Urge for Adventure August 2017

Adventures in somatic expression

EVENTS * SYMPOSIA * CLASSES * THE ARTS * WORKSHOPS * SALON

HEY GUYS,

 It’s July and Summer is winding down, you need to be outside the casa, while the summer solstice is still high in the sky for longer warmer days and nights.

Do Not Miss Out on Some Great Summer action.  catch on to some of these awesome suggestions to do act and be seen. All you need to do is decide and take action for Fun, or even a bit Outrageous, days for You to dazzle yourself With People, Situations, and Things. If Nothing Else, It should Give You Some Great Conversation Starters.

Harrison Morgan Photo

After Perusing the possible opportunities for engagement below. Then Check out some of the other Current or Pass Blogs Pages, You May Find Items that will Help Brighten Up Your Perspective In Ways You Never Thought Possible.

Chris Asher Photo

MONTH EVENTS:

American Adventures Month

American Indian Heritage Month

Black Business Month

Children's Health Safety Support Awareness Month 

Rye The GRAIN Of The MONTH 

WEEK EVENT:

Week 1 International Clown Week  
Week 1 Simplify Your Life Week
Week 1 Int'l Tree Climbing Days
Week 2 Nat'l Farmers' Market Week
Week 2 Nat'l Health Center Week
Week 2 Exhibitor Appreciation Week
Week 2 Nat'l Bargain Hunting Week
Week 2 Nat'l Psychic Week
Week 2 Gallop Int'l Tribal Indian Powwow
Week 3 Nat'l Motorcycle Week
Week 3 Nat'l Aviation Week

Week 4 Minority Enterprise Week

Brotha K-Rahn Photo

Week 4 Nat'l Chef's Appreciation
Week 4 North American Organic Brewers Week
Week 4 Be Kind To Humankind Week
Week 5 Chuck Wagon Races
Week 5 World Water Week
Happily Married Husband and Wife Week: 27-9/2

Day Events

World Wide Web

August  1
Psychic Day
World Wide Web Day
 

August 2
Coloring Book Day
Take a Penny/Leave a Penny Day
August 3
Watermelon Day
International Friendship Day
August 4
Chocolate Chip Day
Single Working Women’s day
Coast Guard Day
 

August 5
Underwear Day
Oyster Day
Homemade Pie Day

International Beer Day
August 6
Root Beer Float Day
Int'l Hangover Day
Sandcastle Day
Mustard Day
 
August 7
Friendship Day
Lighthouse Day
Sisters Day
Professional Speakers Day
August 8
Assistance Dogs Day
The Date to Create Day
International Cat Day
August 9
Int'l Day of the World’s Indigenous People’s
Veep Day
August 10
S’mores Day
Skyscraper Appreciation Day
Smithsonian Day
 

Pres Joke Day

August  11
Presidential Joke Day

August  12
International Youth Day
Sewing Machine Day
Kool-Aid Day
Vinyl  Record Day
Online Grocery Shopping Day
IBM PC Day
Worldwide Art Day
August  13
Int'l Left Hander’s Day
Garage Sale Day
Middle Child Day
Bowling Day
August  14
Chef’s Appreciation Day
Navajo Code Talkers Day
V-J Day
August  15
Best Friends Day
Relaxation Day
Check the Chip Day
Cupcake Day

SpongeBob SquarePants Day

August  16
Airborne Day
Rollercoaster Day

Wave at Surveillance Day
August  17
Meaning of ‘is’ Day
Thrift Shop Day
Black Cat Appreciation Day
I Love My Feet Day
August  18
Bad Poetry Day
Mail Order Catalog Day
Serendipity Day
August 19
Aviation Day
Men’s Grooming Day
International Pirate Day
‘Black Cow’ Root Beer Float Day
World Humanitarian Day
August 20
Honeybee Day
International Geocaching Day
International Homeless Animals Day
International Tongue Twisters Day
Radio Day
August 21
Poet’s Day
Senior Citizen’s Day
Spumoni Day
August 22
Be An Angel Day
Southern Hemisphere Hoodie Hoo Day
Take Your Cat to the Vet Day

August 23
Valentino Day
Day for Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition

August 24
Waffle Iron Day
Pluto Demoted Day
Knife Day
August 25
Kiss and Make Up Day
Second-Hand Wardrobe Day
Whiskey Sour Day
August  26
Dog Day
Toilet Paper Day
Tug-of-War Day
Women’s Equality Day
World Daffodil Day
August 27
International Bat Night
The Duchess Who Wasn’t Day
Franchisee Appreciation Day
Just Because Day
August 28
Race Your Mouse Around the Icons Day
Radio Commercials Day
Crackers Over The Keyboard Day
Go Topless Day
August 29
More Herbs, Less Salt Day
Int'l Bat Night
Individual Rights Day
According to Hoyle Day
August 30
Holistic Pet Day
Toasted Marshmallow Day
Whale Shark Day
Int'l Cabernet Sauvignon Day

August 31

Match Maker

Matchmaker Day

Prairie Days
 

 
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A Man Is Expected - New Pathways of Being

by Calvin Harris, H.W., M

Heads Up The role of male on man is changing in “Prep” for the 22nd Century.

Something I hear more and more of from my clients in my Coaching practice, is “The Path of Manhood isn’t as clear as I had expected it to be, nor is it laid out as I was told it was.” I, too, know that feeling well. When I grew up I was surrounded by men, some uncles and a dad who were into the local barbershop culture, the man’s domain, a place a woman was seldom seen other than for the picture of the half nude pin-up girl on the wall. The music from the loud jukebox played blues or jazz, and the conversations in the room (usually two or three going in unison), were louder still, and clearly conveyed a sense of unbelievable bravado and fearlessness within the laughter of this man’s realm.

From my early years, back in the 1950’s, I felt the weight of the Macho image expectation, but even then I could tell that behind all that posturing, for many men, the apparent gangster or Rambo image was not quite the masculine image that many were interested in portraying, or representing, given the proximity and cost of that image in the aftermath of two World Wars. Yet, in my child’s mind, there were three simple principals that all good men seemed to live by:

Protector, Provider, Disciplinarian (1) You provided for the women and children in your life; (2) You pushed through the fear and held tears back to protect values and principals you believed in without talking about your pain; And (3) you disciplined / managed your emotions / pain by self-medication, such as whisky, beer, weed, drugs, or the Doc’s pills. If they stop being effective still show no reaction unless alone with a good buddy.  Whatever was said or done with that buddy was internalized and was never spoken of in the light of day in the new morning.

Oh, I am sure there are relatable additions or various subscripts to these scenarios, but these were the bedrock of what I saw while growing up.

Fast forward to the 1970's and we found ourselves at the beginning of transition and change, an undetected assault on the male paradigm.  But those signposts of what “male is,” and the grasp you thought you had on the role - its expectations in daily life - was beginning to slip. The erosion started with the male youth of the hippie culture protesting War and aggression, offering instead to drop-out, and to join love-ins as solutions. Also, brewing were their ladies, suggesting that their wants and needs had changed, and may not include serving men in the predisposing role of “servants” aka the stay-at-home good wife.

It seems the Male paradigm of the king of the house, he who rules over all in his home, which he calls his castle, has died, and the man clinging to that role has been in a state similar to the man who's just been kicked in the balls and the air rush out of him replaced by pain and bewilderment.

As the decades move forward things that had seemed almost unnatural earlier on were now acceptable. Women not only in the workplace but in some businesses were the boss. Kids no longer thinking of their Dad’s as the smartest nor the toughest, or even the most dependable man they could think about. It marked the change in men's and women's relationships and roles. Suddenly, STRENGTH didn’t mean being silent and not showing you felt emotions. Now, men seemed to be developing an awareness of their variety of emotions, emotions beyond just anger which usually led to fighting. Some men became shameless in the act of not being afraid to express their full range of emotions.

In Life, we observed and perhaps began to understand that nothing is constant save Change. The small voices of transition whispered to us constantly of the obvious, that we must embrace conscious adaptability to oncoming events, or be lost in the upcoming storms of change, like a mind blinded in the falling rains of confusion.

A new paradigm for mankind has been evolving through societal forces creating changes within the species, perhaps an opportunity to break through old stereotypes, perhaps even to gain a higher sense of Consciousness, Soul, Self (you choose your choice of words). It is in one’s thinking that this new archetypal man will be realized.  Perhaps a model that encompasses dimensions beyond the blueprint of our five senses.  Something more substantial, more in line with what science, physics, and philosophy say is “the real” about you, instead of blindly reacting from prehistoric sensory testimony, that may be faulty in this day and age, and led us to demonize emotions. 

As an example instead of seeing Fear as the emotions of blind rage, as a howling animal, in a false sense of powerlessness that rages through the mind and body, we can now by using the new paradigm stop, reflect, recognize, and Consciously be aware that FEAR is a tool in our human toolbox, tools that are combinable and interchangeable, to all human beings.

The fear factor, once in time, if unchecked, could easily turn to anger, for the fear emotion is an attempt to protect the body and mind from harm and thus could erupt as anger when situations appear confined, limiting, or hopeless. It is only by engaging our thought processes in releasing the emotion into the pursuit of Change, coupling thought and emotions, to bring understanding through harnessing the emotions can we move towards utilization of optimal results in action and solutions. The new paradigm of male on man hones the understanding of emotions, such as anger, to give access to their proper purpose as a temporal energy indicator that spikes and alerts us. We then have coupled its use for choices or possibilities in a larger array of action to take or decisions to be made in any given situation for a variety of Outcomes on our journey through life.

Anger for example coupled with conscious intuition can become a tool of change, that prepares us to commit to change. These connective and interchangeable tools in our emotional toolbox means going well beyond the misunderstood activation of only a single emotion. Fear alone, left to its own devices, could lead to misunderstood beliefs of being unable to move, or blind flight, or being worthless, and even finally being enslaved to rage in a journey of unresolved helpless battles.

As we become consciously aware of our increased options, we see there is always more to the journey, so we get up and suit up to take full advantage of the options along life’s journey. Fear then can be seen as the sound chimed from the alarm clock, the emotional jump starter.

The New Male on Man is a retooling of our brain, of our conscious awake state, to be effective, empowering the conscious use of our senses and emotions, to adapt to evolving change for our long-term benefits.

I am a believer in having a shameless array of emotions considered in the conversations when the goal is to lead to a compassionate solution. We need to trust in the resilience and the integrity of Mankind to evolve in a joint contract with the natural order of Life, thus not to wait for the world to change but consciously participating as a focused agent of change. Our focus then is trusting in the process of human beings becoming their own source of renewal by gaining and understanding the methods of change and responding with constructive actions.

Thus, to answer the question “What is expected of me?” - means listening to the answer that is echoed back to us from the new paradigm, of the new Male on man, to understand first we are Consciousness and that we live by conscious action. As ‘Action,’ I mean “To Move,” therefore we - move, steer, navigate in an ocean of Conscious Change. That implies a bond, even a Loving bond with Change. We then are change makers, the co-creator in the evolutionary process of Life, and the discoverer of awakened Truth unfolding.

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Calvin

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The Urge for Adventure July 2017

HEY GUYS,

 It’s July and Summer is now in full swing, you need to be outside the house, while the summer solstice is still high in the sky for longer warmer days and nights.

Do Not Miss Out on Some Great Summer action.  catch on to some of these awesome choices to do act and be about. All you need to do is decide and take action for Fun, or even a bit Outrageous, days for You to dazzle yourself With People, Situations, and Things. If Nothing Else, It should Give You Some Great Conversation Starters.

After Perusing the possible opportunities for engagement below. Then Check out some of the other Current or Pass Blogs Pages, You May Find Items that will Help Brighten Up Your Perspective In Ways You Never Thought Possible.

Month Events:

• National Anti-Boredom Month
• National Hot Dog Month
• National Ice Cream Month
• National Picnic Month

• National Parks Month

• UV Safety Month

Week Event:

• Week 2 Nude Recreation Week

• Week 3 National Independent Bookstore Week (third and fourth Saturdays in July)

July 2017 Daily Special:

1 Canada Day / Dominion Day

1 International Joke Day

1 National Postal Worker Day

2 Build A Scarecrow Day
2 I Forgot Day
2 World UFO Day
 

3 Compliment Your Mirror Day
3 Disobedience Day
3 Stay out of the Sun Day
 

4 Independence Day (U.S.)
4 National Country Music Day
4 Sidewalk Egg Frying Day
 

5 National Bikini Day
5 Work-a-holics Day – (even though it is holiday)
 

6 International Kissing Day
6 National Fried Chicken Day
 

7 World Chocolate Day
7 National Strawberry Sundae Day
 

8 Video Games Day

9 National Sugar Cookie Day
10 Teddy Bear Picnic Day
 

11 Cheer up the Lonely Day
11 World Population Day
12 Different Colored Eyes Day
12 Pecan Pie Day
 

13 Barbershop Music Appreciation Day
13 Embrace Your Geekiness Day
13 Fool's Paradise Day
 

14 Bastille Day
14 Pandemonium Day

14 National Nude Day

15 Tapioca Pudding Day
15 Cow Appreciation Day (Go out and give a cow a hug)
15 Give Something Away Day
 

16 Fresh Spinach Day
16 National Ice Cream Day  ( third Sunday of the month)
17 Global Hug Your Kids Day (third Monday of the month)
17 Peach Ice Cream Day
17 World Emoji Day
 

18 National Caviar Day
19 National Raspberry Cake Day
20 National Lollipop Day
20 National Moon Day (man first walked on the moon in 1969)
20 Ugly Truck Day
 

21 National Junk Food Day
22 Hammock Day
22 Rat catcher's Day
22 Shop Independent Bookstore
 

23 National Hot Dog Day
23 Parent's Day
23 Vanilla Ice Cream Day
24 Amelia Earhart Day
24 Cousins Day
 

25 Culinarians Day
25 Threading the Needle Day
26 All or Nothing Day
26 Aunt and Uncle Day
 

27 Take Your Pants for a Walk Day
28 National Milk Chocolate Day
28 Talk in an Elevator Day
29 Shop Independent Bookstore
29 National Lasagna Day
 

30 National Cheesecake Day
30 Father-in-Law Day
30 International Day of Friendship
31 Mutt's Day
 

The Urge for Adventure June 2017

The Urge For Adventure June 2017

HEY GUYS,

Colors of Diversity

 June marks that switch up from Spring to Summer, time to get outside if not before, by all means by the time of the summer solstice, when the Sun reaches its northernmost point and seems to stop, higher in the sky for longer warmer days.

Do Not Miss Out on Some Great Summer action.  There Is A Lot Going On from Pride of Diversity,  Nude Bike Rides, Kissing And even Orgasms but when and where? That will have to come with a bit of scouting on your part armed with the information I am passing on to You. All you need to do is decide and take action for Fun, Even Outrageous Ideas For Your Engagement With People, Situations, and Things. If Nothing Else, It should Give You Some Great Conversation Starters.

After Perusing the possible opportunities for engagement below. Then Check out some of the other Current or Pass Blogs Pages, You May Find Items that will Help Spruce Up Your Perspective In Ways That Inspire Your AWESOME BEST.

June All Month:

Aquarium Month

Candy Month

Dairy Month

Fight the Filthy Fly Month

Photo courtesy Scott Keene

Gay Pride Month

National Gardening Week

National Accordion Awareness Month

National Adopt a Cat Month

National Fresh Fruit and Vegetables Month

Rose Month

Turkey Lovers Month

June Weekly Events:

Week 1   Fishing Week

Week 2   Email Week

National Clay Week

Meet A Man Week

    June Daily or Weekly That Varies Dates

    • World Naked Bike Ride Day (dates vary by city)

    • National Shampoo Week--June 7-13

        Gay Pride - (dates vary by city)

    • Take Your Dog to Work Day - date varies

    • Watermelon Seed Spitting Week - last week

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June

Jun 1    Thursday    Say Something Nice Day
National Go Barefoot Day
Jun 2    Friday    Leave the Office Early Day
Dare Day
National Doughnut Day
Jun 3    Saturday    Repeat Day
National Trails Day
Jun 4    Sunday    Hug Your Cat Day
Applesauce Cake Day

Photo courtesy Mike Zonta

Jun 5    Monday    World Environment Day
Jun 6    Tuesday    Nat’l Garden Exercise Day Get out & exercise with plants
National Yo-Yo Day
Jun 7    Wednesday    National Chocolate Ice Cream Day

June Bug Day
Jun 8    Thursday    Best Friends Day
Name Your Poison Day
Jun 9    Friday    Nat’l Strawberry Rhubarb Pie Day
Jun 10    Saturday    Iced Tea Day
Jun 11    Sunday    Corn on the Cob Day
Jun 12    Monday    Red Rose Day
Jun 13    Tuesday    Sewing Machine Day
Kitchen Klutzes of America Day

Jun 14    Wednesday    Bourbon Day
Flag Day
Monkey Around Day

Jun 15    Thursday    Nature Photography Day
Go Fly a Kite Day
Jun 16    Friday    Bloomsday
Fresh Veggies Day
Jun 17    Saturday    World Juggling Day
Mud Pack Day

Jun 18 Sunday Father's Day

National Splurge Day  
International Sushi Day
Jun 19    Monday    National Kissing Day
Sauntering Day
Jun 20    Tuesday    Ice Cream Soda Day
Juggling Day
Jun 21    Wednesday     Summer Solstice

Global Orgasm Day

International Yoga Day
National Selfie Day
Jun 22    Thursday    National Chocolate Eclair Day
Onion Ring Day
Stupid Guy Thing Day

Jun 23    Friday    Typewriter Day
Let It Go Day
Jun 24    Saturday    Celebration of the Senses
Swim a Lap Day
Jun 25    Sunday    National Catfish Day
Jun 26    Monday    Beautician's Day
Forgiveness Day

Jun 27    Tuesday    Sun Glasses Day

Helen Keller Day
Jun 28    Wednesday    Gone-ta-pott Day (may have new meaning) 
Tau Day (Oh no not Replacing “Pi”)
Jun 29    Thursday    Camera Day
Hug Holiday
Jun 30    Friday    Meteor Watch Day

WHAT'S UP WITH FATHER DAY

By Calvin Harris

With all this talk of the New Male and gender equality, one of the most unlooked at places to find this has been going on under our noses for a long time now, and maybe taken for granted: This is in the area of family.  This is where the regular working man drops the macho posturing when it comes to his children. Men have been known to cry, to put on a dress or at least a hat for his little girl’s tea party. Then again hug and even kiss his son in public to show support for some effort the son has done.  It seems these out of character acts have been going on for some time now and they have not gone completely unnoticed. As the story goes, on June 19, 1910, a Father's Day celebration was held at the YMCA in Spokane, Washington by Sonora Smart Dodd. Her father, the civil war veteran William Jackson Smart, was a single parent who raised his six children alone.  

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It seemed she may have been inspired by The “Mother’s Day” celebration originated by Ann Reeves Jarvis who after the Civil War, in the 1860s, brought together the mothers of Confederate and Union soldiers, to unify a divided West Virginia town with the celebration of “Mother’s Work Days” and then in 1914, President Woodrow Wilson approved a resolution that made the second Sunday in May a holiday in honor of “that tender, gentle army, the mothers of America.”

It was the love of Sonora Smart Dodd for her nurturing father that somehow morphed into Washington State celebrating the nation’s first statewide Father’s Day on June 19, 1910. Slowly the movement grew until in 1924, President Calvin Coolidge urged state governments to observe a celebration for the nation’s fathers.

FATHER’S DAY: More than Controversy and Hype

Yet many scoffing men will tell you with disdain that father’s day is an attempt to domesticate manliness with bribes of gift-giving, or that it's just a commercial gimmick and what’s worse a chance for retailers to sell more products–often paid for by the father himself. Needless to say this has spurred movements to scrap Father’s Day altogether.

Paradoxically, it seemed to have caught and held on to the nations unconscious, for purchases  from neckties and shirts, to socks, to pipes and booze, and sporting goods gear to electronics has grown as a way to show respect and love. But no other dominates like the greeting card: given as a way to honor and pay tribute to Dad.

On this Father’s Day let’s pay tribute to those men of diverse backgrounds that took it upon themselves to take on the challenge, to not just be better fathers and grandfathers but better defenders of the fatherless. Those men who adopted Children, or became Big Brothers, or decided on their own to have and raise a child, many times alone.

Fathers & Children

Reed Markham once said: “The thrill of being a great father is not seeing your children go on to become successful adults. The thrill of a great father is the journey, experiencing your child’s successes along the pathway to their greatness.”

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