05/16/2026
Hi Beautiful Friends,
EMS happens today-
May 6- at 11:30. Moderated by Vincenzo (Bob) Nagy. Always the first and third Saturday. Everyone welcome. (It's a New Moon, by the way,)
Hot Springs Holistic Community monthly meeting will be at the Star Portal this Thursday May 21 at 4:00PM - Everyone Welcome.
Next scheduled kirtan is on the Summer Solstice with Satya and her band. Flyer coming soon.
Dr. Dan has agreed to come speak sometime in June. Watch for that!
Gratitude!!!
Feeling beyond grateful, wherever that is!
First of all to Gentle Bear who has fostered the Temple of Rejuvenation and Delight project from the very beginning! Being a seven sided room - it took a lot of figuring out and re inventing the wheel. Gentle Bear rose to meet the challenge!
From building the original deck, (Raymond helped with that, and others as well). And then on to completion. Gentle Bear (Bruce) has been there throughout!
Greg Bare has been there for a good part of the building. The two Bears.
Susan Blattner for generously supplying windows- which got the project going, and we built around those windows!
And then she donated a whole bunch of wood, which motivated the building of decks!
Patrick Milligan for picking up and delivering all of those windows, then the wood, then the door, then coming and helping with the new portal deck,
Pilar for some Cintamani Stones. (which will live in the temple)
And so many helpers. St. Connie, painting, clean up, moral support, Michele, showing up at a moments notice to help clean up,
Debbi Lee for the fabulous front door with the two glass side panels (which previously was Vincenzo’s - so it has a sweet history) and for the nice faucet for our outdoor sink, and more cool stuff.
Coleen and Carl for helping and moral support (and for the laughter factor!)
Gigi for letting us use her trailer. (and for the chestahedron and prayer wheel that add beauty and energize the woods)
A surprise financial donation.
Vincenzo for helping with the electrical and putting up the screen to block EMF’s and installing the lock for the door and also moral support and other things,
Mark Hartney for helping with the electrical and building the portal deck!
Eric Shoop for helping with electrical.
Lance Maberry for showing up now and then and helping- and keeping his eye out for the portal.
Allison for floral adornment.
Kelly Carroll- who has made the woods a magical fairy land, and way to many things to list. She is my rock and right hand in all of the building and remodeling at the portal from the very beginning. She takes my ideas and makes them better! We are great collaborators together. And we always have fun and great satisfaction doing it! Kelly is a master. (and it’s her birthday today!)
And her partner Mitchell who came and hooked up our water and outdoor sink and had to play in the mud to do it.
Evelyn and Steve for showing up and fixing the disastrous drywall- and at a perfect moment, I might add. (really, who volunteers to do drywall- especially the ceiling?) What a gift!
Mother’s Day was amazing! a whirlwind of action. With Kelly, Mitchell, Connie, Steve, Evelyn and Patrick all there working.
Satya and Kali for holding the energy in the portal while all of the activity is going on. Linda Githens for playing the gong for several hours, creating a crescendo of energy.
Nia for volunteering to help paint- then showing up at the perfect time and finding it was a ceiling we were painting! Then the floor. High and low. And being a good sport about me spending so much time with her husband Gentle Bear.
So many hero’s! I am truly in awe. And I want to say thank you again to Gentle Bear. He made it happen.
For all of the encouragement and enthusiasm from everyone who checks it out.
And I suspect I’ve forgotten some of the heroes!! Please forgive me for anyone I’ve forgotten.
I love you and I am SO SO SO SUPER GRATEFUL!
We are in the home stretch. One of these days soon we will get a YouTube channel and there will be photos.
Galaxies of Love,
~Star
the Star Portal
208 Gum Springs Road
