Our Heart Gardens… OhGs!!
Let’s put our heads together! and grow…
communities full of good food and good kids!
Good for us all – healthy and happy together.
The Vision
OhGs, Our Heart Gardens are places where people come together to heal, grow good food and good kids, sharing time, the fruits of their labors, and the hearth of their collective “big house”, modeled after the Iroquois longhouse – central places where people meld matter, time and energy to address the needs of people and tending Mother Earth.
Revealed through the shattered lens of “real life” was a Global Network of Gardens, nestled in the hearts of communities. In partnership with Mother Earth through the goodness of the air we breathe and the soil that grows the goodness that feeds our bodies, we heal together from the wounds of the past, forming a future that holds us all, Mother Earth included, in good health and happiness.
What is our Mission and how do we get there?
The OhGs Mission is threefold:
- to promote creation of community gardens in repurposed buildings — indoor gardens where people gather together, sheltered from the weather, to grow good food for and with each other;
- to create an interactive network of existing gardens, organizations and people of like-heart/mind, with shared intentions;
- to support inquiry into the intrinsic nature and purpose of humanity — #TheOneWeAre.
Strategy:
- Putting to good use under-appreciated community buildings, or parts of them. During excessively hot or cold weather in my city (Kamloops, BC, Canada) indoor malls with wide halls and skylights are commonly used as places of refuge but can be almost empty at other times. By inviting Master Gardeners and volunteers to co-create indoor vegetable plantings, we could have green vegetables 12 months a year, give people a place to share their time and skills, coordinate care of the elderly and augment the education of children. Including participation of governmental agencies can provide funding sources, research opportunities, and can help health and service professionals become closer to the people they serve.
- Stripmalls, schools and industrial parks are possibilities, so are alleys and parking lots – the key is people working together synergistically, on a project that creates the OhGs node they want.
- Creation of an OhGs Foundation, membership in which will provide access to a network of locations and healers, experts and inspired individuals, all with the intention of being helpful, and responding to the needs of the moment, and their divine path.
- Development of a program of outreach to existing locations, networks, organizations and individuals who are already doing parts of this work, helping them see the possibilities of synergy in their communities and online.
- Development, production and promotion of inspired creations offered to help fund the growth of the OhGs interconnected network.
The Inspiration:
Once there was a crow who did successful surgery on a worm. Not a fantasy; it really happened! I wrote a poem about it that ends with a question… What do you think the “little black pearl” was?
I researched it – maybe the worm had a blockage, like a gallstone, resulting from eating too much, perhaps, of a certain bacteria… Mycobacterium vaccae emits medicine that soothes depression and anxiety. It could help with the healing of humanity. It lives in fertile soil.
The Network of Our Heart Gardens is like a Great Worm. OhGs! has many hearts – all the hearts of all the communities pump goodness into their parts of reality. While we can see that the many hearts of a worm are more than virtually connected, its individual cells cannot. Like them, neither can we, but we can work together, trusting that a Greater fractal Pattern is at work. Taking care of where we are, and connecting with each other, the pattern will settle and #TheOneWeAre will heal.
The bigger question, for me, is:
Why Me:
All our lives are Divinely Designed to allow our purpose to be realized. I became aware of my purpose in an unusual way…
What is #TheOneWeAre – or the “I” We are?
I am I and you are you and you are I to you…
All our I’s are part of a Greater I Who is more than the sum of Our selves.
I speak for the Greater I as I promised, on my knees; a young girl at the end of my rope…
Without thinking, my voice rang out, crying for help from No One I saw —
And received it. And while wondering what boon I could give for the help I got,
I heard my mouth say: “I will speak for You when the time is right.” If not now, when?
I am Shannon McArthur, aka SonLight Sparkling on the Waters. I was given this vision that weaves us together into an aware composite Being with the hands Mother Earth needs. We are an integral part of Her, and the pattern will settle.
Mother Earth gave me a Promise of Peace.
As One, we are the next fractal of Life; each community with an OhGs heart serving our part of #TheOneWeAre.
OhGs, what are we? Imagine with me… LifeCycle of a God.
Going forward, the Worm grows wings!