Purpose:
Healing of the heart by promoting loving states of being and responding to the self, all our fellow human beings, and to all other aspects of life.
Projects:
1. Three-volume book of interviews of persons that were singled out as exceptional for their loving responses to others: "Voices Of The Heart"
2. Book of Poetry: poems to inspire compassion, love, and healing.
3. Poem: “I Am Who Am”
4. Book of photography/poems - Subject: animals: “Prisoners In Pain”
5. Book of photography/poems - Subject: forsaken: “It Is I”
6. Book of photography/poems - Subject: nature: “Wild And Free”
7. Book of photography/poems - Subject: oppressed: “You Clip My Wing”
8. Play: "Love: It Is I That Heals"
The art, which seeks to express and to inspire compassion, will be used to raise money to publish and distribute the books freely before starting general distribution. Later, the art will also be used to raise money for those in need and to support the centers.
1. Paintings: watercolors, oils, acrylics, mixed media, and pastels
2. Sculptures: bronzes and mixed media
3. Photography
4. Poetry
5. Posters and cards utilizing the combination of the above forms of art
Funds from the art will be used to distribute the books freely in prisons, VA hospitals, and homeless shelters around the world before starting public distribution.
1. Prisons: death row and general population
2. Veterans hospitals
3. Homeless shelters
4. General distribution
Place to unite in unconditional loving ways with others from around our world through different forms of communication, such as music and art, and the writings as a means to promote understanding, harmony and the healing of our hearts.
The Old Middle Ridge School House (built in 1876) is located on the Cabot Trail in Cape North, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada. Here, a center is set in peaceful surroundings of gardens and trees, offering quiet meditative areas for sitting and walking, group meditations, the sharing of the ways of a simple life, and showing how one can live simply and harmoniously, with all of life, united, One In Love.