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The Bette Kuss Benefit campaign

Please help financially to the “Benefit for Bette” fundraising effort http://BetteKussBenefit.com

 

Our dear friend, Bette Kuss, longtime resident of Cold Spring, Minnesota; wife to Duane Kuss and mother of high school grads Sam and Lillie Kuss, has been hospitalized in Minneapolis for heart and respiratory failure.

Bette is currently and has been for many years the beloved accompanist at Peace Lutheran Church in Cold Spring. We were deeply saddened when she was first admitted to Abbott Northwestern Heart Hospital in Minneapolis in December. A lung procedure was necessary before surgeons could clear her for Open Heart surgery on December 16. After nearly sixty days in the ICU, she was moved to Regency Hospital in Golden Valley for recovery. She has been a fighter through this long battle.

Many people in Central Minnesota know Bette for her many years of teaching piano and accompanying various church, community, and school concerts and music productions.

Bette’s music history includes Little Falls Middle School where she was a special education teacher from 1979-1992. She enjoyed working with many special needs students over the years. Bette played piano for many school theatre performances and other musical events.

http://BetteKussBenefit.com

She also shared her musical talents in the community while she was a member of First Lutheran Church.

For the past 25 years Bette has accompanied the Cold Spring Area Maennerchor.

And as mentioned earlier, many people in Cold Spring and Central Minnesota know Bette for her many years of teaching piano and accompanying various church, community, and school concerts and music productions.

While her body is recovering, hospital bills have devastated the Kuss Family finances. Bette’s friends and community are organizing various fund raising efforts to help them recover. In particular, a fund-raising Dinner is in the planning for April 30 at ROCORI High School. As well We hope to plan a musical event later in the Spring. Donations will be used to pay medical expenses not covered by insurance.

http://BetteKussBenefit.com

Please help financially in any way that you can to the “Benefit for Bette” fundraising effort, Accounts have been set up at all three Cold Spring banks to receive donations, there is a go fund me page, or call 320-685-7656

We miss her music, her beautiful smile, and we long for her return. Thank-you for taking time to hear about Bette.

A Most Unusual Christmas Card Story - and the Elephant is Love!

 

http://youtu.be/ggq3lTqDKYY
Don Calhoun creates one of the most interesting Christmas Cards you have ever seen. Each year, for the past 15 years, he has put together a combination "CalRock" CD of his favorite songs of the year and a 6 page, legal size, family photos and story card. He mails this to over 200 people each year spending dozens of hours choosing songs, burning cd's, choosing and editing photos, writing stories, printing copies and mailing the finished product.

http://DanceWithTheElephant.org

Why does Don do it? Love... He loves music, his family, his friends, his faith and the ability to some way share his story with the many people that are a part of his life each year.

Have you checked out Don and Duane's book, "Dance With The Elephant : Life's Cosmic Equation"  yet?

http://DanceWithTheElephant.us

It will quickly become your favorite coffee table book, one that you, your family and friends will enjoy lively discussions around. It includes over 75 breathtaking full color photos that immediately capture your undivided attention. Each photo is expressively matched with insightful quotes from some of the worlds greatest minds and philosophers. This combination of visual and intellectual intrigue provides a boundless reference you'll enjoy time and time again. The authors weave their personal stories into the framework of a simple equation for living a more fulfilling life called, Life's Cosmic Equation.

Dance with the Elephant Life's Cosmic Equation is also a self-help, self-discovery, workshop in a book, designed to connect you with the universal principles and natural forces in the world that shape your perception of reality and who you think you are. The elephant in life is the emotional secret that everyone knows about but nobody wants to talk about. Unfortunately, these secrets that are never openly discussed continue to fester and rankle in the unconscious mind. Eventually they become roadblocks in our lives that limit the options we consider and the choices we make. Essentially, these secrets prevent us from reaching for and achieving our cosmic destiny.

Duane Kuss and Don Calhoun combine to write a compelling book filled with insightful personal stories, life-changing exercises and challenging research based life principles. The goal is to learn how to dance with your personal elephants (secrets) in order to reach a more enriched and fullling life, leaving a legacy that matches your creative contribution and potential destiny in the universe. You will be given powerful building blocks that will become a strong foundation and road map for your life's journey. "Dance with the Elephant: Life's Cosmic Equation could be the hidden treasure that will help you to unlock and unleash your Cosmic Legacy!

Authors Duane Kuss and Don Calhoun inspired by "Field of Dreams"

How To Discover Your Own "Field Of Dreams" from Duane Kuss on Vimeo.

 

What if you could build your own “Field of Dreams”?  Don and Duane explore the mystical world of Ray Kinsella in the Field of Dreams ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_of_Dreams )  along with Duane’s own personal adventure into the practice of “Holotropic Breathing” , created by Dr. Stan and Christina Grof.

http://youtu.be/GSzjx5pN36k

Here’s a great video of the Grof’s describing how holotropic breathwork was developed:  http://youtu.be/BgLYmqMVNbk

To hear a description of what it was like for Duane to experience Holotropic Breathing, listen to the first 5 minutes of this interview with Stan Grof and Joan Halifax:  http://youtu.be/EMh2XRpSA-c

"If you build it... he will come"  Clip From Original Movie

This video is a part of a series that will introduce the next book in the Dance With The Elephant trilogy, “Dance With The Elephant : Life’s Quantum Equation”

http://DanceWithTheElephant.org

Duane Kuss and Don Calhoun combine to write a compelling book filled with insightful personal stories, life-changing exercises and challenging research based life principles. The goal is to learn how to dance with your personal elephants (secrets) in order to reach a more enriched and fulfilling life, leaving a legacy that matches your creative contribution and potential destiny in the universe. You will be given powerful building blocks that will become a strong foundation and road map for your life’s journey. “Dance with the Elephant: Life’s Cosmic Equation could be the hidden treasure that will help you to unlock and unleash your Cosmic Legacy!

http://DanceWithTheElephant.us

Maennerchor gets ready for BIG SING! *Buy tickets online*

Have you got your BIG SING tickets yet?
Big Sing Concert: @ St. John's University Saturday, April 26, 2014

*** 11 Male Choirs Sing Together ***

At St. John's Abbey.

Get your tickets today! Priority Seating Is Limited and almost sold out!

http://www.csmaennerchor.com/
The Cold Spring Area Maennerchor
www.csmaennerchor.com

 

Post by Duane Kuss.

New "Mindfulness" learning series started by author Duane Kuss

CLICK PHOTO TO SEE STORY TELLING SITE

One of the hottest topics of the year is "Mindfulness",  a mental state achieved by focusing one's awareness on the present moment, while calmly acknowledging and accepting one's feelings, thoughts, and bodily sensations, used as a therapeutic technique.  Author Duane Kuss has started a daily story telling site that will introduce you to the topic combined with beautiful outdoor photography depicting daily life on Hermit Lake, where he lives in central Minnesota.

Duane Kuss, author of "Dance With The Elephant - Life's Cosmic Equation"