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Volunteer Libbi Isbell grooms Shadow at the Spirit of Hope Youth Ranch in Wilsonville, Ala. Spirit of Hope uses rescued horses to teach children in foster homes or in early intervention programs life lessons, according to Executive Director Joy O'Neal. (AP Photo/The Birmingham News, Bernard Troncale)

KRISHNA DAS, the chant master of American yoga, is coming to the Academy of Music Theatre in Northampton, MA on Friday, September 16th at 8pm.

Krishna Das’ music is energized with modern grooves and melodies to create soulful chanting, while maintaining traditional base and structure in kirtan and satsang.

Tickets are $30 advance, $35 day of show (plus applicable fees). Children 12 and under free (box office only).
Friday, September 16th. Doors 7, show 8pm
Academy of Music Theatre, 274 Main Street
Purchase online at www.krishnadas.com by phone at 413-584-9032 ext 105 or in person at the Academy of Music Theatre Box Office or Acadia Herbals, 2 Conz St. (cash/check only).

September 9 -11 & 16 -18
Drama, Play and Healing: An Eight Session Psychodrama Group
Come transform through a fun and powerful form of therapy. Limit of 6 participants. Psychodrama is an action-oriented modality that incorporates both sides of the brain, mind, and body in the healing process. No acting experience necessary! Northampton & Hadley. Cost: $336, or early registration and prepay by 8/29: $306. For further information and registration contact Kippy Isham Phelps MA at (206) 463-0097 or kippy@kippyphelps.com. Group Times:

A fundraiser for Cancer Connection hosted by the Shang Shung Tibetan Massage School in Florence, MA

Elements Hot Tub Spa therapists will also be there!
Saturday, September 24, and Sunday, September 25th, 2011, 11am-7pm

In Florence, MA at

140 Pine Street, room 10 on the second floor.

Emailed to Many Hands from Goldthread Herb Farm & Apothecary:

Just a reminder about tonight's (Tuesday, August 30, 2011) special event at the Apothecary: Activating the Healers with Claudia Abbott-Barish and Meghan Murphy. It begins at 6pm at 1 North Main St., Florence, MA.

This week's blog on road closures:
http://transportation.blog.state.ma.us/blog/2011/08/massdot-monday-morni...

Local roads, updated weekly at the Mass DOT blog:
http://transportation.blog.state.ma.us/blog

Water flow of rivers:
http://water.weather.gov/ahps2/index.php?wfo=aly

I attended the 2011 (Tarot) Readers Studio at the end of April 2011. A longtime interest in Tarot led me to sign up for the three-day event in New York City, and I met Joanna Powell-Colbert there. A member of the local Pioneer Valley group, The Massachusetts Tarot Society, Carolyn Cushing (Art of Change Tarot) also made the trip to N.Y., so I asked her if she’d participate in the INNERview as well. Carolyn has been using Joanna’s Gaian Tarot from its publication in March 2010. -- Paris Finley

PARIS: Joanna, you’re a successful, internationally-known artist already, famous for your work.  You didn’t really need to put yourself through the long hours and hard work involved in researching and creating a Tarot deck. Whatever possessed you?  Did you have some connection to Tarot before the idea of the deck entered your thinking?

JOANNA: “Whatever possessed me?” Good question! Sometimes throughout those nine years of working on the deck, I really did think I was possessed. Or crazy.  

But the truth is, I felt like I had a mandate. I was called to create the deck. I couldn’t not do it. 

I first started studying Tarot back in college in the early ’70s. I took a detour for a decade or so as a born-again Christian, then discovered the Motherpeace deck and the women’s spirituality movement when I emerged from

The New England Associated Press News Executives Association conducts an annual contest of publications. In the category of "Special Publications," Many Hands won second prize this year. This is the second time in the past few years that Many Hands has garnered a regional award for its work.

Cleo Palpini Hale was born 7/27 at 6:45pm.

She is 8lbs 5.6oz and 21 inches tall. She has a head full of dark hair and dark blue eyes.