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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 10^th 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 9^th. 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 9^th 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!

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

Happy Soul Food for the last Friday in 2023!

This week:

Make Joy Your Mission
Believe in Yourself
Experience the Beauty and Diversity of Human Spirituality in Pictures
Commune Through the Power of Live Music

WINTER’S CLOAK by Joyce Rupp:

This year I do not want the dark to leave me.
I need its wrap of silent stillness, its cloak of long-lasting embrace.
Too much light has pulled me away from the chamber of gestation.

Let the dawns come late, let the sunsets arrive early, let the evenings extend themselves while I lean into the abyss of my being.

Let me lie in the cave of my soul, for too much light blinds me, steals the source of revelation.

Let me seek solace in the empty places of winter’s passage, those vast dark nights that never fail to shelter me.

Mission Joy!

If you want to appreciate real joy from two masters of the craft and haven’t seen it yet, I strongly recommend watching this movie of the final meeting of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

Sage wisdom and laugh out loud funny!

Home – Mission Joy

How to Believe in Yourself:

If you want to unlock your own potential and unleash your self-mastery in the new year, this is great listen!

How to Believe in Yourself | Hidden Brain Media

In pictures – human spirituality in all its remarkable beauty and diversity
Love, commitment, dedication, and faith — the many forms of devotion as seen through the lens of one photographer.

In pictures – human spirituality in all its beauty and diversity | The Independent

If you are local on Jan 4^th 2024:

Join me on Thursday January 4th at the Music Box for some Righteous Live Music to Kick Off the New Year with Strange Crew!

As we turn the bend on another cycle around the sun, reflect on our resolutions while tolerating disillusions, if more live music is on your Santa list, here is your opportunity to launch into the New Year with the verve and vivacity that is all you…

Strange Crew (and me too) will be playing at the Music Box in Little Italy on Thursday 1/04/24 along with 3 other bands including ZenZag (Reggae Fusion), The Joshua 3 (U2 tribute), and Headmaster (Smiths fans…not impersonators).

So, grab your friends, family (21 and up), neighbors, workmates, frenemies- and come let your hair down.

YOU are in!

I can get you as many complimentary tickets as you like for this killer venue, so don’t be bashful- now is the time to be indulgent and spoil your friends too. This works as a holiday gift that extends into the new year and everyone will appreciate your magnanimous nature.

Simply email me ASAP at nevilleb@missionfed.com re: the number of tickets you want + your mailing address and voila you are on the nice list!

More on these fun bands can be found here: ZenZag, Strange Crew, The Joshua 3, Headmaster (musicboxsd.com)

And here is a sampler to whet your whistle: Strange Crew – YouTube

Thanks this week go to Kurt C for the poem!

Happy New Year everyone…

Love,

Neville

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It is an idea that possesses the mind.” – Robert Oxton Bolton

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Your Soul Food for the First Week of April 2026 with Invite to Joy Jam: May 9th: What the World Needs Now, Is Joy, Sweet Joy- The Antidote for “Collective Heart Failure”

Your Soul Food for the Last Friday in 2023: Create Joy, Believe in Yourself, Stay Spiritual, Commune through Music

WINTER’S CLOAK by Joyce Rupp: