2014 Taos Festival of the Arts

Minisa Crumbo and Anita Rodriquez

September 24, 2014, Taos Mountain, Taos, NM, sunset

September 24, 2014, Taos Mountain, Taos, NM, sunset

The mountains are growing larger. The lens of the autumn sky seems to refract, elevate and magnify the Sangre de Cristo mountains as the Rocky Range finally plays out between the high great plains to the east and to the west, the northern most finger into the New Mexico Sonoran Desert sticks a beautiful, bony finger as far as La Bajada Hill, south of Santa Fe.

The autumn season of the western introspection time is drawing a brilliantly colored veil of illusion and crisp fact, crusted with blowzy finishes and a scent of the unexpected and unknown.

Old Taos Courthouse - 1941 WPA Murals (1 of 10)
  2014 Taos Festival of the Arts
September 26, 2014

Something completely unexpected at a critical seasonal juncture ... the inexact fortunes of all other things and beings besides those who would seek to plan, organize, understand and control as much as possible, brings the sense of a wild and possibly unruly finish to the season and perhaps presages more of the same as weather faces are exposed in our moment, but out of their along snaking journeys on high wind rivers.

Minisa Crumbo and Anita Rodriquez

Old water washed boulders tumble and soil breaks loose making mud flows in the flash floods of late fall rains and any kind of cloud from summer cirrus to thunder heads to spacey snow scouts can be seen.

7:40 AM -- The Equinox keyhole is opening ...

Dawn Woman has subscribed to "Writing Life in Taos"

Dawn Woman has subscribed to Writing Life in Taos.

The Vision of the 13 Moon-Blue Corn Circle is completed.

Bozho Nikan, Hello, my bone,
The 13 Moon Blue Corn Circle was harvested nine months after the Seeds of Inspiration-SPIRIT TALK- painting was begun. It is paintings, writings, conceptual garden plans and harvests and other records of ourselves as farmers of our lives, such as these, that are revealed in all of their integrity and beauty to be the intentional precursors that allow us to begin building, recognizing and experiencing ourselves as full co-Creators.

When we ally with the schedules of balance and harmony in accord with the rhythms of the natural world certain patterns reveal themselves with undeniable accuracy. Seasonal truths begin to become self evident when even minimal records are kept which can affirm the strength and power of Medicine Wheel partnership and mirror our inner most medicine truths. These truths offer validations of ours and others personal processes, placements and medicine journeys with our elemental parents, our Mother Earth and our Father Sky Sun, within the circle of the Sacred Hoop.

The Blue Corn Circle is my visible offering arising out of the December emergence vision of SPIRIT TALK and how it progressed throughout the past nine, gestational months, manifesting not only in the soon to be published SPIRIT TALK-BOOK OF DAYS but a visual record of the blue corn progress.

This is a profound moment in time for me personally. I invite and gift you to be the witness not only of the crop but of the conceptions and successful completions of the painting and of the book, SPIRIT TALK.

I would offer greetings and thanks for all of the encouragement and support I have received throughout this and all past years from my family, friends, teachers and the beings and blessings of the Creator and of all Creation.

Migwech, wewene kiche migwech,
Dawn Woman

Advance Schedule for the 13 Grandmother's Council 2014, Spearfish, SD

International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers

Advance Schedule for the 13th Gathering of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers, 

in Spearfish, SD, September 4 - 7, 2014

View and Download Full 4-day Program

Pre-Conference Excursions with the 13 Indigenous Grandmothers

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RSU Rogers State University Annual Fundraiser Taping, Claremore, OK

...featured guest chefs from the Tulsa, OK area. Minisa contributed and demonstrated a recipe for Wild Grape Dumplings given to her by her maternal grandmother, Harriett Hogue.

A cook book will also be produced featuring the recipe and others from the guest chefs and cooks in the NE Oklahoma viewing area. It will begin airing in November.

The segment was taped at and sponsored by the Hahn Appliance Warehouse and Reasor's.
Pictured is (left): Jennifer Sterling, Ex. director of Programing, RSU TV; (Right): Minisa Crumbo Halsey

Jennifer Sterling and Minisa Crumbo Halsey

Minisa Crumbo Halsey and Lou Puliese, Reasor's, Special Events Coordinator