The Healing WELL SF

In our April resource packets we are celebrating National Poetry Month! We sent our participants a small journal and pen so they can write their own poetry, a Rumi poetry card for inspiration, and a note from June, our staff member and poet. We also included our April calendar. You can visit our website (healingwell.org) and view the updated calendar which features changes to our outdoor classes and 12 step groups.

Learn best practices for protecting yourself, your family, and your community from assault and violence. Join in a special safety training for TL community memb...ers w/ TLCBD & KidPower this Fri, 4/9. Also available in Spanish on Mon, 4/12. Link to attend both trainings: www.tlcbd.org/blockgroups Kidpower La Voz Latina Chinatown Community Development Center SEADC Boys & Girls Clubs of San Francisco

Shout out to Mario from Paoletti Farms. We look forward to pandemic conditions improving so we can tap into his great generosity. He donates so much toward our Thursday produce bags for our neighbors Remember to shop your local farmers market! And visit the Heart of the City Farmers Market at the UN Plaza on a Wednesday or Sunday, too! #hothfm

Healing Waters is holding an online open house to talk about their programs and volunteer opportunities in the wild! You can register here: https://tinyurl.com/2t33dxc3 Check out their website: hwaters.org

April is National Poetry Month and we want to honor the importance of poets and poetry in our community and beyond. We are inviting you all to share with us a favorite poem of yours that we can then share with the world through our social media or the Poet-tree we are putting up in our windows this month at the Healing WELL. It can be a poem you’ve written or one of your favorites from someone else! You can send your poems:... *Here on social media @healingwellsf *To our email [email protected] *Or call us and share the title of the poem and the author (415)500-2099

So glad to see them back!

Our official weekly calendar is up! Click the link under virtual sessions to gain access to our daily Zoom sessions! http://www.healingwellsf.org/calendar

A poem for our new leaders Inauguration Day. Congratulations Joe Biden and Kamala Harris!

On Monday, we would like to honor the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. The passage in the photo, has fierce words to live by as we continue the fight toward justice and equality for all people. While the Healing WELL will be closed for regular programming, we want to encourage community members to participate in MLK festivities in the Bay Area. There are several events at this link: https://tinyurl.com/y43z6u43 Additionally, you can join Sal at our regular Zoom link. https://us04web.zoom.us/j/388315067 from 11:00 - 12:00 and watch together a YouTube poetry jam where S.F. Poet Laureate Kim Shuck and special guests present an evening of poetry reading in celebration of African American literature, featuring works by Ishmael Reed, Staajabu, Devorah Major, Tureeda Mikell, Avotcja and Dr. Glenn Parris.

Friday, January 15th is the last day for the TL Quick-Build Projects Virtual Open House. If you haven’t had a chance, please check them out and provide feedbac...k on the surveys. Thank you! Leavenworth Quick-Build Project: https://storymaps.arcgis.com//7233d55b0bfc46918ffba9b19a4e Leavenworth Survey: https://survey.alchemer.com//6051922/Leavenworth-QB-Survey Golden Gate Quick-Build Project: https://storymaps.arcgis.com//faddc6c2b7e44ece99e5ff22d633 Golden Gate Survey: https://survey.alchemer.com//6068923/Golden-Gate-QB-Survey

#compassionatereminders #compassion

A fairly rare event will happen in the skies tonight just after sunset. Check out the link!

Enjoy Alex's 5th yoga video. Then make sure to join his amazing Yoga class on Wednesday mornings at 9:00 am with this Zoom link: https://us04web.zoom.us/j/388315067

Our official weekly calendar is up! Click the link under virtual sessions to gain access to our daily Zoom sessions! http://www.healingwellsf.org/calendar

Join us Tuesday for Poetry at 10:15 am. The Zoom Link is https://us04web.zoom.us/j/38831506. The poem is HOARFROST by Ted Kooser. Two days of an icy prairie fog and every blade of grass, and twig, and branch, and every stretch of wire, barb, post and staple,... is a knot or a thread in a lace of the purest white. To walk is like finding your way through a wedding dress, the sky inside it cold and satiny; no past, no future, just the now all breathless. Then a red bird, like a pinprick, changes everything. See more

Here is November's calendar. We have a new Tai Chi class on Fridays, 1:00 pm, at Macaulay Park @Larkin and O’Farrell. Sign up for our Friendsgiving Dinner on Monday, November 23!

Many thanks to Maureen (and her driver, Andrew) for making and delivering 135 bags of Chex mix that we added to our produce bags for our neighbors. They were a big hit!

Happy Halloween, everyone. Stay safe.

This is happening this afternoon. Join in on the discussion through this Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/93147824192#success

Please join in this moving tribute to those who have passed.

Thanks to the Notre Dame Belmont High School community, for sharing hundreds of bags of supplies from their Sanitary Tsunami. We were able to give great gift bags to our neighbors, and share some with our community partner, YWAM, too. #NotreDameBelmonHighSchool #ywam #generosity

The Healing WELL staff is available on-site on Thursday afternoons to help you vote. Come by between 1:00 - 2:30.

Charles says, "VOTE EARLY"!

Today, in this brief video, Jazzy talks about the importance of connecting with our breath. Join her this evening at 6:00 pm for Meditation. https://us04web.zoom.us/j/388315067

Join the poetry group this Tuesday with the Zoom Link: https://us04web.zoom.us/j/388315067 for the poem HOPE by Lisel Mueller. It hovers in dark corners before the lights are turned on, it shakes sleep from its eyes... and drops from mushroom gills, it explodes in the starry heads of dandelions turned sages, it sticks to the wings of green angels that sail from the tops of maples. It sprouts in each occluded eye of the many-eyed potato, it lives in each earthworm segment surviving cruelty, it is the motion that runs from the eyes to the tail of a dog, it is the mouth that inflates the lungs of the child that has just been born. It is the singular gift we cannot destroy in ourselves, the argument that refutes death, the genius that invents the future, all we know of God. It is the serum which makes us swear not to betray one another; it is in this poem, trying to speak.

With increasing food insecurity in the neighborhood, The San Francisco/Marin Food Bank now operates a food bank every Monday morning at 357 Ellis Street. Our Healing WELL team of Sal, Cindy and Mandy, volunteer each week. We’re grateful to join our community partners in this vital service. #sanfranciscomarinfoodbank #helpingourneighbors

While they’re not a peck of pickled peppers, they are perfect pears, and we’re grateful to Amalia and Bob for picking them off their tree so we can include them in our produce bags for the community!

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/93147824192

Take a minute today to thank someone for their random act of kindness! #randomactofkindness #randomactsoflove

Just an FYI. If you haven't voted yet, please come join this!

Just a reminder about our amazing class with artists from the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival for a fun and interactive storytelling workshop. We believe that everyone has a story to tell that is as vital and important and Shakespeare’s stories. Each workshop we’ll practice improv acting and collaborative live storytelling to come up with our own stories inspired by the work of William Shakespeare. Zoom link: https://us04web.zoom.us/j/388315067. #sanfranciscoshakespearefestival #shakespeare

In her second short video, Jazzy talks about finding a spot to meditate. Enjoy, and join her today at 6:00 pm through the Zoom Link: https://us04web.zoom.us/j/388315067