Musical duo Wilderland answers the call by releasing their new song “Fragile Day” with 100% of all proceeds benefiting the habitat affected by this tragedy.

Click here to watch the Fragile Day video and download the song

Heralding from the mountains of Ashland, Oregon, Wilderland features singer-songwriters Scott Blum and Kat Sanchez. A veteran from the music industry, Blum (who’s credits include multimedia production for Peter Gabriel, Soundgarden and many others) balances the exquisite vocal stylings of Sanchez who had been a member of a wide range of local bands most of her life.

After writing several original songs, the musicians began collaborating with renowned underground DJ and multi-instrumentalist Rara Avis (Desert Dwellers, Shaman’s Dream) to realize their musical vision. It was during these studio sessions that the Gulf Oil Spill tragedy happened which deeply affected all involved in the project. Ironically, the song “Fragile Day” was being worked on at that very moment, and when explaining the song’s lyrics to Avis, Blum realized that a powerful synchronicity was afoot. The song included the lyric “Fish are dimming while they’re swimming / Blackened ocean of foam” which, although written nearly two years prior, was about fish dying because of an oil spill. Credit is given to Blum’s wife Madisyn Taylor who suggested that “Fragile Day” be released immediately with all proceeds benefiting the habitat affected by the oil spill.

Also touched by the environmental tragedy, music industry superstars Toby Wright (Grammy award winning producer of Alice in Chains, Korn, 3 Doors Down, etc.) and Stephen Marcussen (mastering engineer for the Rolling Stones, Stevie Wonder, Seal, Cher, Paul McCartney, etc.) both contributed their expertise to this worthwhile project.

You can download two versions of “Fragile Day” by Wilderland with 100% of the proceeds donated to three important charities helping the habitat affected by the Gulf Oil Spill Tragedy. These organizations include The Gulf Restoration Network, EarthShare and the WILD Foundation.

Visit www.FragileDay.com to watch the emotionally powerful video and download the song to support this worthy cause.

We are calling for deep connection
on ‘common ground’
in honor of ‘common water’

Wherever you are, please join us today June 26th, 2010 at Noon Eastern Time in prayer, standing with your hands out symbolically touching our hands as we, on the Gulf of Mexico beaches, hold Hands Across the Sands.

We will feel your love.

Namaste!!! Ann Smith,

Lavonne Rees, a member of our Circle Connections community, reminds us to join on the Gulf Call to Sacred Action Free Phone Conference on June 26th

There are three global gatherings scheduled.

Setting Our Sacred Intention Saturday June 26th at:
10:00 AM Pacific/1:00 PM Eastern
with Deepak Chopra, Lynne McTaggart, and Jean Houston.

Also…

The Power of Sacred Prayer
Tuesday July 6th at 5:30 PM Pacific/8:30 PM Eastern
with Reverend Michael Bernard Beckwith, Joan Borysenko, and James O’Dea

The Heart of Sacred Activism
Tuesday July 13th at 5:30 PM Pacific/8:30 PM Eastern
with Barbara Marx Hubbard, Gregg Braden, and Andrew Harvey

To listen live to the calls, please dial in to 712-432-0075 code 753806#
Space is limited on the phone line, so we encourage you to dial in a few minutes early. Long distance charges do apply.

To listen live over the web or to access call recordings, please go to:

http://www.evolutionaryleaders.net/gulf/sacredaction.html

Donate and be an Agent of Change today http://deepakchopra.com/chopra-foundation/donate/

Thank you for participating with us. We appreciate and acknowledge you!

Lavonne Rees

Then we must ask how best to build (or re-build) the bridge to have a healthier relationship with money and embrace it as one way to fuel and empower our autonomy, innate strengths, and purpose.

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June 14th ~ The Heart To Lead, Women as Allies for the Greater Good
Bonnie Kelley, a community organizer, group facilitator, inspirational speaker and spiritual activist for social change,  joins us to share about The Heart To Lead, Women as Allies for the Greater Good, a feature-length non-fiction film made in collaboration with Cheryl Gould, that explores the significant role women are meant to play in the evolution of Western culture.

For more info:

http://imaginethegood.com

http://www.evolutionarywomen.org

June 7th, 2010 ~ Weaving the New World: The Journey from Patriarchy to Actualizing Our Divine Mission
Sharon Riegie Maynard joins us in a spirited conversation exploring the importance of awakening women by considering these questions, “Will we continue to move forward tangled and tripped up by the old strands, old concepts, old patterns coming from generations of “Patriarchy” modeling? Or, will we be aware enough to discern the new strands of our Divine mission?

For more info:

http://www.weavingtheworld.com

http://www.sharonriegiemaynard.com

May 24th, 2010 ~ Transforming Leadership: The Ways Women Are Facing Today’s Crisis in Leadership
Women are awakening to the crisis in leadership that is currently being made acutely evident by the BP Oil catastrophe as only one sad example of the threat to our global well-being and the future of our children. But are we awake enough? Katherine Tyler Scott, with over 30 years of experience in leadership education, consultation, and coaching, joins us to share her valuable insights and experience, and to share in an essential conversation about the part women must play in transforming this leadership crisis.

May 31st, 2010 ~ Leadership and the Wisconsin Rural Women’s Initiative
In 1997, Mary Bub closed down her retail business and moved on to a farm in Wisconsin. From this experience, she founded the Wisconsin Rural Women’s Initiative (WRWI) that sponsors Gathering Circles where rural women have a safe environment to come together and share stories, receive support and experience a sense of belonging. Mary joins us to share with us how WRWI helps rural women expand their leadership abilities by resolving physical, emotional and other life problems with creativity and the support of their “Circle Sisters.”

Join us every Monday…

12:30 p.m. Pacific/3:30 p.m. Eastern
Circle Connections Blog Talk Radio Show Act In, Act Up, Act Out, Act Together

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http://www.bogtalkradio.com/circleconnections

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May 24th, 2010 ~ Transforming Leadership: The Ways Women Are Facing Today’s Crisis in Leadership
Women are awakening to the crisis in leadership that is currently being made acutely evident by the BP Oil catastrophe as only one sad example of the threat to our global well-being and the future of our children. But are we awake enough? Katherine Tyler Scott, with over 30 years of experience in leadership education, consultation, and coaching, joins us to share her valuable insights and experience, and to share in an essential conversation about the part women must play in transforming this leadership crisis.

You are about to witness on the video below 185 voices. 243 tracks. 12 countries. A choir unlike any other. What started as a simple social media experiment, has become a poetic metaphor of our shared humanity and the power of connection.

Acclaimed composer and conductor Eric Whitacre offered the sheet music of his original composition, “Lux Aurumque”, as a free download and invited singers to submit a video of themselves performing one part (soprano, alto, tenor, or bass). These rather ordinary videos of solo performances were then pieced together to form a choir of singers who have never met each other…but have unwittingly created music in perfect harmony together.

After viewing this brilliant masterpiece, envision the power of women connecting in leadership, in one harmonious voice, even though we are scattered all over the world. Now let’s talk about how to harness this knowing with technology to have our voice heard, respected, embraced, and applied to be the change we are called to be.

Create a quiet place and savor this, then connect with us at Circle Connections with how we can carry this idea forward!

Learn about the creative process, inspiration of this project by visiting KarmaTube.

The value of listening to children, exchanging ideas, and embracing them as our teachers, too, is confirmed by this inspiring video clip.

A prolific short story writer and blogger since age seven, Adora Svitak (now 12) speaks around the United States to adults and children as an advocate for literacy.

Do find the time to watch this!!!

Watch this and you will learn have greater insight to the facts, and you will realize how marketing often sells us on mis-truth. This powerful and informative video awakens us and empowers our intuition so we can be better leaders and stewards of the healing of our planet.

Eve Ensler: Embrace your inner girl

… however I took the time to watched it again this morning after receiving a link to it in an email from a dear friend.

Perhaps it should become a morning meditation for all women until we are fully awake without dozing or pulling the covers over our heads, or because we make ourselves too busy to allow ourselves to feel it and make it worth our time to know what we know.

The awakening theme is alive and expanding thanks to women like Marianne Williamson at the Sister Giant event and the crusade of women like Eve Ensler. Be reminded…

There is a groundswell of awakening, and it’s nurturing is up to us. As we connect with our ‘girl cell’ we cannot comfortably go back to sleep. As we dare to step back into our core strength each of us will know how, and that we must actualize our calling.

Emotions are messy. We are often grumpy when first awakened. Having been denied or made wrong to have emotions or be intuitive, often our emotions burst forth in a violent manner. After all, we contain a cellular memory of being burned at the stake for being healers and wise women.

However we must realize that victims become perpetrators. We are now called to let our awakening to be messy and then move beyond that awkwardness to transform our emotion and anger to intuition and grace. We are called to move from being egocentric and pricklly to insightful and courageous. We are called now to hone our capacity to direct our words and emotions in a skilled and potent way to be the change we are called to be. There is great power and reassurance that comes from holding hands at the well, walking this path in the good company of other conscious women and those who love us.

The internet has become a place like the well where women connect to share our experiences. Women are reclaiming the internet as a feminine model and as their place of gathering to share our wisdom stories. As at the well,the internet has become a sharing place for us to do our grassroots work and the means for spreading the word.

Today at the ‘well’ that lives in my inbox, this message was passed along to be by a dear friend as it was shared with her by a dear friend of hers… and this is how women do it…

“While I was in Kenya I spent the morning with Agnes Pareiyo (mentioned in Eve’s T.E.D. talk) and the girls at her house. In this very powerful video Eve Ensler talks about “the girl cell”, and also about the work of Agnes.

I think it is a presentation that no one – male or female – should miss hearing. I have attached a picture of a few of the girls I spent time with, and 2 of their caregivers, and the building which Eve funded there.”

– Su

We are emotional creatures, powerful beyond all measure, blessed with a ‘girl cell’ that aches to be set free. May we all go there, to that core that lives in each of us. May it no longer be silenced, by others or by our own doing.

Namaste,

Rhonda