Tonight, a finished painting called Shabbat UU

“An artist cannot be continually wielding a brush. An artist must stop painting at times to freshen his or her vision. Living is also an art. We dare not become so absorbed in its technical processes that we lose our consciousness of its general plan. The Sabbath represents those moments when we pause in our brushwork to renew our vision. Having done so, we take ourselves to our painting with clarified vision and renewed energy. This applies to the individual and to the community alike.”
- Mordecai Kaplan

This is the text that is on the top part of the painting I just finished tonight.

I'm in a class currently about living a balanced life and our "home play" last week was to come up with a few things that we would like to do and then pick one and Do IT! so I did, I finished this painting that has been waiting for a while. Enjoy!

Shabbat UU (Unitarian Univeralist)

Shalom.


Shabbat to me is....?

Dancing in a group

Today, was a party for Israel Independence day.
The party, festival, gathering was at Twarda and I was not sure if I was going to go or not. But I did and it was great. It was nice to run into so many good people and to dance!
I love to dance today with people in a group. When I was young I was really shy about things like this but now it doesn't bother me so much if I don't get the steps right. It is just wonderful to be together with people holding onto each others hands and moving in space together. Listening to the music and smiling such big smiles at perfect strangers!


One thing that could maybe get Poland to loosen up on a few things, perhaps some dancing together in groups! Perhaps I'll start some at the next rally or protest.

What dancing do you dig?

Free love

I'm in the paper again. For some reason the Polish papers like me and seem to get photos of me at rallies and protests. This paper is called NIE (NO). A friend of mind found my photo and so then, I found the paper.

The text on my flag reads:
-Education for Understanding and
-Homophobia is a Social disease



Summary in English Translated by: Greg Czarnecki

It's already getting hot regarding june's events. The chief of police, who wants to be the next mayor, hasn't said "no" yet but he also hasn't said "yes". So the fate of the parade and festival are going to be left to the last minute.To make gays and lesbians look bad, the nation's conservative, commercial and thoughtless media is representing the event with images from the Love Parade, which is a purely commercial event with plenty of provocative images. while the events in warsaw will be cultural. The most interesting event will probably be Teddy on Tour in warsaw, films from the Berlin film fest, showing the best films which can't be seen in PL otherwise.  There will also be a conference and a debate in the Sejm about European policy towards LGBT. There will be a concert with Kimmy Somerville.



On June 10 will be the Equality Parade. It's meant for women, gays,les, black, Vietnamese, alterglobalists, ecologists, pacifists..will it take place?

The police chief M. Kochalski is afraid. If he doesn't allow it he'll be seen as intolerant. If he does he risks his rightwing voting block in warsaw. They're looking for a pretext to ban the march. For now they're hanging on a rumor that someone will sing a rap song about how the warsaw mermaid was lesbian. The city has already prepared a reply that she wasn't a lesbian and the face was a modeled after a warsaw uprising heroin Krystyna Krahelska. Krahelska was leftist though sheÂ’s amongst KaczynskiÂ’s favorites of the uprising characters. And for defaming these people and the mermaid, the city is preparing to proactively ban the march. This is how in the defense of the Warsaw uprising and the real gender of the mermaid they might ban a film fest, seminar and parade.






What does Free love mean to you?

Hope- guides you on your way

This Mandala was made at the Retreat in my group by Jesse age:12


I just got back from an EUU (European Unitarian Universalist)
Spring retreat.

• I feel Hope.
• I feel peace.
• I feel loved, and cared for.
• I feel a singing soul, a silly smile and a huggable body.

I have Hope.

"This is it" "It's life, and it's really happening, right now"

What gives you hope?