Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary after Monday’s rain. Learn more at https://montereybay.noaa.gov/welcome.html and https://sanctuaries.noaa.gov/about/maps.html and https://sanctuaries.noaa.gov/about/faqs/ and https://www.doi.gov/blog/americas-public-lands-explained and #coastal #ecosystem #publiclands #photography #landscapephotography #mbnms #ocean #park #parks Image credit Kurt Angersbach / Westernlabs #california #cawx #clouds #colors #monterey #noaa #marinesanctuary #conservation #sanctuary #NationalMarineSanctuary #rain

Thank you, Facebook friends! These pools were provided by our viewers last year, and as you can see, the small cats absolutely love them. Kaia, a rare fishing cat who was rescued earlier this year, was initially uncertain about her pool. However, once she discovered how refreshing the cool water was on a hot afternoon, she quickly grew to enjoy it! (Photos by Keeper Abbey)

#Rare #fishingcat #wildcat #TCWR #GFAS #Turpentinecreek #pool #play #sanctuary #Thankyou

CPH Daily Bulletin 10/15/2025

New #California Laws Protect Immigrant Families From ICE at Schools

https://sonomasun.com/2025/10/14/new-california-laws-protect-immigrant-families-from-ice-at-schools/

#Schools #Education #ICEraids #Sanctuary

Lyrics for the song “Sanctuary” by Joji
#Joji #Sanctuary
https://daletra.com/joji/lyrics/sanctuary.html

Confira a letra da música “Sanctuary” de Joji
#Joji #Sanctuary
https://daletra.com.br/joji/letra/sanctuary.html

SANCTUARY!

Portland City Council is discussing the ordinance to codify Portland’s Sanctuary City status at its next meeting on Wednesday, October 15, from 6:00–9:00 PM at City Hall.
This is the only full Council meeting where public testimony will be heard on these items! Meet outside City Hall at 5:00 PM for a rally, then head inside for the 6:00 PM hearing and vote. You can testify in person, virtually, or submit written testimony.
Portland City Council is considering resolutions and ordinances introduced by Councilors Candace Avalos, Tiffany Koyama Lane and Council President Elana Pirtle-Guiney to denounce any attempts to deploy the U.S. Armed Forces, National Guard, or militarized federal immigration enforcement in Portland and to establish the Protect Portland Initiative.

https://www.portland.gov/council-clerk/testimony-registration?doc_id=55203

Resolution 2025-401 — No troops or militarized feds in Portland Denounces any attempts to deploy the U.S. Armed Forces, National Guard, or militarized federal immigration enforcement in Portland. Affirms that our city will stand up to unconstitutional federal actions and defend the right of Portlanders to protest, assemble, and live free from fear and intimidation.

Ordinance 2025-402 — Make sanctuary protections permanent city law Strengthens Portland’s 2017 Sanctuary City declaration by writing those protections into city law. This ordinance ensures Portland resources and personnel are never used to enforce federal immigration law and creates Immigrant Affairs Liaisons in every city bureau to uphold dignity, safety, and due process for all residents.

#Sanctuary #Portland #PDX

https://www.mobilize.us/oregonworkingfamiliesparty/event/860160/

I just read of an Arizona tribe offering ketamine ceremonies in a church setting at $2,300 for two sessions. That’s crazy! Ketamine is synthetic, easy to make, and usually offered at about $20 a serving. It’s not Ayahuasca carried up from the remotest parts of the Amazon. It’s not the psychedelic Toad, which is basically endangered. It’s a lab-made medicine used worldwide. So charging that much feels like a minor crime. Why charge so much?

I see two reasons: First, it’s the commodification of everything in our society, where value comes from price tags instead of quality or rarity. The people administering the medicine usually just see dollar signs. The more it cost, the more value it has, irrespective of what the properties of the medicine actually are. I’ve coached people myself, only to see them presenting as “experts” just a few months later. One group of my friends began charging $444 for Ayahuasca ($888 for a two-night minimum!). I even know of ceremonies that cost $1000 for a single night. (In the Amazon, $50 is considered fair.) It’s outrageous! Most of these medicines are available in nature; in the forest, or the desert. At first i advice getting a complete understanding of properties of whatever medicine calls you, and then a qualified guide to put you on the correct path, But you don’t need to pay someone $3200 to have your own transcendent spiritual experience, which is your God given birthright. Spiritual connection is inherently free and part of being alive on this planet, so you don’t have to pay to pray.

The second reason: When you charge that kind of money, you’re basically rewarding the 1%. You’re congratulating people for having tax havens, hedge funds, investments in fossil fuels, deforestation, land grabs, industrial agriculture, real estate speculation, lobbying, greenwashing, or wage slavery. You’re saying: “You did a great job making all that money! Here’s your reward: an expensive, fully catered, transcendent experience with your higher self that I will give you”. Meanwhile, you’re not rewarding laborers, organic farmers, herbalists, taxi drivers, educators, conservationists, or activists. You’re saying: “Sorry, you don’t have enough money for my exclusive time and attention”. I hate that attitude, but it has become the dominant one.

Of course, I see a solution: Instead of giving people discounts (a sliding scale), flip the model. Set a reasonable base fee but fundraise from the rich 1%. Make it an expectation that those with more give more. If someone’s driving a new car or carrying the latest phone, you know they can afford it. Why should they pay relatively less than someone struggling? (One group even charged according to nationality: higher rates for the U.S. and Europe, lower for Latin America and Africa.)

And FYI: everyone earning about $35,000 a year is already in the top 1% worldwide, regardless of nationality. Personally, I try to stay out of the 1% by simply not needing that much money. I avoid rent (the biggest expense). I grow food, repair what I own, live in community, and travel (America is just expensive!). That way I can afford to ask for way less for my services. And like I said above: I don’t want to be paying for your new stuff, and especially not your rent or mortgage. Transcendence should be for everyone, not just the 1%.

Finally, if your life is screwed up so profoundly, either through methamphetamine, murdering someone, a life of violence, cancer, car wreck or something like that, your salvation will not come through some newsletter that asks you for $2300. In that case, you will need recon with your time here on Earth and somehow, in some way, make the necessary amends. -But that’s a very different story.

https://redecker.vivaldi.net/2025/10/14/pay-to-pray/

#Ayahuasca #Ketaminetherapy #PayToPray #Sacredmedicine #Sanctuary #spirituality

The word sanctuary is starting to lose all meaning. Take Sanctuary Camelback Mountain Resort & Spa in Arizona: a place where inner peace costs $700 a night and includes poolside cocktail delivery. If your refuge comes with room service and a resort fee, that’s not sanctuary. That’s paid for hospitality.

So what is a sanctuary, really?

Historically, it meant protection without condition. In medieval Europe, if someone was being chased — even by the law — they could run into a church and touch the altar. From that moment on, no one was allowed to harm them. Sanctuary didn’t evaluate whether someone was worthy. It offered safety first, judgment later.

Sanctuary on the Road

I was reminded of all this last year while walking the Camino de Santiago through Portugal, France and Spain. Today it’s sometimes considered a scenic adventure and people walk it for fitness or their Instagram posts. But many people take it seriously, as a walk of faith. The pilgrimage has always been walked by people searching, grieving, repenting, or people who had lost their way. And it was extremely dangerous — hunger, exhaustion, bandits — and most pilgrims traveled with almost nothing. Even today the idea of Camino isn’t a service you book online. The refugios are non advertised, first come first served, for sometimes 5 euros a night.

I’m writing this now from a place that calls itself a sanctuary, and for once, it feels accurate. I’m in the high desert an a large piece of land that is known all over the world. People come and go every day to hang out and experience the desert land. Some say a day, a week, or a month. Others live here full time. People are valued for how they show up in spirit and not by what they can offer through money. And it’s a really large wonderful community here. The is a fired pit surrounded by couches and the refrigerators are full. It’s called Garth’s Boulder Gardens Sanctuary. Garth had his roots in the Mormon church and with the Christ Brothers, the people dressed in white who walked barefoot like Jesus, with no money at all. Ironic because Garth’s father was quite rich and bought him this huge piece of land so he wouldn’t be “homeless”.

I like this one definition :

A sanctuary is a place where beings — human or otherwise — are protected without needing to prove their worth. A place where you don’t ask, “What can you pay?” but rather, “What do you need?”

Some sanctuaries are manicured and polished with people constantly busy cleaning and organizing. Other’s are dusty, improvised, or half build or run down It actually doesn’t matter. What matters is the ethics. So there is a range. But there is also a range of authenticity, where people use the terms for profit and gain. So if you’re going to keep using the word sanctuary, please just use it correctly.

Comparison Table

What Is and Isn’t a Sanctuary?

A sanctuary at its core is not a business model, not a resort, not a vacation.
It is a place of spiritual, emotional and physical protection. Here’s how different spiritual or communal spaces compare when you strip away branding:

Sanctuary vs. Asylum — Not the Same

People sometimes use sanctuary and asylum as if they were interchangeable, but they’re not. Asylum is legal. It’s granted by governments. You have to apply, prove your case, and wait for approval. Sanctuary is ethical. It’s granted by people or places that choose to protect life without demanding qualifications.

Historically, asylum happened inside sanctuaries — fugitives ran to temples or churches knowing no one could lay hands on them there. But over time, governments absorbed asylum into bureaucracy, while sanctuary retained its moral meaning.

Asylum asks, “Can you prove you deserve protection?”
Sanctuary says, “You’re safe. We can figure out the rest later.”

I think we will be needing more sanctuaries worldwide soon.

https://redecker.vivaldi.net/2025/10/14/sanctuary-is-not-a-service/

#CaminoDeSantiago #AlternativeLiving #garthsbouldergardens #JoshuaTree #pilgrim #pilgrimage #Sanctuary

Did he feel small in this grand and majestic place?

Yes. But it wasn't a smallness of insignificance, as if God had no thought or care for him. Rather, it was a feeling of being small and protected, looked after and sheltered by the Deity for whom this place was built.

San Giorgio Cathedral art print -- https://stevehendersonart.com/featured/san-giorgio-cathedral-steve-henderson.html

#art #artwork #mastoart #fediart #buyintoart #ayearforart #fedigiftshop #church #cathedral #sanctuary #refuge #worship #catholic #venice #italy #building #architecture

Angels in flight
~My Sanctuary~

Opie Tiger watches the staff intently, his bright eyes scanning for any signs of treats. With hopeful anticipation, he leans in closer, sensing a potential snack. But as soon as he realizes there’s nothing to be had, he lets out a little sigh and saunters off, ready to find his next adventure.

#TCWR #TurpentineCreek #tiger #sanctuary #cat #reels #shorts #catvideos

Meet the charming bobcat brothers, Tony and Prince, who are currently enjoying a much-deserved catnap in their cozy patch of tall grass—carefully left for them by our dedicated staff. If you're curious to see these adorable siblings in action, be sure to join us for a tour and catch a glimpse of Tony and Prince in the Discovery Area! It's a moment you won't want to miss!

#bobcats #wildcats #TCWR #GFAS #sanctuary #discovery #sleepy #naptime #reels #shorts

🤗🏰🏯🛖🏩💒🏠🏡🍥🌀🍥🌀🍥🌀💮🏵️🌸❇️🪴🌿🌿🌿❤️💜💙💗🩷🧡💛🤍🩶💚🩵🌿🌿🌿💮🏵️🌸❇️🪴🌀🍥🌀🍥🌀🍥🏰🏯🛖🏩💒🤗*"I sense a Threshold!*Light to Silence!*Silence to Light!*an ambiance of inspiration!*in which the desire to be!*to express!*crosses with the possible Light to Silence!*Silence to Light crosses in the sanctuary of art!"🤗🏠🏡🏰🏯🛖🏩💒🌀🍥🌀🍥🌀🍥💮🏵️🌸❇️🪴🌿🌿🌿🏘️❤️💜💙💗🩷🧡💛🤍🩶💚🩵🌿🌿🌿💮🏵️🌸❇️🪴🌀🍥🌀🍥🌀🍥🏠🏡🏰🏯🛖🏩💒🤗

~ Louis Kahn

#Home #Sanctuary #Haven #Safety #Life #Peace #Refuge #Quite #Kingdom #Cottage #Protection

🤗🪴🏚️🏘️🏰🏯🛖🏩💒🏠🏡💮🏵️🌸❇️🤍🩶💚🩵💮🏵️🌸❇️🪴🏚️🏘️🏰🏯🛖🏩💒🏠🏡🤗*"I sense a Threshold!*Light to Silence!*Silence to Light!*an ambiance of inspiration!*in which the desire to be!*to express!*crosses with the possible Light to Silence!*Silence to Light crosses in the sanctuary of art!"🤗🪴🏚️🏘️🏰🏯🛖🏩💒🏠🏡💮🏵️🌸❇️🤍🩶💚🩵💮🏵️🌸❇️🪴🪴🏚️🏘️🏰🏯🛖🏩💒🏠🏡🤗

~ Louis Kahn

#Home #Sanctuary #Haven #Safety #Life #Peace #Refuge #Quite #Kingdom #Cottage #Protection

*~*"I sense a Threshold!*Light to Silence!*Silence to Light!*an ambiance of inspiration!*in which the desire to be!*to express!*crosses with the possible Light to Silence!*Silence to Light crosses in the sanctuary of art!"*~*

~ Louis Kahn

#Home #Sanctuary #Haven #Safety #Life #Peace #Refuge #Quite #Kingdom #Cottage #Protection

🍂🍁🩵🧡💛🩶🏠🏡🍁*"A true home is one of the most sacred of places!*It is a sanctuary into which men flee from the world's perils!*& alarms!*It is a resting-place to which at close of day the weary retire to gather new strength for the battle!*& toils of tomorrow!*It is the place where love learns its lessons!*where life is schooled into discipline!*& strength!*where character is molded!"🍂🍁🩵🧡💛🩶🏠🏡🍁

~ J.R. Miller

#Home #Sanctuary #Haven #Safety #Life #Peace #Refuge #Quite #Kingdom #Cottage #Protection

🛖🏡🏠🏩💒🩶🤍🩷🍂🍁*"A true home is one of the most sacred of places!*It is a sanctuary into which men flee from the world's perils!*& alarms!*It is a resting-place to which at close of day the weary retire to gather new strength for the battle!*& toils of tomorrow!*It is the place where love learns its lessons!*where life is schooled into discipline!*& strength!*where character is molded!"🛖🏡🏠🏩💒🩶🤍🩷

~ J.R. Miller

#Home #Sanctuary #Haven #Safety #Life #Peace #Refuge #Quite #Kingdom #Cottage #Protection

*~*"A true home is one of the most sacred of places!*It is a sanctuary into which men flee from the world's perils!*& alarms!*It is a resting-place to which at close of day the weary retire to gather new strength for the battle!*& toils of tomorrow!*It is the place where love learns its lessons!*where life is schooled into discipline!*& strength!*where character is molded!"*~*

~ J.R. Miller

#Home #Sanctuary #Haven #Safety #Life #Peace #Refuge #Quite #Kingdom #Cottage #Protection

🤗🪴🛖🏡🏠🏚️🏘️🏩🏰🏯💒🕊️💛🩶🧡🤍💚🩵❤️🤎🤍💜💛💚💙💗🧡🩵🩶🩷🪴🛖🏡🏠🏚️🏘️🏩🏰🏯💒🕊️🪴🛖🏡🏠🏚️🏘️🏩🏰🏯💒🤗*"A home is a kingdom of it's own in the midst of the world!*a stronghold amid life's storms!*& stresses!*a refuge!*even a sanctuary!"🤗🪴🛖🏡🏠🏚️🏘️🏩🏰🏯💒🕊️💛🩶🧡🤍💚🩵❤️🤎🤍💜💛💚💙💗🧡🩵🩶🩷🪴🛖🏡🏠🏚️🏘️🏩🏰🏯💒🕊️🪴🛖🏡🏠🏚️🏘️🏩🏰🏯💒🤗

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#Home #Sanctuary #Haven #Safety #Life #Peace #Refuge #Quite #Kingdom #Cottage #Protection

🤗🪴🛖🏡🏠🏚️🏘️🏩🏰🏯💒💛🩶🧡🤍💚🩵🪴🛖🏡🏠🏚️🏘️🏩🏰🏯💒🤗*"A home is a kingdom of it's own in the midst of the world!*a stronghold amid life's storms!*& stresses!*a refuge!*even a sanctuary!"🤗🪴🛖🏡🏠🏚️🏘️🏩🏰🏯💒💛🩶🧡🤍💚🩵🪴🛖🏡🏠🏚️🏘️🏩🏰🏯💒🤗

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#Home #Sanctuary #Haven #Safety #Life #Peace #Refuge #Quite #Kingdom #Cottage #Protection