HIDDEN WINE presents		Fall 2000 events
	On a Horse Made of Swans Vermont Writer's Retreat in the Lake Champlain Islands with Martín Prechtel Location: YMCA camp Abnaki, North Hero, Vermont Contact: Craig Ungerman email: hiddenwine@earthlink.net http://www.hiddenwine.com I am not sure when I first realized how each of our lives must be a story sung aloud by subtle and powerful spirit beings inside an invisible layer of existence. It is their telling of our stories that push us into life. The way we dance out the wild song is how we live out our lives. Likewise, when we humans tell our own stories and dedicate them to those unseen singers of life, they in turn are fed by us, their thirst slaked by the water of our emotions, fattened by our sufferings, elated by our durability, these invisible life-giving singers of our stories are kept energized and inspired by our remembering of them and can therefore continue telling us into existence. Their language is life itself. Human language can either feed that life or poison it. For this reason I try to reward those storytelling spirits with the word paintings of my own life where I can love, be loved, fail and feel, grieve and fumble, dancing to their entangled rhythm. Please join me in Vermont, the land of honey and visionaries, rock-hard maple and soft granite hills, a land of milk and maple syrup, tolerant bears, clear rivers and crazy colored leaves, while the last crickets of summer still twitter and creak. Before the Sun rides away on his winter horse of swans lets get together to feast our invisible souls; learning to cook a fine meal of delicious words with our own stories, where human suffering, humor and mystery can flower through inspired diligence into a gift whose unsuspected shine can bless what blesses us all.	Sept 11-17, 2000 Vermont Click for more info and registration form More info about Martín Prechtel's schedule at floweringmountain.com
	16th Annual Minnesota Men's Conference
	Feasting the Mother Bear 16th Annual Minnesota Men's Conference Teachers: Robert Bly, Martín Prechtel, Miguel Rivera, Tom Verner Location: Camp Miller, Sturgeon Lake, MN Contact: Craig Ungerman email: hiddenwine@earthlink.net http://www.hiddenwine.com Inside every man, often forgotten or unseen, is some diverse thing, that is useful for the village, the world and himself. What can men of all ages, colors, cultures do to make this new era a feast of hope and possibility for the living planet and its peoples. For millennia both men and women have suffered hardship to cause the survival of their families. After centuries of being sent to endless wars, cheated out of their homelands by industry and politics, enslaved and indentured, the humdrum-work-a-day technological existence of the "modern" 20th century seemed like a relief at the time. However, in a world gone mad with greed, the legacy and price of this "relief" has left most men feeling robbed of their natural worth and spiritual usefulness. Come together now and through ancient myths, our own stories, poetry, ritual, grief, ecstasy and our love for the Divine Female, let us work to find our personal and collective gifts. Like carriers of sacred seeds we should begin to cultivate our usefulness without losing our natural love of life and play. _________________ ROBERT BLY IS McKNIGHT DISTINGUISHED ARTIST FOR 2000 (May 12, 2000) Web page source: http://www.mcknight.org/releases/da-500.htm	Sept 19-24, 2000 Minnesota Click for more info and registration form
	Annual Conference for Men and Women
	"Love Letters to the Flowering Earth: Annual Conference for Men and Women" Teachers: Martín Prechtel, Robert Bly, Gioia Timpanelli Location: The Ghost Ranch; Abiquiu, NM Contact: Craig Ungerman email: hiddenwine@earthlink.net http://www.hiddenwine.com Before the appearance of humans, a very long time ago, a talkative God longed for speech and company. Somewhere in the wild yellow and red canyons around Ghost Ranch he began to make a speaking, feeling being we now call a human. A man and woman were pulled out of the earth, created from a series of secret words sung by this lonely God while drawing their shapes on the ground with the ashes from previous creations. He built every piece of us from the minerals, plants, and the deep colors of the air in this canyon. After carving our hearts, a shell for the mother, a turquoise for her man, they rose up moving, following this singing God into this world where we all live today. There is something Holy in this world that loves the sound of humans, whether singing or weeping, hearing poetry in all of it. There is something in humans as well that loves the canyon winds and colors of the desert day, knowing from some ancient memory that this too is the song of the Divine. Please join us for this four day conference in these canyons and mesas of Ghost Ranch where we will in a village like way send our sounds, stories, songs, love letters, and poems back to the Flowering Earth of which we are made.	October 6-10, 2000 New Mexico Click for more info and registration form
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