Dogwood Winter

Greetings from the Redbud Winter,

We are now passing quickly through Dogwood Winter and approaching the last Little Winter- Blackberry Winter..and then it will be time to plant the summer gardens....a metaphor for each of us to ponder, to select seed and to set mindful intention in place for this new and potent growth season. This last weekend many seeds were offered for examination and consideration. It was a smorgasbord of ancient wisdom, gratitude, present realizations and extended thoughts and prayers for the goodness of ALL LIFE on this: our BEAUTIFUL MOTHER EARTH AND SPLENDID FATHER SKY SUN.

The Flint Hills Wisdom Keepers Gathering in Council Grove, KS will be covered as soon as I receive a photograph of the Grandmothers taken by Nathan Blindman of Pine Ridge, SD, who accompanied his mother, elder Unci Rita. They presented concerns with the imminent sale of the Wounded Knee Massacre grounds. For more info, go to: http://fhwisdomkeepers.blogspot.com/2013/04/lakota-activists-buy-wounded-knee-face.html or email Pat Embers at embers1@cox.net.

David Yarrow presented a broad program on what I would call: the sacred geometry of earth wisdom ... His website (dyarrow.org) is amazing. Gardeners and farmers take note!

There were five elders present and in all it was a wonderful gathering with much knowledge and wisdom, honoring and gifting, stories, much feasting and laughter. Old friends caught up and laughed again together while many new friends and relatives were made. Sweat Lodge opportunities were offered and The Grandfather Sacred Fire was tended 24 hours a day until the Circle was completed for another year. More talk and photographs will be made on this special gathering of Elders soon. For additional information search the website: fhwisdomkeepers.org and the blog: fhwisdomkeepers.blogspot.com

I have included a link to Drunvalo Melchidezek, How to fully activate Pineal Gland antennas, which I think everyone will find of Interest. I experience a profound connection through the painting of the 13 Moon Calendar. The Melchizedek teachings resonate with the sacred geometry of the 13-20 ratio of the complete human, in particular the 28 day tidal/women's cycle and the continuing evolutionary journeys of duality into the unified heart. Consider combining a meditation on the pineal teachings with the 13 Moon Calendar painting.

Enjoy being BREATHED by the Sacred breath of the Creator,

In the Spirit of Art and Beauty forever,

Dawn Woman

From the Heart of the Redbud Winter gathering of the Wisdom Keepers ....

Flint Hills Wisdom Keepers Gathering, Council Grove, KS, April 26-29, 2013

BELOVEDS
The 13 Moon Calendar has been revealing itself as a Gift from the Creator, Mother Earth and Father Sky Sun to support whole vision and beingness to us, the two leggeds, as we remain and grow ever more into balance and harmony within the heart, body, Spirit and mind of The Tree of Life as given to us by the Master of All Breath.

Please feel free to observe and interact with the 13 Moon image in your own creative brilliance to further the emotional, mental, physical and spiritual health and balance of all life, now and forever more. Be it known that the 13 Moon Inner and Outer Calendar of Days and Nights remains in a state of vital flux and growth, as does and will your experience of it as it seats and integrates the energetic daily messaging of the Father Sky Sun and imbues us with the necessary mannas by which to live and function, In A GOOD WAY!

May I suggest you initiate and physically create a Calendar of your own beauty? I invite you to enter images and writings to this site that we, The Contemporary Wisdom Keepers might continue to live and grow together in a Community to which we hue.

Beloved, we each mirror a unique aspect of beauty, truth and sacredness...for this I offer humble feelings of recognition and gratitude ..

In the Spirit of Art and Beauty, forever ....
Dawn Woman


I would like to thank Drunvalo Melchidezek (link below) and all sentient beings of the unified heart consciousness for the work so graciously and freely offered (YouTube) to each and every one of us that we might most fully recognize ourselves as the sacred, all ways, all days....

How to fully activate Pineal Gland antennas (by Drunvalo Melchizedek)

New Wheels on the Santa Fe Trail

Hays House - April 26, 2013

13 Moons Painting Evolves

Happy Earth Day!

White Eagle Blue Cherokee Corn Shoots, April 22, 2013

Morning in Dogwood Winter

THE THREE WINTERS

The story of the ' 3 Winters'. it goes like this.....

Children, today I will begin by speaking of how it is with us and of what our hearts are feeling....

It is a green-land here at the Spirit Horse Ranch in the Black Jack Hills of Oklahoma,  not really warming up yet...the greens are the new children born of gray skies, a cool, later Spring and cold rains.....a very northern green. These late cold snaps remind me of a teaching I was given in story form one day, many moons ago when I lived in the deeper south. 

These 'winters' bring late 'colds' and would have us to understand and accept that nothing happens suddenly or all at once and can teach us how to be mindful and gentle with ourselves as 'things' unfold and sprouts emerge in our minds, hearts, bodies and spirits according to the passing hours, days, months and seasons of our lives. Our first, most beautiful and reliable 'mirror' has been, is, and will always be...our Mother Earth and Father Sky-Sun, the skebyak;, the green beings, noden;, the winds, m'bis; the waters; the fire beings, directions and elementals.

This is the story of 'the 3 winters'. This story is to be told after full winter is giving way to the 'longer sun'. This and other stories help to explain the shifts our Mother Earth and Father Sky-Sun are living through and offer us a 'way' to view and welcome in the new season (s) while not having yet fully emerged from the creative void of winter.

The first 'winter' of spring comes when the red bud tree flowers. It is called 'Redbud Winter'.

The second 'winter' of spring comes when the dogwood tree blooms. It is called 'Dogwood Winter'.

The third 'winter' comes when the blackberries bloom. It is called 'Blackberry Winter'.

To continue in the vein of the 3Winters, additional photos will be posted  of the vegetable garden with white eagle Cherokee blue corn sprouts reaching for the sun and drinking of the rain.

One week from today we will be sitting in circle with our sisters and brothers at the Wisdom Keepers Gathering, Council Grove, KS, mirroring the spring greens of our newness for one another...

We are the new myth makers. Watch your personal myths reveal themselves and emerge in your minds, hearts, bodies, spirits, FACES and WORDS.

Come, let us truly mirror for one another that we might see who we are in one another's eyes.

Migwech, wewene kiche migwech,

Bama pi,

Dawnwoman

Spirit Horse Ranch

April 21, 2013

Eanger Irving Couse Studio

The studio of Eanger Irving Couse, one of the Taos Founders, early 20th century painter, as it was when still a working studio, as Dawnwoman recalls it from childhood visiting with her father Woody CRUMBO.

New Painting in Progress

13 Moon Calendar (Oil) 20x20

Donna Lewis & Dawn Woman

Donna Lewis is a long time Moon Circle Sitter from the Nashville, TN Circle. On a recent reunion in NYC, NY, April 12, 2013.

Autumn Equinox 2012

Some of the folks at Ellijay,GA.
We gathered our minds, hearts, bodies and spirits gently together around a central fire which lived for 4 days and nights, celebrated and made new relations.

Something got all the chickens last fall

Twig & Dawn Woman

... laughing it up over chili plates, Santa Fe, NM, Oct. 2012

Lake Michigan, August 2012

Dawnwoman at Lake Michigan

AHO! Original homeland of the Bodewadmin, Citizen Band Potawatomi Nation seen and visited during the annual gathering of Bodewadmin Bands, Huron Nowattaseppi Band hosting.

Bodewadminwen-Potawatomi women

At the Camp

Taos, NM

Taos-Mabel Dodge Lujan

Laura Jean Sandoval & Dawnwoman, St. Francis of Assisi, Ranchos de Taos, NM, Oct. 2012

Early morning mists shroud the mountain this October, 2012

Taos Mountain at Sunrise, Oct. 2012

Busch Family in Ellijay, GA

Glen, Dawn Woman, Christina and Elohi

Checking In

I am providing the link/access to some of what is ongoing at the Spirit Horse Ranch, if I have not already done so.

The vegetable garden is planted and white eagle blue Cherokee corn is sprouting. That's us, folks.
The Wisdom Keepers Conference in Council Grove, KS is due to take place. Next weekend we will gather to talk about this and that, considering many things and raising hearts and minds in prayers of gratitude. You're invited to Join with us in Spirit from where you sit, sleep and stand.
I hope you enjoy the blog..write in....

In the Spirit of Art and Beauty, always
Minisa

Updates

This OETA link is a piece that aired on April 1, 2013 regarding the Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK Centennial Exhibition of Woody CRUMBO. Curator: Carole Klein 

Update: The following May 18, 2013, the Harwood Foundation-UNM, Taos will present CRUMBO,  works on paper produced in the Taos, New Mexico studio from the late 1940's-1950's. Curator: Jina Brenneman

The Teresa Miller interview included the 18 month Crumbo Family Exhibition at the Oklahoma History Center, OKC, OK. Curator: Tara (ra.okstate.edu/Tul_Campus/WritingOutLoud/MinisaCrumbo/video.htm)

My ongoing book entitled The Lost and Found Female Fire was discussed and some of the illustrations were presented.

It has been a very busy season. I hope you enjoy the Interview with Teresa Miller, Executive Director and Founder of the Oklahoma Center of Poets and Writers, Oklahoma State University.