Last Wednesday, I was named by The Kindness Campaign as their
\nnewly-invited ad hoc commission member on the Asheville Citizens’
\nPolice Advisory Commission (CPAC). I had suggested several others
\nfor this post, and am humbled that I was chosen over them.<\/p>\n
I figure it’s time to update the file I call “My Footprint”. This
\nis a list of all the things I’m currently doing for myself and my
\ncommunity. I remind you (and myself) that this is not a complete
\nlist.<\/p>\n
IRL (i.e., Not Online) Groups<\/span> Memberships<\/span> Ordinations<\/span> Websites<\/span> Blog<\/span> Online Groups<\/span> Forums<\/span> Friends Sites<\/span> Writer, Poet, Songwriter, and Performer since 1964 Hugs, =====<\/p>\n People are often illogical, unreasonable and self centered. Forgive Forgiveness is not an event, but rather, it is a process in healing; Love, compassion, and tolerance are necessities, not luxuries. Without We must strive to do anything that can make the impossible and <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last Wednesday, I was named by The Kindness Campaign as their newly-invited ad hoc commission member on the Asheville Citizens’ Police Advisory Commission (CPAC). I had suggested several others for this post, and am humbled that I was chosen over them. I figure it’s time to update the file I call “My Footprint”. This is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAsheville Homeless Network – President & co-founder; group leader Needles for the Needy
\nAsheville Homeless Coalition – member representing Asheville Homeless Network
\nPathways Sanctuary & Seminary – Secretary-Treasurer & co-founder
\nThe Kindness Campaign – top volunteer, Community Advisory Board, Webmaster and Staff
\n(Asheville City) Citizens’ Police Advisory Board – ad hoc Member,
\nrepresenting The Kindness Campaign In Asheville (and Asheville Homeless
\nNetwork)
\nPagans & Witches Meetups Organizer
\nAide to Sri Virendra Qazi – organizing visit to US & Canada, editing papers, contacting individual supporters<\/p>\n
\nMindFreedom Support Coalition International
\nAARP – yeah, I’m getting old
\nThe Witches’ Voice, Inc. – Sponsor
\nSerpentStone Family
\nAsheville Radical Mental Health Collective
\nmany others, some listed below<\/p>\n
\nProgressive Universal Life Church (1995, awarded Sainthood 1995)
\nUniversal Life Church (1996, awarded Sainthood and Doctorate of Divinity 2000)
\nTemple of Wicca (2003, awarded Doctorate of Divinity 2003)
\nOrderae Occultis (2004)
\nPathways Sanctuary (2006, awarded Bachelor’s, Master’s and Doctorate of Divinity, Premiere, 2006)<\/p>\n
\nhttp:\/\/moss.witchesgathering.com – personal site
\nhttp:\/\/pathwaysseminary.org
\nhttp:\/\/ashevillehomeless.org
\nhttp:\/\/ncfilk.org & http:\/\/ncfilk.com
\nhttp:\/\/blindlemmingchiffon.com
\nhttp:\/\/main.nc.us\/stewardsoftheearth
\nhttp:\/\/thekindnesscampaign.org
\nhttp:\/\/heartsandcrafts.org
\nhttp:\/\/homelessrecovery.org
\nhttp:\/\/weerwolfgrove.net<\/p>\n
\nhttp:\/\/www.xanga.com\/mordewis
\nalso see Friends Sites, below<\/p>\n
\nowner ALT-therapies4bipolar
\nowner ashevillepagans
\nowner FreeNAMI
\nowner HolyMoly
\nowner homelessinasheville
\nowner livinginsiva
\nowner pagans_incrisis
\nowner pathwaysseminary
\nowner pathwayssemstu
\nmoderator Bi-polar_pagans
\nmoderator witchwords
\nCyberpals
\nESCoW
\nFilkCarolina
\nfilkmusic
\nMindFreedom-Heal-Normality
\nMindFreedom-FreeNAMI
\nPagansurvivors_abuse
\nrevoluticon
\nShaktiwicca
\nSpiritualBeginings
\ntempleofloveandlight
\ntemplewicca <\/p>\n
\nowner Faces of God http:\/\/cornerbarforums.com\/forum\/index.php?webtag=FACES
\nowner Cyberfilk http:\/\/cornerbarforums.com\/forum\/index.php?webtag=CYBERFILK
\nowner Alternative Health Tips & Tricks http:\/\/cornerbarforums.com\/forum\/index.php?webtag=ALTHEALTH
\nchat moderator The Realm of Be*ing http:\/\/forums.delphiforums.com\/realmofbeing\/start
\nstaff Funniest Grins & Giggles http:\/\/cornerbarforums.com\/forum\/index.php?webtag=GRINS
\nmember of too many forums to mention<\/p>\n
\nHi5
\nHyves
\nOrkut
\nMySpace
\nYahoo360<\/p>\n
\nGiven two awards for Best Poems of 2005 by Poetry.com
\nOver 40 lyrics published in Xenofilkia magazine
\nFrequent Special Guest at science fiction conventions as songwriter\/performer since 1990<\/p>\n
\nMe<\/p>\n
\nthem anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish,
\nulterior motives. Be kind anyway. If you are successful you will win
\nfalse friends, and some true enemies. Be successful anyway. If you are
\nhonest and frank people may cheat you. Be honest and frank anyway. What
\nyou spend years building someone may destroy overnight. Build anyway.
\nIf you find serenity and happiness others may be jealous. Be happy
\nanyway. The good you do today people will often forget tomorrow. Do
\ngood anyway. Give the world the best you have and it may never be
\nenough. Give the world the best you have anyway. You see, in the final
\nanalysis, it is between you and god, it was never between you and them,
\nanyway…
\n– Author Unknown<\/p>\n
\nfor when we forgive, we lose all emotional attachment to the person and
\nthe circumstance. When we do this, we free ourselves to receive more
\ngoodness in our lives
\n– Bobbie Gonder<\/p>\n
\nthem, humanity cannot survive. If you have a particular faith or
\nreligion, that is good. But you can survive without it if you have
\nlove, compassion, and tolerance.
\n– His Holiness the Dalai Lama<\/p>\n
\nmiraculous possible. A whole realm of good things opens up for us if we
\nadhere to this
\nway of thinking. Life is made for aspiration and for manifesting the impossible.
\n– Ajahn Sumano Bhikkhu and Emily Popp<\/p>\n