workshop presenters are talented and experienced. On Saturday night bring family and friends to our family-friendly Festival of Healing Stories that's open to the public, also at Mount Mary.

Early registration: Save $70 by registering by January 15; save $40 by registering by February 15. If you need a partial scholarship, please let us know. Some work-study is available for those who will help before or during the conference.

Please let me know if you have any questions. I appreciate your help and support with our endeavor toward better health.

Sincerely,
Margaret

How to Swiftly Replace an Unhealthy Meal

LILIPOH Staff — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:31:04 GMT

Here is a post from Heidi and Justin of Raw Food Right Now a blog with news and tips featuring fresh, healthy eating. Heidi contributed an article on Green Drinks to our Winter 2007 issue!

One of the most difficult things to do when you first start a new healthy eating habit is to integrate it into your daily lifestyle. As human beings we get so easily stuck in our daily routines that unless we are acutely conscious of them, it takes a tremendous amount of effort to change them.

Our readers often say to us "I can do good for a few days, but I just don't feel satisfied unless I have my usual meal! What should I do?"

The first and easiest step is to simply start adding the healthy things in. Whatever new dietary path or food you want to begin making a part of your diet, just start eating it whenever you can. You could have it as a side dish to a meal, as part of one of your foods or meals, or just as a snack. This allows your body and mind to get used to the idea of eating this food. Your body will then be able to "tune in" to that food and tell you when it may want or need it.

The hardest part for a lot of us is replacing an entire meal. If you've been eating cereal and toast for breakfast for years, it's going to take some significant effort to completely replace this meal with, say, a breakfast smoothie or morning Elixir.

Here are some great tips for making meal replacement easier:
Plan Ahead - If you can plan (or even better, make) your meal the night before, this will make it much easier for you to follow through with your intention. Once the meal is already there, it won't take much more effort to eat it and you more than likely won't want to take the time to make something else.

Bring a healthy snack - Often when we are doing a meal replacement, we are switching to something lighter. Your body may rebel at first and tell you that you are still hungry after eating your new meal. Instead of being unprepared and eating two meals, bring a healthy snack and eat until you are satisfied.

Do it for at least a week - If you can, do your meal replacement every day for at least a week. This is usually enough time for you to get used to eating a new type of meal and will make it more difficult to return to your old habits.

Make enough to eat - If you are just starting out replacing a meal, you may want to make more than usual. This way you can eat until you are full and you will be less likely to cheat later.

Eat slowly. This is a classic tip, but it really works. Eat your meal slowly and with consciousness. Your mind will help you tune into your body and you will feel more full and satisfied than if you eat while on the go or while reading or watching TV.
With just a few simple steps, you can go from a morning bagel and coffee to a much healthier, complete meal that will energize you and keep you feeling good all day. It doesn't take much effort to replace an entire meal if done right, and if you take the above tips to heart, you will have an entire new healthy eating habit in a week or less!

Good luck and let us know how it goes for you

~ Heidi & JS

Under a Protecting Quilt of Snow: Encouraging a healthy environment with good forage and honeybees

LILIPOH Staff — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 11:27:33 GMT

Grai St. Clair Rice
Co-Founder, HoneybeeLives

Under a protecting quilt of snow, we can envision the roots of our land, our communities and our souls quietly growing with expectation of springs to come. In the cluster of their colonies, honeybees vibrate their muscles to create warmth using energy gained from stored honey, protectively revolving around their queen waiting for the spring brood cycle to begin.

In the realm of environmental health, honeybees and other important pollinators, can no longer be taken for granted. Their contributions, and our dependence on them, have been established by evolution, and yet our modern environment and practices have swayed this balance into crisis. Each of us can take some responsibility for the health of pollinators with a little education and direction.

Take this quiet time of winter to envision a landscape inviting to pollinators, with a range of healthy forage through the seasons. Honeybees have a shorter proboscis than many other pollinators and tend to be single source foragers. Think about your area as a whole, including trees and bushes, which can easily provide a volume of forage preferred by honeybees, and design for large masses of plantings. Think pollen, as well as nectar.

Here are two good sources for info to guide you: The Pollinator Partnership has impressive regional guides which can be downloaded using environmental area or zip code; HoneybeeLives teaches organic beekeeping in New York State, and general appreciation of honeybees. There is a selected Honeybee Plant List available on the website. I encourage you to plant and watch and wonder at our amazing planet.

Becoming an organic beekeeper is also a way to engage our vibrant earth, nurturing honeybees by respecting their instincts and their spirits. You can share in the amazing beauty and fecundity of evolution, and learn from honeybees' gentle, industrious colonies. It changes the way we participate in nature, and nurture, and the way we think about community.

HoneybeeLives teaches winter weekend workshops in Rosendale, Chestnut Ridge and Granville, NY. It is best as a two-day workshop, however you can take either day individually, depending on your experience and interest level. The weekend is $175 per person, individual classes are $95.

Saturday classes are Intro to Organic Beekeeping: Planning a New Hive for Spring. Learn about the basic requirements and responsibilities for first-time beekeepers. Understand the mechanics of a hive, the tools involved, elements of site selection, and an understanding of a naturalist approach to their needs. This is a hands-on workshop, which includes assembling a wooden hive.

Sunday classes are Understanding and Caring For Your Honeybees. Topics will include: hive congruency and design to benefit the colony; Honeybee health and disease management the natural way; seasonal concerns and methods; as well as imparting the value of respecting the lives and needs of your bees.

Thank you for your interest and support of honeybees.

Holy Nights Journaling

LILIPOH Staff — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:49:18 GMT

Season's greetings to you all,

The Twelve Holy Nights begin December 24th and complete with the evening of January 5th.
For me and my husband Robert, the experiences during Holy Night's Journaling range from an enlightened look over the past year to inspiration from investigating what is coming toward us from the coming year.

I was first introduced to Journaling through a workshop with Tamara Slayton.
Then I discovered The Twelve Holy Nights by Susan Riley and Paul Platt. I am not sure how long ago I first heard that William Bento wrote a Holy Night's Journal Guide. What I do know is that I have purchased everyone he has written.
William's guide contains details for the process of journaling as well as presenting the influences of the Cosmos on the coming year, while leaving you free to explore.
Over the years, Robert and I have used William Bento's Journal guides as the foundation of our journaling and have also integrated the knowledge from Tamara's workshop and Susan and Paul's guide. Our process involves dream recording, meditating, interpretive color drawings and writing. William Bento's Holy Night's Journal Guide is invaluable. We highly recommend it! We have ordered ours and also give them as gifts!

To purchase contact Victoria Temple, hnj2009@sonic.net, 707-628-4322. Last day for shipping in the U.S. is December 20. Last day for shipping to Canada is December 18. Last day for shipping to Europe is December 14.

Robert and Linda Knodle

www.LindaKnodle.com
lindaknodle@earthlink.net
Coming of Age
Two Herons Guest House

Poet Daniel Ladinsky on Huffington Post

LILIPOH Staff — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:40:45 GMT

Daniel Ladinsky is renown for his beautiful renderings of both Rumi and Hafiz. He has generously granted up permission to print a few of his poems over the years in LILIPOH! It wonderful to see his insights broadcast far and wide via Huffington Post! An excerpt is below, but please do read the post in its entirety.

Maybe the Best Lay in Town is a Poem

Daniel Ladninsky

I hear I am one of the most successful living poets in the world these days. And if someone asked me, "How in the hell did that ever happen?" I could respond, "Well, I worked my butt off, and I have been lucky at poker, and the heart is more powerful than I knew." The Unseen, I think, is willing to back our efforts if one's tears have fermented. What might be called God, I have learned, is somewhat helpless before any real love and courage a person can have. That is, to my ken, a Higher Power -- our Beloved -- would rather be a servant to us, than be served ... would rather worship us, than be worshiped. Probably, there is no movement or sound or scent or thought -- or awaiting experience --that did not come from something She cooked up in a wild mood one night, rang the dinner bell for, and started the myriad souls vast migration to chow down on the Infinite, on the Divine, that someday we will swallow whole.

But for now, maybe the best lay in town is a poem, or any art that merits an ovation from you -- be that applause just a lingering twinkle in your eye that someone else can get a hit off of, or the corners of your mouth turned up in a grateful silence. I believe art can be a lover, as wonderful as any. But all forms, and especially names, become a prison at some point that can cause mental illness if one cannot consciously escape them at interludes.

I like these words, I have published, from one of the poets-seers I have studied. They both honor the heroes -- in marriages, families, work places. And then the words point, hint at our fundamental destiny to unite with that beyond our common understanding of self, gender, and all the crazy dividing flags.

The Power of the Pomegranate: Weleda Introduces New Product Line

LILIPOH Staff — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:19:40 GMT

NOTE: This product review will appear in our winter issue (due out Jan 1st), but we wanted to post it here in case you were still looking for the perfect holiday gift item. A selection from Weleda's new Pomegranate Regenerating Body Care line is it! Right down to the fabulous red packaging!

Buy the pomegranate when it laughs -
its laughter reveals the secret of its seeds.
The garden answers the laughing pomegranate with bloom;
In companionship with the friends of God
you will bloom as they do.
-Rumi

After almost 90 years, Weleda stays on the cutting edge of the natural body care product industry with the launch of their new Pomegranate Regenerating Body Care line. Native to Persia, the beautiful red pomegranate has been in cultivation for thousands of years. These fruits also carry in their seeds generations of rich cultural mythology-connecting them to Greek Gods and Goddesses, painted by Botticelli and da Vinci, and figuring as symbols in Islam and Christianity (the Qur'an mentions pomegranates as examples of good things God creates).

The scent of the new Weleda line captures the passion and mystical nature of the ancient fruit-royal and spicy, with floral undertones. Weleda uses organic pomegranate seed oil from Turkey, filled with antioxidants, fatty acids and vitamins, all of which benefit skin, by feeding it, helping to maintain firmness and moisture levels, and helping to protect from environmental damage. Research showed that ingredients in pomegranate oil increase collagen and promote cell renewal, with repeated use.

The Body Cream, thick and rich, is small enough to keep in your purse and use throughout the day for soft hands and a lingering delicate scent. The Body Oil, packaged in the classic Weleda glass bottle, absorbs well and moisturizes deeply, leaving skin soft without an oily residue. Thick and creamy, the Body Wash has a scent that is spicy and invigorating, a perfect wake-up in the morning shower, and a small amount goes a long way.

Weleda's products are certified to have no synthetic preservatives, chemicals or fragrances. Natural beauty has never been more convenient, with Weleda products now available at Target and of course online at Weleda's website.

-Christy Korrow, Editor

Our New Survey! Try it!

LILIPOH Staff — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:28:50 GMT

Please take a few minutes and take our new reader survey. It will help us better serve our readers and advertisers. Thank you for your interest in LILIPOH!

Youth Gathering in New Zealand

LILIPOH Staff — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 18:17:04 GMT

Venue: Te Ra Waldorf School, Kapiti Coast, New Zealand.
Dates: Thursday evening 21st January to Wednesday morning 27th January 2010.
Event: 5 days of inspiring lectures & discussions, and a variety of practical workshops - bake bread with initiators of today and have coffee with change makers of tomorrow. Bring your passion into a space created by inspiration, motivation, support and community.
Who? We describe 'Youth' as those who are roughly in the age bracket 18-35 and are interested with questions that come from living in today's world.
Structure: This event will have a threefold structure, initially focusing on a personal level then, as the days progress, spiraling outward; like an unfolding koru (fern) moving from I to Community and then into the World.

Contact: youthgathering@gmail.com

LILIPOH On NewPages.com Homepage!

LILIPOH Staff — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:43:42 GMT

About NewPages:

Library Journal: "[One] of the best online portals is NewPages.com, which includes reviews and guides to independent presses and creative writing programs."

Jeanne Leiby, editor, The Southern Review: "NewPages is the place many of us send our graduates and undergraduates to find essential info... The most important website for writers, readers, and editors. I rely on it."

Utne Reader: "One of the 15 websites that could shake the world... NewPages is the web's alt-press playground."

Carolyn Kellogg, Jacket Copy, Los Angeles Times: "NewPages is kind of internet old-school in that it's one site that collects and vets many links (remember when that's what Yahoo did?)... go over to NewPages for your literary journal fix."

Anthroposophic Medical Doctor to Give Lecture on the Flu, and Child Health

LILIPOH Staff — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:39:40 GMT

Dear Friends!

I will be giving a lecture at the Emerson Waldorf School on Thursday evening Oct 22, 2009, Chapel Hill, NC. The topic is on caring for children during the change of the seasons and dealing with the fear mongering about the Flu and the new vaccinations. Please download the attached flyer which has details. It received great response when I gave a similar lecture in Raleigh last month to the Holistic Moms network-- we had fifty guests and lively questions and discussion.

I think this will be really helpful to the parents and older persons! We will go more deeply about how one can come to reasonable decisions about the flu shot without judgements about what is the best decision.

Comments from Raleigh: "Mind, body and spirit was talked about in a way that really makes sense." "...genuinely concerned about people, about his patients, as well as the greater society...that quality alone would make him a great primary care physician."
I hope you will be able to join us.

Mark Eisen, MD

Economics of Peace

LILIPOH Staff — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:38:50 GMT

An important event on economics.

Brought to you by RSF Social Finance and the Praxis Peace Institute.

Articles for health at free online library

LILIPOH Staff — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:29:52 GMT

The Anthroposophic Medical Library has a new section dedicated to Patient and Child Health.

Biodynamic Events in California

LILIPOH Staff — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:49:22 GMT

Join the Demeter Biodynamic Trade Association (DBTA) to find out more about the Demeter USA Biodynamic � standards and practices and how they relate to NOP organic standards.

Held in collaboration with the Biodynamic Farming and Gardening Association, Demeter USA, the Demeter Biodynamic Trade Association, and the Josephine Porter Institute for Applied Biodynamics, Inc.

These field days will be ideal for:

Demeter certified Biodynamic farms wishing to increase sales
Non-certified CSAs hoping to expand membership
NOP organic certified diverse vegetable farms looking for a new market
Participants will also be provided with written Demeter Standards, along with other Biodynamic resources, in CD form to take home.

Learn more about:

Biodiversity, integrating hedgerows, insectaries, animals, etc. into a whole farm organism
Soil fertility management, including restricted materials, composting definitions (source materials, preparations, etc.), maximum allowed fertility rates, livestock requirements, and prohibited fertility and feed materials
Biodynamic preparations introduction and application methods
Crop protection and preventative management practices, with an overview of restricted material
And more...come with questions!
Regional field days on Demeter certified Biodynamic farms in California:

Mendocino County: Mendocino Organics, northern Mendocino, October 20
Mendocino County: The Apple Farm, Philo, October 21
Central Coast: The Grain Farm, Paso Robles, November 3

Central Valley: Marian Farms, Fresno, November 4
Southern California: Beck Grove, Fallbrook, November 17
Napa Valley: Grgich Hills American Canyon Vineyard, November 17
Cost is $15.00
To register: Call the Biodynamic Farming and Gardening Association at (888) 516-7797 (Alison, ext. 3)

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Rebecca Briggs
Communications Director
Editor, Biodynamics
Biodynamic Farming and Gardening Association
(541) 998-0105 ext. 2
www.biodynamics.com