Hi Lance,

I guess my good news is that I am so over-whirly whirled by going to both the Oregon Country Fair and Faerieworlds right in a row that though, I have been longing to meet you out there, I am either driving home from Oregon or exhausted. I wonder how the Greenlake ones have been going.

Turtle Drum actually fluctuates, but the Dojo host is letting me hang in there, paying her whatever comes in the door to see if being in one place long enough grows a community.

A very wise person told me that even when no one shows up, it is important to have the circle anyways, whether it is a drum circle, a reiki circle or a shamanic circle. It is holding the energy for what it is so that it does not die. I am learning to be a rock in the stream, steady and constant, that everyone knows they can go to.. Of course as long as I have the resources: time, money and energy to be that way. As hard as it is to do, I believe that those of use who practice this become the footholds for alternative culture. I think of you as the Gasworks park rock in the stream. Maybe you could make some flyers and hang them around.

I hope to see you before the season is out.

- Tasara-jen (Turtle Drum lady)

Anybody going to In Didj In Us in a few weeks?