Hi Dear Friends! Who loves you? (me!) :)

1)I have a lil request

*I am leaving in a week to travel around alone in he France, Belgium, Norway,
Sweden, Denmark, England area of the world.

a) If you have any Scoop on Europe Sites and Contacts
-I would love to have you share em with me....also contacts
and suggested itineraries

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2) Resources/Ways to to Connect:

If you haven't already, please ck out the new Catalyst for Fun Website!

Find it at www.catalystforfun.com ===It has tons of Austin resources,
including an 80 plus page fun guide I created for Austin….send it to friends or
save it to your hard drive!

***While I'm away….Feel free to join the new Catalyst for Fun Discussion group:
--talk amongst yo-selves!
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Catalystforfundiscussiongroup
* -Join my social networks if ya like:

a)-Join my Facebook—after creating a profile, you can request me as a friend
if ya like!
=, see 'Amanda Winters, Austin, Tx"

b) Join my My Linked in Network: find it at:
http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfileFwd=&authType=name&key=22924068&authT\
oken=E5FG&itemID=579402122
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3) Ode to Traveling Poem….
–hope it 'sends' you, as it did me!

*For the Traveler -- John O'Donohue


Every time you leave home,
Another road takes you
Into a world you were never in.

New strangers on other paths await.
New places that have never seen you
Will startle a little at your entry.
Old places that know you well
Will pretend nothing
Changed since your last visit.

When you travel, you find yourself
Alone in a different way,
More attentive now
To the self you bring along,
Your more subtle eye watching
You abroad; and how what meets you
Touches that part of the heart
That lies low at home:

How you unexpectedly attune
To the timbre in some voice,
Opening in conversation
You want to take in
To where your longing
Has pressed hard enough
Inward, on some unsaid dark,
To create a crystal of insight
You could not have known
You needed
To illuminate
Your way.

When you travel,
A new silence
Goes with you,
And if you listen,
You will hear
What your heart would
Love to say.

A journey can become a sacred thing:
Make sure, before you go,
To take the time
To bless your going forth,
To free your heart of ballast
So that the compass of your soul
Might direct you toward
The territories of spirit
Where you will discover
More of your hidden life,
And the urgencies
That deserve to claim you.

May you travel in an awakened way,
Gathered wisely into your inner ground;
That you may not waste the invitations
Which wait along the way to transform you.

May you travel safely, arrive refreshed,
And live your time away to its fullest;
Return home more enriched, and free
To balance the gift of days which call you.

~ John O'Donohue ~ from "To Bless the Space Between Us"

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4) Community Announcements:

a) Introducing: the 'Center for Non-Dual Studies' with a blog at
http://www.nondualstudies.com (that must be directly entered in the http: area.)
(This is led by Michael Morrow==a wonderful, very experienced teacher…
mdmorrow1@... )
The group is meeting at Casa de Luz monthly and soon on a bi-weekly basis with a
whole series of classes developed along educational lines with beginning,
intemediate and advanced study in 'Comprehensive Non-Duality' which is a totally
new approach to deep transformational education. Our next meeting is June 28th
at 11:00 am at Casa de Luz.

www.casadeluz.org
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b) MYTH AMERICA TOUR COMES TO AUSTIN: 2005 Nobel Peace Prize Nominee Cindy
Sheehan, author of `Myth America: 10 Greatest Myths of the Robber Class and the
Case for Revolution,' is coming to Austin as part of her book tour and the
public is invited to hear her at several events.

Sheehan began her anti-war activities after her son Casey was killed in Iraq on
04/04/04. She rose to international prominence when she camped on the literal
doorstep of George Bush's Crawford Ranch in August 2005. She has received dozens
of peace awards from all over the world and has published three books: Not One
More Mother's Child; Dear President Bush; and Peace Mom: A Mother's Journey
Through Heartache to Activism.

* Cindy Sheehan will speak at these venues:

- Wednesday 10 June at 6:30 pm: Camp Casey Alumni will host Cindy Sheehan at the
First Unitarian Universalist Church, 4700 Grover. Opening for Cindy will be Thom
the World Poet who will be joined by fiddler Rich Bowden, percussionist Kathy
Rowell, and other musicians on stage. Then Cindy Sheehan will speak and be
available to sign books.

-Thursday 11 June at 7 pm, Sheehan will speak at Brave New Books, 1904-B
Guadalupe, in the auditorium downstairs.

- Friday 12 June from 5 to 6:30 pm at Book Woman, 5501 No. Lamar #A-105, Cindy
will be honored with a reception and will talk about her new book.
For more information, email `austinmythtour@....'