There is a community of folks working together to bring Dagara inspired ritual and community into their lives. We have worked with Malidoma Somé in a variety of capacities for many years. There are folks all over the west coast, from SoCal, to the Bay Area, and on through Portland and Seattle. We are currently organizing and hosting events leading up to a 2 1/2 year training with Somé beginning in May 2013... Indigenous African Spiritual Technologies.....

The Writers Cafe is off to a great start. We're been meeting for two and a half months now. The group is currently full, however if you are interested, join up and send me an email. I'll contact you and give you an email address where you can send a writing sample -- either a chapter of your novel or a short story. If what you're doing is in sync with the group I'll put you on the waiting list and let you know where things are at with the group. The current group is excellent. All of the writer …

I'd like to start a bike shop/cafe, along the lines of Mojo Bicycle Cafe in San Francisco. Maybe it's just a bike shop, but I'd like to consider the food/drink aspects of well. The important aspects of the business venture will be that it is: run as 'a real business' that makes money so it can pay its bills/salaries/expenses a worker-owned and run cooperative democratically-runa non-destructive retail/restaurant chain (as in the business concept, not the physical bike chain) active and engaged …