Walk In Beauty: Voices From Echo Valley Hope

This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with a group of women and participants in the Echo Valley Hope "Walk In Beauty" retreat, sharing messages of courage, hope, and inspiration. Our guests this week come from a diversity of backgrounds, speak several different languages, span the generations, and each offers a unique reflection from their heart to yours. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/Special thanks to our many guests: Dena, Lauren, Holly, Jan, Ryan, Kinley, Azeeza, Catalina, Miriam, Margaret, Liz, the crickets, cicadas, and kids. And thank you to Deb, all of the participants in the Walk In Beauty Retreat, and the beautiful Echo Valley Farm.Related Links:Echo Valley Hopehttp://www.echovalleyhope.com/WWOOF (Worldwide Opportunities On Organic Farms)https://wwoofusa.org/Quotes from the show:Now, more than ever, each voice of peace in whatever way it's spoken, in whatever way it manifests, needs to come out, needs to be heard. - Dena EaklesI believe whole heartedly that the time is now, and we are the people - because we're the ones that are here. - AzeezaThe answers that we're looking for for peace within our selves or peace in our communities or peace even on a larger scale, peace in our society - we have those answers within us. I've come to realize that it's not a hopeless feat. There's not some formula. There's not an equation. The answers to what would help us progress into a more sustainable and reliable future, we know. We know. It's just a matter of unlearning and re-rooting and getting back to that untouched places in us that has all those answers. And I really do think that it's just being a human being again. - KinleyThe peace that I've been searching for all my life - the answers are all inside of me. - HollyKeep walking. The good will follow. Don't look back. - RyanWe're not just reading about (this sustainable way of life), or re-enacting the past, there are real life things happening here all the time. - LaurenA feeling that I'd like to share is the feeling of ease and connection and knowing that we're not alone. The work that you're doing is affecting what I'm doing. - Liz For me, transformation is sometimes nothing more than affirmation and coming back to ourselves and being able to work from our heart and authenticity. - JanIf we can learn to listen more to our hearts and less to our heads, we might find ourselves having a different perspective on life and the world and our fellow creatures. - MargaretMusic: "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio www.dianepatterson.orgAbout Your Co-hosts: Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit: https://www.facebook.com/sacredinstructions/timelineRivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, Billionaire Buddha, and Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars. She is also the social media coordinator and nonviolence trainer for Campaign Nonviolence and Pace e Bene. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated on by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance. http://www.riverasun.com/