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FULLSIZE PICTURE
OF QUILT MEDALLION
AND
QUILTMAKER'S
EYE NOTES
1/02/05 - please note
an extended picture
gallery of the quilt is in
the works!!!
from central quilt medallion
please take a moment to read her own words posted in the 6-
direction portion of her Freestone.org site.
ALTHOUGH THE BENEFIT HAS ENDED
PLEASE NOTE JEANNINE AND HER FAMILY
CONTINUE TO NEED ALL FORMS OF LOVE,
PRAYERS, AND ANY POSSIBLE DONATIONS.
IF YOU LOVE JEANNINE (OR SIMPLY
SOMEBODY WHO LITERALLY OWES HER
THEIR LIFE AND ITS QUALITY) PLEASE
CONSIDER MAKING HER GOOD AND
RATHER DESPERATE CAUSE A PART OF
YOUR NEW YEAR'S KARMA YOGA.
Jeannine Parvati, 40 N. State Street, Joseph UT 84739
BENEFIT RAFFLE WINNERS
FIRST PRIZE: Shivam Rachana
SECOND PLACE: Helen Leahy
THIRD PLACE: Anne Marie Polak
PLEASE NOTE UPDATES ON THE SECOND PAGE
“PPQP” Last Update Before the Gemini FULL MOON NOV. 26th
DRAWING. NOTE: drawing was postponed until Monday
afternoon.
By Jeannine Parvati Baker 11/21/04
This week I was telling my beautiful young Apprentice, presently
residing in our Hygieia House, how important it is, if she
continues to be a BirthKeeper, to diversify: Not to put all of her
eggs in one basket. Indeed this is physiologically incorrect --
women have two ovaries -- and it is idealistic, even bordering on
ambitious, to imagine that we can easily support a family on the
income generated from being a lay midwife. In a confessional
tone I then shared my work herstory -- childbirth educator,
prenatal yoga teacher, doula (way before that term was coined),
author, astrologer, consultant, college founder, keynote,
publisher, columnist, etc. etc. etc.
I also disclosed that throughout the 35 years that I have been
working, I hadn’t realistically thought about my fiscal future --
indeed, I was naïve to trust that I would be “taken care of” by my
husband -- yet the divorce, just finalized in early Oct., has not
secured that outcome. There are no personal IRA, savings,
stocks, bonds, CD’s or other investments, etc. etc. etc.
Yet I worked all of my adult life for the sake of Healing the Earth
by Healing Birth and do not regret even one day of this focused
devotion. Countless times I have freely given my services without
much thought about it. It was simply what I was born to do.
So why am I surprised that at this 11th hour that the outpouring of
love and donations to the “Parvati’s Paradise Quilt Project” is
enough to sustain my family for the autumn season? To those
who have already bought your chances to win the QUILT of my
dreams, I am deeply grateful. To those who are considering
buying tickets for the QUILT Raffle, I encourage you to take a
chance. Any donation is huge in my heart.
Come this winter, I will trust that another “Project” to raise funds
will arise. I am still unable to work by traveling to conferences and
holding workshops hither and thither. The one event I was able to
attend this year in New York took a terrible toll on my health and I
am (almost) back to where I was right after the acute phase and
at the beginning of this chronic illness in January. Though
humility is not my natural virtue, I have learned the hard way and
will commit to staying home for a long spell to do astrology
readings, consultations by phone, and instruct Apprentices here
in the heart of Utah. As soon as my stamina increases, I will also
respond to my wonderful Hygieia College Home Study students
whose patience with me has been one of the greatest gifts this
midwife can receive.
One more disclosure before the drawing -- Acey, who by now all
of you have met either by phone or online, is the angel of healing
that I wish was in everyone’s life. Without her efforts this autumn,
I would be feeling much more sorry for myself than I could stand.
Acey has given me sustenance, hope and renewed my faith in
the goodness of this work that has claimed my soul for over a
generation. Please support Acey’s good works by buying her
book, ordering altar cloths, making a special donation for her
mailing costs in sending ticket receipts and phone calls, and after
the DRAWING on the 26th, packaging the QUILT to somewhere
in the USA, Canada, Europe, Asia or Australia.
May Parvati’s Paradise be yours -- and if you do not win the
QUILT, let it be that imaginal place in which you enfold yourself,
that paradise that warms all souls, reminding us of the original
love that makes us possible, as the winter season creates us
anew.
Thank you and to the miracle that is LIFE,
Blessed Be and Blessed Do,
Jeannine Parvati Baker
Read JP's original words about her benefit project, below:
“This is another miracle in the tapestry of my life for a comforter
truly expresses how I feel about my friends around the world.
Without my beloved circle of global allies, I would be beyond
hope as I have encountered the most challenging year of my life.
As I progressed into Leo at the end of 2003, my pride in being
married 25 years fell away and I am to harvest a divorce this
autumn season. But I still had my health and so I attached a
shattered identity to my body -- then that was taken away, too. I
have been gravely ill for the better part of this year, only now
slowly convalescing (and have risen from 87 lbs. to a whopping
105!!) This fund raiser makes it possible for me to continue the
healing at home. The QUILT Raffle is the new fabric of meaning
in which I enfold my soul and I am grateful for all of you for being
the precious pieces who comfort me at this time of utter
transformation. I must be having a premature Saturn return and if
I can continue to harvest humility, I just may be ready for
whatever Grandmother Spider might spin my way next. Thank
you for your generosity. Blessed Be and Blessed Do.”
About the primary quiltmaker – Alicia Martinez Russell-Smith is a
4th generation quilter. This is her Lucky Number Seventh quilt
benefit project since the mid-80’s and her 4th turn on the wheel
as a benefit’s project innovator. Her 3-decade love of JP is
eclipsed only by her devotion to all that JP represents about life
and the sacred healing powers we all carry. Aside from Hygieia,
her favorite book about female medicine making is Subversive
Stitchery. CONTACT
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