SPIRIT TALK Book Signing, Barnes & Noble, Tulsa, OK, December 17, 2016

SPIRIT Talk Book Signing, Barnes and Noble, Tulsa, OK

Minisa Crumbo and Steve Gerkin

Ann Sartain, Minisa Crumbo, and Barbara Kelley

Leon Russell Tulsa Tribute, Cain's Ballroom, December 15, 2016

Leon Russell Tulsa Tribute @ Cain's Ballroom

Jana Jae's Gallery Southwest, 920 S. Main, Grove, OK/ Dec. 10, 2016 (1 - 4p)

Minisa Crumbo, daughter of famed artist, Woody Crumbo, and awarded teacher Lillian Crumbo will be in Jana Jae’s Gallery Southwest, Grove, OK on December 10. The public is invited to stop in the Gallery located at 920 S. Main in Grove to visit with Minisa from 1 to 4 p.m.

Jana Jae, Minisa Crumbo, Jane Frost and Jim Halsey

Larry Black, Minisa Crumbo, and Mark Ward

Minisa Crumbo, Potawatomi/Muscogee Creek, brings professional artistry from her native childhood home to her present professional practice in the arts of painting, silversmithing, lapidary arts, ceramics, basket making, beadwork, and quilting. She facilitates and presents traditional women's ways and endeavors to work in harmony with the natural and spiritual elements of "Mother Earth and Father Sky-Sun.....that we might truly be alive in a living world."

At 2 p.m. Minisa will give a talk on her latest book, “Spirit Talk’ a book of days. She reminds us that life is always about remembering, for at the core of our remembering lives our sacred nature and the sacredness of all Creation. She will autograph her Spirit Talk book and also her new adult coloring book, “The 13 Moons.” This beautiful book features visions of “New Life” to visions of the “Tree of Life” symbolizing celestial life. Each illustration to be colored is a wonderful reminder of the sacredness of creation. The Gallery is honored to have her original painting of “13 Moons” to share.

Short videos from the 12/10/2016 book signing and studio talk presenting;
... SPIRIT TALK ... A HANDBOOK FOR THE SPIRITUAL WARRIOR
At Jana Jae's Southwest Gallery in Grove, OK

Empowering Women Through Art -- Bacone College, Muskogee, OK, Nov. 29, 2016

Bacone College's Merritt D. Betts Library will host a special reception for the artists featured in the "Empowering Women through Art" exhibit from 6-8 p.m. Nov. 29, 2016. There is no cost to attend and refreshments will be served.

The "Empowering Women through Art" exhibit features the inspiring works of Minisa Crumbo Halsey and Molly Murphy Adams, both multi-talented Native American women.

A talented artist, author, teacher and photojournalist, Halsey's contribution to the "Empowering Women through Art" exhibit includes a selection of hand-made turquoise and silver jewelry and her latest publication "Spirit Talk - A Book of Days."

Molly Murphy Adams' work stems from a combination of traditional feminine arts, both Native and mainstream, with contemporary design and media.

"I overlay these traditional skills and design sensibilities with a contemporary understanding and interest in modern art," she said. Her contributions to the "Empowering Women through Art" exhibit include many beautiful beadwork on fabric pieces.

The exhibit continues during library hours through Dec. 15. For more information, please contact Merritt D. Betts Library Executive Director Faye Davis, davisf@bacone.edu.

Listening to SPIRIT TALK: make prayers ... burn sage and sweetgrass!

Well, good morning, bozho, jayek!

No damage from the quake here in the black jack hills of Oklahoma, even though it measured strongly, the experience of it was gentle and rolling ... a surface quake ... apparently, the deeper ones are jerky because of plate activity. Interestingly enough, I found myself listening for a message at each pause and realizing, that IS the message ... listening to the natural world.

This was a short break from the SPIRIT TALK contributions but, Spirit has spoken and this is what I hear. We will soon be hearing many voices of wisdom arise from the four directions and a great many cries will multiply and be heard upon the land.

Current events are a wake up call to all. What we must now do? We must look to do that which is before us ... as well as just keep on keeping on with daily and personal contributions and responsibilities ... but, many, more, important considerations vie for our attention.

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Current events are charging us to 'make our own elections' and in so doing, position or reposition ourselves from a powerful and centered personal focus upon our Medicine Wheel, a position that does not entertain or function (for long) from a sense of fear or division.

More than ever, it is up to us to listen and to 'MAKE PRAYERS' that the world might go on 'in a good way' and then, most importantly perhaps, to remember that within all of these things are deeply embedded messages of seeding, growing, maintaining and continuing stances of  active positive consciousness, postures of gratitude, senses of spacious wisdom, growing awareness, vital and enduring senses of internal Spirit connection ... no matter what. We must remember that the answers are encoded within every question ... we must ask, listen, question, test and consider obeying that which would appear to be clear, loving and positive responses emanating from Spirit and or our highest mind, heart, body and spirit construct.

Election or choice positions and results of any and all kinds extend and represent unique liberation and empowerment opportunities. Evolution opportunities abound and clarity is being made strikingly clear, where perhaps heretofore clouded by inertia, under attention or personal interest.

It is now clear that the map of each person's Standing Rock has moved much closer. We here in Oklahoma have the Black Snakes to deal with as well ... as do each of us.

Let us never forget that we and all others are the SACRED!

Let us walk all days, all ways, in balance and harmony with you, Creator ... AHO!

Bama  mine,

Dawn Woman

Spirit Talks

Greetings Spirit Talkers and Spirit Walkers,

I am writing to express my deepest gratitude for your visits to the SPIRIT TALK entries, both on my blog, to Debra at the Jaguar Spirit-Medicine Wheel site, Mayan Majix, Kaypacha, Facebook, and Twitter publications.

After much thought and prayer I am ready to speak of how it is with me, at this time. The voice of Spirit has been speaking for some time, suggesting to me, that this season would most ideally be explored and honored as one of simplification and relative silence and solitude.

I am deeply appreciative of this guidance and am in the process of listening and obeying.

As I accept and seek the ways by which to best respond to this direction, I find there will be no further posts of Spirit Talk and the Medicine Wheel column.. for the time being. The book, SPIRIT TALK, was initiated during a first four days of December, in silence and solitude, therefore, moving forward  into the relative unknown with confidence and happiness, I would invite you to consider and perhaps join in initiating a personal medicine journey of listening, BEING the witness, appreciating, Firing the Seeds of Inspiration for a very personal Medicine Wheel passage of observing, writing, dreaming and lovingly honoring the coming 13 Moons.

Please feel free to enter your discoveries and wonderings on my blog (dawnwoman5@gmail.com) should you want. I would love to hear from you, as I'm sure would others, as we share our earth walks and Spirit Talks within this time of great positive potential and personal evolution of mind, heart, body and Spirit...within the context of the Sacred Medicine Wheel Teachings, one among many, of the great truth teachings and systems to be found upon our beautiful Mother Earth and Father Sky-Sun.

Blessings,
Good Journeys, Balance and Harmony be ours, this and all days, now and forever more..for it is by our prayers that our world goes on In A Good Way.

Kiche  migwech, Mamogosnan, for all of the gifts..may we move always, with hearts full of love and all of the good things.

To All My Relations,
Dawn Woman
Minisa Crumbo Halsey

Autumn 2016: Part 3

Here we depart from the known and embark on forging medicine relationships with the essential healing qualities of the plant beings directly. So much information of loving substance and value has been lost to us, forgotten, hidden from us, punished, co-opted or discredited and yet many alternative restorative and healing continue to reveal themselves as 'new' or surface in the grass roots research labs of suffering and need, our own and that of others. Courage must be summoned to think deeply about want and need. Talking, reading, observing the good old ways of establishing honest relationships with every aspect of a condition and then stepping out with new eyes, trusting, testing and flexing the new muscle of intuition first on small conditions and then the larger and then the largest. There is no one else to look to but ourselves, collectively, to initiate the Spirit Talks, rebuilding and restoring strong and vital connection and communication with all of the other living things with which we share the planet. We are seriously out of touch with the natural world and continuously moving more seriously out of balance with the whole. We can and must take these steps for our survival. Our survival means stepping put of ignorance, desensitization and feelings of entitlement..anything and everything we can identify that contributes to real or imagined feelings of separation with anything. We are want and need driven, always. These wants and needs will serve us well when order and connection is desired with the natural world, the animals, our ancestral helpers and Spirit guides and the plant beings in particular. The restoration of honorable communication with the plant beings is of paramount importance and of the guidance presented here, found elsewhere and intuited is especially successful, perhaps the plant beings or being will come forward, reveal themselves and talk to you. Then you're on your way. That's the way is always was. The plant beings will then state exactly how they can be helpful and to whom and why...they will say when and how they should be picked, stored, prepared and spoken to..they will teach the forgotten words and songs that should accompany picking, preparation and application. That's the way it goes when it goes well.. This is a true restoration of balance and harmony through a mind, heart, body and Spirit driven initiative in concert with native beauty, the Medicine Wheel Teaching or a structure your choice, design or vision, for our heartbeat and the heartbeat of the Mother Earth are one.
 
WE MUST WALK WITH HUMILITY. WE MUST DO THIS IN ORDER TO SEE AND HEAR ALL THINGS CLEARLY, AND PUT AN END TO THAT WHICH IS NOT REAL.


THE ORIGINAL INSTRUCTIONS
Now comes the work of setting these things we shall call the Original Instructions in place and tending them with attention and highest consciousness. 
 
All  beings are born with a set of original instructions. The clear physical instructions which which we all arrive are DNA and heredity patterning. We, like all beings contain, produce and reproduce adaptive potential to successfully meet a wide variety of growth conditions from birth stresses, the vulnerabilities of youth, reproductive opportunities, sickness, old age and transition activities.  Within our specific lineages are past histories charting the major evolutionary shifts. Science and medicine are able to measure and evaluate current and future cellular data shifts and now, even extends it reach to enter original seed packaging and manipulate base genetic structure in order to legally extend ownership of the developed seed stock for profit in the field and marketplace. The former seed stock contains and reproduces itself according to its original instructions while Genetically Modified seed stock does not. We intend to follow the original instructions and put an end to that which is not real.

We are choosing to continue measuring our steps to meet and journey within the mystical outlines of the original instructions.

Personal choices and affinities of religion and culture shall remain such.

Within this text the major theme is The Original Instructions as revealed and made manifest in the Creator's first gift to us, the two-leggeds ..., most beautiful and enduring gift of the unknowable cosmos within which lives and is breathed alive: Our Mother Earth; Our Father Sky Sun; Our Grandmother the Moon; the Star Beings; the cognizent and powerful elementals .. Water, Fire, Wind, the Green Beings, the Directions .. Spirit Helpers ...all beings who live upon, above and within this Mighty Gift-The Medicine Wheel of Life.... Ho, Mitakweasin..my Relations, I ask you to overlook any omissions or mistakes in this, the naming...there are so many..and I am still learning how to become and live as a complete human being.

And now, I will pause to think on these things.