High Mesa Happenings

Making Peace the Way We Live

FROM THE PEACE COMPANY

Dear Peace Friends,

Mother's Day is a time to say thank you to Mom and other special women and mentors in our lives. It's also a time to reflect on the challenges and sacrifices of women and mothers around the world. The Peace Company believes that every mother counts, and we're sharing a number of thoughtful ways to say thank you and show you care.

I. Gifts For Mom and Others
Please consider the following "special offerings" for Mother's Day, peace gifts for global healing found on the web site, http://www.thepeacecompany.com/ for additional ideas and options.

II. Take One Action at "Every Mother Counts"

• Did you know 1000 women die everyday due -- one every 90 seconds -- due to pregnancy related causes?
• Did you know most of these deaths could be prevented if women had access to affordable and timely medical services?
• If women and girls were educated and empowered to make decisions about their sexual and reproductive rights?
• Learn more about how you can help at http://www.everymothercounts.org/. (A Peace www.everymothercounts.org/Company Partners Project)

To every Mother and nurturer out there, we say "Thank You" and God Bless You for all you are and all you do.

Peace and Blessings

Kimberly King and Brent Bisson
and The Peace Company Team

No painter's brush, nor poet's pen
In justice to her fame
Has ever reached half high enough
To write a mother's name.

 

Peace Village Fundraiser

PEACE VILLAGE FUND RAISER

FREE REIKI

(RAY-KEE)

Free 15 minute session

High Mesa Healing Center in Alto

July 6-24 – Tues & Thurs, 11-4, Sat 1-6

Call Joy 575-258-9069

 

REIKI:  A safe, effective hands-on healing modality for stress and pain relief.  Used in some U.S. hospitals

 

UPGRADE to 30 minute session for $15 (regularly $35)

Half of all proceeds go to Peace Village, a children’s multicultural day camp with the mission to provide a fun, educational environment in which children can learn the messages of and practice non-violence and peacemaking from various world traditions.  All activities encourage respect for racial and cultural diversity.  Camp dates July 26-30 at High Mesa Healing Center.

See:highmesahealing.com/Peace%20Village.html

 

Peace Village Coming Soon

Peace Village is coming July 26-30, 2010!  Children ages 7-13 are invited to attend.  Camp is from 9:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. daily.  Cost per child is $90, but full and partial scholarships are available.  Information and/or registration forms may be obtained by contacting co-director Kaylah Glasgow at 575.937.0876 or ksglasgow@gmail.com or co-director Susan Finch at 575.258.9932 or sfinch1946@aol.com.  Application forms should be returned to Peace Village-Ruidoso, P.O. Box 7398, Ruidoso, NM 88355. Lunch will be provided for each camper daily by the Community Youth Center Warehouse.  Anyone wishing to donate funds or sponsor a child for Peace Village may do so by sending a check to the same address.  Peace Village is a 501 (c) 3 organization, so donations are tax deductible.

Campers will enjoy a morning with Brandon Hutchison at Angus Outdoor Education (www.angusoe.com).   Andrea Reed from The Dance Gallery (www.danceruidoso.com) will teach aspects of health, character, respect, diversity, community, and the environment through dance.  Melissa Gebhart and Linda Hand, certified facilitators for Envision Your Future will teach EYF, a program that guides youth to realize their intrinsic value and power, and in the process motivates them to make healthy choices.  There will be nature walks, yoga, music, arts and crafts.  Taryn McCain from Laughing Eyes Kennels (www.lekennels.org) will bring trained service dogs.  There will be all of this in addition to the Peace Village curriculum of non-violent conflict resolution, media literacy, and environmental awareness.

Year 2009: Barbara Reflects

As I reflect back over this past year I am amazed and grateful for the unfolding and growth here at High Mesa Healing Center. Seems the more I delegate and step back the more things just open up to be of service to the community. It is rather like being a parent and allowing you kids to grow up. Well, I am allowing HMHC to take her place of service and enjoying observing the process.

In September, Shiva's Mountain Meadow Massage School opened here in the yurt. The other classes and workshops continue to meet: Tai Chi, Pilates, Yoga, Attitudinal Healing Circle, Science of Mind, Open Circle, Peace Village, Sweat Lodges and other various groups. The leaders of these groups bring such richness to the Center and the community. Thanks to all of you, too: Linda, Jim, Vanessa, Nancy, Barbara, Pierre, Shiva, Sonnie, Memo, Kaylah, Susan, Willy and Kathy. There are two who work very closely with me mostly behind the scenes and they are the heart of HMHC. Nadette and Kate are keeping us all in balance and harmony. What a team we all are, thanks for being a part of this ongoing adventure. 

All is in place at High Mesa for another great year in 2010, so stay tuned for more action and excitement.

Barbara

December 16, 2009

 

Written by Barbara Mader,

RN, CHTP, Reiki Master and Founder of HMHC

Gift Shopping: Do Something Different this Year

The season when gift buying could turn into a major stress collapse, has well arrived. Barbara Mader, RN, CHTP, Reiki Master and Founder of HMHC, has practiced alternative gift giving for a while now, and more recently when her birthday came around. However she is not the only one at HMHC who is practicing mindful gift sharing.

Who better than a long time friend of HMHC would express such practice?

Susan A. , long time friend of HMHC, has sent this essay to inspire or continue to inspire us in thinking beyond the traditional gift box:

The Gift of Giving

When it came time to celebrate a couple of friends' birthdays at High 
Mesa Healing Center, the subject of gifts came up, of course. Usually 
this group gets together for birthdays at a local restaurant where we 
enjoy a meal and then open cards and presents - little things like 
candles or earrings. For Willy's and Zoe's birthdays we did something 
different. Both women decided they would rather the group donate to 
their favorite charities. Cards are precious but I know personally I 
have great difficulty throwing these away, so consequently I have 
boxes of sentimental greetings that I've collected and stored over the 
years.
When I was told the wish was to not receive these cards or little 
gifts, but that we would donate whatever we could to the Food Bank and 
the Humane Society, I was impressed and pleased. We gathered at 
Barbara's home out on the deck and all shared a salad potluck lunch. 
Everyone brought something different and all the dishes were 
delicious. We had a carrot salad, shrimp salad, mozzarella and tomato 
bowl, cole slaw, chicken salad with crackers, home-grown tomatoes, and 
other wonderful salads. After we finished our lunch we sang Happy 
Birthday and enjoyed home-made carrot cake. The donations were 
collected in beautifully-wrapped little boxes with slits on the top. 
Willy and Zoe took their donations and a last piece of birthday cake 
and that's all. We all agreed this is how we will celebrate our 
birthdays from now on. The gift of Giving is the best gift of all!

8/7/09

Thank you Susan for taking the time to write to all of us HMHC readers, and happy gift giving this Holiday Season!

Post and Comment by Nadette

A Click and a Minute for Peace

 

Nancy Bankston and the HMHC Team are inviting all readers and families to consider participating in the A Million Minutes for Peace, on the United Nations International Day of Peace

 September 21, 2009.

It means you click once, right now to pledge your minute, and you pray, meditate or reflect a minute on September 21, 2009 at Noon.

Odyssey Networks is “the nation's largest coalition of Jewish, Christian and Muslim faith groups dedicated to media production, and distribution of media. Odyssey’s membership includes over 40 faith groups and organizations and comprises more than 200,000 congregations with 120 million congregants.” ( Mission Statement)

Visit Odyssey Networks to get acquainted with their mission and work, and opportunities to find bloggers, discussion groups, and young advocates for Peace Movement , films, etc.

To pledge click here on Pledge to Pray for Peace.

Still undecided ? Watch below:

“By working together, there will be peace one day” JEREMY GILLEY

Jeremy Gilley is an actor turned film maker, who in the late 1990's became preoccupied with questions about the fundamental nature of humanity and the issue of peace. He decided to explore these through the medium of film, and specifically, to create a documentary following his campaign to establish a day of ceasefire and non-violence.
In 1999, Jeremy founded Peace One Day, a non-profit organisation, and in 2001 Peace One Day's efforts were rewarded when the United Nations unanimously adopted the first-ever day of global ceasefire and non-violence on 21 September annually - Peace Day.
In 2007 according to the UN, over 100 million people were active on Peace Day, in 192 countries. There were life-saving initiatives in 14 countries, and over 80 activities in Afghanistan alone where 1.4 million children were vaccinated against polio. (YouTube.)

 

Welcome Back, Barbara!

Barbara is almost back from China;  HMHC is posting this article just now to welcome her back to the blessed place she loves so much! 
                          

    "As I was preparing for my trip to China I took a breath, centered myself and realized just how fortunate I am. I took just a moment to look back over the summer realizing that this has been an awesome time. 
     HMHC hosted the 6th annual Peace Village and it was the best ever! The team came together just after Peace Village 2008 and began planning for 2009. Organization & control of Peace Village (PV) was passed to Kaylah Glasgow and Susan Finch, who have brought intense dedication and great experience to this annual event. 
     They attracted and recruited several retired educators who brought a wealth of experience with them to PV. All that planning and preparation really paid off as the campers and counselors gained so much from the camp.
  The wider community came forth with donations and assistance in so many ways. Some have said that they want to do this, to be a part of this project for they do not see anyone else doing this kind of event. With those kind of comments Peace Village will continue. There are so many who made PV the success that it was: Kaylah Glasgow, our fearless leader, who has been here all 6 years and Susan Finch, who stepped up to co-direct with Kaylah. What a team they make together. As they worked and planned in cooperation, it all came together so smoothly, making it easier for the other volunteers to follow their example. It was just beautiful. 
      Envision Your Future was a new curriculum that the kids loved. It was brought to PV by Linda Hand and Melissa Gebhart from Region 9. The kids also loved the challenge course at Bonito Conference Center. It was just a very rich experience for all.
     As the PV crew was tearing down and leaving the grounds, the Vision Quest group arrived to support our vision questor. We are so grateful that Sonnie and Memo Licona continue to come to HMHC to do the Native American ceremonies and rituals for this community. 
     When my family were visiting one of my kids asked me if I would ever look down there at the Center and just wish that they would all go away?  I can not even imagine such a thought, for it has taken 17yrs to develop this place with this energy where folks can come to participate in the activities. It is also a place where folks can come and share their talents by offering their services to the community.
     And I get to live here, holding the space for all these wonderful events to happen.  I am so blessed!
  And now I must get on with my preparations for my trip to China with a delegation of Holistic Nurses led by Dr. Barbara Dossey, one of the founding members of the American Nurses Association. The mission and goals of this delegation are to explore ways to share our nursing knowledge with each other and with our Chinese colleagues. We will engage in dialogue to share our collective nursing wisdom and values as health diplomats and health coaches in creating a healthy world --local to global. This program is co-provided by People to People Citizen Ambassador Program.

                Peace, Love and Blessings to All

                            Barbara”
 

DoSomething.org

 Barbara and friends of HMHC  support and encourage young people  (Peace Village) and causes which promote health today  and into future generations. Please take the time to read about Chad Bullock, a young Anti-Tobacco activist of North Carolina.  He took a leading part in making Durham Bulls Athletic Park a smoke-free park. Not a small feat in tobacco country !

"Chad Bullock, the 2006 South Regional Youth Advocate of the Year Award Winner, is currently one of the nine finalists in the Do Something Awards which will be presented as part of the FOX Teen Choice Awards show scheduled to air on August 5th. This contest honors amazing young people who have tackled a problem they saw in the world. Each finalist has been awarded $10,000 and the winner will receive an additional $100,000, all going to their favorite cause.

Chad has been nominated for his work as an Anti-tobacco activist and his youth advocacy work. He has trained 15,000 teens nationwide in developing an action plan, has led activists to make Durham Bulls Athletic Park smoke-free, and petitioned the Attorney General to sue cigarette companies targeting children.

But Chad needs our help to win. The winner is decided by an online vote. Voting is only open to 13-19 year olds so please ask your kids, neighbors, and other teens you know to vote for Chad. They can vote once each day. If Chad wins, his $100,000 prize will go to an organization working against Big Tobacco, making Chad’s win not only a great achievement for himself, but also a win for the lives it will help save. "

Click Do Something to hear Chad and the news media speak of the project.

Voting is only open to 13-19 year olds so please ask your kids, neighbors, and other teens you know to vote for Chad. Please go get the teenagers you to know and ask them to VOTE NOW for Chad!

Thank you for sharing the news, links and clicks for a smoke-free choice!

Posted by NWH

A Global Wave: One World, One Circle, One Cause

We all live on the same planet. We all are connected the same. We all long for the same.

Thank you Ginny and Kate for sharing this opportunity. Please watch the video below, then let's do it, on June the 18th at 7:00pm !

 "Such an easy thing to do. Send love and joy and healing to the earth and all living things at 7:00pm in whatever time zone you're in."

Posted by NWH

On Peace

Jane B-Y sent us words on Peace by Oscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdamez, known as Monsenor Romero, Archbishop of El Salvador. Witnessing ongoing violations of human rights in his country, he started a group speaking on behalf of the poor and victims during the civil war in El Salvador. He was assassinated in 1980 during a sermon, by a death squad. The movie Salvador by Oliver Stone renders the political stage around the life of Monsenor Romero and on the Civil War of El Salvador.

"Peace  is not the product of terror or fear.
Peace is not the silence of cemeteries.
Peace is not the silent result of violent repression.
Peace is the tranquil contribution of all to the good of all.
Peace is dynamism,
Peace is generosity,
It is right and it is duty."

Among others, Jane has included this photo (Bakersfield, CA,) titled "The Day when God dropped the Paintbox".

Sometimes, looking at beautiful colors of nature helps me to gratefully be still.

NWH