The Crazy Wisdom Community Journal • January - April 2012 • Page 7
The Crazy Wisdom Community Journal Ann Arbor’s Holistic Magazine
Since l982, Crazy Wisdom Bookstore has served as a center of information in the subjects of conscious living, holistic health, bodymind therapies, psychology, Buddhism, spiritual development and consciousness. The Crazy Wisdom Community Journal is intended to provide information about the terrific array of opportunities for persons seeking psychological and spiritual growth and physical well being.
In This Issue ~ What’s New in the Community – By Lynda Gronlund with Anne Duffy .........................................…….Page 12 Leaps of Faith: Tales of Newer Local Businesses By John Fredericks ..............................................................................Page 20 Ann Arbor 350 – Taking on Climate Change, One Challenge at a Time By Monica Patel ..................................................................................Page 23 Sustainable Health Column ~ Rebel with a Cause By Abbe Grossman ..............................................................................Page 24 Occupy Yourself By Bronwen Gates................................................................................Page 25 Questions for Acupuncturist Cynthia Esseichick Interviewed by Maureen McMahon ....................................................Page 26 Allowing Your Best Self to Shine Through: Marc Lerner on a Healthy Way to be Sick – By Mary Runser ..................................................................................Page 28 Drawing the Buddha’s Sublime Form — Buddhist Artist Rob Davis on Internalizing the Image of the Buddha in Tantric Art By Rob Davis ......................................................................................Page 30 Siberian Buddhism, Siberian Shamanism and the Politics of Memory – Anthropologist/Filmmaker Anya Bernstein Interview by Karl Pohrt........................................................................Page 32 Sreyashi Dey, Dancing with Tradition – Recreating Ancient Indian Spiritual Dances for Modern Audiences By Sandor Slomovits ...........................................................................Page 35 Music Reviews by Sarah Newland .....................................................Page 39 Bearing Witness – The Story of a Holocaust Survivor’s Journey from Escape to Being a Forensic Psychiatrist Specializing in Homicide Interviewed by Richard Gull ...............................................................Page 40
Bringing It All Back Home – An Ann Arbor Songwriter, Musician, and Community-Builder Returns to the Small Town of Her Youth to Sing Her Life Song By Jeanne Mackey .................................................................Starts on Page 45 Three Ann Arbor Musicians — Laz Slomovits, Lori Fithian, and Eric Fithian on Collaborating with Jeanne Mackey and What It Means to “Come Home” ................................Starts on Page 48 Laz Slomovits ..................................................................................Page 48 Lori Fithian .....................................................................................Page 50 Eric Fithian .....................................................................................Page 51 All creatures great and small ~ Deconstructing “Dog Food” By Alice Liberson ..................................................................................Page 52
The Crazy Wisdom Kids Section ....................................Starts on Page 54
Kids Book and Media Reviews by Sarah Newland .............................................................................Page 54 Conscious Parenting – Sweet Journeys and the Grocery Checkout By Bernadette S. Kovach, Ph.D. ......................................................Page 56 Music and Parenting ~ Somewhat Like A Symphony By Gari Stein ....................................................................................Page 57 Storyteller Laura Pershin Raynor – A Gift to the Community By Karen Foulke Larson ..................................................................Page 60 The Power of Movement By Karen Foulke Larson ..................................................................Page 63 Barb Christensen, Breaking Barriers (and Boards) in Karate – How One of the First Female Black Belts in Shimabukuro Karate Went on to Lead Her Own Club in Ann Arbor Interviewed by Bill Zirinsky ............................................................Page 66
Crazy Wisdom Kids in the Community
By Karen L. Totten ...........................................................................Page 70
January through April — Events Calendar for Kids .................Page 73 The Crazy Wisdom Calendar Section ............................Starts on Page 75 The Calendar Edited by Sarah Newland…….........…..........…...........…….......….Page 76 Background Info on the Teachers .............…..............……........Page 101 Birth Story Nights – Honoring All Experiences from All Mothers By Kate Stroud .................................................................................Page 80
Sreyashi Dey Page 35
Dr. Emanuel Tanay (and his wife, Sandra) Page 40
An Excerpt from Lorri Coburn’s Breaking Free: How Forgiveness and A Course in Miracles Can Set You Free .................................Page 87 Laura Pershin Raynor Page 60
— Cover Photo by Rachael Waring — The deadline for free calendar submissions for the May thru August 2012 issue is Wednesday, March 21st , and the deadline for paid advertising is Monday, April 2nd. The issue will be distributed starting in the last week of April. 10,000 copies of The Crazy Wisdom Community Journal are printed, and they are available at our bookstore as well as at more than 180 other locations in and around Ann Arbor. Our phone number is 734-665-2757, and we’re located at 114 South Main Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104. Our web address is: crazywisdom.net
What Makes an Oil Essential? By Nancy Harknett ..........................................................................Page 98 An Excerpt from Pat Fero’s Sacred Marching Orders: Imagining the Solar Feminine at the Dawn of a New Age ..................................Page 102 An Excerpt from Lorna Brown’s Dragonfly Dialogues: Memories of an Awakening Spirit ............Page 106 The Business Card Directory ...…….............................…Starts on Page 108 Crazy Wisdom has not investigated or evaluated the persons listed, so we are not in a position to make recommendations as to any or all of them, or to be responsible for the acts or omissions of anyone listed.
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