Happy Soul Food for the First Week of April 2026!
If you are local…
This Friday is the last day to secure your tickets for NCPC Volunteer Awards Celebration
April 10th from 2 to 5:30pm at the Rancho Bernado Inn!
Come celebrate the organizations and volunteers that uplift our community, commune with kindred spirits and enjoy a live music post party with Strange Crew…
Volunteer Awards Celebration – North County Philanthropy Council
This week:
Join Joy Jam May 9th. Our Antidote for “Collective Heart Failure”
Friends, San Diegans, Country-(Whoa)Men,
Lend me your ears and let me connect with your heart…
I just started another circle around the sun and am delighted to share this upcoming opportunity with you.
If you are in town on May 9th and need some joy in your life and your community, I strongly encourage you to sign up for this one-of-a-kind family-friendly experience. (read on for the impetus and intention)
The antidote for Congestive Collective Heart Failure is our community gathering in presence with love, joy, and care. Chance may favor the prepared mind, but Joy favors the prepared heart, and we must exercise that emotional muscle to counteract man’s inhumanity to man, shift from combat to love, and create the world we want to see and be!
Data suggests that it only takes about 3.5% participation to create a movement (1995 book: The Rebel’s Dilemma: Econ, Cognition and Society)
Wouldn’t it be cool if we could co-create a JOY MOVEMENT to offset the compassion fatigue and current malaise and state of affairs we are experiencing?
Let’s give Father Profit a break and Mother Earth a chance!
Ideated and funded by a dear friend, our band Strange Crew providing the musical experience, my son Arman coordinating the musical elements, and Monette my original drum teacher providing the drum circles, along with wellness modalities including sound baths, massage, acupuncture and more, available thanks to Niki and The Bridge, this is going to be one heck of a joy-filled afternoon at the perfectly situated Seaside Center for Spiritual Living in Cardiff.
Before we actively promote this completely donation-based (pay whatever you choose) event more broadly, we are sharing this with our friends and loved ones, so they have first right of refusal refuge all.
If the spirit behind this intention resonates (see below), do sign up pronto, as attendance is limited and we have already sold 70 tickets and raised $2,000 with no promotion.
https://joyjam.communalspaces.org
Let’s bring the joy!
Love,
Neville
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Join me at the Joy Jam. What? A joy fest in these stressful times? Yes! A joy fest because of these stressful times.
This is something a bit different – it’s called Joy Jam. Happening May 9 from 3pm to 7pm in Encinitas.
It’s a few hours for us to come together to generate a shared experience of joy. Music, rhythm, connection, and just being human together. Live band, drum circles, some light healing work if you want it. And a very open, welcoming atmosphere. No spectators or pressure – just enjoying energy and one another at whatever level feels right.
Each of us knows someone in crisis or illness or may be that person ourselves.
For this day, we are inspired by Shayna’s journey from terminal cancer to full remission.
Shayna embodies a spirit of joy, hope, and faith. And she’s not quite done. So, proceeds from this all-donation-based event will go toward her ongoing care and full recovery.
Shayna will share more about the powerful role joy played in her healing journey.
Please join us, I’d love to have you there. It feels like one of those simple, good things – being outside, with good people, tapping into the simple joy that’s available when we slow down and tune in together.
And special deep gratitude to Peter Davis and Serge (Divine) Solomon for inspiring this Jam, and to Neville Billimoria for directing this into being!
Register here, we have limited space (I swear this isn’t blatant marketing dribble).
Bring yourself, your loved ones, a measure of joy to share, and an appetite for more joy. God knows, we need this!
And please share the JOY! Facebook and Instagram
Joyfully 🙂
Eric
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Have a Joy-filled week!
Love,
Neville
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“God made the world for the delight of human beings.”—Mother Teresa
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