Snow Lion Cookbook

Submit your favorite recipes to share with the Snow Lion community.  Give us all the how-to on the best-eats!

Safeway Reciepts = Better Educational Opportunites

from Karina

Do you shop at Safeway? Have a ton of Safeway receipts lying around your apartment?


I'm collecting receipts from Safeway dated between 8/18/09 - 9/13/09 for a fundraiser for the school that I work for.

Safeway will donate 10% of all qualifying receipts to Acorn School to better the educational opportunities we are able to provide for the children.

So please bring your receipts from Safeway to apartment 303. Just knock, someone is always home.

Substance Free Life Group: Oh yeah! It's a potluck!

Hi! This is Mark, the new Naropa Student Wellness and AOD Coordinator/Graduate Assistant.


This Monday, September 28th at 6:30pm we are holding a potluck as a way for the Snow Lion community to come together and share ideas. It will also be a great way for me to get to know some of you personally and vice versa.

Please come to munch on something tasty, get to know other members of the Snow Lion community, share some ideas about what kind of support you'd like to see at Snow Lion, or just to hang out.

Joy Diet - Week 1

Ingredient #1: Nothing

Minimum Daily Requirements:
1. Put up the No Vacancy Sign
2. Let your body Vacate
3. Vacate your mind
4. Learn to Return.

Check out what the group is doing with Nothing. and remember: you can join anytime!

Ghouls and other Frightening Beasts

from Karina, et all...



Hello All!!
Interested in Werewolves, Ghouls and other Frightening Beasts?
Then come and join us for a werewolf horror night extravaganza!

Where: The community room
When: 7 pm
Day: Sunday the 27th

Be there or Be scared!

Open Mic Night

Yo, yo! Come spit some dirty lyrics, mad beats and hot poetry at the Open Mic this Saturday night. It'll be in the Community Room. Sign-ups will start around 7 p.m. and the show starts at 7:30 p.m. If you wanna perform be there around 7 otherwise sit back and enjoy. Word.

Fleeting Beauty

from Andy Sethi, photos from Charlie

I was amazed and moved to see residents turn the courtyard into a expressed vision of art. The level of artistic talent was incredible and the willingness to share it with the rest of the community freely shows a real generosity of heart for all those who participated and appreciated the mural. I think the rain was timely actually. It reminded me of the Tibetan sand mandalas, in which several monks spend days creating complex works of art out of colored sand. As soon as the creation is finished, the entire thing is swept away as a lesson in impermanence. It elicits the question, how do we give our best effort, knowing that, in the end it will all be washed away? Recognizing impermanence and letting go of attachment to outcome doesn't mean apathy or ambivalence. I think a true expression of love means giving of oneself completely without any expectation of holding onto the results. The giving itself can be the reward.

Eating Happiness with the Joy Diet

post written by Donica Snyder


Check out Jamie Ridler who is hosting The Next Chapter: The Joy Diet. It's an online book blogging exploration in the 10 Daily Practices for a Happier Life! Share your discoveries with others on a similar path.

• Nothing
• Truth
• Desire
• Creativity
• Risk
• Treats
• Play
• Laughter
• Connection
• Feasting

There is a Snowlion copy available for you to read! Join ME and all the other participants at anytime!

Culture Pirates

you supply demand for finite commodities but on the once bitten remixed record you condemn cultural piracy you mispronounce the mystical mantras some Deadhead crystal toting tour kid taught ya you are a new age consumer a culture commuter and your snake oil polluter bumps the latest slave bliss hits from your tuner as you sail your ship through a sterile sea to steal some pretty and or exotic thing you share drinks dollars and disease that's your idea of fair trading oh yes you set sail toward foreign culture sales clip coupons for clearance torture wracks bio-Pixar-pic mythologic sacred stories with Elton John audio tracks and collector-item-combo-meal indigenous wisdom with child menu Big Macs you sip from someone else's spring water bottle wears “Save Tibet” bumper sticker to hide the Made in China etching every square inch of your country store has got a flag the spirit of the land has got a clearance good riddance price tag along with a complementary Aztec tote bag not to mention the all natural handmade hemp hats to match your synthetic yoga mats you're all the rage at your Pirated Pilates class you buy what you lack with green backs repay their generosity with wasteland wagon tracks but eventually there will likely be a little legal confusion when the justice system shouts plagiarism for bite marks made from your literary allusions but don't worry until a fine tooth comb critiques your tracks you can keep making money standing on other people's backs

Peas4Peace

from Moriah Arnold [anopenroadishope@hotmail.com]

The Peas4Peace Guidebook

What is Peas4Peace?

Peas4Peace is a grassroots movement based off of Food Not Bombs. Thirty percent of food in the US and UK is wasted. That is enough to feed 1.5 billion of those who are hungry. Our goal is to keep that food from the landfill and get it to the people who really need it. Food is something that everyone has in common and through Peas4Peace, we hope to establish a large sense of loving community based off of this common ground.

Dumpster Diving and the Farmers Market Pick-up.

*All findings from diving and the Farmers Market should be dropped off in the backyard of 1810 Walnut Street (on the corner of 18th and Walnut) on Saturday night.

Guidelines for Diving: Meet in the Snow Lion Lobby at 10PM on Saturday.
-The divers should be split up into two groups of three (or more), including one person with a car per group.
-Wear dark, loose clothing, and make sure at least one person in your group has a flashlight!
-Dig in! Make sure to look inside the dark colored bags for the freshest food from the day. Do not make a mess around the dumpster! It should look as it was when you found it.
-Always avoid dumpsters with people around them, especially people in cop cars.
-Good places to dive include: Donut and bagel shops, Panera Bread, Sunflower Market, and Vitamin cottage. Whole Foods is a bad place to dive. Farmers Market Pick-Up-Arrive at the Farmers market at 1:45 on Saturday and ask each vendor if they have any leftover food they are willing to donate to Peas4Peace. This is our main source of food, so a car is very helpful.

Cooking, Serving, and Cleaning

Cooking: f you have signed up to cook, arrive at 1810 Walnut St, on the corner of 18th and Walnut, at 9AM on Saturday.
-The food will be waiting in the backyard, so work with your fellow chefs to develop an easy recipe using what was found. Soups, baked veggies, and salads are usually a good idea. All of the meals must be vegetarian.
-You have until noon to cook, so make as much food as you possibly can!

Serving: If you plan on serving but not cooking, be sure to arrive at 1810 Walnut St. by 11:30.
-Once you get there, pile all of the food into the car and take everyone over to the Bandshell on Canyon and Broadway to begin serving. People will start arriving at 12. Don’t forget the dishes!
-Try to stay on the same level as those who are eating to prevent it from turning into a charity act. You can continue serving until all of the food is gone.

Cleaning: Please arrive at 1810 Walnut St. by eleven thirty to help clean up. This is one of the most important parts. Thanks for helping!

What Else Can You Do?

-There will be meetings periodically during which we will create a volunteer schedule for the upcoming month. In the meantime, please feel free to show up at any of these events (diving, cooking, cleaning, farmers market, serving) to help out!

-Talk to a local restaurant or grocery store about donating their leftovers to Peas4Peace.

-Show up to the servings! They are every Sunday at noon, at the Bandshell on Broadway and Canyon. The more people we can get to join us for free food, the more awareness is raised around the issue of food waste.

-Bring your creativity. In order to make the Sunday gathering more of a community event, Peas4Peace is looking for people to play music, set up info stands, read poetry, do portraits, and whatever else you feel would bring energy to the event.

Evening Meditation Group

Join us for silent sitting meditation Monday through Friday from 7:30-8:30pm in the community meditation room at Snowlion. Stay for 25 minutes or the whole hour. If you have any questions, go see Tim Eyes.