The Safety Pin Cafe : The real deal ... The Safety Pin Cafe is open!

Monday, October 7, 2013

The real deal ... The Safety Pin Cafe is open!

"Feel the possibilities
The soaring fantasy of your dreams
And
The solid support of your reality!"
-Satori

We did it! Mahalo niu loa a pau to each and every one who came for the first day at the real deal Safety Pin Cafe. There's more to come, and what joy and magic we have to share here, there and everywhere (well, not just anywhere!).

Keep your eyes peeled, and your ear to the ground for the chants, and stories gather in The Safety Pin Cafe in time for Makahiki Season (The Hawaiian New Year) coming soon.

Thank you to our friend Michael Seraphinoff for taking the wonderful pics.

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"we tell it slant"

We're not social realists, we're fantasists. We tell the truth, like poets, but we tell it slant -- we clothe it in symbol, archetype, and metaphor. But if we are to write or illustrate fantasy well we must do the work of understanding the classic tropes we use as best we can. Through reading. Through research. Through curiosity and sensitivity about lives and traditions far different than our own. Through building a relationship to the wild wherever we are. Know the place and the land on which you are rooted, and then move outward from there. - Terri Windling

THE SAFETY PIN CAFE'S MISSION

From the original medicine story The Safety Pin Cafe, its "Introduction" is the foundation upon which we offer what we know:

"We cross borders without regard, ignorant or arrogant of the protocol native to the transitional spaces that take us from this place to that place. Traditions remembered and practiced would maintain and pass along the right things to do, at the right time, and in the right frame of mind. Have we all become wanderers with passports un-stamped with the memory of teachings from the Ancestors and Nature? There are rituals to remember and common magic to induce respect and reverence for the beings and places that share this planet."

"When an activity raises threats of harm to human health or the environment, precautionary measures should be taken even if some cause and effect relationships are not fully established scientifically. In this context the proponent of an activity, rather than the public, should bear the burden of proof. The process of applying the precautionary principle must be open, informed and democratic and must include potentially affected parties. It must also involve an examination of the full range of alternatives, including no action." - Wingspread Statement on the Precautionary Principle, Jan. 1998

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Monday, October 7, 2013

The real deal ... The Safety Pin Cafe is open!

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