Need to share...

...this website with you all.

http://crazysexylife.com/

It's a site dedicated to living well and being happy. Check it out--it's full of inspiration and beautiful things like "Love Lists"and articles on activism.

Halloween ROMP!

A few weekends ago, a handful of Mindful Livers got the opportunity to volunteer at the Easton Children Museum's "Halloween Romp." The event provided numerous Halloween-related games and arts & crafts for kids around the South Shore, including a bean bag toss, musical chairs, a "mummy wrap," and "snitch-making." The children were able to showcase their costumes while partaking in the various activities. Later in the evening the kids trick-or-treated around the building with the volunteers were placed at various stations with different "treats" (silly bands, stickers, goodie-bags from the dentist, etc...).
Here is a picture of Helen and I waiting for the kids to hand out our treats!

Our Community

Some of you might be wondering what the Mindful Living Community is all about.

We'll here's a bit of an inside look into the lives of our members and what we're up to.

Composting veggies, fruits, coffee and tea to reduce waste

Using drying racks instead of the electric dryer

Opting for tap water in place of bottled water

Recycling galore

Low flow shower heads

Less electricity usage

Cafe nights

Sunday family dinners

That's right. If it's yellow... it mellows

and of course, building community

Tie Dye!

Hailey, our wonderful RA, put on a great event to make Tie Dye shirts! : ) After we chose our colors, she even let us know what that said about our personality- how cool!

Aaaah! Bottled water! Look out!

A friend of mine showed me this website and I thought of everyone in the house and what we've been recently focusing on. I've always chosen tap water over bottled, but before watching the video on this site, I couldn't have given anyone an intelligent statement of why this was necessary to do. What I like about this video is that the information it provides is very accessible. This is definitely something that the entire campus should watch and (hopefully) be influenced by.

http://storyofstuff.org/bottledwater/

Women & War Retreat at Agape

Some pictures to share from our time at the retreat:

  Lauren and Smith's Acapella group

 Traditional dance of the Burundi (and cute children!)

 Burundi women share their story of time spent in refugee camps and struggles for survival

 Suzanne, co-founder of the Agape community

 We found Kathleen, a Stonehill alum... who lived in Rehoboth!

 Singing and dancing :)

 A tree planted in the memory of an Iraqi woman. Her two children and husband were present

 At the hermitage

 Campfire!

Lots of good resources:

Agape Community

http://www.agapecommunity.org/

School for International Training CONTACT Program (Conflict Transformation Across Cultures)

http://www.sit.edu/graduate/6708.htm

Karuna Center for Peacebuilding

http://www.karunacenter.org/

Photographer and Blogger, Skip Schiel

http://skipschiel.wordpress.com/

Interfaith Peace Builders

http://ifpbdel.org/

The Center for Nonviolent Solutions
http://nonviolentsolution.org/

War Resisters League
http://www.warresisters.org/

Iraq Veterans Against War
http://www.ivaw.org/

Interview with Robynn Murray,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TI45tHE5o7M

Documentary, Pray the Devil Back to Hell
http://www.praythedevilbacktohell.com/

Women in Black
http://www.womeninblack.org/en/about

Warrior Writers
http://www.warriorwriters.org/

Documentary, The Most Dangerous Man in America
http://www.mostdangerousman.org/