Fire works! (Will Tuttle)

[Guest guest]

Forwarding this message from Will Tuttle, past speaker at San

Francisco Vegetarian Society events.

 

Hello friends!

 

On this Independence Day holiday, it may be helpful for us to

contemplate not only the nature of our " independence, " i.e.,

political freedom, but also the nature of our interdependence with

each other and with all life. As Madeleine and I travel throughout

North America and meet so many loving, conscious, and spiritually-

aspiring folks, we feel our relatedness as a living force. Through

the lectures, concerts, art exhibits, workshops, and our individual

sessions with people, we realize we are part of a great awakening

that is building and growing on this planet.

 

I remember going to a winter mountaineering course in the Rocky

Mountains in my youth, and learning that the secret to building a

fire in the snow is to really love and tenderly feed the little fire

with just the right size small pieces of wood. We see our work as

lighting and feeding little grass-roots fires wherever we go, and it

is beautiful to see others lovingly adding their sticks and kindling

to the flames, and the fires are growing hotter and brighter and

larger throughout our land, and they are fires of peace, compassion,

justice, and of understanding and celebrating the interconnected web

of relations that we all share and that gives us purpose and meaning.

 

We want to thank each and every one of you for tending these local

home fires and bringing the light of truth and kindness to our world.

We could never do what we're doing without you, and with you,

together, we can transform our world. Thank you all for all your

efforts--we are the benevolent revolution we've been waiting for!

 

The last couple of months have been filled with exciting, positive

developments in our ongoing efforts to bring the transformational,

uplifting message of The World Peace Diet to more people in our

culture. And there are many more opportunities beckoning on the

horizon also! To see the continually-updated itinerary of our tour

schedule on our ongoing " Grand Tour, " please go to our improved and

updated website, http://willtuttle.com, or click here for the direct

link: http://willtuttle.com/schedule.htm.

 

We'd like to draw your attention to some of the especially highlighted

upcoming events, and also to some local groups and projects that are

doing remarkable things to bring peace and healing to our world.

 

First, the upcoming events:

Over the next couple of weeks, I'll be speaking on The World Peace

Diet in Arcata, Garberville, and Palo Alto, CA, and then returning to

Massachusetts, where I'll be speaking in Beverly and on July 15th,

for the large annual potluck picnic of the Boston Vegetarian Society

held at The Peace Abbey in Sherborn, MA. Y.T. will be receiving the

Peace Abbey's Courage Of Conscience Award at this lecture event,

which will also include some original piano music as well. Please

spread the word! Will also be speaking on The World Peace Diet in

Concord, NH and at the MARC-nic annual picnic in central

Massachusetts in July. Details for all these are on our website.In

August, I'll be speaking on The World Peace Diet for the annual

Macrobiotic Kushi Institute Annual Conference, " Pathway To Peace, "

which will be held at Babson College in Wellesley, Mass., from August

5 to 11. We have discount coupons for this event; contact us if you'd

like one!

Our schedule will take us to Portland, ME, E. Greenwich, RI,

S.Windsor, CT, Rhinebeck, Syracuse, Rochester, and Buffalo, NY, and

then on through Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin, Iowa, Nebraska,

and Missouri in September and October.

Of special note is our 4-day retreat that will be held at beautiful

Unity Village just east of Kansas City on October 18-21. The retreat

is entitled: " Intuition: Developing Your Inner Wisdom " and is

sponsored by Unity's SpiritPath Program. There is a registration

discount through the end of August and this is a beautiful time of

year at Unity Village, a place where every " Unitic " is called to

visit at least once in our lives!

Our schedule will continue on from there, bringing us to Ohio,

Tennessee, Georgia, and on to Florida in December, where we'll be for

the winter.

If you'd like to schedule an event in your area, please let us know.

Madeleine is in Switzerland until the end of July, and then we begin

our tour together again.

 

Secondly, I'd like to call attention especially to the people we've

been working with recently who have blessed us - let's support the

important work they're doing.

Triangle Vegetarian Society in Raleigh-Durham -

http://www.trianglevegsociety.org/

EarthSave Baltimore - http://baltimore.earthsave.org/

Portland's Northwest V.E.G. - http://nwveg.org/index.html

UFETA, The Unitarian Universalists For The Ethical Treatment of

Animals

- http://www25.uua.org/ufeta/membership.htm

Veg Education Network in Eugene, OR - http://www.eugeneveg.org/

 

In addition, I'd like to especially thank the following for their

wonderful contributions to the cause of peace and compassion, and

urge you to check out their websites and the work they're doing:

 

The Peace Abbey - http://peaceabbey.org/

AnimalsVoice Magazine - http://www.animalsvoice.com/PAGES/home.html

Blossoming Lotus Restaurants -

http://www.blossominglotus.com/index_hi.htm

Boston Vegetarian Society - http://www.bostonveg.org/

Salem Vegan Society - http://www.salemvegan.org/events.htm

Pangea Vegan Products - http://www.veganstore.com/

Compassionate Cooks - http://www.compassionatecooks.com/

Go Vegan Radio - http://www.goveganradio.com/

New Dimensions Radio - http://www.newdimensions.org/

Wake-Up America Radio -

http://www.globaltalkradio.com/shows/wakeupamerica/

Institute For Culinary Awakening - http://chefal.org/

Naro Cinema in Norfolk, VA - http://www.narocinema.org/

Supreme Master Television - positive, spiritually programming -

http://www.gdc2.org/nwn/

Dinner With Dilip - A new veg recipe every day -

http://dilipdinner.blogspot.com/

Vibrant Memories Photography - great photographer in the Raleigh

area - http://www.vibrant-memories.com/

 

Please go to our Worldwide Prayer Circle For Animals at

http://www.circleofcompassion.org and put yourself on our new and

improved world map, and find out more about joining us in creating a

consciousness of kindness for all beings.

 

Madeleine and I are also encouraging people to learn about the

worldwide consciousness-raising event on July 17, 2007, called " Fire

The Grid. "

You can find out more about this here: http://www.firethegrid.com/

 

We're hoping you'll consider donating some copies of The World Peace

Diet to a local library or to influential people in your community.

We have a special Quantity Discount available on our website to buy 5

books at significant savings. And again, thanks for all you're doing

to help raise awareness on this earth.

 

Finally, a huge thank you to all the people working so hard to make

our events successful. We had some terrific turn-outs recently in

Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Baltimore, Cape Cod, Portland, Eugene, and

Ashland.

 

That's it for now. Thanks for being the blessing you are!

 

 

Dr. Will Tuttle

willtuttle

" The greatness of a nation and its moral progress may be seen by the

way its animals are treated. " Mahatma Gandhi

Visit http://willtuttle.com/WPD.htm to find out more about The World

Peace Diet.

Visit http://willtuttle.com for our original music and art.

Visit www.circleofcompassion.org to participate in The Prayer Circle

for Animals.