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This handcrafted journal features an edge-to-edge wrap around design of the magnificent tree of life. Bench crafted from custom tanned, domestic cowhides and paired with a pewter, handcast button, this blank book is made one at a time in Santa Rosa, California. The 5 x 7 journal includes a blank, smythe sewn, unlined book insert measuring 4.25" x 6.25". Includes a ruled sheet for those who prefer writing on lined paper. 220 pages.

Regularly $54.00

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Fairy Tea
at Crazy Wisdom

Thursday,

February 23rd

with 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. seatings

Children and their families are welcome for tea and petit fours served by real fairies! Celebrate with our magical fairies as they serve tea, treats, and magic. There will be story time with books available from Crazy Wisdom Bookstore. Fairy attire is encouraged. Be creative! $11 per person. Babies 18 months and younger free. Tickets are available by stopping in to Crazy Wisdom or by phoning prior to the event. For information call, 734-66-2757 or email Christina@crazywisdom.net
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Live Music Weekends

at Crazy Wisdom Tea Room

8:30 to 10:30 p.m. - No Cover Charge

Every Friday and Saturday night Crazy Wisdom invites you to Tea and Tunes. Not a tea drinker? No problem! Crazy Wisdom offer a wide selection of coffee drinks. (while you're here, don't forget to try some of our tasty treats as well!)

Friday, February 24 - Billy Brandt
Having spent decades in the music business supporting other bands and artists, Billy Brandt found his own musical voice and steps into the spotlight as a singer-songwriter. Influenced by the likes of Gram Parsons to Neil Young, he's molded his sound by creating his own unique guitar picking, creating a haunting melody which stays with the listener long after the song is over. His deep roots in alt-country have earned him a loyal following. You may have seen Billy with his band Grievous Angel, as part of the duo Billy and Sarana, as a partner/sidemen for Jill Jack, and/or with any number of other outstanding musicians/singers/songwriters. Billy has been voted as Outstanding Acoustic Vocalist and Outstanding Folk Artist - Detroit Music Awards, among many other honors. www.drumdancerrecords.com
It's quite likely that Billy will bring along one or two special guests, so don't miss this rare Ann Arbor solo appearance!

Saturday, February 25 -
Jo Serrapere & Johnny Devine
Whether recreating old songs from the Mississippi Delta or performing songs in her own confessional style, Detroit native Jo Serrapere's music stands as original, while always reflecting her love of American roots music. Her eclectic writing and performance fuses elements of various modern and traditional folk music, old-time and electric blues styles, roots rock, garage surf, swing, hot jazz and alt-country. Jo's band, the Willie Dunns (John Devine, Jef Reynolds and Stuart Tucker) brings added depth and musical styling to Jo's original songs as well as classics from such artists as Mississippi John Hurt, Bessie Smith and Tom Waits.
John Devine, also a Detroit native, attended Master's classes in classical guitar at Miami University. He went on to explore traditional blues styles and develop a love for the "race records" of the 1920's and 30's. John performed as a solo blues artist and songwriter before teaming up with Jo in 1998. He continues to explore other forms of American roots music and teach his craft. www.joserrapere.com.

New Music CDs at Crazy Wisdom

Island of Anywhere cd
by Mike Howe
This third release from guitarist Mike Howe contains soothing, melodic tunes presented simply, as an antidote to an often chaotic world filled with complexity.
$17.98

Upcoming Events

Healing With Meditation with Barry Lipscomb * Feb. 20, March 5 & 19, April 2 & 16: 7:30-9 p.m. at Crazy Wisdom Community Room * Reduce stress, focus attention, keep you grounded, help maintain clarity of purpose, clear barriers to goals and connect you will a deeper awareness of your own being. Sessions include explanation before guiding you through an experience of your own energy body and followed by guided healing meditation. $10 per session. Pre-register at 917-587-3775; barry@barrylipscomb.com or barrylipscomb.com.

The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron Series hosted by Heather Glidden * Eight Tuesdays, 6-8 p.m. at Crazy Wisdom Community Room * Calling anyone (not just artists) who is interest in leading a more creative or spiritual life? This workshop is a guided exploration of The Artist's Way and includes mediation, life coaching inquiry, and time to work through exercises in the book. Free/donations welcome. Call Heather 709-1464; heather.glidden@gmail.com.
Feb. 21 * The Artist's Way, week #1: Recovering a Sense of Safety
Feb. 28 * The Artist's Way, week #2: Recovering a Sense of Identity

An Evening of Poetry and Written Word hosted by Crazy Wisdom Tearoom and Phat Salmon * Second and Fourth Wednesday of each month, 7-9 p.m. * Join us for tea and creativity. Free. For information, call 734-665-2757 or crazywisdom.net.
Second Wednesdays, 7-9 p.m. * Open Mic Poetry at Crazy Wisdom Tearoom hosted by David Mann and Phat Salmon. All writers welcome to share their poetry or short stories. Sing up begins at 6:45 p.m.
Fourth Wednesdays, 7-9 p.m. * Open Mic Poetry Reading and Writing Workshop at Crazy Wisdom Tearoom hosted by David Mann and Phat Salmon. All writers welcome to share their poetry or short stories. Writing workshop to follow, where writers can learn from other writers and share their own writing skills. Sign up begins at 6:45 p.m.

Healthy Living Series at Crazy Wisdom Community Room, sponsored by People's Food Co-op * 7-8:30 p.m. * Free. Call Caitlin Joseph at 994-4589; outreach@peoplesfood.coop or peoplesfood.coop.
Feb. 23 * Herbal Wisdom - At the Beginning of Life with Linda Diane Feldt * Learn about herbs for fertility, pregnancy, labor, delivery and post-partum. Find out what is safe, what is common and what to avoid.

Everyday Intuition with Robin Brophy * Feb. 24, 7-8 p.m. at Crazy Wisdom Community Room * Intuition is a natural gift and this class offers tools on how to recognize and move with our own intuitive wisdom through deepening our relationship to life. $10. Call Robin 303-525-6478; lollylolipop@yahoo.com.

Community HU Chant with Local Members of Eckankar * Fridays, 6:30-7:15 p.m. * All faiths (and agnostics!) are welcome to join this weekly, free get-together to sing one of the ancient names for God - HU. Popular in many cultures, the singing of HU is an undirected prayer to harmonize the consciousness with and open the heart to God's love. Free. Call John at 320-2010; john.zissis@sbcglobal.net or eckankar.org.

A3radio's Folk It! Live Broadcast
in the Crazy Wisdom Tea Room
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Feb 26, 2012
Live broadcasting comes to Crazy Wisdom every Sunday evening starting at 6PM. The A3radio.com shows will be free to the public and will feature folk music every week. The Crazy Wisdom music series runs from 6:00PM to 7:30PM weekly. The audience is live and these shows are video streamed on
www.a3radio.com and replayed during the week at the same station. For more information call 734-604-5347 or email tsaunders_48@hotmail.com
Potters Field
A Crazy Wisdom favorite, for both the vocals and the writing. John writes from a haunted soul and Rochelle gives voice to those ethereal spirits that make Potters Field music some kind of magic. See them close and hear ALL the words.

Great New Reads!

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February 27th, 2012

Holding Our World Together: Ojibwe Women and the Survival of the Community
(Hardcover)
By Brenda J. Child, Colin Calloway
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A groundbreaking exploration of the remarkable women in Native American communities.
Too often ignored or underemphasized in favor of their male warrior counterparts, Native American women have played a more central role in guiding their nations than has ever been understood. Many Native communities were, in fact, organized around women's labor, the sanctity of mothers, and the wisdom of female elders. In this well-researched and deeply felt account of the Ojibwe of Lake Superior and the Mississippi River, Brenda J. Child details the ways in which women have shaped Native American life from the days of early trade with Europeans through the reservation era and beyond.
The latest volume in the Penguin Library of American Indian History, Holding Our World Together illuminates the lives of women such as Madeleine Cadotte, who became a powerful mediator between her people and European fur traders, and Gertrude Buckanaga, whose postwar community activism in Minneapolis helped bring many Indian families out of poverty. Drawing on these stories and others, Child offers a powerful tribute to the many courageous women who sustained Native communities through the darkest challenges of the last three centuries.

Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture
(Paperback)
By Peggy Orenstein
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The acclaimed author of the groundbreaking bestseller Schoolgirls reveals the dark side of pink and pretty: the rise of the girlie-girl, she warns, is not that innocent.

Pink and pretty or predatory and hardened, sexualized girlhood influences our daughters from infancy onward, telling them that how a girl looks matters more than who she is. Somewhere between the exhilarating rise of Girl Power in the 1990s and today, the pursuit of physical perfection has been recast as a source-the source-of female empowerment. And commercialization has spread the message faster and farther, reaching girls at ever-younger ages.
But, realistically, how many times can you say no when your daughter begs for a pint-size wedding gown or the latest Hannah Montana CD? And how dangerous is pink and pretty anyway-especially given girls' successes in the classroom and on the playing field? Being a princess is just make-believe, after all; eventually they grow out of it. Or do they? Does playing Cinderella shield girls from early sexualization-or prime them for it? Could today's little princess become tomorrow's sexting teen? And what if she does? Would that make her in charge of her sexuality-or an unwitting captive to it?
Those questions hit home with Peggy Orenstein, so she went sleuthing. She visited Disneyland and the international toy fair, trolled American Girl Place and Pottery Barn Kids, and met beauty pageant parents with preschoolers tricked out like Vegas showgirls. She dissected the science, created an online avatar, and parsed the original fairy tales. The stakes turn out to be higher than she-or we-ever imagined: nothing less than the health, development, and futures of our girls. From premature sexualization to the risk of depression to rising rates of narcissism, the potential negative impact of this new girlie-girl culture is undeniable-yet armed with awareness and recognition, parents can effectively counterbalance its influence in their daughters' lives.
Cinderella Ate My Daughter is a must-read for anyone who cares about girls, and for parents helping their daughters navigate the rocky road to adulthood.

Infinite Reality: Revealing the Mysteries of the Virtual Mind(
Paperback)
By Jim Blascovich, Jeremy Bailenson
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"Enough with speculation about our digital future. Infinite Reality is the straight dope on what is and isn't happening to us right now, from two of the only scientists working on the boundaries between real life and its virtual extensions."

-Douglas Rushkoff, author of Program or Be Programmed

How achievable are the virtual experiences seen in The Matrix, Tron, and James Cameron's Avatar? Do our brains know where "reality" ends and "virtual" begins? In Infinite Reality, Jim Blascovich and Jeremy Bailenson, two pioneering experts in the field of virtual reality, reveal how the human brain behaves in virtual environments and examine where radical new developments in digital technology will lead us in five, fifty, and five hundred years.

Be Your Own Shaman: Heal Yourself and Others with 21st-Century Energy Medicine
(Paperback)
By Deborah King
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This fascinating book takes you on a one-of-a-kind journey into the esoteric world of healing. You might not realize it, but just about everyone is a natural-born healer! In fact, you probably already have some of the paranormal abilities related to this gift. For example, you may know who's calling before you answer the phone, or be able to sense what others are thinking or feeling. But you can further develop your inner talents and become your own shaman, capable of healing whatever ails you and effecting change in someone else's energy field and body.
In Master Healer Deborah King's uniquely informative work, you will learn both Eastern and Western concepts and techniques from the earliest recorded healing practices some 5,000 years ago all the way up to modern times with John of God in Brazil and King's own powerful cutting-edge approach. You'll find out how to protect yourself from psychic attack, and how to get beyond any limiting beliefs you may hold. Self-knowledge leading to self-mastery is the ultimate quest, the pivotal adventure of a lifetime. Become the person you always knew you could be by taking this magical tour into the heart of healing!