tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-169752502024-03-07T18:06:34.016-05:00mickie's musingsFollowing my footstepsMichellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11485771499070945003noreply@blogger.comBlogger440125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16975250.post-21115473906441322021-09-07T09:06:00.004-04:002022-12-06T09:11:43.080-05:00Letters for my Mother Julianne Marie 16975250/5865399928079152281 Where my butterfly heart flutters, trying to fly back to the Meadow back to your wide open arms, your Love, your smell, Bread baking, cabbage rolls, birthday candles and endless cups of Tea with honey,your Twinkling eyes in my minds eye,remembering your words to your own mother "I want her back the way she was" stomping my childish Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11485771499070945003noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16975250.post-58653999280791522812020-07-07T00:18:00.002-04:002021-04-10T20:23:31.415-04:00
Up late thinking of creation
something new to fill in the gaps of something dying
bit by bit
of my mother's face, dimming
with each video call
That only two weeks ago we shared the conspiracy
in laughing at the inside jokeloving each other simply by being
Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11485771499070945003noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16975250.post-27025044592000699412019-02-23T21:32:00.002-05:002019-02-23T21:32:46.422-05:00The Water WalkerFrom the Facebook Post of Grandmother Sharon Day:
For Josephine Mandamin on behalf of water walkers
Ogima Ogitchidagkwe
M’dewanikwe
Ogima Ogitchidagkwe
M’dewanikwe
The nibi found in you
A true warrior
Ingah izitchigay nibi ohnjay
I will do it for the water
Ogima Ogitchidagkwe
M’dewanikwe
You are my hero
Listen to the nibi
She speaks if we will only listen
Swirling round and round
Waves Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11485771499070945003noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16975250.post-37079482779965570182019-01-11T08:54:00.003-05:002019-01-11T08:54:34.859-05:00Reflections on Grief
“In the Lakota/Sioux tradition, a person who is grieving is considered most wakan, most holy. There's a sense that when someone is struck by the sudden lightning of loss, he or she stands on the threshold of the spirit world. The prayers of those who grieve are considered especially strong, and it is proper to ask them for their help.
You might recall what it's like to be with someone who hasMichellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11485771499070945003noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16975250.post-77150187284607131842018-12-08T23:10:00.002-05:002018-12-08T23:10:18.661-05:00Mothers Day I'm feeling the weight of Mothers Day today. The weight doesn't come from my mother, it comes from within me as a recovering Addict and alcoholic because in my active addiction I often chose drinking or using over the needs of my three children.
I live my amends for that every day but no day more than Mothers Day.
When my children were small, Mothers Day was mostly their Dad's responsibility: Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11485771499070945003noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16975250.post-47022868443966044072018-12-08T22:57:00.004-05:002022-12-06T09:29:23.049-05:00
Brigit Anna McNeill
November 25 at 7:32 AM
We are approaching the threshold of winter.
Life is being drawn into the earth, painlessly descending down into the very heart of herself.
And we as natural human animals are being called to do the same, the pull to descend into our bodies, into sleep, darkness and the depths of our own inner caves continually tugging at our marrow.Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11485771499070945003noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16975250.post-64416586032084432932018-06-14T04:26:00.002-04:002018-06-25T09:16:45.946-04:00Words from the earthreciprocity floats up to me from paper pages and down from the Sun
From the Polish East and the traditional territories of the Semiahmoo and Qayqayt
Land-ing and sowing Seeds that grow in my Gifts
by touching the earth, I continue
Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11485771499070945003noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16975250.post-82728798276637775342018-05-22T13:53:00.002-04:002018-05-22T13:53:14.480-04:00Pre Fast - May 15 2018“The earth is what I speak to when
I do not understand my life…
The earth answers me with the same song
That it sang for my fathers when
their tears covered up the sun.
The earth sings a song of gladness.
The earth sings a song of praise.
The earth rises up and laughs at me
Each time that I forget
How spring begins with winter
And death begins with birth.
When I look at ugliness, I see beautyMichellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11485771499070945003noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16975250.post-14501268483046969542017-12-13T10:39:00.003-05:002017-12-13T10:39:31.016-05:00Lamus Dworski : Night of the Witches in Polish FolkloreFrom Lamus Dworski
https://lamusdworski.wordpress.com/2017/12/11/night-of-the-witches/
Night of the Witches in Polish Folklore
Sabbath, reproduction of a lost artwork by Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz [source]
Wigilia dnia św. Łucji, noc czarownic – the Eve of St. Lucia Day (the night between the 12th/13th December), ‘the night of the witches’.
In the Polish folk beliefs the night preceding&Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11485771499070945003noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16975250.post-46972857018259853062017-06-15T21:45:00.001-04:002017-11-23T03:59:24.743-05:00Reflections on the North / HargraveExcerpts from: Reflections on the Medicine Wheel
http://urbanmanmedicine.blogspot.ca/2014/08/reflections-on-medicine-wheel.html
Reflections on the North:
Once or twice in a lifetime
A man or woman may choose
A radical leaving, having heard
Lech l'cha — Go forth.
God disturbs us toward our destiny
By hard events
And by freedom's now urgent voice
Which explode and confirm who we are.
Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11485771499070945003noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16975250.post-6389016584346962112017-05-07T20:47:00.001-04:002017-05-07T20:47:51.967-04:00On Aging - Maya Angelou
“When you see me sitting quietly, like a sack upon a shelf,Don’t think I need your chattering. I’m listening to myself.Hold! Stop! Don’t pity me! Hold! Stop your sympathy!Understanding if you got it, otherwise I’ll do without it!When my bones are stiff and aching and my feet won’t climb the stair,I will only ask one favor: Don’t bring me no rocking chair.When you see me walking, stumbling, don’tMichellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11485771499070945003noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16975250.post-74986690279279732552017-03-21T04:34:00.004-04:002017-03-21T04:34:54.711-04:00
waiting for the dawn
a tourist visiting the foreign soil of my heartbeat
spinning futures like I have the power to change any
hoping to see a commitment
in myself today, something different,
shifting, with the solsticeMichellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11485771499070945003noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16975250.post-79740310325083358282016-12-20T23:04:00.003-05:002017-03-21T04:37:11.193-04:00
do i prefer to hide inside this plastic box
that spews crisis and beauty to bury myself under
turning me from where Winter and Summer
ripple and swell at the doorway
Letting Noise take over the Silence
where I have to face myself, my limited capacity
and my infinite possibilities
Brave the darkness to see the Light
And worries are tossed aside
thoughts may be spoken, written
through art is Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11485771499070945003noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16975250.post-88139138873411282112016-12-19T17:06:00.003-05:002016-12-19T17:06:32.563-05:00Polish Winter Customs & Traditions
From: http://sonsofpoland.org/culture-community/polish-customs-traditions/
Koljada (kohl-YAH-da) – Winter Solstice
Most sources agree that koljada comes from the Roman word “calendae” which refers to the first 10 days of any month. Others believe the word is derived from “Kolo” or wheel – much like the word “Yule” is an Anglo-Saxon word for wheel. In the English Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11485771499070945003noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16975250.post-19722422482930109632016-12-14T09:00:00.000-05:002016-12-14T10:44:44.474-05:00Cathy Pagano on the December 13-14 Full Moon: Help us see more clearly what our truth is I was pulled outside last night even though it was overcast with snow-heavy gray clouds. The beautiful full moon was shining through a small gap in the darkness, like a small beacon of hope in the worldwide deception. I spoke to her then, sharing wishes, praying for dreams and guidance under her gentle glow. I stood there in silence then until she was obscured by the murk again. All night Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11485771499070945003noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16975250.post-32819482503960956082016-11-19T18:47:00.000-05:002016-11-19T18:47:04.210-05:00Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11485771499070945003noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16975250.post-77110740664534740042016-11-15T17:33:00.000-05:002016-11-15T17:33:11.404-05:00The POWER of WORDS / RobertsDaily Mentoring with Greg Roberts [Facebook]
November 6 at 10:44am
Day 92: The POWER of WORDS
We use so many words in a day, yet aren't aware of the power each one holds. Your words have energy that affects your life in many ways. Each word you speak or think has its own unique vibration. Learning how the power of each word you use will quite simply change your life.
Think of one of the Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11485771499070945003noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16975250.post-89164369391383258012016-03-22T18:13:00.000-04:002016-03-22T18:13:04.430-04:00"About all those changes that have been going on ... "This explains ALOT.
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End to Begin: Full Moon Eclipse.
Via Emily Priceon Mar 20, 2016
libra full moon
Eclipses come in pairs, and the Full Moon in the sign of Libra on March 23rd (check the time/date for your location below) brings a Lunar Eclipse on the Libra-Aries axis.
This is the culmination of the eclipse energy birthed during the Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11485771499070945003noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16975250.post-64281908214500525272016-01-09T06:39:00.005-05:002016-01-09T06:39:54.627-05:00Poetry of Mary Oliver The Journey
One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice--
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
"Mend my life!"
each voice cried.
But you didn't stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations,
though their melancholy
was Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11485771499070945003noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16975250.post-85057158580377259042016-01-07T08:29:00.000-05:002016-01-07T08:29:13.099-05:00Hollow Bones
Elder's Meditation of the Day January 7
"When we become hollow bones there is no limit to what the Higher Powers can do in and through us in spiritual things."
--Frank Fools Crow, LAKOTA
If we want to be of maximum use to the Creator, we must ready ourselves to do so. if we are to become a channel for His purposes, we must prepare ourselves to do so. If we have resentment, fear, selfishness, or Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11485771499070945003noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16975250.post-59814260516977998652015-12-09T07:05:00.000-05:002015-12-09T13:22:55.213-05:00Some of the Words of John TrudellListening (Honor Song) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHQnEyEv3gY
Take Back the Earth
John Trudell is an acclaimed poet, national recording artist, actor and activist whose international following reflects the universal language of his words, work and message.
In addition to his music career, Trudell has played roles in a number of feature films, including a lead role in Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11485771499070945003noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16975250.post-43726008390154629572015-12-08T14:17:00.000-05:002015-12-08T14:17:00.360-05:00
I am so grateful to wake up every day. I have choices today that I didn't have five years ago, not because they weren't there but because I never believed they were. I thought I had to wait and follow and now I know I can jump and lead.
This winter I will be working on making my dreams reality and I have a framework of what that looks like in my head. The job is to put it on paper and #Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11485771499070945003noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16975250.post-18860584298686034162015-12-08T14:03:00.000-05:002015-12-09T07:53:45.932-05:00Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Women Who Run With the Wolves Quotes
“There is probably no better or more reliable measure of whether a woman has spent time in ugly duckling status at some point or all throughout her life than her inability to digest a sincere compliment. Although it could be a Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11485771499070945003noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16975250.post-82909882335491111742015-12-02T11:36:00.002-05:002015-12-02T11:36:48.711-05:00Prince Charles addresses COP21
COP21: Full speech by Prince Charles to delegates at climate change talks in Paris, November 30, 2015
Minister Pulgar-Vidal, Minister Fabius, Madame Figueres, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, I am enormously touched to have been invited by President Hollande to say a very few words at the start of this crucially important Conference. May I just begin by expressing my profound horror at Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11485771499070945003noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16975250.post-91692679101779789132015-10-19T08:22:00.000-04:002015-10-19T08:22:20.725-04:00
Too freaky ...
The Year Ahead
Forecast for October 2015 to October 2016
If You Were Born Today, October 19:
You are self-expressive and animated in speech. Your memory is outstanding when it comes to the "little things" that you pick up from others and when it comes to the past. You are curious and possess a dual nature--sometimes chatty and rational, and other times withdrawn Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11485771499070945003noreply@blogger.com