Today, as we watch the progress of recovery and monitoring assesments of devastation in Japan, I'm thinking of what we can do from this little mountain home to help people in Japan..  It's March 13th, my brothers birthday (Happy Birthday big brother),
    As it turns out there is something that we can do.  Teresa McFarland is being deployed to Japan on March 26th.  We knew she'd be going a month ago.  It was not a prediction of the great quake and Tsunami.  These were her orders before this natural disaster.
     T is in the Navy.  We've celebrated her progress in studying to become a nurse, we've admired her courage  to travel to distant lands donating her service to missions in need.  Many young mothers smile in gratitude at T's selfless months of pre-natal preparation and follow up, throughout Kern County.  We honor Teresa for her service to our country.  And we love sharing friendship & family.  Each time I get together with my first guitar player I find out more about her courage and love for her fellow human.  The deployment to Japan could be her undoing if she is inadequately protected from radioactive leaks.
    What can we do?  Teresa needs the best possible protection from the nuclear radiation.  We don't know how far reaching the radiation will be. Because T is going to help people in need I propose the start of a fund to keep her safe while doing what we can't.

To donate go to the Arts For Earth website:   www.artsforearth.org

then click on :   Teresa McF Safety Fund

please donate what you can comfortably afford.   The money will come to Arts For Earth where we will purchase the appropriate, researched protection for Teresa and her co-workers.  Sustainable mission?  Yes, we are helping people to help people without being hurt themselves.

love,

Chela

It's springtime and we are gearing up with the nature club. I keep promising the kids that it's time to paint.
So far we've selected subjects from a vast treasure trove of reference photos. These baby animals from this So/Central California mountain wilderness have become drawings, are being transferred to huge watercolor paper and next week we'll get out the color!

NEXT MONTH:
This coming April 22nd (Friday) from 1-4pm You and your family are invited to celebrate Earth Day at the Frazier Park Community Park and Building. Arts For Earth Foundation is partnering with the Jizo Peace Center. Jane Goodall's Roots and Shoots giant peace dove parade will start off the festivities followed with an exhibit of Earth friendly ideas, recycled art, Beautiful Oak Tree and area landscape paintings, crafts for the kids and an art show of the Nature Clubs "in progress creations", Oaks as Acorns displays, an historical walking tour around the park with our local Ridge Route Historical Society. Other groups in our mountain community are invited to participate

This is a community event, lets make it a party to celebrate Earth Day. We'll keep you informed as we gather friends to help make it the best ever... after all it's already our 2nd annual Earth Day Celebration up here in the mountains!

Nature Art Club 2011

Getting ready is exciting. PMLC is up to speed. The Boys and Girls Club will be soon.
So much going on at once. more to come.
Opie is still gone. Probably stolen. Come back Opie, if you can ever find your way. We'll keep looking until that day. love you.