CREATIVITY / INNOVATION
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
~ Carl Jung, 1875-1961 ~

The result of our most recent play period is a new addition to our line, An Apothecary of Wisdom. This selection is packaged like the Treasury of Wisdom and contains 200 cards that speak to the healing of mind, body and spirit. It retails for $35 and is available by ordering online . It will appear in our Fall 2007 catalog.

LILA / LEISURE
There seems to be a philosophic contradiction between being busy and being wise. Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise. The wisest man therefore is he who loafs most gracefully.
~ Lin Yutang, 1895-1976 ~

We invite you to come loaf gracefully with us by joining Quoterie, our Wisdom for the Soul Book Club where you can shoot the breeze on matters trivial or philosophical, make friends, share wisdom, earn rewards, compare notes. Sign up today and invite all your friends.

CONGRUENCE / RESONANCE
To associate with other like-minded people in small purposeful groups is for the great majority of men and women a source of profound psychological satisfaction.
~ Aldous Huxley, 1894-1963 ~

We were invited to become part of a wonderful new online social network Wisdomology, where you can meet all kinds of seekers, teachers and healers, sharing wisdom, experiences and compassion. It's free to join unless you opt for premium membership which allows you to do even more fun stuff like create and send e-cards, meditations with music and visuals. If you are a Pro, you can list your services.

COLLABORATION / SYNERGY
As we come to see how many sources there are for events we have less confidence in any one scheme of betterment, any one person, class, race or nation; but more in what all can do by team-work in a common spirit.
~ Charles Horton Cooley, 1864-1929 ~

As we approach the completion of our second anthology Wisdom for the Soul of Black Folk, there is still time to submit your favorite quotes for consideration. Be a part of this historic initiative to document and make more widely available the wisdom of the African diaspora.

SUMMER FUN
Take heart, truth and happiness will get you in the end. You can't lose in this game. Have fun. It goes on too long to be taken seriously all the time.
~ John & Lyn St. Clair Thomas ~

Have a go. Submit your favorite quotations by Black authors for inclusion in Wisdom for the Soul of Black Folk which is now being compiled. To add to the fun, sweeten the pot as Jamaicans say, your name will be listed in the book if we use 5 or more of your quotes. If we use 20 or more of your submissions, you get billing as a Contributing Editor. Submit online or send to submissions.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
~ William James, 1842-1910 ~

CELEBRATION
For most of us, what is worth celebrating is the fact that we are here, that we against all the odds exist ... We are part of an endless circle, the daughters of Anacaona.* We have stumbled, but have not fallen. We are ill-favored, but we still endure. Every once in a while, we must scream this as far as the wind can carry our voices.
~ Edwidge Danticat, b. 1969 ~
Excerpt from forthcoming Wisdom for the Soul of Black Folk
*Anacaona, Golden Flower, Taino Queen of part of Santo Domingo, resisted the Spaniards and was executed. The Tainos lived throughout the Greater Antilles.

Speaking of Jamaicans, Anthologist Larry Chang will be signing copies of his books at the Jamaica Independence Market, Sunday August 5 2007, 1-9 pm in the OAS gardens, 17th Street & Constitution Avenue NW, Washington DC. If you don't already have your copy of Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing, or need gifts for worthy recipients, now is a good time to get autographed copies. While there, you can enjoy curry goat, reggae and Red Stripe. The lineup has not yet been announced, but previously they've had Third World, Skatalites, Kymani Marley and Bare Essentials.

CONNECTION
All things and beings in the universe are connected with each other – visibly or invisibly and through vibrations a communication is established between them on all the planes of existence.
~ Hazrat Khan, 1882-1927 ~

TRIVIA: In the course of his research on Malcolm Gladwell, author of the bestsellers The Tipping Point and Blink, for Wisdom for the Soul of Black Folk, Larry realized he knew Gladwell's mother and may have met Malcolm himself as a child. Joyce Gladwell's sister, Faith Linton, taught Larry in high school in Brown's Town, St Ann, Jamaica, where she likely brought the Gladwells to shop in his family's grocery store when they came on holiday.

In The Tipping Point, Gladwell writes about Stanley Milgram's chain letter experiment which showed basically six degrees of separation between everyone. Since Larry could get a letter to Malcolm in three steps, does that make him a Connector?

There is more going on
beneath the surface than we
think, and more going on in
little, finite moments of
time than we would guess.
~ Malcolm Gladwell, b. 1963 ~
from the forthcoming
Wisdom for the Soul of Black Folk

Thursday, July 19
EnlightenNext Salon

Registration: 6:45pm
Conversation begins: 7pm
Search for Common Ground Headquarters
1601 Connecticut Avenue NW, 4th Floor
Washington, DC (Dupont Circle Metro, north exit)
Admission: $10 at the door
shaase@enlightennext.org

Tuesdays, July 24 - August 28, 6:30-9:00 pm
Spiritual Marketing Course

Unity of Washington DC
700 A Street NE, Washington DC 20002
Webpage | e-Mail
202 545 0869
By donation

Sunday, August 5 2007, 1-9 pm
Jamaica Independence Market

Organization of American States Gardens
17th Street & Constitution Avenue NW, Washington DC

Sunday, Sept 16, 10 am - 6 pm
Soul Searching Conference

Holiday Inn Select
2004 Greenspring Drive, Timonium, MD
(Just off of I-695 and I-83)
Free Parking/Restaurant On-Site
Webpage

Saturday, Sept 22 1-6 pm
1-day Spiritual Marketing Workshop

New World Unity Church
8136 Old Keene Mill Road, #A-210, Springfield, VA
Sponsored by the Holistic Entrepreneurs Alliance
$60 for members, $85 for non-members (join for $35)
Call 703 548 4552 to register
HolisticAlliance@aol.com

Saturday, Sept 29
Holistic Life Expo & Health Fair

Almas Shrine
Washington, DC

Sunday, Oct 21
Pathways Natural Living Expo

UM University College Inn & Conference Center
3501 University Boulevard East, Adelphi, MD