<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><head></head><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: 'bookman old style', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; "><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442091190176_8784" style="font-family: 'bookman old style', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; "><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442091190176_8783" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; "><div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv6541170109"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: 'bookman old style', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; "><div class="yiv6541170109yqt2106319299" id="yiv6541170109yqtfd07752"><div id="yiv6541170109yui_3_16_0_1_1442091190176_5387" style="font-family: 'bookman old style', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; "><div id="yiv6541170109yui_3_16_0_1_1442091190176_5386" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; "><div class="yiv6541170109y_msg_container" id="yiv6541170109yui_3_16_0_1_1442091190176_5438"><div id="yiv6541170109"><div dir="ltr" id="yiv6541170109yui_3_16_0_1_1442091190176_5437"><div dir="ltr" id="yiv6541170109yui_3_16_0_1_1442091190176_5436"><div id="yiv6541170109yui_3_16_0_1_1442091190176_5435" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><h1 style="margin-top: 12pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span lang="X-NONE"></span></h1><h1 style="margin-top: 12pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-left: 0in; "><font face="Lucida Calligraphy"><span lang="X-NONE"><span> </span>Bringing Forth The Gift</span></font><span lang="EN"><font face="Cambria"> </font></span></h1><div class="yiv6541170109MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><font face="Cambria"></font> </div><div class="yiv6541170109MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span><font face="Cambria"><span><font style="font-size: 16pt; "> </font></span><font style="font-size: 16pt; "><span> </span></font></font></span><span><font face="Lucida Handwriting"><font style="font-size: 16pt; ">A weekend for men and women</font></font></span></div><div class="yiv6541170109MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span><font face="Lucida Handwriting"><span><font style="font-size: 16pt; "> </font></span><font style="font-size: 16pt; "><span> </span>December<span> </span>11-13, 2015</font></font></span></div><div class="yiv6541170109MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span><font face="Lucida Handwriting"><span><font style="font-size: 16pt; "> </font></span><font style="font-size: 16pt; ">Led by Doug von Koss and Richard Naegle</font></font></span></div><div class="yiv6541170109MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span><font face="Lucida Handwriting"></font></span> </div><div class="yiv6541170109MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 16pt; ">Full of singing, poetry, story, ritual, silence, community and love, this weekend is a preparation time for the Solstice season in the quiet and beauty of the redwoods. Just when our culture is speeding up for the ‘holidays,” our souls long for the “holy days,” to hold true to the heartbeat of nature—the rhythm of stillness, waiting, letting go, anticipation.</font></font></span></div><div class="yiv6541170109MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span><font face="Times New Roman"><span><font style="font-size: 16pt; "> </font></span><font style="font-size: 16pt; ">The darkness around us is deep…The potential birth of new light for us, our communities, and our world requires that we sacrifice old ways of being; that we bring forth new gifts worthy of a new year.<span> </span>What must you let go of?<span> </span>What must you risk bringing forth?</font></font></span></div><div class="yiv6541170109MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span><span><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 16pt; "></font></font></span></span> </div><div class="yiv6541170109MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span><font face="Helvetica"><font style="font-size: 14pt; "> “Something has been calling to you</font></font></span></div><div class="yiv6541170109MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span><font face="Helvetica"><font style="font-size: 14pt; "> For longer than you can remember.</font></font></span></div><div class="yiv6541170109MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span><font face="Helvetica"><font style="font-size: 14pt; "> Calling to you to step out into the light, into your life.</font></font></span></div><div class="yiv6541170109MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span><font face="Helvetica"><font style="font-size: 14pt; "> It doesn’t matter whether you’re ready or not.”</font></font></span></div><div class="yiv6541170109MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span><font face="Helvetica"><span><font style="font-size: 14pt; "> </font></span><font style="font-size: 14pt; "><span> </span>Larry Robinson, “Roll Away the Stone”</font></font></span><i><span><span><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 16pt; "> </font></font></span></span></i><span><font face="Helvetica"><font style="font-size: 14pt; "> </font></font></span></div><div class="yiv6541170109MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "> </div><div class="yiv6541170109MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 16pt; ">Come, join with kindred spirits as we share good food and company, sing universal chants and songs in joyous harmony,</font></font></span></div><div class="yiv6541170109MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 16pt; ">celebrate tears and laughter, and explore Soul’s longing in the darkest night. Together, let us once again sing the world into being.</font></font></span></div><div class="yiv6541170109MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span><span><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 16pt; "> </font></font></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>