Salute to Benny "the barber" Augello

Sat, Jan 24 at 6:30, Salute to Benny Augello:
You can be part of an appreciation for Benny (celebrating his 50+ years of cutting hair at 4714 Baltimore Avenue). We will have a light dinner buffet and beverages at Abbraccio with remembrances and perhaps a retelling of some of Benny’s bad jokes! Nominal charge of $15 per person to pay for food/beverage at this event, plus cash bar. Reservations are suggested.

"Enoughness" by Bill McKibbon

"Nature, like close-knit human community, is designed to help us stay sane."

Read the whole essay here.

“Everything is made of fire,” claimed Heraclitus. What is fascinating about this ancient remark is how it turned out to be so improbably true. Werner Heisenberg, one of the twentieth century’s most important nuclear physicists, wrote in Physics and Philosophy that “modern physics is in some way extremely near to the doctrines of Heraclitus. If we replace the word ‘fire’ by the word ‘energy’ we can almost repeat his statements word for word from our modern point of view.” Twenty-five hundred years after Heraclitus, Heisenberg found his thinking much closer to modern physics than any philosopher who had followed him. Furthermore, Heraclitus did not try to separate himself from the natural world as philosophy has done from Socrates up to Descartes. It was Descartes, most profoundly, whose philosophy created a terrible sense of separateness between mind and body, human beings and the natural world. He destroyed the Logos, the gathering principle, by reducing the world to a set of objects that had little connection to one another.

Read the whole article here:
Notes from a Very Small Island
A practice in belonging to this world
by Erik Reece

Fiddle Workshop at PCA

Crossroads Music presents:

a fiddle workshop at Philadelphia Community Acupuncture.
Sunday, April 7, 11 am to 1 pm.
with APRIL VERCH BAND
Ottawa Valley fiddle and stepdance.

There will be a concert Saturday, December 6 at 7:30 pm
Calvary Church, 48th St. and Baltimore Ave. in West Philadelphia.

You can get all the event info and sound samples @
www.crossroadsconcerts.org.
Please look at the amazing series of music that
Crossroads Music brings to our neighborhood.

Free acupuncture for veterans in Philadelphia

Check out the website for Philadelphia Area Veterans Acupuncture Project.

Obama, The Electric Slide, and acupuncture theory

Here's a link to Korben's piece at The Community Acupuncture Network.

Community Acupuncture Network board meeting

Ellen an I traveled to Portland last week with my wife Amy for the board meeting of the Community Acupuncture Network, or CAN. It took place at the mothership, Working Class Acupuncture in Cully.
The board is working on a lot of things related to figuring out how to create affordable acupuncture, how to get acupuncturists out of theory land and get related to the people in their communities, and how to get more non-acupunks leading CAN. If you're interested in any of the business of the board, check out these articles on CAN's blog.
General description of meeting and members.
A new manifesto for emphasizing the "community": in community acupuncture.
Critique"integrative medicine" vis-a-vis acupuncture.

But, mostly our visit was just tons of fun being around a lot of great people who are really serious about our small part of the revolution, and serious about having fun.