Dear Friends,

Just wanted to let you know about some events rapidly approaching that I am involved in.

First of all, this Sunday, January 8th, 2012, I am speaking at Creative Living Fellowship.  Here are details of the talk:

EXTREME MAKEOVER: New Thought Edition 
January 8th, 2012 at 9:00 am & 11:00 am

Creative Living Fellowship
6530 N. 7th Street
Phoenix, AZ 85014 
602-906-4080

Feeling sluggish and cranky, a victim of the post-holiday blues? 
Then treat yourself to a morning at the spiritual spa. 
Experience a lipo of love as your negative "fatitudes" 
are sucked away and the vibrant glowing truth within you 
is revealed. Revel in a manicure of merriment and a pedicure
of positivity. Luxuriate in a deep "issue" massage,
topped off with a painless hot-wax of blessings that will
leave you joyfully rejuvenated. Refresh, recharge, and
renew the truth of you. Cost: Free.

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Secondly, I am also bringing back my visioning and vision boarding class at two venues:

Create Your Best Year Yet!

Are you ready to create your best, most successful year yet? Then
join Dr. Mitzi for a powerful, inspiring and fun process of
visioning and treasure mapping. Treasure-mapping is the process of
visualizing on paper exactly what you desire to create in your
life. The clearer you can see and align your mind with your
desired future as a reality, the sooner you can manifest your
dreams. The beginning of the New Year is an extremely powerful
time to do this. Why not make 2012 your year to shine?

This class is being offered at Unity of Phoenix as a two-night event. 
Participants are advised to attend both Tuesdays.

Tuesdays, January 10th & 17th
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Cost: Love offering

Unity of Phoenix
1500 E. Greenway Pkwy
Phoenix, AZ 85022
(602) 978-3248

The Create Your Best Year Yet! class is also being offered at 

Creative Living Fellowship as a one-day class.
Saturday Jan. 14th, 2012
10:00 am – 3:00 pm

Creative Living Fellowship
6530 N. 7th Street
Phoenix, AZ 85014

What to bring: A sack lunch or snack
Scissors and glue
Any special magazines, photos or anything
else you want to incorporate onto your treasure map.

Cost: Love offering 

Hope to see you soon!

Blessings of love and peace,

Mitzi

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When something as catastrophic as Japan’s earthquake and tsunami occurs, we may find ourselves wondering what we can do to help. Through today’s technology, we watch as events unfold and see with heart-wrenching sadness our brothers and sisters of planet earth enduring suffering, pain, and tremendous loss.

So how can we help?

We can join together, across faith traditions, with the millions worldwide who are sending prayers of comfort and healing to all those affected by this devastating event.

Prayer for Japan

First take a few deep cleansing breaths.
Breathe in God.
Ground yourself in God
and ground yourself in Love,
for God is Love.

The Divine Power of God flows through all the Universe.
As God is Love, so too am I Love.
As this is true for me it is true for all.
I now join with millions worldwide to send comfort, peace
and safety to Japan.
Collectively our hearts are flooded with Love for all who live on our planet.
We send this Love to every man, woman, child and animal who has been affected by the earthquake and tsunami.
We send Love to all who have lost their lives as a result of this tragedy. We send Love and comfort to all who are grieving the loss of loved ones.
We send Love, strength and courage to all who are assisting with those who are missing.
We send Love to all of the rescue workers from around the world who are helping.
We send Love, wisdom and guidance to all who are working to stabilize the nuclear reactors.
We love you, we are one with you. You are not alone.
Thank you God for the manifestation of this prayer.
We let go with faith and trust. And so it is. Amen.

Each time you see images on the news, or Internet, or hear reports on the radio about the devastation, take a moment to take a deep cleansing breath and send Love, for it truly is the most powerful healing force in the Universe.

Thank you.

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Many of us, in our own way, wanted to send a message of condolence, support and love to those affected by this tragedy and also to declare that we stand on the side of love and peace.           

Renee sang the song she had been preparing on Sunday January 9th at Unity of Phoenix in all 3 of their services.  It took on a far greater meaning to her as to why she had been "called" to prepare this song and those who heard Renee sing the song: "We Can Be Kind" by David Friedman, stood in unity of the message in the song at the end of Renee’s performance. 

Renee’s performance of this song is dedicated to Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and all those who were who were killed or injured in the shooting in Tucson. It is also dedicated to Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik and President Obama. May we all return to kindness and sanity.  

SINGER: Renee Morgan Brooks PIANIST: Jerry Wayne Harkey DRUMMER: Mark Stoper

Filmed at Unity of Phoenix on January 9, 2011

http://reneemorganbrooks.com/

Here at Dare2create we continue to send love, peace, comfort and strength to all affected by the shooting. 

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Let us, wherever we are join together in prayer:

Divine Beloved Spirit, God, who is LOVE we accept for Gabrielle healing and recovery. We also accept strength and coura.…..ge for her family and guidance for the medical team that is assisting her. For all who were injured in the shooting today we accept wholeness and health. For the loved ones of those who lost their lives today we accept that they are lifted up with comfort and support in their grief and loss. We are grateful that this prayer is heard and answered now and release it knowing that it is so. Amen.
 

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We’ve featured the amazing Mr. Balsamo on dare2create before– check out:

http://www.dare2create.com/music/steve-balsamo-gives-a-knockout-performance-of-gethsemane-from-jesus-christ-superstar/

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In October of 2009, when Oscar was just two years old,  he met with a horrific accident while he was in a maize field.  A combine harvester cut off his back legs between his ankle and his feet.  A cyclist found him and brought Oscar to his "mum and dad’s" home.  Oscar’s "parents",  Mike Nolan and Kate Allan, fearing that they would be advised to have Oscar euthanised, rushed Oscar to their local vet, Dr. Peter Haworth of the New Era Veterinary Hospital.  Dr. Haworth immediately contacted another vet, Dr. Noel Fizpatrick, of www.fitzpatrickreferrals.co.uk,  a world-renowned state-of-the-art practice in Surrey, England, which specializes in small-animal neuro-orthopedics.

Dr. Noel Fitzpatrick

Dr. Fitzpatrick, a pioneer in his field, has developed many novel techniques and technologies to save his animal patients from being euthanised. After reviewing Oscar’s x-rays and photos and much discussion with Dr. Haworth and Oscar’s "parents",  Dr. Fitzpatrick stated that, due in part  to Oscar’s young age,  he would make an ideal candidate for a revolutionary new procedure he had been developing: bionic cat legs. 

Oscar was flown to the United Kingdom to meet with Dr. Fitzpatrick and his team while Oscar’s "mum" and "dad" did a lot of "soul-searching" before agreeing to go ahead with the ground-breaking procedure.

The first video shows Oscar enthusiastically using his new legs and the second is a follow-up.  There’s a lot more of Oscar’s story below the second video.

This second video shows Oscar after he has had time to heal, now filled with prosthetic flexible paws instead of the pegs. This allows him to move around easier and have a more realistic "cat-like" walk. To me it doesn’t even really look like he has "bionic-legs", more like he has really adorable little "booties" on.

Collaborators & ITAP

Interestingly, Dr. Fitzpatrick claims to have got the idea of  bionic legs for animals from the character Wolverine of the original X Men movie. Dr. Fitzpatrick  had previously used this novel idea on a labrador dog with chronic crippling arthritis, but never on a cat.

Dr. Fitzpatrick collaborated with Gordon Blunn and colleagues of  the University College London’s Centre for Biomedical Engineering to create steel rods coated with hydroxylapatite, known also as hydroxyapatite, (the official name for them is intraosseous transcutaneous amputation prosthetics –ITAPs).  These were drilled into what was left of Oscar’s hind legs. The material itself, combined with the way it is attached, encourages the bones cells and skin to grow onto the rods creating a seal to prevent infection.  This mimics a natural process, similar to the way deer grow antlers. The ITAP technology is now being tested on humans.

Dr. Fitzpatrick currently appears on a BBC 1 television series, The Bionic Vet.  I have not found this show available on U.S. TV yet, but hope that it will air here soon.

Thank You

A huge kudos and thank you to Dr. Fitzpatrick and his team for his pioneering work, to Dr. Haworth for having the insight to contact Dr. Fitzpatrick, for Gordon Blunn of University College London and all who worked on the ITAPs, to Oscar’s "parents", Kate Allan and Mike Nolan who agreed to go ahead with the pioneering surgery and to the cyclist who found Oscar in the field.  Thank you all for daring to create a world that you and Oscar desire to live in.

Blessings to Oscar

And finally huge meows of love to Oscar.  You are one fabulous feline.  The love, dedication, collaboration and innovation you have inspired in others is astounding and has impacted people around the world.  You, dear Oscar, are simply spectacular, or may I say, spec-"CAT" -ular!  Blessings to you for a long, healthy and joyful life.

Much of this story is compiled courtesy of Wikipedia and Cnet news.  

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Let us join together in sending prayers of comfort for all who were affected by the tragic office shooting at the Emcore Corporation, in Albuquerque, New Mexico today.   Emcore, which has approximately 700 full time employees, makes parts that provide voice and data transmission over fiber optic lines.  In addition they produce solar power systems for satellite and ground-based systems.

Let us surround all who work at the Emcore Corporation, in addition to all families, relatives and friends of those affected today with loving prayers of compassion, healing and peace from our own faith traditions.  

Thank you,

Mitzi

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Let us join together again in prayer from our various faith traditions to accept safety for everyone affected by the enormous ash cloud that is hanging over Europe. People from all around the world are being affected by this as air travel has come to a complete standstill.  

On Wednesday, smoke and steam rose from the volcano under the Eyjafjallajokull glacier in southern  Iceland. The volcano has been displaying activity and been of growing concern for the past few  weeks.The last time this volcano erupted was in 1821. The disruption caused by that took close to two years to subside. Volcanologists at this point, are unclear how this eruption will unfold. Ideally things will get back to normal  fairly soon.  However this could evolve into several weeks, months or even longer of air-traffic disruption which will have ramifications world-wide.  

The reason for the airports closing and a ban on all flights is not an over-reaction.  Volcanic ash particles can prove disastrous  for planes. Visibility when flying in or near an ash cloud is obviously impaired,  enormous damage can occur to aircraft windshields,  but of most concern is the fact that the ash can cause aircraft engines to shut down and planes to literally fall out of the sky. 

What’s ironic is that much of the UK has been experiencing some unusually sunny weather.  Passengers are confused because they can’t see the enormous ash cloud. They look outside and see blue, sunny skies and wonder if this is a late April Fool’s joke.  But no, this is actually happening.  The clouds aren’t visible because they’re so high up — around 30,000 feet up to be precise — just a few feet below where planes usually travel. 

So at this moment people from around the world are finding their travel plans disrupted because of an act of nature, or an act of God. 

For now, let us join together in affirming safety, peace of mind and acceptance for the what is at this moment.  Oh and patience.  And  trust in the experts who will provide updates as to when it is safe to travel by air again.

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Let us join together in sending prayers of comfort, from our own faith traditions, to support and offer condolence to the people of Poland who are grieving the unexpected and untimely loss of their President, Lech Kaczynski, First Lady Maria Kaczynski, and all the many dignitaries and officials who were traveling with them on the plane which crashed today.  Condolences are coming in from around the world and we join with all of those to surround the country of Poland and all those mourning with love, compassion and support.   

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