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Laura and Edie

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The Music Video / Trailer

Just a taste of the upcoming documentary... my heart just opens up watching this... thanks Heidi, Edie and Laura, and of course the filmmaker, Ben.

The HELLO LOVE Experiment Music Video
October 2007

My favorite part? The kids, Kate and Aedan, doing their job "putting up" the RV sign... !!!

radical love

this is radical. it cuts to the heart of the matter. it is the medicine this world needs. thank you for your courage and your offering. please send all of my love to yourself, your daughter, laura and edie.

i love you.
catherine
10/22/07

HELLO LOVE Boulder

Cheers Heidi,

Thanks for the email. I have told so many people about meeting the hello love ladies on Saturday. Boulder is a town with a great mind set for an experiment like yours.

I didn't realize just how much your experiment hit home until I got on your website. About 12 years ago, I read something in a book that changed my life and it is crazy how parallel it is with your experiment. It was in a sales book, of all places (Og Mandino, I think) and the idea was that when you meet someone, you silently think I LOVE YOU as you shake hands or introduce yourself, or whatever (this is sales, mind you). I was just starting my own business at the time, so I was looking for anything to help me get going and I embraced this practice with gusto! Well, after so much time, I can tell you that it works. I have shared the idea with friends and they have had success as well. As a matter of fact, my great friend, Terry, calls the practice "love eyes" since we didn't have a name for it. He still practices it all the time, and so do I and I see a huge reaction when I use it. Once I even had a man blurt out that he loved me when he was shaking my hand (I know that sounds weird, but he did). I called Terry on Saturday to tell him about you guys and he was delighted and he lives in LA and is going to check you out.

Anyway, I thought you would be interested in that little story. I think what you are doing is wonderful and so needed in our crazy, crazy world. You go girl!

Hope you enjoy the pictures. A little slice of fall in the foothills on a Saturday afternoon for you!





Right after I ran into the hello love ladies, I ran into the Free Hugs folks and the Puppy Love people.





It was a good day! LOL!

BEST to you Heidi!
Goodbye Love.
Kimba Hackett
10/22/07

Whidbey Island

Hello love-

the whidbey chapter of the hello love experiment sends our love. We are doing our little part. We love you much and tell everyone hello from us.

I hope that this message finds you well. I will send a copy of our pic to the hello love email so that you all have it. Give us a call if you get a chance. We are logging in often to get updates on the tour, keep up on your blogs we are both really enjoying it.

much love
casey and rhonda
10/18/07

Our HELLO LOVE Friends

Wonderful notes, photos and blogs are coming in as the Hello Love tour has made its way home.

Sharing w/ all as they come in!

Home Away From Home

The Whole RV Bunch

Laura the RV Drivin' Rockstar

Be Part of the Experiment!

RV Living

Aedan and his girl

Life in the RV

With Peggy Hemphill in Chicago

ZZZZZZzzz

Benjamin working on footage

Who are you?

This is what the Rabbi Michael Weisser answered when I asked what love is. Now you can look at this one of two ways, but I think it's both: first that I am love/you are love and second that you can truly know what love is by knowing yourself. There is something so key about knowing yourself in the discussion of love. It is an ongoing process obviously but something that is so important to consistently reckon with.

I am reminded in this moment of the religious philosophy that we should lose ourselves to God. I do not think this means literally sit all day by your bed doing nothing other than studying the Bible. I believe that the self we are asked to lose is the self that is other than. The self that is other than our true form. It's no simple task. Sorting through all this extra buildup we've acquired over the years but I can think of nothing so powerful as to step out into the world without it. Why isn't it simple? I find myself asking again. I think it's because our minds really believe we are this person with all this extra buildup. So much so in fact that often times we don't even know what is buildup and what is natural.

One of the functions of tree bark is to rid the tree of its wastes by absorbing and locking them into its dead cells and resins. A tree is actually completely covered in its own shit. It could let this define it or consume it. It could invest in the latest debarking technologies. It could stand all day wondering about its waste and feeling guilty about being called a tree when, really perhaps, it should have been called a bark.

Yet as far as we know, a tree does none of this. Instead it stands in all its beauty and fragility reaching ever upward to the heavens, while at the same time rooting down, firmly, into the earth. It uses the force of the wind to carry its song and seed. It gives its entire self to the service of others. And, as if this were not enough the tree uses its bark. A part of its bark transports great quantities of nutrients all the way from its leaves to its roots.

I think the tree's got the right idea. I think we have to find a way to use our own shit to transport nutrients to our souls. The trick is, it is necessary to know what you've got there if you are going to put it to good use. So take a good look at your own bark and then use it. You see, the other function of bark I did not mention is that it also protects the tree. But only so much as that little shell can. If the tree used the bark only as protection, it would be in big trouble. Psychologists say that often these things we do have served or protected us at one time or another.

Learn your bark, love your bark, use your bark. Let it be part of you but not define you.

New York and D.C.

Early in the wee hours

With NYPD Blue

St. Patrick's Cathedral

Hello Loves

Munch!

At The White House

The RV