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Where there is smoke, there is fire…
Where there is smoke, there is fire…
with David Takahashi
Sunday, July 9th, 2023 Noon – 1:30 pm ADT
(11am – 12:30 pm Eastern)
Free
When I smell smoke, even a Lhasang, I have flashbacks to September 2010 as I stood in my front yard in the foothills above Boulder as a major wildfire unfolded around me. Imagine an orange sky roaring louder than a railroad, flames arching into the sky, explosions, smoke, and general chaos. I have post-traumatic stress disorder, and in evaluating the causes and conditions, I have become Obsessive Carbon Disordered (OCD).
This month’s Earth Salon will dive deep into feeding our fire demons. We will be traveling upstream to do so.
In the role of EcoDharma Doula, I am tasked with sharing the work of energetic alchemy: composting fossil fuel use into a cleanly enlightened, renewably resilient world worthy of handing off to coming generations. The role of a Doula is a transition assistant: helping transition the dying and the being borne. We appear to be deep into the stages of the encompassing Bardo experience.
This year I will make offerings at various scales. There will be quarterly offerings around using our elemental energies to construct an enduring mandala for our coming generations. The second of the quarterly offerings will focus on our Fire element.
Setting a proper course is our mission as the Touching the Earth Collective. Our tools are the wisdom and compassion we have been honing for decades.
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At the individual and household level, having lost their home in the Fourmile wildfire of 2010, he is somewhat a Climate Refugee. Starting in 2015, David and his wife, Emily have reduced their carbon footprints from 17 MT (Metric Tons GHG) to 2 MT: the Earth’s carrying capacity is 3 MT: a personal reduction from 100 pounds/day to 12 pounds/day. Working with a modest 60-year-old home, this is an 87% reduction in GHG Emissions in 4 years.
David works at the individual, household, neighborhood, congregational, city, county, region, state, nation, and global scales.
The monthly Earth Salons are an initiative of the Shambhala Touching the Earth Collective, and are curated and facilitated by Deborah Luscomb,
with occasional guest ‘experts’.
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Any funds contributed will be used to offer honorariums to our guest speakers.