BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//InvisionCommunity Events 5.0.18//EN METHOD:PUBLISH CALSCALE:GREGORIAN REFRESH-INTERVAL:PT15M X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT15M X-WR-CALNAME:RMWorkCalendar NAME:RMWorkCalendar BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London TZURL:https://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20250330T020000Z RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20251026T020000Z RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Earth Day - Good New Calendar DTSTAMP:20250619T103104Z SEQUENCE:0 UID:333-5-c3fe8195a3dde498d013e477e2142422@aalbc.com ORGANIZER;CN="richardmurray":noreply@aalbc.com DESCRIPTION:\n \n Story 1 https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/261-earth-d ay-art-or-text-craft-parade-good-news-blog/?do=findComment&\;comment=89 4  \n \n\n\n\n \n Story 2 https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/261-earth-d ay-art-or-text-craft-parade-good-news-blog/?do=findComment&\;comment=89 5  \n \n\n \n  \n \n\n \n STORY 1\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n The elders say cats always walk the way to the lair of the Earth Seed. A child of earth born once every turn of the Earth about the Sun. Some say an earth seed is a child of earth with the sun\, but no one has ever recor ded such an event accept the plants.  The elders also say\, you know when a cat is close to an Earth Seed when a cat cross the mushrooms that grow wildest.\n\n \n \n\n \n The elders say\, if you follow a cat\, long enough\, though no exact distance is ever known\, you will rea ch an arcade of trees\n\n \n \n\n \n That is only the ga teway to an Earth Seed when a cat on the path goes through it\, otherwise it is just an arcade of trees on earth\, not unlike any other.\n\n In the year 1970\, a man painted a moment in time in the year 1936 when he f ollowed the town cat who lived in Mr. Madsen’s barn past a set of oddly wild mushrooms and through an arcade of trees in Decatur Iowa.\n\n Th e experienced man\, then a young man\, did not know what he would find in that little wood. But it surprised him. At first\, he thought a dragon\, b ut he never saw a dragon that seemed to be made of algae. The creature see med so gentle\, or unassuming\, it merely looked at him and then went back into its nestling. Days came and the man enjoyed its company.  \n\n In the painting the man showed his younger self giving the Earth Seed an apple.  \n\n \n \n\n \n He recalls his younger self bei ng perturbed when the dragon puffed the apple away. He did not know what t o do and wondered why it had scars on it\, while it never left this area.\ n\n Time past and the experienced man is now decades older and he is standing in the same green way years in the future. A man whose secrets ab out the Earth Seed will seem to die with him\, for reasons the common peop le may never know.\n\n But\, standing in full glory before this man w hose time is nearly up is a fully fledged Earth Seed\, no longer algae-ic with wings cut into by the ills applied to earth\, or that is what some su ggest cause the wounds\, but now a serpentine with wild leaves about itsel f. A gallant dragon needing to speak to its father.\n\n \n \n\n \n The experienced man can only look at the Earth Seed fly up into the sky and to beyond. The Experienced Man near the end of his time say a prayer: “or helping this life\, please earth\, sun\, moon\, stars\, ple ase help the other children of earth”.\n\n And the Earth Seed flew up into the sky. Days later astronauts in the International Space Station said they saw a brilliant green light emit on the atmosphere of earth.  \ n\n \n \n\n \n They explained that the ions outside Eart h’s electromagnetic field collide at it and produce the illuminations co mmonly called the Northern Lights\, but what the now dead experienced man knew\, and all those who get to aid an Earth Seed know\, it is in those mo ments when the sun touch the earth \, as the lords of the Nile depicted\, when the Earth Seed can leave its mother and provide blessings to all chil dren of earth\, if the other children earned it.\n \n \n \n \n \ n\n \n STORY 2\n \n\n \n  \n \n\n \n  \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \ n A spirit to a world speak: \"hmmm\, I feel my grandmother as I slee p. She is singing to me\, a song of timelessness. When she was a little st ar swimming free in the bottom or topless sea. I wish I will live as long as her\, but I know I will not. At least some of my children are not marsu pial and they may go on and live on their aunts and uncles or others in my large family... I feel the need to wake up to end my sleep. I see myself as I wake\"\n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n \"I need to spe ak to one of my children today. In my waking dreams I can hear them speak to me. But\, what was it about?  I think it was to celebrate something. I guess I will make an avatar\".\n\n ... an avatar to Earth form in a bright afternoon.\n\n \n \n\n \n And the earth avatar wa lked about a small town\, walking along the main avenue\, the green bushel s forming her hair gently brushing through the air. People are in shock lo oking at this natural automaton. The earth spirit only know it remember so meone is important today. She stop and look about and suddenly\, a person claps. And another clap and the whole street fills up with people\, clappi ng. The earth spirit is still unaware to the why or how? Then she see a ba nner: 'Happy Earth Day'.\n\n And a couple come out hand in hand and t he woman speak: \"this is for you Earth!\". Servers came around a corner w ith little plates or folded tables holding cut pieces of dirt. The man spe ak to earth\, winking at her: 'you taste good earth'.\n\n The earth s pirit is flushed\, unaware to what he was suggesting and she speak: \"well \, my water is nice right?\"\n\n A little child go to the avatar and say: \"I love water\" and the earth spirit in the earth avatar on her body \, grab the child and tickle their belly. The servers set the tables and p lace the sweets. The woman speak to the earth avatar: \"do you want to kno w how you taste like?\"\n\n The earth spirit look down and see the pl ate of sweets.\n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n She look to it and sniff\, and grab one block of earth looking sweet and offer it to t he child\, who loves the taste. The child say: \"I love you earth\"\n\n The earth smile and say: \"I love you too\"\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n  \n \n\n \n \n  \n \n \n \n \n\n DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250422 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR