Dear family,
Hello everyone. We returned from a whirlwind visit to U.S. on November 15, having spent a lot of time with Baltimore Homa Community, an urban collective of people from all ages, cultures and backgrounds who practice Homa Therapy in their own homes. It is an interesting community in that they do not live together on one piece of land. They come together for celebrations, fires, music, outreach and Homa Organic gardening. It is an intentional community in an urban setting.

We had meetings on communication, on Youth involvement, as well as finding land for a Baltimore Homa farm, the newest project. It was a full-on trip, peppered with visits to my parents living nearby.

Dear family,
We are now in U.S. with our Baltimore Homa Community. It is wonderful to be home with my American friends and family. Our communities are networking, exchanging ideas, skills, tools and inspirations. Every moment is precious.

This weekend we will have an open forum on community living, a subject close to our hearts. It never ceases to amaze me how we can bridge ages, cultural backgrounds and personalities in community to find our similarities and work toward fulfilling common goals in service to humanity.

Katy and Jacob are now officially our sound and music therapy specialists, working for our Foundation in Poland. When we identify our special skills and harness our innate gifts, we can realize our highest potential. It is interesting how one’s talents ripen and bear fruit, as we nurture the soil in which they were born.

Dear family,
As we move toward the cold months, we have found a new way of working together in our Ecovillage community. Instead of one or two of us working steadily at completing a major task, like preparing garden beds for winter or harvesting, we are planning work days when we all team up to work together. It’s a lot more fun. We apply this to community wide projects as well as individual family projects. We learn from observing local farmers. When their potatoes need harvesting, the whole family arrives to help. It’s tradition. We, in our comparatively new ‘family,’ are creating timeless traditions.

Dear family,
With much love, these transmissions are being sent. I really feel a deeper sense of connectivity in the past couple weeks than ever before. Over and over, I find the pieces of the puzzle falling into place. We weave in and out of each other’s lives, enriching each other as we do.

Suwindi, an amazing singer-songwriter-chef extraordinaire from Australia contributed her unbridled enthusiasm to our community and ignited the fire of song in our hearts.

Taylor, our Canadian WWHoofer (Willing worker on Homa Organic farms) really bonded with the cows and bees, not to mention our cherry tomatoes! He brought his trusty guitar and helped form the Fire Choir with Suwindi, Katy, and me. We wrote songs together, practiced nearly every day and awakened our inner voices!

Dear family,
What a summer! In July, it was reported Poland had something like 7 days with sun shining. It rained non-stop for weeks on end. Finally, we’ve been treated to blissful sunny days, and our gardens are flourishing. Despite the rains, we’ve had a bountiful harvest of cherry tomatoes, our signature crop, as well as herbs and a myriad of vegetables that do not normally grow in this region. Our first apples of the season are being juiced as I write this. The Homa honey bees are busy at work and we’ve already harvested delicious healing honey twice. Rory and Asia have been drying their herbs and preparing heavenly teas.

Dear friends
This is an intense period, as the world is reeling from the latest catastrophe, Japan’s unbelievable earthquake and tsunami. Our hearts go out to the people there.

I have received quite a few emails about the environmental crisis in Japan and peoples’ reactions to it. Since that date, I have experienced weakness and tiredness which was not there before. It feels like a part of me is deeply affected by the energy in the atmosphere. Orion addressed this in a way which helped me understand more what I was feeling. I’ve since increased my meditations and am reminded to not get caught up in a frenzy of activity and instead, take time to go within, and to LISTEN.

The nuclear leak is potentially devastating and I feel sure that what is reported in the news is not even close to the whole truth. I hope and pray it can serve as a global wake-up call to begin to shift our energy to alternative sources.