 A turning point is occuring at the MEC. After 2+ years of recreating structures at the Mendocino Environmental Center, with little focus on group projects, the MEC has been shifting to its old, and creating a new, role in the community. Many diverse members of the area have been using the Center for activist work again, organizing, strategizing, creating publications, networking, etc. that are really creating the community we all desire to live in.
 I wrote a poem tonight listening to KMEC programmer Sujen’s poetry program called “Listen to the Earth” (Friday evenings) about the beautifully flowering Mendocino Environmental Center, in this time known as the Blossoming in the Mayan Calendar.
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People come and go
from the MEC
on a given Friday evening,
many working, researching,writing, emailing, blogging, organizing, strategizing,
their efforts,
blending together
for the common purposes of
 peace,
environmental stewardship,
protecting the wild,
education,
and
social justice.
For our own communities,
and abroad,
we work together
side-by-side,
in the same
office,
study,
studio space
that creates the new lifestyles
of co-existences
of loving kindness.
I Am Greatful
to see this change that we wish to see
being created
right here
in Downtown Ukiah.
It Is Happening,
The Quickening,
The Great Turning,
 and Every Intention
We Make
Is APart
of the Beautiful
Changings.