Last weekend was the Green Fest, a conglomeration of creators, collaborators and coyotes convening to share and learn about all that is environmentally and socially conscious business. Every year there are a plethora of raw organic chocolate treats to eat, flared out hemp yoga pants to strut your sexy authentic self in, re-purposed sweaters made into cute argyle patterned accessories, solar panel demos, earth alters, mushroom parades, non-toxic everything you could want to put onto your beautiful body, and people, people, GORGEOUS PEOPLE! Speakers are engaging with audiences for three days straight on a variety of stages. Musicians call and strum people to their feet for delicious movement and celebration. Food and textiles are traded for super-food beverages and back rubs. It's a reunion for many of us, another gathering epicenter of health and intentions of wellness on multiple levels... for others it is an introduction to this green craze they notice in the media. Overall, the Green Fest is a fertile ground for planting and harvesting brilliant ideas about how we can more consciously coexist on this beautiful water planet we call home.
I sang with a group called the Social Prophet Choir on Sunday evening. This has become a tradition of the San Francisco Green Festival, a closing ceremony with the bright and enthusiastic choir of activists and thought leaders of the Social Prophet Choir singing out the weekend. We went on to sing our signature song, Now is the Time, written by our beloved Troy Lush, at the after party as well. We had so much fun! Rockin' out with a gaggle of beautiful beings, all dressed in snazzy black and green, harmonizing and swaying to the funky beat held by our magnificent percussionists Yari and Tracy, is a feeling that stays with me and inspires me still.
Now it's back to my study work with the Green MBA. Accounting, marketing, economics... although it is not as glamorous as traveling through South America with my backpack and guitar, I'm really appreciating the mental exercise and the fact that I'm building skill sets that I can use into the future to secure a good future for our grandchildren. That's part of my intention for doing this work. I'm weaving my passion for children and travel and the earth and art of all forms into actionable dreams that can benefit from the structures of business. In the meantime, I'm taking care of my own little plot of land... my own body, my backyard garden, my close circle of friends and family, my precious inner mind space. When we take care of the most intimate home of ourselves, I mean really take care of it from the deep roots to the central core to the outermost leaves, we are doing the most essential job we can do for the world. Only from that cultivated and healthy self can we truly integrate and collaborate in productive ways with those around us. This way, we become a thriving forest that is likely to live on for a long time.
