We’re coming to the big screen!  Finally, a real movie theater with huge screens and surround sound!  The entire five film Veterans series will play at the Rafael Theater in San Rafael, CA starting Veterans Day Friday Nov. 11 and playing through the entire weekend. I’ll be there each day, along with stellar guests – subjects from the films themselves and experts in healing PTSD.  Join us if you want to re-experience something truly cinematic – sitting in the dark with community to have a shared experience and discover something profoundly moving.

I met these two fine hirsute gentlemen at Renaissance Weekend in Monterey over Labor Day.  What gems!  Both Veterans, doing what they can for other Veterans, First Responders, and other sufferers of PTS. Using their tag “2 Docs and a Grunt” they primarily do public talks and podcasts.  “Doc,” on the left, has more advanced degrees than you can shake a stick at.  Nate, the “Grunt” on the right, has done serious time in combat.

They’re just starting down the non-profit trail, looking for support of many kinds.  Most notably right now they need A-V interns – someone to help them with their video and audio production needs.  You can find them here on Facebook and here on YouTube.

Speaking of help, we could use some too.  We’re a veritable factory of good works but we’re small and underfunded.  Warrior Films needs Volunteers: IT, graphic design, event planning, marketing, PR, and more.  Just email us at [email protected], subject line “I want to help!” and let us know what you can offer.

Book Readers Wanted!

Talk about apropos, here’s what Jack Kornfield wrote in the Preface:

We live in a culture that could be characterized by the absence of the sacred. Our education, our business, our healthcare, our transportation, our media and entertainment most often lack a sense of connection to the vast, tender, powerful, mysterious, sacred nature of life.

And even when we have a personal brush with the sacred, when someone near us dies, when we take special time in the high mountains or connect with a moving work of art or are present for the birth of a new child, the compelling sense of sacred mystery can quickly fade as we resume our quotidian chores.

This absence is exacerbated by our divisive political discord, our racial and economic divisions and injustice, by our unattended trauma, individual and collective.

Yet underneath, when we get quiet and honest, there is in almost everyone, a longing for deeper connection: to our self, to the earth, to the community around us, to life.

This deep connection to the sacred, and to your own unique gifts and courageous place in the world is what Rites to a Good Life, and Rites of Passage reminds you is possible.

Want to discover what my friend calls “The best undiscovered book out there”?  You won’t be disappointed…