{"id":111971,"date":"2024-05-29T16:07:45","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T23:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/?p=111971"},"modified":"2024-05-30T12:53:05","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T19:53:05","slug":"msia-presidency-update-june-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/archives\/111971-msia-presidency-update-june-2024","title":{"rendered":"MSIA Presidency Update — June 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Conference of Celebration is just four weeks away! It\u2019s on our calendar (June 26 to July 1) and very much on our minds as we prepare for all the marvelous events on this year\u2019s schedule. Join the celebration and book your registrations.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Celebrating Who We Are workshop<\/a> and Prana\u2019s 50th Anniversary Celebration<\/a> are just two of the unique offerings this Conference.<\/p>\n

Prana has a special guest this month. Kikuno Hyodo from Kyoto, Japan is visiting to share her love of tea.\u00a0 A practitioner of tea ceremony for 17 years, she recently began the “Chabako (tea box) Journey,\u201d an initiative to connect people through tea. \u00a0Kikuno says, \u201cThrough a simple form of the tea ceremony, I hope to offer tea to people of many backgrounds and share the spirit of the present moment.\u201d<\/p>\n

More than just making and drinking tea, historically the tea ceremony helped people stay awake during meditation, in zazen. In serving tea, calmness of the mind is reflected in every movement. Kikuno will be doing tea events and classes throughout the month.\u00a0 Paul Kaye also continues to do his gatherings, Peace Awareness: A Way of Tea, at Prana as well.<\/p>\n

Why tea? It is the perfect vehicle to have people connect, and share love and camaraderie, and we have consistently found that the serving of tea brings people to a deep place of peace and relaxation. An ideal respite from the pace and stress of the world, it\u2019s also a great prelude to meditation and spiritual exercises. If you are interested in more information or booking an event, please check out the Peace Awareness Labyrinth & Gardens events<\/a> page.<\/p>\n

There was a wonderful Windermere work party over the Memorial Day weekend to work on cleaning up the barn and other projects around the ranch.\u00a0\u00a0 Stay tuned for pictures and stories from the Windermere team.\u00a0 You can sign up for the Windermere Ranch Newsletter to receive photos, stories, and special invitations from Windermere here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Paul, Vincent, and Mark went down to Orange County recently to visit Betsy Alexander at her assisted living residence.\u00a0 Betsy, having just turned 81 years old in February, looked rested and well. She was very happy to see the boys and connect in person with our loving hearts.\u00a0\u00a0We then visited her next-door neighbor, Nancy Carter, who worked at NOW Productions as a video editor for many years.\u00a0\u00a0Many a Moment of Peace was produced with her skill and sensitivity. Nancy stays on top of MSIA\u2019s latest video releases and is very proud of the work of her successor, Angela Parkes, as the current NOW Productions video editor.<\/p>\n

After three years of design, permits, and construction, Prana is just about to inaugurate the new ADA lift that will give wheelchair access to the labyrinth terrace level.\u00a0\u00a0 This is something we have wanted to do for many years to allow visitors to Peace Awareness Labyrinth & Gardens<\/a> the full labyrinth experience.<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, next door to Prana, the much longer construction project to complete the frontage of the Villa de la Paz Apartments (owned by MSIA) has finally broken ground and is well underway. \u00a0\u00a0Most of the sidewalks have been poured and the ADA ramp is in place. \u00a0\u00a0The vision for the front of the property to match the inner (courtyards) beauty is finally being realized.\u00a0 More updates to follow on this as the transformation unfolds.<\/p>\n

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God Bless you and thank you for participating in MSIA, and for all that you give in so many ways. As J-R would constantly remind us, \u201cIt is the loving that makes all this work.\u201d We love and appreciate you!<\/p>\n

The MSIA Presidency \u2013 Paul, Vincent, and Mark
\nMSIA Presidency Succession \u2013 David, Jeffrey, and Sherie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Conference of Celebration is just four weeks away! It\u2019s on our calendar (June 26 to July 1) and very much on our minds as we prepare for all the marvelous events on this year\u2019s schedule. Join the celebration and book your registrations. The Celebrating Who We Are workshop and Prana\u2019s 50th Anniversary Celebration are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":111526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[266,6771],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-msia-presidency-updates"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}