innocence, frankincense, trees, children, nature, green, environment, ecology, Gaia, community, garden, beauty, peace, freedom, love, health, sustainability
<p>I'm creating a Biblical garden to help preserve the endangered Torchwood order of trees. The ones with fragrant oily resin, and most specifically - Frankincense. later when the trees mature, the sales from this effort - the seedlings, saplings, oil, other botanical products, and art - will serve to help endangered Children.</p> <p>You could say I'm a "green" theologian creating an outdoor sanctuary. I'm an ordained minister, minister, artist, writer, an mother of three grown beautiful daughters, and g-mother to five. I come form a family or educators (and am currently awaiting teacher certification staus with the state of AZ.)</p> <p>My ministry focuses on sustainability: *Sustainable Earth (care of creation) *Sustainable Structures (Archtecture, and Educational platforms) & *Sustainable Lives (children and community.) My Indigogo project draws on these three areas together. </p> <p>The things I value the most are where ever I find expressions of God's saving graces and essential qualities: his unconditional Love, Wisdom, Mercy, Freedom, Innocence <em>("a willingness to remain teachable and be led by what is good and true,”)</em> Healing Wholeness, Peace, and the Joy of living a Useful Life, otherwise known as Charity. Ive made these the founding core values at Hometribe. </p> <p>My current heroes: Natralists John (Appleseed) Chapman, John Muir (Sierra Club) George Innes (Landscape painter) and Eliza Lovell Tibbets (Mother of the Citrus Industry - seedless navel orange) who all considered themselves Swedenborgian missionaires, and Ambassador of goodwill and possibility, Hellen Keller, who understood the impact and power that the natural world has on our senses ans spirit. </p> <p> </p>