Merry and Bryte

This weekend was fun with a touch of bittersweet in it to bring you back to a bit of reality. Santarchy DC was a great time! A much needed weekend to get my mind off of other things. My friends Rebecca, Amy, and Scratch all went to Santarchy in DC to play in the streets of DC and bring the Spirit of a wacky Holiday Season to all who saw the Santas. Rebecca, Amy and I headed down to DC in our festive wear and were asked if we were in a play several times...:) As we got toward Metro Center there were a few more Santas and they were happy to see us. When we headed out of the Metro toward the museum of Natural History you could see all the 200 + Santas on the steps of the museum. We were greeted by cheers of "Hello Santa!" by all those on the steps. Once we crossed the street we were in a sea of red and white. It was crazy. From Santas of all sorts, from elves (good and very bad) to reindeer, christmas trees, presents, steam punk windup toys, dolls, and even a beautiful snow queen! You name it it was there. We headed over to the Merry-Go-Round in the park across the street as this is an annual Santa tradition. Shouts of Merry Christmas, Happy Holiday's, and caroling as well as excited kids and families reacting to all the Santas was heard through out the crowd. We passed out candy, some passed out mini bottles of booze to the adults and other fine things as gifts from "Santa" and his helpers. From the carosel we headed to the National Monument. Traffic was stopped, Santa's handed out candy to those who were waiting for all Santas and friend to cross. One Santa even boarded a bus and "Caned" the bus...:) At the monument, several santas locked arms and charged the monument. Carols were sung and a circle around the Monument was created by all involved. Next was the huge DC Christmas Tree near Santa's workshop. Scratch aka Rudy Toot Toot, being a music teacher, brought his pocket trumpet and played many songs. He started playing to a very small group of Santas who were singing along and within minutes more and more Santas joined in. A huge chorus of several songs were heard til all Santas's and friends were singing. Then we decided to visit the White House. We needed to say "Buh-Bye"to GW and Scratch started playing Nah nah nah nah, Hey Hey Hey, Good-bye getting the Santas to sing once again. Lots of photos were taken by participants as well as the public. It even SNOWED in DC. A Rare occurance for Santarchy DC so we did well...:) We ended up at Archibald's strip club for about an hour and then Amy, Rebecca and I had to head home. Luckily we did because the roads were really icy and lots of accidents happened along the way slowing us down. :P What a fun time! I was so wiped out. We started at 1 and ended up at Archibald's Strip Club at 3:30 so that's a lot of walking around and working to stay warm. I slept like a baby!

Images are here: flickr.com/photos/21943...603488866048/ and hopefully you can get in to see them...:)

Yesterday, I went to Spoutwood Farm to help Rob and Lucy bury beautiful Shadow, their border collie. I felt a very strong urge to be there to help them with this. I am so glad I went because the love and care that went into that burial was just amazing. Lucy had chosen several different herbs and branches that represented Shadow's spirit to put into her resting place. We went around pruning them and each had a meaning to them. Rob had dug her space and Lucy and I made a bed of maple leaves for her. She was gently laid on the bed of leaves and we each placed in an item one at a time reflecting on what each aspect meant. Shadow was a wonderful dog and her spirit is truly blessed having been with Rob and Lucy. We placed daffodil bulbs that had been dug up in the space and so by spring we will see them on her grave. A bit of joy and knowing that when we see them Shadow's spirit will be running around blessing the festival grounds ready for Fairie Festival 2009. I am on the Music Committee for FF 2009 and will be at a meeting on Sunday to help choose the many performers that have applied to be there. I am looking forward to changing up duties for sure. I love music and what it brings to my life. In a way this may be giving back in several ways to what it has brought to me from the time I was a kid til now.

After being at Spoutwood I went to Frederick's Drum Circle at the Center of the Four Wind's Studio on Caroll Street. The space is run by Rose Sincevich and her kids are all in Shakespeare with Kayley. Wonderful energy and even though the space was small I was still able to hoop a little. So that was a good end to my weekend.

Now on to another week. I have 15 days until I head to Texas. I hope it is warm....:)

Ok now let's see if I can get back into my computer at work - it's been a bear all morning trying to get in...not so cool when I need to get stuff done!!! Grrr...

Peace!

Jeez this took forever...

I finally just got on here... It's been a busy September to say the least and October will probably be just as. I just returned from a new festival called Earth Warriors: Return of the Guardians. It was small, in Ohio (7 hours away) but very worth going to. I met so many people from Wendy Rule to Dorothy Morrison and MR Sellars and the Dragon Ritual Drummers. We actually all hung out around a portable camp fire ring I brought both Friday and Saturday night. Wendy is really awesome and she and myself as well as another friend really connected. Talked alot, laughed, shared deep thought and danced around the fire. I needed this...just one more time around a fire to dance and release and to just be. Now I can go into the colder months with memories sitting in my head of all the wonderful people I have met so far this year. It's been pretty amazing really. So many new facets added to the joys in my life. Alot of folks are on here and some are not but I am almost overwhelmed byt the new steps I have been taking.

I booked my flights to go to Austin in December. Just need some family time I guess. :)

Heading to sleep...I may or may not be on here depending on how tribe acts....we all know that I guess...

Hugs and miss you all!

Getting creative...

I did that yesterday. I have this giant cupcake cake pan and have been thinking about doing this and had the right occasion for it. I now have so many ideas rolling in my head now and so many edible faerie houses I see... I even topped it with edible glitter. You can't see it but it's there. I'll just bring them to parties I go to or parties I have. It was fun to do. :) Only problem no one wanted to cut into it. They didn't want to ruin it. Um it's cake guys...just a dessert....;) Luckily my kiddo had friends over and they cut into it. Enjoyed cake and commetned - I got a window or I got a door... It made me laugh cause most say I got a rose or I got the edge. I sent the rest home with her boyfriend who has more people in their household than we do. Thank goodness for that! I knew we wouldn't be able to eat it all. ;)

Sending out Peace

Last night was fun, random, spur of the moment....etc etc etc. Yesterday was World Hoop Day and also 08-08-08. My friend Kristina and I spontaneously decided that we wanted to spend the evening hooping but also wanted to connect to whatever positive energies we had together and then raise that up and send it out to the World in whatever ways we wanted to.

I pulled together my hoops after work, grabbed my singing bowl, camera, a cd of some tones that link up with 2012 that are seriously just wild to experience and headed to West Virgina. I got to her house at about 6:30 pm and pulled my hoops out. Micah and his friend Lee were up on their roof busy working on reshingling it. I turned toward their fire pit and saw my long lost tripod camp fire grill and that made me happy - it had been missing since ohhhh 2003! Went into the house and found Kristina and Keller coming down the stairs. We got so excited about hooping that we were almost out the door when Keller in his infinite wisdom of being very close to 3 said, "Shoes!! " We ran back toward the stairs where they were dropped and quickly put them on him. As we got outside he saw all the hoops and literally gasped in excitement and ran toward them laughing. We pulled them out onto the yard and started playing for a while. Keller and I played catch me if you can - he ran - I chased with the hoop and captured him! He wore me out - Run run!!! :)

It got closer to 8 and we knew we wanted to meditate so we set Keller up with his Grammie and went upstairs. We relaxed and played the tones - she has surround sound so it was even more intense than what I felt it already had been from my little boom box. Back ache sprung up in K and so I kicked in working with reiki and the tones playing around us. We worked until the aches went away for her and the sounds stopped - about 20 minutes. We chatted in the dark about experiences and more during that time - feedback, releasing, etc. - and then headed into Keller's room to get his Big Boy bed ready for him. We chatted more through it creating railings and setting up a secure space for Keller to sleep in this full sized bed for the night. He was having bath time with Grammie as we did this and just as we finished getting the bedding on the bed along with various stuffed animals he was done. Brought in cradeled in a towel he looked up and saw the Big Boy Bed all ready for him and gasped again in excitement. Jammies were quickly put on and hair quickly combed and he jumped into his bed hopping around like a little frog laughing and excited.

We took him downstairs for good nights and then he headed back up tucked in and fell asleep very quickly. K and I were still jazzed by all the raising of energy and grabbed some food. We got the idea to tape glow sticks on our hoops and so we had to run out to the store and get some. We got back and started setting up the votives to create our peace sign. We filled up glass baby food jars and put them in a little red wagon. K had always wanted to do this in her front yard and I was totally game. Our objective was to keep the energies positive, raised up, focused on the world and on manifesting this night into whatever it needed to be - but with the theme of light, fun and positive - letting any cares go. We had about 50 - 75 votives. We broke some glow sticks and mapped out our circle and then went from there. It was about midnight byt the time we were finished just setting them up in the yard. We ran inside and with all the glow sticks, broke them and taped them to our hoops. We ran back outside and began to light the votives and slowly our huge peace sign was glowing. We hoped that the airplanes abov or whatever above us saw this huge symbol coming from the two of us, like little kids hoping that waving to the truck driver would entice him to honk the horn. If the planes had horns we hoped they would honk! :)

We shut out the porch light and grabbed our hoops and hooped right in the peace sign. I was hooping and taking pictures and some of them turned out with crazy looking lights, like mini messages written in glowing colors in the dark of the night. We saw shooting stars fly above us and played and played. At one point we stopped and I grabbed our singing bowls. We stood at opposite ends of the big line outside of the peace sign and began to tone them. Encircling the symbol sounding the bowls and sending more energy out to whomever was receptive. Once full circle we stood back in the same place as we begun and struck the bowls 3 times spontaneously sending a prayer a signal or whatever out into the Universe with an energetic message from the two of us. K began talking after the tones died down as we stood across from one another. We stood there like that for minutes and then moved into the peace symbol and sat and talked for hours about all different kinds of things but just enjoyed that space. By the time we were finished it was 3:30am. I headed for home still on the buzzing from our night.

I love spontaenous things like this! The fact that I have friends like this who will play in this way with me...just going with the flow and moving with whatever we wanted to create. We both needed this personal time together to do this. Just the two of us moving like we did in that flow and allowing each other to play off of it. I feel so grateful for this. Being Peace, Being in the moment and Sending Peace....

See I remembered for real!

I am going to the dentist now...seriously this is a milestone after this month...;)

See you all with bright shinies in a bit!

Love!

PS - oh and yes I am totally making fun of myself....;)

Just a little reminder to myself...

Am I creating from and through Unconditional Love fo myself and others?

Will my creation bring the highest good fo myself and others and the planet?

Am I reacting to others and their creations from individual and personal, emotional or mental patterns, or am I responding as a channel for the Love of Source?

Am I ready to surrender to the flow of Love from Spirit and to Trust that my creation will manifest in perfection at the right time?

Am I creating from my heart in a balanced and loving way?

I will lovingly connect with Source daly to co-create my daily life with the Highest and most Loving Intentions fo myself, others and the planet.

Transformus

I am not sure I can put all the experiences into a blog...I am still swirling around from it. Here's what I love the most:

Everyone saying "hi" and welcoming me home as I drove into Deerfields
Friends meeting back up again
Seeing those who I have met here and actually making them a part of my growing family
Meeting new friends and encircling them with love
Costumes
Scratch bead hooping
Jenny's quick witted humor and supporting her "conquests"
Runways
Tarpology
BACON
Starry ceilings
Songs and conversation from Area 51
Amira and Scott's smiling warm faces and sparkling eyes
Colorful Bubble Camp
Wafting spice from Indian food
People playing with the Giant Penis at Pornyata
Fire Spinning across the way
Hearing "Ring of Fire" about 20 times over the weekend and thinking of Silent Hill
Camping Shower's
The World's Largest Underpants
Hula Hoops
Knowing Junebug the moment I saw him at PLF
PLF! Yeaaa!
The MAN!
The Art!
BACON!
The beautiful Armadillo
The beautiful Full moons and starry nights!
Piling up blankets and sleeping int he tent
Jenny's Yummy camping foood! Thank you!
Costumes and the amazing donations to the cause!
Delicioso Wine from the lovely Wineman at the main stage
Filling & Cleaning Lamps
Being warned about a possible whupping - Run Sprye RUN!!!!
Walking around in The World's Largest Underpants and experiencing the reactions - hee hee!
You Are Beautiful!
Hooping with Scratch to Mambo #5 and having others stop to dance
Cool Art Cars and tractors and bikes, Oh My!
Glow sticks in the porto-potty's when I forgot my flashlight - love you people for doing that!!
Rocky Horror!
Progress Darrell and crew at PLF doing synchronized grass dancing!
Did I say BACON??!?
Lucas spinning with the flow! Go little brother!
The Loooooove Boat and show tunes!
C-eh-N-eh-D-eh!
Lucy the puppy with the cast on her little leg romping around and puppy happy anyway!
Starry lights in the trees
Mid-night snacks at 4am
Human Habitrail
Jenny's Unicorn Hair
Scratch bead hooping!! You really h ave to see this!
The Conclave and the beauty of the fire they brought to us and the synchronicity & unity of their dance!
Amira shouting to me about being there next year!
The Burn and how fast it went!
The crowd letting loose, yelling and cheering and running, running, running around the fire!
Willy Wonka
Matthew McConauhey/Woody Harrelson dude and the Big Bird Yellow Boa
Smiley Face guy!
Popscicles - Love you guys!
Chatting about kiddos and seeing the bigger picture
Big Blue Beaver
Gifting Tree
The Lake
Day Glo Jenny
PEX - w00t!
Chocolate!
Having one small rack of clothes on Sunday!
Packing Up
Meeting more people
Saying good-byes
Riding to the lot with nice people being pulled by a tractor
Packing almost everything into my car - damn bag is still in NC...:\
Taking a kid to Asheville on the way home
Singing in the car and smiling at the memories of all that touched my spirit at Transformus and hoping we all get together again very soon!!
Decompresssssssssssssion.........


That's not all cause there is so much more but it's all for now....;) I'll have pictures hopefully once I get my bag back....
XOXO