Ever feel like hitting the trail?
Destination Pow Wow Trail?
Well, that is what this old girl feels
like doing right now...hitting the trail.
Going to listen to those Drums beat
out the Heartbeat of Mother Earth.
It has been too long for me and my
heart yearns for it. The pic of me
above was taken three summers ago
at a PowWow just over the border in
Rockton, Illinois. Man it was a cooker
that day...I had stood in line for almost
an hour to get a piece of fry bread and
that was after I visited all the vendors
that piqued my interest. So by the
time I got back to my chair I was sun-
burned and a little woozy. That is what
happens when you don't remember the
sunblock! So here I am in all my sweaty
glory, with hair stuck up in back by a
hair clip...you know one of those with
teeth, but my hair is so fine that it
inevitably falls out anywho? But I do
digress....
I am ready for a vacation. A vacation
from everything. I just want to go and
do and be. Whatever blows up my skirt.
My kids are off camping this weekend and
I think that is what precipitated my bad
case of wanderlust. When I was younger
it was nothing for me to throw all necessary
items in the trunk of my car and I'd be
down the road.
I'd really like to leave right now to go to
the Gulf Waters and sit with those animals
who are dying...it just about breaks my heart.
I'd like to sit and talk with Mother Osha..our
Water Mother and send healing into her. I
know that my prayers since all of this began
are being heard...my healing energies are
being received, but sometimes don't you
just want to be in the thick of things and
throw down the gauntlet, take up your
medicine bag, open it up and use your
arsenal to do whatever needs to be done?
Well, that is how I feel right now... and I
have to sigh.
It isn't in the cards for me to do that, so
I sit here and visualize me being there
doing my part, and each night when I go
into Dreamtime I set my intention to go
and do my part. I can tell you for me
that means astral travel, and as I fly over
the Waters wherever they are, I send the
healing down into the Deep. Heal Sweet
Earth Mother, Sweet Oshu, Heal....
For now I will take up my Drum and beat
out the Heartbeat that will transport me
in time to where I should be...would be
if I were physically able. I will join the
others on June 12th who are going to the
tributaries, the streams, the rivers, the
aquafiers, the ocean, and I will be praying
with my whole being that the Oil Spill will
be rectified immediately. I will pray for all
hands on deck, for ideas to sprout forth,
for listening by the powers that be who
regulate to open up and listen with their
hearts instead of their pocketbook. And
I will pray that all of you join me in this
movement of epic proportion. Hold it in
your being, your awareness, and feel it
deeply and with reverence...we are all in
this together. It is said and scientists
agree, that it only takes one percent of a
population to bring about a miracle when
all gather to bring about change. So let's
do it!
I found this song by Alison Kraus on You
Tube entitled Let's Go Down to the River
To Pray and while some of the wording may
not necessarily jive with your spirit, the
message is very clear and I am going to
sing it loudly and put my whole being into
it. You sing loudly too! I can hear you
way over here, lol! I give you Alison...
Wishing for you all, pure, crystalline water...
water that heals, water that refreshes,
water that nourishes and water that is
Holy......
I'm going to have my own PowWow and
listen to the Heartbeat of Earth Mother...
Ina Maka.
