LOVE ANGELES

Free Kirtan Concert and Share the Love Tour with Andrew Zenoff

Free West Coast Kirtan Tour!!! - October 23, 24, 28, 29 & November 1

We are extremely excited that the tour will indeed be stopping through to bless our beloved city of angels this coming Saturday night, Oct. 24, 8 PM at Bhakti Yoga Shala in Santa Monica!

Andrew Zenoff is the founder of The Bhakti Bar and an up-and-coming force within the growing Kirtan community. What many people don't know is just why Nadine Kijner was able to write a beautiful article on Andrew entitled From Mr. Mom to Kirtan, a must read!

Last week, Andrew let us know that he got a crazy idea to cruise the West Coast and share Kirtan during these last two weeks of October to help spread the love, share the names and build The Bhakti Bar community.

He will be accompanied by Joss Jaffe on Tabla and support vocals sometimes with C.C.White and Kari Marble throughout this free and love-inspiring West Coast Kirtan Tour.

Join me in supporting my soul-brother Andrew Zenoff during my very first Kirtan!!!

And guess what, if you can't make it Saturday night, catch the tour in San Diego tomorrow night and/or at any of the later dates and places found below.

Spread the Peace and Bhakti around and I hope to see you there.

* Oct. 23, 8 PM - World Beat Center, San Diego - www.worldbeatcenter.org

* Oct. 28, 8 PM - Smiling Dog, San Luis Obispo - www.smilingdogyogaslo.com

* Oct. 29, 8 PM - Still Point Body Lounge, Encinitas - www.stillpointbodylounge.com

* Nov. 1, 8 PM - The Hub, Los Angeles - www.thehub-la.com

OMG

I'm pretty sure I'll be cathing this one when it hits theatres on November 13. It's true that there aren't enough words to describe the notion of GOD. For the time being, I am very satisfied with the simple description that GOD IS LOVE!!!

Laird Hamilton on Life

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CanVolution

GOOD - "The can-volution takes canning out of the factory and puts putting-up food back on the table.

Canned foods were born in the early 1800s when a confectioner named Nicholas Appert invented a method for preserving food in airtight containers for the French army. From there, canned foods went on to become a safe, reliable staple of the workingman’s lunch and a source of pride for frugal homemakers. Canned food also became a symbol of modern industrialized society—as if the food itself were produced mechanically. Cans of green beans, Campbell’s soup, or fruit medley represent the promise (easy-to-use, pre-cooked food all year-round!) and the perils (bland, salty, overcooked food all year-round!) of modern culture.

While having canned beans available year-round—and, indeed, the can itself—is the result of a huge industrial effort (as James Parker recently wrote in a spirited defense of canned foods), a cottage industry of do-it-yourself community canners has cropped up again. Sales of canning supplies are reportedly up 30 percent this year, fed in part by an interest in local foods, awareness about contaminated processed foods, and a slumping economy. DIY home canning has also drawn inspiration from a generation of designers and tinkerers dedicated to customizing off-the-shelf products—computers, bicycles, food—that were once thought of as sterile, efficient exemplars of industrial product design.

Although producing canned food yourself may not be as cheap as buying the mass-produced version, it allows you to save your own seasonal foods, customize recipes, and enjoy your tomatoes with the knowledge that they weren’t picked by an enslaved Immokalee worker.

One enthusiastic cheerleader of canning’s new wave has been Kim O’Donnel, a Seattle writer who launched Canning Across America this summer. “I got inspired by Yes We Can in the Bay Area and I kept thinking about Hands Across America, where people would simultaneously hold events around this idea of putting up food,” O’Donnel says. “I threw an idea out on Twitter. I have not seen anything like the response I got in a long time and it was because of twenty-first century technology. We’re using social media to talk about a way of preserving food that dates back to Napoleonic era.”

Love.I.Am

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