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Newsletter
December 2006 ISSUE 5
and embroidered by imagination”
Voltaire
December 13, 2006
Greetings from Gus and Joanne,
We hope that this holiday season brings you peace and happiness in great measure. Our
hearts are full as we enjoy family, old and new friends as well as the opportunities each
day brings for us to connect and collaborate with our NPN members.
This newsletter is chock full of ideas and inspirations offered by our members! We hope
you will take the time to read the entire newsletter – we promise it will be worth your
while. If you prefer to read it online, we will post it on our NPN website as soon as we
can.
We are tremendously excited about the new possibilities appearing on the horizon for us
and for the Nature Planning Network in 2007. We can’t give you details yet but we can
tell you that the word “Communiversity” is at the center of several opportunities for
NPN appearing on the horizon. Stay tuned for more news!!
Our love and best wishes go out to each and every one of you.
Gus and Joanne
It said
Creativity sleeps in the rocks
Creativity dreams in the plants
Creativity stirs in the animals
Creativity awakens in people
“In Love”
by Tom McMullen
News of New Members & Community and Cosmology recap
C & C continued and Suggested Readings
Growth Stages of Spiritual Leadership,
Bernini poem and Anthony Judge
“Love is the Answer” by Maryanna Bock
Member Events and News
Sanctuary for Esoteric Renewal
In Memoriam for Barbara Ray Gilles
Poetry by Kathleen Izzo and Anthony Bernini
Cupid Aging” by Anthony Bernini
Recent lifetime members Ellen and Lloyd Wells pulled up stakes in Falmouth, Maine and moved for
the winter to their new home in Fort Myers, Florida. They will undoubtedly be serving the common
good and visionary future in Florida as they always have and we look forward to their return to Maine
next summer.
After Bo Peabody and his wife took a travel vacation in Africa, the entrepreneur investment leader
and founder of the investment group Village Ventures returned to Williamstown, Massachusetts, and
joined the Nature Planning Network as a lifetime member. We look forward to Bo’s advice on our
Community Investment Program.
John Spady, son of lifetime member Dick Spady, also joined us as a lifetime member. In his role as
the leader of the many-to-many communication work of the Seattle based Forum Foundation, John is
helping Unity Scholars and NPN gear up for use of the new Fast Forum software. Seth Itzkan, an NPN
member, worked with John to develop this new interactive learning technology and methodology.
Carol Brewster, a new member from Manchester, Maine plans to move to Hanover, New Hampshire
where she will be closer to some family members. We hope to work with her on events in that area
which always unites activists from Vermont and New Hampshire.
New member Darien Crimmin, when he was a student leader at UVM, helped Gus organize and host
the university’s first ever Future Fair – VISIONARY VERMONT. Now Darien has just accepted a
position at Harvard helping the university plan, popularize and engage student participation in
ambitious energy-saving projects throughout the huge campus. Darien recently completed a Master’s
Degree at Tufts in community planning related to his new work at Harvard. Darien also works with
Seth Itzkan on a project on th future of the Merrimack Valley mill towns in Massachusetts.
Jon Olsen has recently joined us from Jefferson, Maine where he is a social entrepreneur inspiring
and helping other visionaries from fish farmers to former CIA leaders now become governmental
watch dogs. Jefferson is having its 200th birthcay this year and Jon has engaged Gus to perform as
Thomas Jefferson for the celebration.
Patricia Keene, a new member, is a topnotch health practitioner and a multi-capable Reiki healer at a
local family health center. Her wisdom and spiritual experience graces every NPN event she is able to
attend.
“This is a time for loud voice, open speech and fearless thinking. I rejoice that I live in
such a splendidly disturbing time.” Helen Keller
“A dream is a gift of the future, and the future is begging.” Paul Hawken
Our much-loved Debra Emmanuelle has joined her partner, Ed
Borowski, in Cherryfield, Maine to create a new life and a new
healing community. In Debra’s words: “We envision a
