Gratitude Principle Teaching - Day 15

bozho nikan
greetings,

this day, rest and at some point think about making a review of the previous outlines of the 21 DAY GRATITUDE PRINCIPLE TEACHINGS. you might consider printing out the mail..including any photos you took, personal reflections, art, pressed flowers, fabric swatches of your color, coffee rings or grease spots.... or writings, and investing the teachings in a personal guidebook, which you may be inspired to expand with time. slip the pages and photos into a plastic spined presentation folder. have some FUN! with it. MAKE US LAUGH! IF, you are able to produce something physical to bring forward at the conference, it may be shared, if you like, at the talking circle i will call, sometime, when we are all gathered and before the actual event begins. i am bringing mine which includes some of the conference correspondence, all of the typos, the repeated MASSES of e-mail address.. and reflects just some of your wonderful efforts which will have gone into this offering, that THE WORLD MIGHT GO ON IN A GOOD WAY. ALL will have a chance to share what they will of the ceremony when the talking stick is passed in what is recognized as the FIRST COUNCIL, that of the TALKING CIRCLE. a private, healthy and safe place.

i am calling the compiled writings, yours and mine, writings of the new myth as lived by the contemporary mystic, or HANDBOOK OF THE CONTEMPORARY MYSTIC.

this mailing concludes our interactive portion of the 21 day CEREMONY. from this time forward, move intuitively forward in fine attunement with body, mind, heart and spirit, until we meet again to sit in circle and reflect for one another. the following 7 days are yours to write. at some point within that time you may or will forget that you are within the 21 days...this is good. it has been internalized and is complete..only then to realize, with a start! that IT IS NOW! THE 21st day.
 
until then.............migwech, wewene kiche migwech,

bama mine,

dawnwoman

Gratitude Principle Teaching - Day 14

Bisho Nikan,

Greetings,

Star walkers and sweet grass burners.

From this day comes a special 'remembering' point to bring forward as you have invested much into your interior Creation of self. There has been consent and surrender to investigation, purification, visioning and construction of the 'eternal present' which is but past, present and future planes which are concurrently occupying space and reality shrouded in luminosity and radiance. Be breathed.

From this w/holy and sacred labor we re-member love... Re-seat in the 'grateful place', drape oneself in the sacred color, speak our name and prepare to step forward and discover ourselves as the Divine Radiant Being we know ourselves to be.

En-joy all.

My love,

Dawnwoman

Gratitude Principle Teaching - Day 13

BOZHO NIKAN

GREETINGS


RELEASE..AND COMING FORTH

consult the 'grateful place' consider proposing and inviting a joint 'medicine journey' to certain 'inner ones'....in the interest of furthering and guiding extended release activities and walking the 21 day GRATITUDE PRINCIPLE CEREMONY into y/our larger world. the NATURAL WORLD is a blessed place to visit and sponsor special introductions of those gentle intentions, prayers, hopes, plans, wonderings and knowings, is the Grandmother Moon.

step out into the sunset and visit the western evening sky and make an offering-greeting to the Grandmother Moon who is already wearing her new robes and showing her face to us .

make a GIVE-AWAY of greetings with your name, send love and acknowledgement of this 'one' who lights our nights, governs the tides and the seasons..this 'one of growing newness' is walking with us at this time.... the SPRING AND PLANTING TIME. TALK WITH HER! TELL HER YOUR THINGS!

and so, in this WAY as visionary farmers, tenders and gardeners of our lives, we take this time to bring 'our' special new ones forward to RELEASE, JOIN and UNIFY with the universal GIVE-AWAY and begin the re-newed DANCE OF LIFE..

LET'S GO ! IT IS GOOD. IT IS VERY, VERY GOOD.

bama mine,

dawnwoman

Gratitude Principle Teaching - Day 12

NOW is a GOOD TIME to bring the fullness of RELEASE forward and continue on y/our ceremonial journey at this time, of thinking all about life.

Bozho Nikan
Greetings,

RELEASE

Bama mine,

Dawnwoman

Gratitude Principle Teaching - Day 11

BOZHO NIKAN

GREETINGS,

UNIFY
this day, allow yourself all of the time you feel you need in order to mindfully greet and graciously receive both the newly conceived and perceived intentions and those proven and worthy alliances, aspirations and eternal connections with Divine Origin. 

this day, re-visit the new ground of your personal inner season and that of our shared outer season of the natural world., worlds now rife with potential and resplendently attired in the shiny news of emergence. for, as these things have emerged into the present moment, know that they have freshly crept from the warm and humming nucleus of the Mother Earth and Father Sky-Sun's active conversation, a conversation of UNITY, much like our own inner conversations of humming center and highest intention, producing the purifying and energizing power to support, encourage and drive the new.

UNITY

this day, allow yourself ALL of the time you feel you need to survey, acquaint and sort through your inner landscape that is sister and brother mirror to the ALL of CREATION.
 
there remains the ongoing labor of processing history that is worthy of rejoining the great energy field through the mutual release consent mechanism of the GRATITUDE PRINCIPLE. this runs along-side of, but is not separate from, the concurrent creative UNITY practices and observances. endeavor to have some fun and erudition with both and all fields of divine play.

PLAY IN THE INNER FIELDS OF THE DIVINE AND GATHER THE INTENTION OF INCIPIENT EMERGENCE ENERGY. make ready and give permission for those things (charged, identified, or re-newed intention) to step forward into the world, or not, as they are ready, willing and able. consider entering into confidential conversations with the Divine, the Mother Earth and the Father Sky-Sun. tell these beings about your little secrets and special creations...your precious mullings of Spirit..and offer these sacred ornaments of your Soul for sharing and blessing..to the rains, snows, winds, rock and fire people, the ones who crawl and wiggle, the winged-ones, the four-leggeds, the ones that swim, the one celled ones and the ones that have no name.. FIRST.
 
hold your power and vision for a time. allow it to nourish and replenish spent dreams and systems. there will be plenty of energy from the Divine current connection to publish and gift to the world....in a timely manner which will unfold and reveal its own emergent rhythm..itself an interesting thing.

SO BUILDS THE MYTH, and, the ever-renewed and re-created myths of partnered Creation and Co-Creation.

bama mine,

dawnwoman

Gratitude Principle Teaching - Day 10

BOZHO NIKAN

GREETINGS,

today, locate the GRATEFUL PLACE and penetrate it with all of your externalized intention, fertilizing the humming nucleus and thereby shifting your vision into a position of dynamic change and radiance.

ACTIVATION

bama mine,

dawnwoman

Gratitude Principle Teaching - Day 9

bozho nikan

greetings,

FROM THE GRATEFUL PLACE this is a good day to review, sift through, and renew stated and as yet unformed intention.

bama mina,

dawnwoman

Gratitude Principle Teaching - Day 8

BOZHO NIKAN

GREETINGS,

breathe, release and integrate

bama mine,

dawnwoman

Gratitude Principle Teaching - Day 7

BOZHO NIKAN
Greetings,

this day we stand within the sacred seven.

and now, as a serious progression deeper into the Gratitude Principle Teachings, we begin to express gratitude for EACH AND EVERY thing present in our lives, even those things which we might not actually be grateful for at all. SPEAK these words to yourself, "i am glad that 'thus and so'- is this way" and then name the present issue in mind.

do not be surprised if your response is a mixed one of fear, sorrow, laughter or anger and NOT gratitude. you are now moving into the core dynamic of the GRATITUDE PRINCIPLE. it is designed to BRING UP certain things (history)that they can move into your CENTER and station for DYNAMIC CHANGE and DEPARTURE from your mind, heart, bodily history. It may take a while to discharge certain issues (history, thought forms or memories) but trust that each subsequent time it VOLUNTARILY arises that you are not making new trouble for yourself of re-visiting fruitless old issues, but that your inner pump is priming and bringing up the old for release. it just may take a few visits by the said issue to be accomplished, even quite a while.

REMEMBER AND TRUST that you are residing for the time being in SACRED CEREMONY in order to live life 'in a good way' . this is a hard WAY but a good WAY .. it is a reliable WAY to PURIFY and RENEW while at the same time setting yet another of the trusted pools of automatic responses of GRATITUDE and positive, loving reservoirs by which to live.
if some history or circumstance is just too difficult to go deeply into, do not do so.

CHOICE IS A SACRED RIGHT.

you may not feel well from time to time, (but REMEMBER! YOU ARE IN CEREMONY!) or feel that you look good. this is to be expected. it is also to be expected that you MAY regret having embarked upon this ceremony so, soften up on yourself and try to keep going, if you can at all. others, with 'Spirit Eyes' WILL SEE you and know that you are doing a sacred thing. they will look upon you with love and perhaps smile. do not be surprised..it will validate your experience and serve to make you feel very, very good.

at the conclusion of the 21 days much will have been created, discovered and resolved but for now, we are at the second threshold of deepening the GRATEFUL PLACE by practice. each day and movement takes us deeper into the loving mind with which the CREATOR designed, created and continues to create our world. let us REMEMBER ourselves a sparks of the divine and to continue taking up the sacred charge of CO-CREATOR'S.

bama mine,

dawnwoman

Gratitude Principle Teaching - Day 6

BOZHO NIKAN
greetings,

THE SPRING CEREMONY

THIS day we will consider visiting the natural world of the Mother Earth and
the Father Sky/Sun as a child. we are a walking erect color/s being of the
season, recognizing and celebrating ourselves as a child of the divine
Mother Earth and Father Sky Sun Beings union, our natural parents, and in
doing so we may REMEMBER ourselves and all others, as direct physical issue
of their loving relationship.

in the old honoring language...make the honoring prayer from the GRATEFUL
PLACE, spit or blow into the tobacco 4 times and then 'put down' the gift of
the tobacco being, SE'-MA', onto the Mother Earth.
now, offer honoring tobacco to the Father Sky/Sun in the same way. the
order of offering may differ, just observe and view yourself as Spirit
guided..

take a snapshot of yourself...any way...and see what comes forward. just
you.. as you are to yourself.

WE ARE ALWAYS BECOMING.

tomorrow is the seventh day of the 21 days we have set aside to ask for
and to prepare for the new season and the new endeavors, those both named
and those unnamed.

and now .... we will prepare to mark, honor and celebrate this segment of
consecrated time with a feast or a fast. you may begin thinking of that and
preparing at this time. either way, if it rains or snows, consider
collecting some of the 'NEW WATER', dip a finger into it and touch the top
of your head four times as a personal unification water beings blessing and
then drink some, slowly, slowly, slowly........if it does not rain or snow
honor what water is available to you. you may know of some caught clean
water outside that may be worked with. if there is enough..many things may
be done with it like ritually bathing the head, hair, face, body, eyes,
wrists, cooking, plants....

if the green onions are up, make a tobacco offering FROM THE GRATEFUL
PLACE, say your name and ask permission... and then you may take up a sharp
stone for cutting or use your fingernail for gathering. use no metal. both
the top and root bulb may be cleaned and eaten. you will then have some
first harvest onions for a steamed wild onion meal with scrambled eggs, tofu
and/or hamburger. if no wild onions are available to you select a fresh
green of your choice from the store.

THE FIRST FOOD OF THE SEASON...the wild onions can be one of the first
honoring feasts of the season and in so doing it will be recognized as a
direct give-away from the natural world to ourselves and the other, greens
eaters, towards the strong maintenance of physical life. the wild onions
give-away of their lives is intended to PURIFY and THIN our blood for the
coming season.

..and so, with these ways we re-connect and renew to our earth walks... in
balance and harmony with all sentient and non-sentient beings and observing
our new myths as they evolve, unfold and reveal themselves woven by our
BREATHS into the warp and woof of OURS and ALL others lives.

HAU! and AHO!

bama mine,

dawnwoman

Gratitude Principle Teaching - Day 5

greetings,

....practice a mindful and grateful walk and sleep upon the Mother Earth.

dawnwoman

Gratitude Principle Teaching - Day 4

hi,
it's 'redbud winter' around here and this is my special color for now.
today we will seek the Father-Sky Sun, whether it is shining or behind clouds, state our name and invite him/her into our 'grateful place' where our current Spirit color/s already resides. we allow the Father Sky-Sun to illuminate, vitiate, warm and saturate y/our color...soak in it..breathe it..be it....do something original, revolutionary or outrageous with it and don't tell anyone..or tell everyone.

redbud winter-dawnwoman

Gratitiude Principle Teaching - Day 3

Look upon the robes of the Mother Earth and invite a color/s to walk with you.

Dawnwoman

Spirit Talk - The Life and Work of Woody CRUMBO

Spirit Talk - The Life and Work of Woody CRUMBO .... took approximately three years to complete. The interviews, video and still location shots and research took place within the larger context of silversmithing instruction, writing and the natural interest and responsibilities of life.

During that time I met many interesting persons and received opportunities to exhibit our father,

Woody Crumbo's, depictions and interpretation of native American ceremony and regalia, and wild life.

2012 is the Centennial Year of Woody Crumbo. This has given rise to many honoring and commemorating exhibitions, chief among them being the Oklahoma History Center, OKC, OKHistory.org and the Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK (spring 2013), GILCREASE.UTULSA.EDU.

The work on the documentary, Spirit Talk, is largely in support of this interest for Woody Crumbo, who was a great talker on many subjects but remained a very private person. The documentary allows Woody to tell his own story through the recovery of archived video and audio taped interviews.

The Gilcrease Museum graciously allowed me white glove access to their extensive collection of CRUMBO works on paper and canvas, photographed and digitized the work and made their photo files available. Their collection allows the public to view many previously unseen early works painted by CRUMBO.

The doc project has taken me broader and deeper into our  CRUMBO family life as well as my own. Woody Crumbo's grandson Woody Carter provided original compositions for the sound track.www.woody-Carter.com

Spirit Talk will be screened at the 2012 Flint Hills Wisdom Keepers Gathering. 

Gratitude Principle Teaching - Day 2

the cultivation of the divine garden may be approached by electing to revisit our golden heart center and identifying it as the FIRST AND ELEMENTAL GARDEN OF EDEN. a good place to BEGIN considering this look is by gazing out of the window with the intention of renewing our relationship with the natural world. this is a proven and worthy gift, indeed the first, most enduring and beautiful gift from the Creator, and thereby also a/the most trusted tool with which to ally our core values of unconditional love and divine potential. remember to breathe and be breathed as we reform natural alliances with the inner garden. allow or envision the inner garden to be grounded in the golden and loving light of the father sky sun and the rootedness of the unconditional love of the mother earth. this is the essential inner garden from which all else will emerge. in Spirit, make some tobacco ties and hang them around the space and bless it and ask for it to be a part of the annual blessing of ALL fields and beasts of the fields, the inner and outer fields of Creation.. we cultivate the inner fields first through reception and willingness remembering always, that we are inseparable aspects of all that is sacred and divine.

play, divinely play with small and reasonable possibilities for instance, playfully and gratefully examine any sweet grass shoots, listen to spring bird calls, water the house plants, dust or clean out some small drawer or shelf, look or step outside and notice the mists, winds and clouds, get plenty of sleep and a good soup in you. open a fresh pack of crackers to go with it. call someone who needs to hear from you, journal, visit someone who cannot get out, look deep into pet eyes and the eyes of two-legged loved ones send love without expecting return to known and unknown places that need heart nourishing and encouragement turn over some ground with the golden plow of love. when the energetic sky has been set and some ground plowed, select some personal vegetable or flower seeds such as bachelor buttons, peas, lettuce something light, colorful and personally simple and pleasing and symbolically plant them.

and then, forget that you are within the 21 day time. that has been done and will take its own course. very importantly, as a daily and moment to moment activity, endeavor to express gratitiude for EVERYTHING, experienced, heard about or even thought of EVEN you cannot fully feel it, in this way we supply the fertilizer and water for the building of core gratitude by remembering to reflect ALL to the backboard of the golden light of loving Creation, thereby building, building, building our store of positive automatic responses which will come forward and to our aid in times of stress, inquiry or need. even if we cannot approve of or accept certain things we can at least give them permission to BE and therefore move somewhat out of the undesirable quarter of judgement, and from that endurance, bravery, inspiration ILLUMINATION and patience can and will emerge.

you and the group are doing the final inner work of preparing the energetic and physical circle into which the beloved will enter and find a place of trust and love prepared for them.

dawnwoman

Greetings returnees and new members of the Sacred Circle

Greetings returnees and new members of the Sacred Circle.

The 13 Moons since the 2011 Wisdom Keepers Conference (fhwisdomkeepers.org) have been very busy and full with completing and initiation activities.....and always, the maintenance of that which has been integrated into our Eternal Present, the Now.....for life is largely about maintenance.

This past year I have completed a documentary on the life and artwork of our father, the 

Potawatomi Indian Artist, Woody Crumbo, as 2012 is his Centennial Year. This year has been about honoring family, friends and heritage.

This is the energy and vision which is coming forward with me at this time.

Now, Let us walk together for a while, in conference or not.

The 'Walk' or 'Sacred Path' put forward on these pages, will support and honor our mysterious and precious selves. The 'Walk' may be called, if you so choose, that of the Gratitude Principle. The path entries that follow may be read, studied, blogged or journaled. This is The Journey of Your Sacred Self and your preparation begins with the walk within...in this way we will have begun the work of ' Becoming of One Mind ' with one another for a while.......the 'Mind of Gratitude' for all of the gifts that the Creator has made available to us, the 'two-leggeds' for this, our 'earth walk'.

Spring is a good time to dream our year; pray, appeal, release, heal, renew, see and accept, planning and envisioning the new as you sit in the Center of your Circle, recognizing partnership with our elemental parents, the Strengthening Father Sky-Sun and the fragrant, warming Mother Earth. The Spirit of The Gratitude Principle will give our hearts wings and sweeten our inner waters. For we remember that our world was Created in beauty and it still is.

Come, let us walk together for a while...

Dawn woman

Gratitude Principle Teaching - Day 1

bozho nikan,

and, now, we are in the final medicine count down and I have been thinking on the myriad of things that have been placed into motion through loving and energetic intention in order that our world might go on in a good way.

since our visit about the previous sets of 21 days has now brought us to the final movement my feeling is that of mindful celebration of all that has gone into the planning, and now, brings us to a moment of release, trust, gratitude and a spirit of willing integration with the fullness of Creation as manifested by the seasonal markers of continuance and re-emergence into the new. it is a time now that we might study on core meaningful alliances, those personal and those collective. that we may consent and give ourselves a well-deserved opportunity to surrender and to view, remember and experience ourselves as aspects of and parts of the larger whole of this unfolding into the natural world. that we may breathe and be breathed as our holy and sacred hearts, minds, bodies and spirits ARE, cogent and integral, within the emergent vision of yet another season as we bravely extend new shoots, buds, blooms and unfurled leaf potential as manifested through dream, hope, word, prayer and activity.

as we do the next right things that appear before us i pray that each and every one of us move sweetly within the delicate mists of Creation, floating within each of our personal emergent myths as precious elements of a renewed cycle within yet another emerging myth of the great mystery.

a blessing is bestowed upon us yet again.

aho! it is good. it is very, very good.

migwech, wewene kiche migwech,

Dawnwoman

Gratitude Principle Teaching - Overview

The 21-day period would be a personal planting of your inner garden - in any way you want - small or large. You would ask Spirit to give help with garden needs such as rain and sun on a spirit level, whatever that might mean. Mainly, to plant the perfect garden for yourself.. Let the volunteers come up. During the 21 days you will live with your garden. It's fine not to know what to plant. Then Spirit could take you on a Spirit Journey. It could be a 'do nothing garden', just a 'being garden', like a Lily of the Field that neither spins nor toils. If you wish, you could draw or paint, write, etc, what is within you. There is no wrong way to do it - it can be all volunteers or in combination with what you plant - allow yourself to observe what grows and bring it to Wisdom Keepers, to grow with you there.

Leaving 2011 Flint Hills Wisdom Keepers Gathering

Santa Fe Trail Crossing at Council Grove, Ks 

April 2011

Dawn at the Ranch

Bozho, ni je na, 
Hello, how are all of you,
This is the way it is with me this day, Minisa Crumbo Halsey, Citizen Band Potawatomi of the Shawnee, OK agency and Muscogee Creek of the Okmulgee, OK agency. 

In the way I was taught, or, 'helped out' by my teacher, Marcellus Williams, Muskogee Creek, in Indian talk...everything of life, is ceremony. Therefore, it is always about remembering…for the old ones say, "It is not whether you will do ‘it’ but whether you will remember it", and, at the core of our remembering lives our sacred nature and the sacredness of all creation.

I remember that my emergence point from the spirit world into physical form as a female two-legged was in the Kansas plains during the wartime winter. Now that time is long past and as with any ceremonial venture there is the prayer making the leaving of the house the beginning of the ritual and a safe return to the same spot the ritual ending. I offer thanks and credit for these circle realizations to another one of my treasured teachers, Martin Prechtel, that big old orphan, as are most of us who are searching and seeking atonement. At the Wisdom Keepers Gathering, in the measured days of a workshop-sacred circle, we will share carefully considered thoughts and council talk that the world might live.

My star journey eventually landed me into a home called Sweet Medicine Land and since that early morning my life has been one never, never far from the Mother Earth and Father Sky-Sun. This is always my/our birth, breath, sustenance and source of endless beauty and wisdom. These are the things with which I would concern myself. I endeavor to invite, gift, and appeal to Spirit that a sacred circle be built and that all who enter might be able to purify and renew the heart, mind, body and spirit. Then, may we most truly be able to live life 'in a good way', to make a contribution that the children might live and to have some fun along the way...for all one truly wants is to be happy. Within these remembrance and honoring circles are then to be found and shared many proven and worthy tools to be taken forward into the larger life. 

To the Kansas plains we return…to remember that the Mother Earth is the source of all true knowledge and wisdom. To her body we make ready the approach to the rivers, the winds, the rains, sleets and snows, the bite of our father the Sky-Sun, the Skebyak-the green beings. Let us make ready to come forward and to speak our names, bearing our gifts of wide smiles and tear stained faces, hearts full of love and disappointment. Always, in the soul, may the perfect template of creation be remembered in silence, solitude, community gathering and always in the first, last and highest ceremony, that of remembering and of gratitude. For such is the required gift and price of being allowed to carry the gift of life in human form.

Come, let us gather and be for a while of one mind.

Consider...honoring the Kansa who came before, and petitioning them as ancestral spirits to receive our greetings and thanks and to look kindly upon us. We would walk softly upon the Mother Earth who supported their steps before ours and who will, with our prayers, support our steps and those of the seven generations who would come after.

That's the way it is with me.