Reconnect Nature Free Writing Workshops for Santa Ana Residents

Thank You for your interest in the Reconnect Nature Program! We are very excited to share simple ways to keep you connected to your local natural areas. We will be exploring the different locations in the area for our workshops, writing and sharing our connection stories. The goal of the program is to leave you with a sense of genuine care and concern for our natural world bringing you a sense of belonging. With exercises we share our thoughts and create a well rounded sense of community, and nature's place in it. This is the outline for the weekend.

Friday Sept 3 4p - 6p; Sasscer Park (301 W Santa Ana Blvd Santa Ana, CA 92701)
Urban Nature; taking recognition of the area with a brief history of the area to share the origin of landscape and nature people plant to create beauty.

Saturday Sept 4 5p - 8p Santiago Park (900 E Memory Ln Santa Ana CA 92706)
Sunset Reflections; with indigenous ceremony for welcoming nature into our lives and us into nature, talk about natural plants specific to our region.

Sunday Sept 5 3p - 5p Portola Park (1700 E Santa Clara AVE Santa Ana 92705)
Seasons Changes; walks to the abandoned orchard with reflection of our relationship with nature and agriculture in the area.

Please email me for more information - reconnectnatureblog@gmail.com

Choice is a beautiful thing...

I have experienced the truth of what is missing in child development, with outstanding, overbooked, stressed, anxiety ridden youth who survive in a numb state, surrounding the harsh raw emotion with meaningless, materialistic, false securities. Children have choosen stagnation over play, media over dirt, and entertainment over imagination. Now is only time in my life I am driven to take action and reverse the evolution of demis, bringing health and development back into the awareness to those who understand we are at a crossroads. We choose our path from this point forward and my heart aches as I write the emotion is strong telling me that my own attraction is beyond my time on this planet and must be shared with younger influence to see and experience the authentic teachings of our natural beings, before it is lost forever. Natural Thinking Systems Process is this teaching for myself as a vehicle to the future of work for my own connection and that of the next inhabitants. I would like to keep with the independent flow of the ProjectConnect and the long term learning systems of Micheal Cohen, this is going to ensure the level of authenticity is balanced and uninfluenced by traditional educational forums. I appreciate the purpose and system layed out before me to take and apply in my own medium allowing my authentic self to truely connect with nature and my community.

Take action!

The No Child Left Inside bill (NCLI) is currently still in committee. It will hopefully be attached as an amendment to the ESEA (No Child Left BEHIND) bill that Obama should be authorizing later this year. They both have a fair number of co-sponsors. In OREGON Sen. Wyden is a co-sponsor. Sen. Merkely is not.

Leadership from the House Education and Labor Committee issued a bipartisan statement last month reflecting their commitment to amending and improving ESEA (No Child Left BEHIND) this year.

They have flagged NCLI on their website as a key bill up for consideration and are inviting organizations and agencies to submit comments on NCLI and other legislation related to ESE.

The NCLI website recommends:

Please take a few moments today to email the Committee at eseacomments@mail.house.gov and let them know that you support the inclusion of the No Child Left Inside Act (H.R. 2053) in the reauthorized ESEA. Please consider calling or writing to your senator as well.