2008 SUMMER DATES
The best fair season yet
is well underway!

USK MEETS
GOING WELL

 

NEXT MEETING of Old Time Trading Circle – YES IT IS A BARTER FAIR – will be
July 25-27
Near Usk, WA
take Highway 2 to route 211
site is one mile from Usk on the left
near Jared Road. Look For Signs.
AS USUAL
NO ALCOHOL / NO GUNS / NO DRUGS
BRING YOUR BARTER / TRADE ITEMS &
JOIN IN THE MAGIC OF OUR CIRCLE
AND COMMUNITY OF FRIENDS

SEE YOU THERE!

ANNOUNCING A SPECIAL OPPORTUNITY FOR
SEEKERS OF KNOWLEDGE


North of Kettle Falls WA
in the mountains
overlooking the Columbia River
and Canada
Healing Seminar

August 3, 2008
10 AM Sarah Kilpatrick
Alignment  Focused Yoga For Structural Balance

1 PM  Stargazer
“Every Body Is A Star” Astrology with Stargazer

1 PM B. Z. Israel
Gardening, Farming, Thermosiphon Hot Water Systems, Biodiesel, etc.

3 PM Randy & Hope Mead
The Egyptian Healing Rods and Planetary Tuning Forks

4:30 PM Randy & Hope Mead
Video presentation: “Orbs, The Veil is Lifting”

Available For Private Sessions:
Dorothy Pritchett: Reiki, Stone Medicine
Larry Smeltzer: Polarity
others will be available

ALSO: DANCES OF UNIVERSAL PEACE

This is a family seminar for those who desire to learn and share techniques
in the self-healing arts for the individual and the earth.

 

This is a gathering for family to come together in prayer, heartsongs, spirit music, dance and play. This is not a barter fair or a party. No drugs, alcohol or obnoxious yelling – leave dogs at home except service animals. Suggested donation of $20 and bring a food donation for kitchen or volunteer kitchen help or children’s area help. The money covers traveling and other expenses of the presenters and of the gathering itself. Any extra goes into future events. No one will be turned away due to lack of funds. 3-4 hours work will suffice in lieu of cash if arranged beforehand. Contributions deferred for handicapped folks or those over 70.

 

Other supplies for kitchen and children’s area appreciated (no war toys). Time shared with the children is encouraged.  Bring your own bowl, cup, and eating utensils.

 

MORE INFO: 509-732-4301

 

THIS EVENT RUNS FROM 9:30 AM – 7:30 PM

WITH CLEANUP AND SOME MUSIC TO FOLLOW

BE PREPARED TO LEAVE BY 10 AM MONDAY

IF YOU ARE IN THE AREA SATURDAY THERE IS ACOUSTIC MUSIC AT THE FLATCREEK SCHOOLHOUSE SATURDAY NIGHT

 

CHAN’S DRAGON INN
FRIDAY OPEN MIKES
continue on those weekends
when there is no OTTC meeting
9PM until CLOSING


SPOKANE CREATIVE COMMUNITY MARKET
3rd and Cedar, Spokane
CHAN’S DRAGON INN PARKING LOT
Saturdays (When OTTC is not meeting elsewhere)
ALL SUMMER
7am – 4pm
LIVE MUSIC – COMMUNITY STAGE
ARTS & CRAFTS ETC.
LOTS OF VENDORS

 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ALL OUR JUNE & JULY FRIENDS

We gather peacefully to strengthen our community and to help each other.

OTTC info PHONE 509-456-4350

revised 07-22-08, at 2:39 PM ACC

Keeping Traditions Alive

During the mountain man era, St. Louis fur trader William Ashley organized an annual rendezvous or meeting with his fur trappers at a designated location in the West. At the rendezvous the trappers exchanged their beaver pelts for new supplies. These meetings took place during the summer when the trapping season was slow. Trappers, American Indians, and Ashley looked forward to these gatherings in the wilderness. The first rendezvous was held in 1825 and continued each year until 1840.

The Old Time Trading Circle calls together a diverse group of people interested in this old form of commerce as a living present day activity. Trade or barter is the center of our circle. The closer we can come to this center, the closer we come to each other in a real way. Cash transactions are impersonal and final. We know the price of everything and the value of nothing. Trade connects us to each other in an ancient relationship of mutual trust and respect. We need things and have or make things that others need, but mostly we need each other. We talk, we trust, we trade, we form a community of people, a family learning to live in peace and help each other. We all sometimes need cash to exist in the larger society and keep our gas tanks full, but if we are open to barter relationships, our need for cash will diminish, and our need for community will grow.

Honoring All Our Relations

Everything being related to everything else is the foundation of all culture and life. It defines and unites all people, wherever we are. A phrase borrowed from Indian people says it best: “All my relations.” It is an acknowledgment and description of our place in this world and a prayer to keep in mind our relationship to all that is.

We come together in a sacred circle, the common ground we share with each other and with the plants and animals, rocks and trees that live on the land. Respecting the land and all its inhabitants is the same as respecting ourselves, for we are all connected. We meet in our trade circle to affirm and strengthen our connection with the earth, Turtle Island, and with each other. We welcome the stranger in our midst with anticipation of making new friends and widening our circle.

We respect the land by leaving our campsites better than we found them, packing out our trash and the trash that may have been left by others. We respect the land by bringing our own firewood or gathering deadfall, making our campfires safe, having shovels and water at hand for constructing our fires and putting them out completely when we leave. We do not cut living trees for our own convenience, or disturb the creatures, including our human neighbors, that live near our camp.

We respect each other by extending the hospitality of our campfires to friends and strangers, sharing what we know and learning from each other.

 

W A G E P E A C E

www.oldtimetradingcircle.org