Days are lengthening, community is gathering,
relationships are growing.
Celebrate what is blossoming!
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Greetings Friend!
We feel deeply nourished by our recent Blessing of the Stone ritual (pics above), and the gathering of friends, old and new. We have more updates below, and hope that you will be nourished by our news. But first…
— < Upcoming Programs > —
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Garden Therapy
Tomorrow, June 10th!
Creative Activities 5:30
Community Dinner 7,
Hang out late, if you like
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Voices at the Table: Community Conversation on Food, Farming, and Health
July 9th: noon – 2
Be an agent for healthy change!
Be part of building stronger food, agriculture, and nutrition systems!
Part one of a series for Rutherford County residents. Participants get a free meal and vouchers for use at the Farmer’s Market. Register Here.
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Foothills Farm Tour: June 25th: 9am – 4 pm
We’re one of 6 awesome farms in the area, to open up educational tours to visitors.
Come tour the Dreaming Stone Mothership and our primary food production zone. We’ll share some lessons learned and some plans for the future. Get your tickets here!
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Our First Day Camp
July 25th – 30th
M-F, Programming 8:30 – 2:30
Extra Activities till 5:30
Sat, Performance & Meal w/ Family
Scholarships are available!
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Work Parties!
Yes, we have fun.
July 12th: 5:30 – 7:30:
Help Us Prep for Camp!
July 23rd: 10 – 12:
More Camp Prep!
We often feed volunteers. Help us feed others. Come by, lend a hand! Hang and share a story!
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Wilderness Vigil
Oct 8th – 15th
A deep dive for community advocates who need wilderness healing and space to refuel. This event includes a 4 day fast of food, shelter, and company, and is bookended by group processes for preparation and integration. Direct interest and questions to [email protected].
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Magic is afoot! God is alive!
Lots of exciting fall programs are in the works. Potential is brewing! While we’re readying for what’s to come, we are busy with ongoing projects.
- The Sacred Tree, by Zap McConnell, now stands at the center of the Mothership. Her brilliance is alive in this epic sculpture that invites everyone’s engagement.
- Beautiful bookshelves, crafted by Mike Davis, are in the works. Encircling the tree, they will hold our future lending library!
- The annual garden is luscious and vibrant. Our new pollinator garden is flowering!
- We’ve shared our first vegetable donations with a local feeding ministry, and we’re engaging youth volunteers on land projects.
Community support sustains our operations and enables the scope of projects!
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Update from “the community at Dreaming Stone”
… still working on a name.
There’s a lot to keep track of, between the beloved souls visiting and those hunkering down with us for awhile. We’d previous shared the awesome news of Leonardo Moreno, old Carnivalista and lead singer of Cienaños, bringing his family (wife, Romina, and baby, León) to be with us at Dreaming Stone. More recently, we shared that they are in Italy, handling visa logistics and legal immigration processes, for which we ask your prayers. And our exciting update is that they will be returning to Dreaming Stone with a new little one! Yes, they are expecting a little girl in mid July, around the time that León turns 2! So please, hold them in the light, with all the power of your love! We miss them and expect their return in the Fall.
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The grief of the world is not lost on us. We are holding it even as we hold the joy of building community and learning from the land. May our capacity to understand joy and sorrow forever deepen, and may we knit each other into circles of care that sustain us through the storms!
Much Love,
Tevyn East
Executive Director
Dreaming Stone Arts and Ecology Center
dreamingstone.org
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