The Subud California Sun,Â January 2017

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- Announcing the 2017 California Regional Congress!
- Celebrating Together
- World Congress Team Seeks Volunteers
- Early days of Subud in San Diego
- Subud Voice
- Elderberry Project Call to Action
- Upcoming Subud Events
- Thoughts on Community
- Member Updates
- Riddle me a Riddle

"room with a view" by Leo Horthy

Announcing the 2017 Regional Congress!

Santa Barbara is the location for our next Regional Congress. Because Ramadan occurs over the Memorial Day weekend this year, Congress is scheduled for August 11-14, a convenient time for family vacations and seaside adventures.

The setting is UC Santa Barbara's new Sierra Madre Village, which offers residential style apartments and modern meeting rooms. It is located about a mile west of campus center and about a mile north of the ocean, with lots of hiking trails nearby. Co-chairs, Leo Horthy and Rosana Schutte, are seeking volunteers now for the Congress team. Read more
Below: Views of the outdoor seating area and central plaza at the Sierra Madre Village, UC Santa Barbara

Celebrating Together

A number of celebratory events occurred at our centers around the Region. On December 11, there was gathering at Subud Palo Alto which featured holiday snacks and a sing-along. See photos.

The Los Angeles Center has initiated regular monthly member events, holding a birthday lunch on the 3rd Saturday and a General Meeting on the 4th Saturday for member testing.

World Congress Team Seeks Volunteers

Preparation is well underway for the Subud 2018 World Congress in Freiberg, Germany. The planning team is well established and is now seeking volunteers for functions including accommodations, translations and registration. If you plan to attend, this is a great way to be more fully engaged with at the Congress! Read more about volunteer opportunities
Below: Vista of the Freiberg skyline, in southwest Germany.

Early Days at Subud San Diego

As part of our ongoing project to collect stories about the early days of Subud California, here is a story from Ruben Andrews about the formation of the San Diego Center, in the period of 1966-1970. It was the time of the summer of love, when psychedelics were explored as a part of spiritual experience. The latihan space started out in the balcony of exhibition hall in Balboa Park! Read more

Subud Voice

The January 2017 issue of Subud Voice, an international Subud monthly newsletter,shares some highlights of activities that Subud members/groups have done in 2016. This issue is available, along with an archive of prior issues, in both English and Spanish at: http://www.subudvoice.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/SVO-January-2017-1.pdf.

Call to Action on Elderberry Project

Elderberry Project is a Susila Dharma project started by Mardiyah Tarantino at the urging of Ibu Rahayu to see that older Subud Members continue to receive the latihan when travel becomes a challenge.

Elderberry is looking for enthusiastic persons willing to assist Mardiyah Tarantino with the work. Hamidatun Karapetian is active in this role for Subud LA. Other centers in our Region can take action to engage as well. Check out the website where contact info is given, should you be interested. THANK YOU!

SICA Corner

Are you publishing a work, planning a gallery showing, or performing? Let us know so we can include it in this listing!

What's Up?

Arcata

Berkeley
Los Angeles
Marin
Palo Alto
San Joaquin Valley
Sacramento
San Diego
Santa Barbara
Sonoma/Sebastopol
Santa Cruz

We love to include stories about Subud member activities or center events. Please send here

Upcoming Events

Regional Council Meeting,
February 10-12, 2017
Subud California at San Diego

Subud Rocky Mtns Regional Gathering
March 31-April 2
Tucson, AZ

Subud CA Regional Congress
August 11-14, 2017
UC Santa Barbara

2018 Subud World Congress
August 2018
Freiburg, Germany

Member Updates

Births
Asher Gray Helmer, grandson of Lalia & Hamilton Helmer (Palo Alto) (photo above)

New Members:
Christopher Carey (San Diego)

Deaths:
Latif Marrotti (Los Angeles)
Hadjiah Lamas (Los Angeles)
Fathunah Alford (Santa Barbara)

Our dear Subud member, Fathunah Alford, died of a stroke on January 3^rd. Her wonderful daughter Sondra and husband Roy came from Tennessee. There was a memorial at Garden Court Retirement Center, where Fathunah was well loved by many of the folks living there. Her ashes were scattered from a sailboat into the ocean in Santa Barbara.

Thoughts on Community

"We each view reality from our own unique perspective, only a community of minds can show us the truth."
-- by Timothy Wilken
Source: http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/id/X0027116A/

What does community mean to you? Send us your ideas or favorite quotes on this topic.

Riddle me a Riddle...

Challenge your brain with one of Emmanuel William's riddles:

I am a number

I am part of a number

I am an unknown number
I am a kiss you do not feel

Did you guess it? Click here to find out

Subud Websites and Resources

Subud California website
Subud CA Blog
Subud CA Sun Archive
CalEvents Calendar
Subud USA Website
Subud SICA USA
Mohammud Subuh Foundation
Subud World News

The Subud California Sun
January 2017, vol 4, no 1

Editors: Elizabeth Trudell and Halimah Collingwood

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