joined on 02/09/05
last updated 06/13/08
When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed. -Joseph Campbell
about me
Singer/songwriter, flute, djembe, piano player. I am a goddess, I am a hypocrite, I am a human BEING human, I am a poet, a, a liver of life, a lover of most, a nature worshiper, a people watcher, a warrior of compassion, a scared (sacred) little girl, A ferocious woman, a fiery spirit. I am a cosmic traveling being of light who embraces life to the fullest.
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Calling all Beings with Collaborative Inspirations to join us at a
Sacred All Night Fire Circle, July 3rd-6th, 2008!!!
Sacred SoulFire-Maryland, in Harmony, Maryland, invites you to
Celebrate Your Shamanic Nature, your Muse-ical Mastery and our
Artistic Independence and Inter-dependence.
The Logistics:
Sacred SoulFire - Maryland
An All Night Sacred Fire Circle (drumming, dancing, art in action, singing).
Our Theme - Building Harmony
Thursday July 3rd - Sunday July 6th, 2008
Core Collaborator Days, Weds July 2nd and Monday July 7th.
Held at Hawkwood Farm in Harmony, Maryland (15 mins outside of
Frederick, MD, about an hour and 15 mins from Baltimore and DC.)
Pre-Registration Preferred - www.consciouscollaborations.com/SSF
$75.00 Camping, Pre-Registered
$125.00 Camping, At The Gate
Donations Accepted for Scholarships and Children's Programming
Darriel Park Returns to Nurture us with an Amazing Meal Plan ($50)!
Some Work Trade Available, Contact Mz. imani.
The Intentions:
Sacred SoulFire empowers individuals to empower themselves and Build
Harmony within the embrace of a consecrated, community supported
Sacred Fire Circle. The elemental alchemy that we co-create at
SoulFire provides you with the opportunity to co-create and maintain
an environment that encourages you to grow into your full potential.
Within the Sacred All Night Fire Circle we can push past limitations -
embody our highest visions of self expression – drum and dance to our
hearts content - give service to the collective - receive gifts of
spirit and soul from the collective -
have fun - co-create and share an ordeal - build harmony within the
self and the collective - and to greet the dawn - all in community.
The Process:
The unique and eclectic elemental approach of Sacred SoulFire invites
you to go deep into your heart as you go deep into the night. In the
afternoons, you are invited to join an Elemental Group to explore one
of the 5 topics offered. All Elemental Groups support the sacred all
night fire circle. Whether thru the expressions of drumming & music,
dancing and chanting, spoken word and visual art, or the manifestation
of harmony in our lives and in our world, the all night fire circle
and the Elemental Groups help to guide us on a mystical journey that
rhythmically re-awakens our potential.
The Commitments:
Conscious Collaborations will instigate a space where we can co-create
a rhythmic, art based, ecstatic temple of transmutation. We promise to
encourage you; to put the tools into your hands and help you learn how
to use them. We promise to show up and meet the community, where the
community is, and help make this joyful experience for all present.
Sacred SoulFire is dedicated to helping the heart of humanity heal,
One Fire At A Time. We show up with the commitment to dance with the
spirits and co-create a container where we can individually and
collectively explore Shamanism, Conscious Evolution and Sacred Fire
Circle Play. We promise to do this in a way that is inclusive, mindful
and elemental in nature.
Core Collaborators
We invite folks we know to be movers and shakers in the larger Fire
Circle Family to be involved in SSF. SoulFire's Elemental Fire Circle
Tech, is open and inclusive. Our core collaborators are folks whom we
experience have a balanced understanding of the importance of
inspiring others to join in and help to hold the container, the
rhythm, the chant, the art, the dance, etc, etc, etc.
SSF's Core Collaborators are old friends and facilitators who inspire
new found friends to step up and follow their hearts in ways that are
supportive of the collective (and the individuals in the collective).
We do all we can to build and maintain a safe and sacred zone at the
fire circle, and we trust our Comm(on)\Unity to be responsible. We
make room for everyone to connect within the elemental nature the
gathering.
Elemental Group Leaders include: Sefirah, Mz. imani, Martin Bridge,
BlackByrd, Steven Wyndwalker and Hawk Ryan.
Guardians of the Flame (Fire Tenders) are Dancing Tree Joe and Lyra Love
Our Chef is Dariell Park (2 meals a day, with amazing snacks. Billy
Woods says "…it is the Best Food I have EVER had at a gathering…")
Security Liaisons are Kendal Craig and Erin Aylor
Comm(on)Unity Arts Projects Liaison is Bellavia
Sacred Body Art (tattooing and piercing) Sacred Mark Sanctuary
Children's Programming Liaison is Tammi Park
Ritual Arts Liaison is Mz. imani
Land Guardian is Erin Aylor
For more information or to register, visit
www.consciouscollaborations.com/SSF
Or call Mz. imani: 301-461-3214
May 17th @ The Muddy Cup Beacon, 3pm...also with Erica Quitzow
Tue, February 5, 2008 - 10:56 AM
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Hey all SF people...
I am in Ukiah right now and need to fly out of SF on Monday afternoon to start a tour in LA. There is only one bus that leaves from here to SF and it is too late. so...
I either need a ride from Ukiah to SF on Monday morning/early afternoon
or a place to stay Sunday evening
i have gas $$
and can cook some yummy food
love
meryl
Fri, February 1, 2008 - 5:42 PM
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Jan 11 2008 9:00P
7 Stages Theater with Jacob Mason Atlanta, Georgia (Meryl JOan Lammers originals)
West Coast TOUR!!!! with Quitzow and Setting Sun (singing backup vox and playing keys)
Feb 5 2008 9:00P
Silverlake Lounge: Quitzow and Setting Sun
Los Angeles, California
Feb 7 2008 8:00P
Old Iron Sides: Quitzow
Sacramento, California
Feb 8 2008 8:00P
Mosgo's: Settnig Sun
Arcata, California
Feb 9 2008 8:00P
Shady Pines: Quitzow
Eugene, Oregon
Feb 10 2008 8:00P
Ash St. Saloon: Quitzow and Setting Sun
Portland, Oregon
Feb 11 2008 8:00P
High Dive: Setting Sun
Seattle, Washington
Feb 12 2008 8:00P
LeVoyeur: Setting Sun
Olympia, Washing
myspace.com/meryljoanlammers
myspace.com/quitzow
myspace.com/settingsun
www.settingsun.cc
Orien told me I was "collecting data." I suppose he's right. I have been prancing across the nation, deconstruction old patterns, intentionally, shamanically throwing myself in uncpmfortable situations. I have had a few realizations, a few break downs, and many moments of joy. Most of my joyous moments happened when I came home again.
Coming home was something I was petrifyed of doing when I left. I went as far as to break the curse of "returning to the Shawangunk mountains" by throwing not just a stone into the Wallkill River, but a boulder (aided by my old housemate Justin and a few glasses of beer). Results: I still returned. Why? Because this is my home and I had to leave to realize just how proud I am to be here, among the people I love, the mountains that, no matter how many times I climb them, still seem to take my breath away.
I recognized my strengths and weaknesses when it comes to realtionships, to other people, to myself, to lovers, to partners, to my environment.
Imani told me I had a lesson in realizing just how healthy I am.
Jacob said to me: "I suspect that is what you do, hop around touching things, pouring your light into them."
At least that's what I try to put out there...helping people recognize their beauty within. Only this time I am doing it with grace and caution. I will not let go of myself in the process. Because really part of the process is for me to realize my own beauty...a beauty I allowed others to cloud, shadow and try and take from me.
Ghandi said: "be the change you want to see in the world." So I'm trying. I am trying by way of my everyday interactions with people. There is a war OUT THERE. Where we CAN't see it. AND there is a war IN HERE. Inside ourselves that we choose to ignore.
Pete said he wanted to do something huge and change the world.
The way we heal is through our connection with each other. The way we cahnge the world is in our everyday reactions and interactions with each other and our environment. We have choices. We can choose to treat each other with love, honesty and respect, or we can choose to speak violently, harshly, lying about what is true for ourselves. The way of violence will perpetuate the war inside us and overseas...and on our streets...
Ani said: "The world owes me nothing, we owe each other the world." I am dedicated to reminding and reflecting to people their beauty and talents, and truth and their essence. We are all artists...it's finding our medium that sometimes takes a bit too long. Therein lies the struggle.
Tori Amos said "Diversity Creates Wholeness." And this is what I learned on the road.
And this is why I am creating this page: to honor the people in my life who have shown me parts of myself I didnt know existed...the dark and the light. And this page is also dediacted to the parts of myself that sometimes go overlooked and overshadowed.
Wed, January 2, 2008 - 2:55 PM
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I have flown back east for a short period of time, to be with family and friends...i always feel cradled in the arms of the valley, as if goddess herself is rocking and singing to me... i am learning to live moment to moment, one day at a time, and simply trust that spirit will guide me where I need to be. Yoga taught me to be flexible, not only in the physical sense, but also in the mental/emotional sense. I have been given the opportunity to look at money in a new light as well, and am now able to make right some things that went wrong last winter. I am looking forward to clearing the air and gaining back personal integrity. December will bring more traveling, this time acoss the southern part of our nation. I have gypsy in my blood and am honoring her. I feel like for the first time in my life I am just being. and it feels great. I finally get it, SHADY! HAhahahhahaahaaaaaa......
Sat, November 17, 2007 - 4:35 PM
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September 12, 2007
what up magickal, mystical meryl. hope you are having fun on the west coast! keep singing those beautiful songs.
November 26, 2006
Blackbyrd, you are awesome. I can't even begin to tell you what a super fun time hanging out with you last weekend and I've carried so much of the experience home with me. I'm missing the energy (and the trees) already. Blessings in everything you do.
October 26, 2006
if a homemade cherry pie right out of the oven could sing like an angel and play piano like a mudder fugger, then you'd have to call it BlackByrd!
October 25, 2006
A powerful force of light in the world, she has shared with me the responsibility of knowing our true nature and the duty we have toward one another to express our unity of purpose and being.
October 24, 2006
when BlackByrd's Singing in the dead of night, she gives comfort to the moon and stars and sends such sweet dreams to the sleeping sun that it finds motivation to rise in the morning.
she's hip, fun, funky, funny... a bright woman able to stand strong in her convictions and also expose her tender and vulnerable heart in song and in friendship.
although she refuses to try a SPAM and tequila cocktail, she can still be an altered girl in Pope Shady's congregation any day.
she's a gem and she's brought many smiles to my face in the short time i've known her. spirit willin' and the creek don't rise, i look forward to many more years of smiles.
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