Coretta Scott King, widow of slain civil rights leader
Martin Luther King, Jr., recently said that if she had
to pinpoint the most important message she has learned
in her life,

"it would be that love is the most powerful healing force
on earth, and it is available to us all. If we can learn
how to love one another, there is nothing we can't do."

We are able rise above, and rise in love, when we practice
the art of loving with our partner and our world in a very
conscious manner on a daily basis.

It means that you can be honest with ones self. One is then
able to live ones heartfelt values - Our truest intentions &
valued commitments - by matching our words to our deeds.

SAD GAME
Blame lack of communication and respect of the other
keeps the sad game going. It keeps stealing all our
wealth ? It is giving it to an imbecile with a lack
of financial skills. or ability to love
Dear one,wise up.
Hafiz quoted in The Gift
translated by Daniel Ladinsky

In Tibet, practitioners would sometimes be instructed to
go into a cave or canyon and alternately yell compliments
and insults at themselves, listening to the echoed sounds
and watching the mind's reactions to the praise and then
criticism.
Glenn H. Mullin in Gems of Wisdom
from the Seventh Dalai Lama

To Practice This Thought: Make a CD of ones own personal
barrage of self justifications praise self deprecating
insults. Play it back to yourself and note how one
responds to this way of being.

Show ones love for the Tibetan people and sign the petition
below

linkwww.getup.org.au/campaign/StandUpForTibet

Vita

Commitment reality and action from "Getup" and VITA

Saying sorry was an extraordinary first step on our
journey to GENUINE reconciliation. Now is the time
for real action... Starting with closing the 17 year
life expectancy gap that exists between Indigenous
and non-Indigenous Australians.

That is why Indigenous health professionals across
the nation are descending on Canberra to meet with
the new Federal Government this week -

Our first chance to send a clear message we NEED a
national partnership to end this preventable crisis.
What happens this week will help determine a health
equality for an entire generation to come...That's
why we'll be there with our close the gap petition.

It is imperative we act so add your name to the
GETUP petition to close the shocking 17-year life
expectancy gap, before another generation is
condemned to third-world health conditions!!!

When GETUP joined Oxfam, ANTaR, HREOC and NACCHO
in this campaign in April last year we laid out
the challenge before us: "we want to give ALL OUR
politicians an unflinching new mandate!!Backed by
tens of 1000'S to extend the fundamental rights to
life and health to every citizen of our wealthy
country."

Together we must continue to RISE to that challenge.
Kevin Rudd has stepped up to this commitment and would
appear to have made a genuine commitment to close the
gap......

We must ALL continue to shake the cage of this APPALLING
PAST complacency we must ensure the current Federal
Government match their commitment of being "Sorry" with
genuine incisive action.

This week is our opportunity to make that a reality
that will take bold political will. We have the power
to create that will -

Add your name to the 40,000 GetUp members who have
already signed the petition, and we'll take it straight
to Canberra with the message that Australia demands real
health equality for all citizens..

SO whether you live in the region or not show ones will and
commitment for a healthier love filled world for US all!!


www.getup.org.au/campaign/CloseTheGap&id=28

Vita

The Preferred Play Company is proud to present

OUR COUNTRY?S GOOD
by timberlake wertenbaker
Based on the novel 'The Playmaker" by
Thomas Keneally

Actress/director GLENDA LINSCOTT (Prisoner, and
Murder Call) brings her ensemble company to the
Fringe 2008. Ten fabulous young actors, graduates
from the Victorian College of the Arts. They remount
their acclaimed 2006 production. Young actors who
are at the peak of their training fit, athletic, and
very spunky and give us a passionate production.

Highly physical and compelling, it is described as a
beautiful piece of theatre.

It was a new colony, a new beginning. Supplies for all
things were running out.. A military in revolt and many
convicts choosing to risk certain death by escaping into
the unknown rather than suffer the chronic hardships of
the new penal colony.

A young Lieutenant, Ralph Clark offers to put on a play
to celebrate the King?s birthday. His cast was a motley
bunch of pickpockets, thieves, whores and a hangman.

Will the performance rival that of London?s David Garrick?
Will his lead actress be hanged before she can take the
stage? Will he overcome his fear and loathing and find
love?

OUR COUNTRY?S GOOD is a story of the imagination, of love,
and the redemptive power of theatre.

What the Critics are saying?
The performances delivered by the Preferred Play Company ?
are undeniably very good.

CAMERON ENGLAND
What the audiences are saying?
When the play ended, I couldn't get myself to go
backstage to compliment the performers. I wanted
to continue LIVING their roles as I have
in Our Country's Good. Not just 'good' but FANTASTIC.

I was there with them, in 1789 when Captain Arthur
Phillip (Governer General of NSW) came to Australia.
I was with them ALL THE TIME. Not once did I feel I
was watching a play.
Director Glenda Linscott and her select ensemble company
are tangible and pulsating. GO SEE IT... at least once!
[posted by BRAVO]

A must see. Don't miss it. There is SO MUCH on offer
here at the Fringe, but what to see? How to decide?
When to go with all other things happening? Well, we
were certainly very happy with our choice.

Some fantastic directorship and not some, but ALL ACTORS
have come to life. They were absolutely divine. Don't
let this one slip through. [posted by ThumbsUp]

Angela Pamic
Operations Manager
Theatreworks ltd.

14 Acland St, St Kilda
P: 03 9534 4879
E: gm@theatreworks.org.au

See Vita's quick links for the Theatreworks
website

"Vita/I will be on sabbatical doing research at
the outer regions or other ".coms" and will
return refreshed in the fullness of time...

I am NOT beyond reach for those in the know...
There will be current updates from my A List
guests and more pearls from my open heart soon..

Be patient BE HONEST be committed be loving be
honorable to all we love..

Vita

Dear friends,

You may have missed it, but the Tasmanian Government
last week unbelievably signed an agreement handing
over Tasmania's forests to the Gunns pulp mill for
the next 20 years. In the very same week Professor
Garnaut warned them of the absolute dire climate
change consequences facing us ALL.

If we don't act now, bulldozers will start clearing
land for the mill that will contribute 2% of Australia's
greenhouse emissions - We're being told we need to
drastically cut our emissions. But unfortunately
Australia's forests were largely left out of Garnaut's
recent interim report.

We have only one opportunity to put them in the picture.
A proper assessment in his impending Climate Change
Report of our native forests' climate change value may
just sink the mill project.

Sign the petition on the Getup site in Vita's quick
or the link below asking Professor Garnaut to examine
the full climate impact of this mill madness and the
logging of Tasmania's native forests:


www.getup.org.au/campaign/DontPulpOurClimate

There's a real risk the Garnaut report won't include a
comprehensive assessment of native forests despite new
research finding the stopping of deforestation a "large,
immediate and perishable opportunity"* to massively reduce
emissions.

Costing out the real value of native forests will not only
prove Tasmania's trees would be better left in the ground
but make this teetering project financially inviable when
Gunns realizes they will have to pay for carbon embedded
in our forests.

Native forests are invaluable sources of carbon storage
and it costs nothing to leave them in the ground. 80% of
the 4.5 million tonnes of wood needed to supply the pulp
mill each year will initially come from Tassie's native
forests - permanently destroying forests that can hold
10-20 times the amount of CO2 than plantations.

A proper assessment of their climate change value will
undoubtedly make the arguments in favor of the mill,
whose climate change impact has never even been assessed,
untenable. Take action to protect nature's lungs before the
bulldozers move in:

Professor Gaurnaut can expose this ill-conceived pulp
mill as the carbon disaster that it is. The report is
the most important study for Australia's future...

This is only the first step in our efforts to ensure it
adequately prepares us for the challenges ahead by taking
into account all relevant factors.

We only get one shot at averting climate disaster.Play
a part make sure that shot includes an appreciation
for the carbon carrying capacity of our forests.

Thanks for being a part of the solution,
The GetUp team

Vita