
(...)
My soul is painted like the wings of butterflies
Fairytales of yesterday will grow but never die
I can fly - my friends (...)
«Come what may»....
There are many variations on the story of stone soup, but they all involve a traveler coming into a town beset by famine. The inhabitants try to discourage the traveler from staying, fearing he wants them to give him food. They tell him in no uncertain terms that there's no food anywhere to be found. The traveler explains that he doesn't need any food and that, in fact, he was planning to make a soup to share with all of them. The villagers watch suspiciously as he builds a fire and fills a cauldron with water. With great ceremony, he pulls a stone from a bag, dropping the stone into the pot of water. He sniffs the brew extravagantly and exclaims how delicious stone soup is. As the villagers begin to show interest, he mentions how good the soup would be with just a little cabbage in it. A villager brings out a cabbage to share. This episode repeats itself until the soup has cabbage, carrots, onions, and beets-indeed, a substantial soup that feeds everyone in the village.
This story addresses the human tendency to hoard in times of deprivation. When resources are scarce, we pull back and put all of our energy into self-preservation. We isolate ourselves and shut out others. As the story of stone soup reveals, in doing so, we often deprive ourselves and everyone else of a feast. This metaphor plays out beyond the realm of food. We hoard ideas, love, and energy, thinking we will be richer if we keep to them to ourselves, when in truth we make the world, and ourselves, poorer whenever we greedily stockpile our reserves. The traveler was able to see that the villagers were holding back, and he had the genius to draw them out and inspire them to give, thus creating a spread that none of them could have created alone.
Are you like one of the villagers, holding back? If you come forward and share your gifts, you will inspire others to do the same. The reward is a banquet that can nourish many.
Love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love.
There's nothing you can do that can't be done.
Nothing you can sing that can't be sung.
Nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game
It's easy.
There's nothing you can make that can't be made.
No one you can save that can't be saved.
Nothing you can do but you can learn how to be in time
It's easy.
All you need is love, all you need is love,
All you need is love, love, love is all you need.
Love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love.
All you need is love, all you need is love,
All you need is love, love, love is all you need.
There's nothing you can know that isn't known.
Nothing you can see that isn't shown.
Nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be.
It's easy.
All you need is love, all you need is love,
All you need is love, love, love is all you need.
All you need is love (all together now)
All you need is love (everybody)
All you need is love, love, love is all you need.
Primeira instituição virada para os índigos surgiu muito recentemente em Portugal Casa índigo Em Portugal, a questão das crianças índigo ainda é pouco conhecida, mas existe já a Casa índigo, em Lisboa, destinada ao esclarecimento, estudo e desenvolvimento de actividades ligadas às crianças e jovens índigo. Fundada em Janeiro de 2005, por Teresa Guerra, autora do livro “Crianças índigo”, e por Alain Aubry, de origem chilena mas à muito radicado em Portugal, na Casa índigo também se desenvolvem ateliers de arte, teatro, pintura, assim como aulas de bio-dança e não menos importante, sessões de apoio terapêutico. Até hoje, esta instituição sem fins lucrativos não recebeu «qualquer tipo de apoio oficial dos órgãos competentes, daí ainda não termos espaços adequados às crianças e para todas as actividades que necessitamos para desenvolver o projecto», adianta Teresa Guerra. Para contrariar esta tendência, os fundadores da Casa índigo estão já a estudar a «elaboração de um projecto de modo a que venha a ser financiado, para assim poder expandir esta instituição e dar todas as condições às crianças que procurem os nossos serviços», acrescenta Alain Aubry. P.F. |