Friday, November 21, 2008

Women As Peacemakers



March 28, 2009
Desert Rose Baha'i Institute will be hosting the workshop WOMEN AS PEACEMAKERS" to be presented by ruie Mullins.

This workshop offers a unique spiritual study of the role of women learning to walk the spiritual path with practical feet. Women As Peacemakers is an interactive journey through the writings of the Baha'i Faith together with other great teachers and philosophers to help discover the role of women as peacemakers in the 21st Century. The workshop is an all-day event from 9-5. Registration: $35 plus a delicious lunch $10.

Please visit our website for more information www.drbi.org or contact ruie Mullins at rumu@aol.com or you may call (520)466-7961.

You won't want to miss this exciting event!

Monday, November 17, 2008

Out of the mouths of babes

"we can not do it alone, the problem shared, is the problem solved. Tujantane let's hold hands together" ...an 8 year old African child with AIDS.

Thought for Today



"Take the time to let the whispers of the heavens hear your voice..." Quincy Jones

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Famous Quotes

"We have this wonderful window, where we're past puberty and we're not dead yet...You have this great window to live and have a great time, and when you dull it with minutiae, that is meaningless. I think it's just so dumb."...Judge Judy

Monday, November 10, 2008

Funny Quotes

"Bessie Braddock: "Sir, you are drunk!"
Churchill: "Madam, you are ugly. In the morning, I shall be sober."

Friday, November 7, 2008

ATTENTION PHOTOGRAPHY LOVERS



Desert Rose Baha'i Institute will be hosting a 5-Day Photography Workshop by internatonally renowned Baha'i Photographer Paul Slaughter in the Spring of 2009, April 27-May 1.


The "On Assignment in Southern Arizona" Photography Workshop will include field trips in the outstanding nature and landscapes of the Sonoran Deert of Arizona, Indian Ruins, Sky Divers, and the Famous Old West Town of Tombstone. Please contact ruie Mullins at rumu@aol.com to register for this most rare and exciting workshop at the Desert Rose Campus.

to learn more about Paul Slaughter
please visit www.slaughterphoto.com

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Music and the Civil Rights Movement

"In his autobigraphy An Easy Burden, the Reverend Andrew Young, a close associate of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., describes the powerful role that music played in the civil rights movement. "We could hear this unity in the singing voices and speaking voices of the people, it seemed we could even hear it in the earth itself like a soft rumbling, a rhythmic beating of drums from all over the South. It was a knowing, with undeniable and unshakable conviction, that our time had come. The South would never be the same again."

Depicting the struggle as "The Singing Movement," Young goes on to say that, through music, a great secret was discovered: "Black people, otherwise cowed, discouraged, and faced with innumerable and insuperable obstacles, could transcend all those difficulties and forge a new determination, a new faith and strength, when fortified with song."

As an example, Young tells the story of one freedom meeting at a church in rural Georgia that was interrupted by the arrival of the sheriff and his deputies. The people were terrified as the sheriff warned them not to talk about registering to vote, and vowed that there would be no Freedom Riders in his county. Then, slowly, the congregation began to hum. "We'll Never Turn Back." As the humming intensified, accompanied by singing and moaning, the sounds in the church entirely drowned out the officers. "The sheriff didn't know what to do." Young notes. "He seemed to be afraid to tell the people to shut up. Finally, he and his men just turned their backs and stomped out. Those beautiful people sang that sheriff right out of their church!"... from The Mozart Effect by Don Campbell

Saturday, November 1, 2008

Bits of History - Do you remember when?

"War is not healthy for children and other living things"... from Another Mother For Peace founded in 1967; dedicated to the idea that 'war is obsolete' Its main campaign throughout its existence was to establish a Department and Secretary of Peace as part of the executive branch whose purpose would be "to examine and evaluate the range of non-military alternatives" to war. It's not too late.