Groundz 4 Change! Manifesto

Thank You !! all --for all that you are-and- all that you've shared with me!!!
Like it or not, somehow you have inspired this site and its future.
If you've found yourself here,

could it be just
because you are an amazing gift to this world?

I offer what follows for your enjoyment,
to perhaps entertain you ,
to amuse you or
... to entice you to step onto this circle journey with me---

I also share it with you
in the hopes that you will honor and cherish it
and I invite you in all sincerity
to help me to tend and keep it...

If you only know me a little, this manifesto may be a little scary,
but... only in the amount of possibilities & passion unleashed.

If you know me well, you know I'm crazy to begin with --
so . . .this shouldn't surprise you... much.

Its Me... UNPLUGGED-- maybe even a little unhinged.

What follows here is HIGH TEST stuff.... pure, utopic dream casting....

This is NOT for the SQUEAMISH---

If you're worried or whelmed already,
let me greet you,
send you some energy,
wish you well,
and let you find your way back to this later....

If you're brave and bold and daring,
then...

CHECK THIS OUT...

I've found a brand new rabbit hole for us to explore together....

Wanna be part of an amazing long haired freaky people type a gig?
where diversity and imagination and creativity are valued and
where you can do something you LOVE allllll day long.

wanna Speed to work cuz you cant wait to get there,
not cuz you couldn't make your sorry (burned out) butt get outtA bed?
wanna live the values you've believed all your life? ---
wanna believe in the life you live, today?

what if you could play all day...?
get paid to sit around and hang out
with really really coool people?
And see the world change because of it?

wanna name yr salary---
and get a fully paid sabbatical every 4 to six years?
get the best dosh garn health plan,
& the best drn retirement plan
with a just match to YOUR contribution???

Wanna be saturated in arts and culture and fun all day long?
Steeped--in a joy- filled, cup of pure potent creativitality?

Wanna be free to touch the people you need?--
to cry with those who need it,
to listen to those unheard,
to get yr hands dirty--
building the world we want to live in --
not the one 4 which we seem to be settlin?

For those of you who're wondering where my sanity has gone...
don't worry, it's still intact....
its up ahead--somewhere
just around that bend to the left...

I feel like I've caught POSSIBILITY by the tail
and .... I cant quite let 'er go...
Like I have been to or found a MountainTop....
and in spite of my resistance...
it only seems to grow and grOW and gROW and GROW--

To Make this possibility concrete-----
A LOT of things need to happen,
so I've made a list.
many hands make the load light;
there's a space for everyone....
so please check it twice....

board members, advisors, investors and venture(social) capitalist

rainmakers, grantmakers, troublemakers, peace makers,

grant writers, freedom writers, wake-riders, road runners,

Walker's and Talkers, cheerleaders and champions,

Blazers and gazers-- both trail and star

visionary or traditionalist, conspiracy theorist, believers-- or non,

free thinkers, and sollipsists, heck even you cock-eyed optimists,

meditators and pray-ers, monks and nuns,

llamas and mammas

and
tricksters and Shamans

wizards and muggles, dreamers and screamers, radicals-- free or bound

Highlanders, Midwest-ers, HaleyFreedom Schoolers
Coasters both left and right

skilled traders, day traders, fair traders, race traitors
crafts masters, Toastmasters
pod-casters, webmasters,
bloggers, gamers, IT geeks, and
programmers-- extreme or rare,

pickers or grinners scratchers and mc's
peace niks & beat niks,

Hey----any one know a dixie chix?

writers, and rappers and spoken word poets
painters, photographers and even someday, the Laureates

artistas, baristas
EVEN POSSIBILITISTAz

If you've learned just from experience how to:
Kiss today goodbye,
or..... measure the life of a woman or a man.

If you've been hooked or pimpd,
pushin, addicted or pimpin...
If you've got all yr parts or

if some are missin,
all will be welcomed

thru the open door

come to source!
come drink to your fill
from your wellspring of choice--

Eastern or Western
---ancient, modern or

NEW and improved
... did I miss anything in between?


Here

in lie
the
GROUNDz 4 CHANGE!(TM)

If you've got guts,
This is the gauntlet,
If you are a traveler,
This is the journey.
if you just find yourself
named in,
caught up in
or implicated by what you've read this far,

or

if what you've read'z gist runnin round yr head

respond via email...
or call me some time soon... (during the week of february 5)

I want to have breakfast, lunch, dinner, coffee or dessert
(Does anyone but Lady T still do desserts??)-
at the very least,
just a minute or two of your precious time!
Time to ketchup,

time to connect again.
Time to:
Save a hooker &
Pay the Rent,

And.. remember...
You can get anything you want....
@
alice's restaurant???
no, silly
@

Groundz4Change
---

may passion & energy,
peace and justice,
courage and love
fill your day... today

and ...tomorrow

and
... always.

all my love and ...
all the best!!!
ms