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December 2, 2005 From the Director Please join us 2pm Dec. 11 for Festival of Lights, my favorite program of the year highlighting Chanukah (Rahel), India's Diwali (Bhaskar and Hema Pant of Bombay), Las Posadas of Mexico, America's interpretation of Africa's Kwanzaa, and European traditions from Holland (St. Nicholas), Sweden (the ginger snap and Krysten Frykman in candle-wreathed green singing Santa Lucia), Kwanzaa, tastes and sounds of the season - please bring a tradition, memory, song, story, favorite food or game to play. We will xerox any typed recipes, music, craft to share with everyone! Meanwhile, our PeaceCraft gift shop is stocked with treats 1-3 dollars for stocking stuffers (fits the $3-5 school tour souvenir budgets), ornaments, select clothing and antiques, "Adora" collector's playales dolls for Asia are pricey but gorgeous. Our Asian passport dolls start at $48 with delightful costumed musical dolls from $28. Card, flags, stamps, mulberry renewable paper products, Vietnamese embroidered purses and Tibetan ornaments and gifts from "PeaceCraft Fair Trade, including SERRV and The Thousand Villages, all cooperatives providing living wages and training for artisans at home and abroad. Make sure your gift shopping helps others by creating jobs where they are sorely needed along with literacy, economic and self-reliance training for the workers. All proceeds after expenses at Joseph's Coat Peacecrafts across the Zen Garden beside the Community also support Mariposa education projects in the schools. Unique to our shop is a highly recommended "Triple gift ," spirit, beauty, and blessings: "Flowers are the Prayers of Nature." Each artwork by Linda Wyman Derman of Rindge, 1997 NH Elementary Art Teacher of the Year at Winchendon Elementary, captures s a peaceful, mandala (symmetrical circle) composed of hundreds to thousands of photos of her garden blooms snapped in the precisely best sunlight. Trays of these cabin fever cut-outs become her palette, inspiring complex huge cut-out originals valued at $5-8,000, here reproduced in a 30" limited edition of signed artist proofs - perfect for uplifting spirits through the long winter of compassion fatigue AND an aid to instant meditation, as the surprising spinning circles lead one to the place of peace, the Third Eye in the Center. Guess where I met Linda? At the color copier at Copies and More, where Deirdre McGrath-Fischer maintains one of only two machines in the area which Linda trusts for quality. Even people who have everything find the mandalas enriching, renewing spirit and hope to their soul. My gift list include several relatives in sickness or mourning, some suffering job loss, two members of painful family rifts, or that downsizing from home to a single nursing home room - a good time for something NEW as a new start to a new phase of life. When you get down to it, I should be specially recommending it to dentists and psychologists! And garden lovers! I've got my eye on a red and green circlet which would be my annual door wreath! Linda also believes in affordable art: the prints, your choice of some 75 or even a commision (higher price) from your flower garden for your home or wedding invitation, ready to wrap and hang, cost $50. After teaching 15 years in a district where 70% of children lacked a single crayon at home, she is committed to early art support for the talented and needy. Half of proceeds go to printing more, the other half to local schools in areas showing the exhibit: in this case an after school art program to be run in February by Katie Fox and friends from South Meadow Show. I remet Linda at last New Year's "Balance for the New Year" with Eve Kodiak. That balance brought me a great treasure, both personally and professionally. Linda has been improving and streamlining the art projects which accompany our world culture lessons (complete outlines of school tours and requirements met by age level are now posted on the web). Take a chance on Eve's Balance on Sunday, January 1, 2006, before walking the Chartres Labyrinth at the Town House, and bring some unexpected new treasure into your life. May you find the energy to enjoy the "holidays" and adapt them to traditions that nurture your family life. Please bring these traditions, photos, recipes, song sheets, games, memories, FOOD, stories to our community sharing on Sunday December 11 at 2pm. Thank you for your ear. Its the greatest gift you can give to a storyteller! Sincerely, Linda Marsella, Director Sincerely,  Linda Marsella, Director Mariposa Museum & World Culture Center 26 Main Street Peterborough, NH 03458 "From the Director" Archive New Year Celebrations Around The World - December, 2005 Holiday Message - December, 2005 Miscellaneous - October, 2005 Miscellaneous - September, 2005 Letter of Thanks - August, 2005 Mariposa at the Crossroads - July, 2005 Call for Entries - July 2005 Ark Sets Sail in spring floods! - April 2005 New Year Around the Globe - February 2005 Mariposa Turns Two! - July 2004 other cultures, the world will know more peace and less war. 
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