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