y'alls the onliest family I got! - Denzel Washington in Glory
Shanti Sena Workshop Circles -
Sun 28th of April to close Seed Camp,
Sun 5th of May to close the All California Spring Regional
By holding two such circles we will not only open much space for the family to find self expression, for skill shares to be developed and discussed, but also (and to my fool heart most important) to allow for clear networking within the gathering framework for recognition amongst those who would like to be part of the solution, should a problem arise.

http://may-day-rainbow.blogspot.com/

Elegance Reflects itself constantly in the luminous strands of love which unite my tribe, the Rainbow Family of Living Light.

At Mitzvah's Parking Lot Tea House, we will be encouraging story telling and hipstories at night for those who do not want to walk into the woods till day light.

To make it a direct project, I, Iris Mitzvah will be writing my own experience of the Ground Hog Day Circle which led to the May Day Rainbow to come. At the May Day Rainbow I will read mine aloud on one of the days. Other days I will read aloud other discoverable hipstories, notably from Butterfly Bill's Rainbow Gatherings books. The goal will be for others to corroborate their own experiences of the same gatherings.

so, please, write your own Ground Hog Day experience to share at The All California Spring Gathering.

Love

I A M

All California May Day Rainbow Gathering

California, let us love.

WORD

SO MUCH GOOD TO BE DONE! 

The First Tea House Site in the woods was a tremendous success! 

Our Ground Hog Day Circle was the culmination of a 2 week Clean up Action at the 

The Lakeview Campsite

At this Council we sat upon our tails in a circle and passed the Big Beautiful Blue and Gold Tail Feather of a Macaw! 

Before the circle ended we consented to Offer the Feather to Sherry Tune, the Cherokee Sister who joined us as a tribal representative of the her ancestors and in her current capacity as Supervisor of the Mendocino National Forest.

Before the day ended we also reached Consensus to Gather again in California From April 29th through May 5th!
Until then the Tea House will be focused on Building Crew, raising funds to register and insure our Brand New 1986 Ford Econoline Conversion Van, and scouting scouting scouting for the best possible places for this Spring's All California Regional Tea House!

On the last day of the Clean up action we held a Shanti Sena circle, and EVERYONE got Macaw feathers!

More good Love to come! more Tea! Join us in person! add your meditations to ours! We shall be attempting to meet up for Diamond Dave's Radio Show on Fridays in SF http://podcasts.pcrcollective.org/DiamondDave/ on Mutiny Radio!  at 21st and Florida in the Mission District

or, if all ya got to offer right now is financial, we have arrangements for this too ( notice the Donate button!)

In all, thanks and blessings, Beloveds!

iALOHA!

What's a Mitzvah?  A blessing, a good deed, every word that ushers forth from the mouth of God? 

All of the above qualify, though in the grand scope of all the Mitzvot, I , Iris Aroha Mitzvah AM only comfortable that some of things I might be part of doing will be experienced as blessed good deeds by the grand panoply of humanity.

SO, what's it all about?

Mitzvah's Tea House Mission Statement :

To celebrate free expression and mitigate harm through the sharing of flavorful hydration!

To be a blessing in the places where folks thirst by providing fresh herbal infusions. 

Most specifically in the Parking Areas of Rainbow Gatherings, that the great question of thirst may be thoroughly considered.

We also seek to document Oppression and Brutality as evidenced by the STATE - 

that by so Witnessing We might bring solace to the victims. 

How's it gonna work?

Mitzvah has the vague pretension of being a serious philosopher ( or is it to serially fool officers? ) and so has developed a quaintly organic geometry metaphor for the purposes of expressioning the Mitzvah's Tea House meme. 

The Tea House sits on the back of a Turtle.

The turtle has 4 legs, 1 mouth and 1 tail.

the two front legs are 

Nourishment and Hydration

the two rear legs are 

Thanksgiving and Celebration

the head is the 

Community Circle

the tail is the 

Shanti Sena Tradition

These will be developed at greater length in the time to come.

Our Greatest wish is an end to world thirst an hunger by careful application of these simple loving patterns. 

Mitzvah's Tea House 2013!

WISH LIST

LOVE

PEACE

EVERYTHING ELSE TOO

( everything else to include :

• funding for maintaining our Vanna! ( she's an 86 Econoline Ford Conversion Van. )
• friends and family to serve, to serve with, and to be served by in the endless loving cycle of hydration!
• appropriate gear for serving tea where there are thirsty folks 
• donations to our paypal account, the usage of which will be decided by consensus in the Tea
  House and documented here.
• Herbs and such to make into tea and snacks.
• 2 BIG tarps.
• ROPE
• Shovels.
• Passive Solar Water Distillation Technology.)