Friday, April 5, 2019

Deep Fork River, south of Prague, OK

The Deep Fork River, south of Prague, OK ... today, on the way to Drum Group in Shawnee. It rained all night on the new garden ... the redbud trees are at peak bloom ... 

This is the big ripper of a wild river that passed by your grandparents home near Pierce, Oklahoma. Crossing the flooded bridges to see Grandma and Grandpa used to scare me so bad, Dad driving slowly over those suspension bridges with water flowing OVER the clanking planks ... it's the first time I remember being scared and then we would be with Gram and Poppa.
 
The Oklahoma Report.
 
Smiles,
Mom, Auntie & Dewebenkwe Sister

Wednesday, March 27, 2019

Excerpts from 'Spirit Talk'


Excerpts from 'Spirit Talk': It is from the unified and receptive language interaction of our mind, heat, body, and spirit languages that we are able to communicate with the realities and even messages from denizens of the natural world – refreshing and newly emerging spirit beings in the forms of plants, animals, the Grandmother Moon and Star Beings, the Wind, Fire, and Water Beings, and even the heartbeat of Mother Earth, the pulses of Father Sky-Sun, and the mind of the Prime Creator, the Master of All Breath …

The Medicine Wheel 4 X 4 wagon is building its wheels. The finely meshed and recognized gears of language that carry our loads, provide a center and direction, are beginning to be directionally and seasonally purposed to function as an inclusive true home and spiritual sanctuary. The home is under final construction and livable … always a dance and a song in the process of becoming at spring, or any given time. Welcome home traveler and seeker …  

Spring Equinox: The east-west arm of balance is the ‘hard road of life’. The east-west axis provides the essential cross balance with the north-south cross balance – spinal axis of harmony – the Good Red Road … This mental spring arm extends forward and out from the center, joining with the introspective, medicine autumn arm of the autumnal equinox. The Medicine Wheel is in an active and visible building process.

Thursday, March 14, 2019

White Buffalo Calf, Owasso, OK, 3/10/19

Jim and Minisa Halsey (Left) and
Tim and Alicia Nevaquah (Right)
near Owasso, OK on 3/10/2019
with a white buffalo calf (Far Left)

Monday, February 18, 2019

Shambala Meditation Center Opening, 2/16/19, Tulsa, OK.

Greetings all,
An update on some of our winter and early spring Longhouse-Phoenix House activities.

Spirit Horse Ranch Women's Drum Circle
Shambala Meditation Center Opening
Tulsa, OK
February 16, 2019
Left to right: Minisa Crumbo Halsey; Susan Elliott; 
Manda Pie; Carol Calvert; Amanda Lambert

On Feb. 16, 2019, the Spirit Horse Ranch Women's Drum Circle participated in opening the Shambala Meditation Center, Tulsa, OK. We sang the Strong Woman song and the Women's Water Song accompanied by our handmade drums.
Shambala Meditation Center Director and Circle Member, Anna Veronisi
 and Minisa Crumbo

The opening was well attended beginning with a wet, green juniper purification ceremony in the Tibetan tradition, at the main outdoor entrance. There were a number of speakers, ceremonies and chants with cello and cedar flute music interspersed with the program.

Manda Pie contributed her painting of a principal Tibetan Goddess. It can be viewed in part behind the photo. Refreshments followed.

NAMASTE,
Dawn Woman
Shambala Meditation Center
Tulsa, OK

Friday, February 15, 2019