My New Sax Blog...

... is called "66 Sax" after my 1966 Selmer Bundy tenor sax, "Bello." (Serial number 411559 - and the name is a play on the English word for making a loud noise or yell, and the the Italian word for "handsome.")

You can check it out here: http://66sax.blogspot.com/ - including my healing Earth song, "Pacha Mama Prayer."

Regards and have fun,

Dan

(I now become a wonderful, mystical, magical saxophone player, in perfect ways and under grace, in peace and harmony, and always in perfect time.)

Just a quick note, I've started a journal about learning the art of Karate called "The Empty Hand." (Karate literally translates to "Empty Hand" in Japanese.) You can find a bit of humor and also insiders' notes on what it's like to be learning a martial art. Stop on by The Empty Hand at http://karateemptyhand.blogspot.com/ any time.

Regards,

Dan

I am connected to, protected by, and supplied by love.

I am connected to, a protector of, and supplied by the Earth.

I am connected to, protected by, and supplied by God and all the Universe.

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2005!!!!!

From: Christina Kraich-Rogers
Date: Thu Dec 30, 2004 8:33 pm
Subject: joint call for healing and peace

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INDIGENOUS ELDERS' CALL:

This is a call for Global Four Directions Prayer for
Peace, a 24 hour effort to end the war and global violence. We are asking all the leaders and peacemakers to join us in this effort.

The start date will be 12 noon, December 31, starting in the Eastern time zones, and continuing through January 1.

On September 11, 2001, as a result of the tragedy, we were all one people and it is time for us to come back together with one heart, one mind, one prayer, one intention to create a more peaceful world for the generations to come and all our relations.

This activation comes as a request from some of the Four Directions Elders and Medicine People as communicated to Grace Smith Yellow Hammer.

We are requesting spiritual leaders all over the globe to call their people together in their sacred spaces so that all people, all colors, all directions are included in this effort.

With all the devastation of war and escalation of terror and environmental harm on the planet, it is obvious why we need to come together at this time.

For those of you who will understand this, there was recently a quarter moon in the morning with two stars within the crescent. This along with the recent Venus alignment, is a potent call for an activation because it signifies both danger and opportunity.

We hope you will be inspired to join us in this call. We are simply asking all people of all races, all faiths, all traditions to pray for peace and healing in whatever way is appropriate during this time and to remember that as we link with one heart, one mind, one intention we can heal the
world one step at a time.

May peace prevail on Earth,

Sincerely,

Grace Smith Yellow Hammer , Dineh [Navajo]
yhammer@cybertrails.com

Grandfather William Commanda, Annishinabe [Ojibway]
Keeper of the Seven Fires Prophecies Belt
www.circleofallnations.com

Grandfather Martin Gasheseoma
Traditional Hopi Elder

Chief Arvol Looking horse {Lakota]
www.wolakota.org

Venerable Bardor Tulku Rinpoche [Tibetan Buddhist]
Karma Triyana Dharmachakra
www.kagyu.org

Roberto Borrero, United Confederation of Taino People
mayohuacan@yahoo.com

Grandmother Sara Smith
Six Nations of the Grand River, Mohawk Nation, Turtle Clan
Six Nations of the Grand River Territory, Ontario Canada
nyaweh@sympatico.ca

Grandfather Henry Niese
Eagle Voice Center , North Carolina

Chief Tom Dostou, Waban-aki ( Eastern- Land)Aylnu, Bear
Clan, Midewin
tmpdostou@yahoo.com

Reverend Dr Dave Randle, Executive Director, The Whale
Center
whale@globalhealing.net

World Peace Prayer Society
www.worldpeace.org

Erma Pounds
Director, Arizona Karma Thegsum Choling (KTC) [Buddhist]

Reverend Charles Gibbs
United Religions Initiative
www.uri.org

Reverend Ilfra Halley
Center for the Living Earth
ilfra@wamc.org

Reverend Betsy Stang, Executive Director
The Wittenberg Center for Alternative Resources Inc
www.wittenbergcenter.com
bebird@aol.com

Elizabeth Stinson, Director Peace & Justice Center of Sonoma
County
Santa Rosa, California
http://www.peaceandjusticesonomaco.org/

I cast this burden of political corruption upon the divine,

and go free to live in prosperity, peace, harmony, grace and

choice which are mine by divine right. I speak these words

for all who ask it of me by their own free will.

I now release anger in peace and harmony, freeing my body, heart, and soul from negative energy and filling them with positive energy and kindness.

I will become a wonderful saxophone player in peace and harmony.