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Influenced by Rosemary Cooper, p. 270, The Community Resilience Reader. To support Potlatch Cafe and Community Gardening development in Eastern Connecticut, and to read more about repair cafes at the family, neighborhood, national, and global levels, please go to amazon.com and pick up a copy of Permaculture Opera.  Thanks from New London County to you and yours.

Dear Covenant to Empower Children, Inc. I was in a Potlatch CoHousing Cafe just the other repair-invested day for both ego and eco therapy. Our host introduced this Potlatch SkillShare event speaking to himself: The less I share skills and resources on cooperative terms of common educational PositivEnergy endeavor, The more plutocratically powerful anti-social logic of private learning affluence elitism entitlement sexism racism ageism tumors growing within healthier democracy, Cooperative paid-forward ownership for restoring justice, justice as cooperatively-owned peace. So it was I thought of you, covenanted to caregiving and not corporate profit, your mission to restore therapeutic health to under-nourished children and their not-full-healthing families. Broken souls with broken belongings, longings for everything therapeutic cafes and lending libraries for computers and karaoke machines, musical instruments and microphones, speakers and costumes, clothing and furniture, bicycles and toys, stories and songs therapeutically non-violently shared. Repaired ecotherapeutic co-housing and garden fixers to extend family neighborhood co-responsibilities. Cooperatively organized by non-violent therapeutic innovators, local restorative justice administrators, nonprofit co-housing and community gardening and nutritious interior-exterior landscapers, adept with inside-outside nurturing design, cooperatively-invested and self-managing families growing neighborhood organizations. Covenants to prosper tool and toy and school libraries, co-housing recreation skill-sharing centers, ego-ecotherapeutic non-violent churches and synagogues and temples and courthouses and cooperatively-owned city halls co-investing in ego/ecotherapeutic businesses and vocations. Ego/eco-therapist interns including skilled do-it-ourselfers, professional hurt child cooperative parents with childcare giving repair businesses, apprentices interested in synergetic therapy-related careers in neighborhood planning and co-design, outdoor installations and ego/eco-evaluations of health care giving as love receiving. This Potlatch Cafe and Garden was multiculturally filled to multigenerational capacity with innovative self and other fixers cooperatively learning about facilitating ego/eco-repairs. Which brings in new employee-owners to local repair incubation businesses and empowerment cafe members undertaking and overtaking cooperatives for ecopolitical health-wealth restorations. Healthy keys to continually growing Potlatch CoHousing Cafes are those held by community WinWin outdoor-indoor entertainment innovators, street clowns and village green sages, parental fools and innocent teacher healers in love with therapeutic life. Covenants to CareGive Children and their cooperative co-housed families coordinated and ecotherapeutically operated by established hospitality foundations like local cooperative-restorative climate-care governments and nonprofit empowerment missioned organizations committed to potlatch provide investments and therapeutic non-violent staff and volunteer intern cooperative family care members to coordinate co-housing residents and neighborhood transporters and young cafe and garden after-school volunteers. Covenants for Healing could grow cooperatively owned therapeutic cafes and gardens and multicultural multigenerational homes accessible co-housing options for nurturing community residents So repairing, rather than discarding, people, plants, and things, Incubating interdependent potlatch stewards becoming post-millennial, WinWin nutritional for covenant-holders and covenant-constituents with secular-sacred dipolar co-arising faith in PositivEnergy Democracy for growing neighborhood Potlatch Cafes in CoRedemptive Gardens. With warm hope you are enjoying this child empowering day Another April through Marching Matriarchal Fool

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