Interactive art installation

I have been writing and leaving Love notes; words of acknowledgement, and gratitude, on my travels for more than 20 years. This joyful practice has inspired an interactive art instillation.

Starting on January 2nd, 2020, Township Coffee, located at 4343 Tyndall Road, in beautiful Victoria, BC, Canada, will be hosting an interactive art installation titled Love unites all.

How do you participate?
January 2nd until February 13th, 2020:
-Come visit Township coffee and check out the Love notes!
-If you are inspired, please share your loving words, gratitude, kindness and/or acknowledgment by writing your words clearly on a sticky note
-Write #LoveUnitesAll somewhere on your note to help it be shared on social media
-Place your note on one of the 2 designated walls at Township coffee
-And we invite you to post pictures of your favourite notes and tag us @Traskington and @Townshipcoffee and #LoveUnitesAll when you see notes you like at the shop, and on February 14th, 2020 and beyond, when you see these Love notes out in the world.
On February 14th, 2020:
We welcome you to come in and pick up a note or two to share in the world, where you perceive it can be a contribution. Maybe you sense a note could have uplifting impact when placed on the mirror in a public bathroom, or on an indoor school/community notice board, or in a public place, or a place of transit, or somewhere you are inspired to share some Love and some levity

What: Interactive Love-note art instillation

Where: Township Coffee, 4343 Tyndall Road, Victoria, BC, Canada

When: From January 2, 2020 until February 14th, 2020 we are accumulating the Love-notes created at Township coffee, and on February 14, 2020 we invite our patrons to take the notes from the shop, and share them out in the world.

 

Coffee Food Love

Coffee. Food. Love. These words have been central in the last few years of my day-to-day life.

I moved from a window-walled, penthouse apartment in Vancouver to beautiful Victoria, and I started baking at a community coffee shop, in addition to my healing practice. The bakery for this coffee shop is located underground; no windows, no natural light.

While some things have changed, some things remain the same. Much of my meditation, and healing practices just moved underground, and I learned to practice in parallel with kitchen productivity.

In my underground lair I had a lot of time to be with myself, with no other people, or daylight, and few distractions.  I created beautiful food, and breathed, and prayed. I practiced the craft of cooking while meditating, and learned to be an amplified instrument of Love-Food; something I have long practiced was now being shared on a larger scale.

With that idea in mind I will also share the awareness I came to, about expanding the reach, of a Lovefull message.

I have been praying, cultivating my own, individual relationship with Divine for a long while, and I have been doing it privately. Generally, and for as long as I can remember, I have preferred to pray alone, mostly not out loud, or in front of other people. I knew I was very comfortable with someone when I would find myself praying easily in their presence.

Increasingly, I am perceiving guidance that there may be value in sharing my prayer practices, and Lovefull ideas with others. What if sharing my perspective might open more choice for others?

I do not define myself as an expert, of anything really, especially not anything to do with the Divine, or Love, or religion of any kind.  I am more of a persistent student, with a real taste for ‘humble-pie’.

It is in this Light I long to be an instrument of Love, and a contribution of service.

I perceive that I am to share this message of ‘Divine Love available for anyone who chooses it, with true longing, and openness.’

While I have studied, and continue to study, lots of different kinds of healing, and tools, and resources, I do not call myself a healer, a teacher, nor a writer.

There are times that I am not so sure that I really identify with this role I am being guided to pursue. I might have imagined, and actually have publicly spoken about, many other topics readily, and yet this topic feels different.

I truly long to be an open channel of Divine Love and healing for me, and the Earth, and all beings, and choosing awareness of my guidance is only one step on this parth. Acting on my guidance is another important step, making choices that reflect my guidance and inner-most longings sounds so easy, and yet sometimes I find it challenging.

Challenging or easy, I am committed to choosing true caring for me, in total allowance of me, as I learn to be a truly open channel of Love. I’ll keep practicing and see what gets created…