With Deep gratitude once again to Shadowline Graphics Jason for this Hummingbird Woman Honoring

"Neither the hair shirt nor the soft birth will do;

Vocation; the place Spirit calls you to

is the place

where your deep gladness

And the world's deep hunger

meet

Frederick Buechner

vocation

The medicine of Hummingbird is.. Joy

"THEY LAUGHED AND SAID IT COULDN'T BE DONE....."

"WATER IS THE ULTIMATE RESOURCE. 

“You could not step twice into the same river; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.” Heraclitus, Greek Philosopher (540 BC - 480 BC) On the Universe

 

I stood my blue bottle in the sun

It was filled with water

From this watershed

 

Later

I drank it

Sun-kissed

& rosy~warm

Solar~blessed...

Blue Glass Aftersea bottleware

PS Awesome blue bottle images from AFTER SEA AESTHETICS, HI www.aftersea.com/wellness/

 

 

Love informs Life {creating} new forms…

Water informs Life {creating} new forms

Love informs Water {creating} new forms

Life informs Love {creating} new forms

Life informs Life {creating} new forms…..

{sing it}

 

Ad infinitum…..

 {the hummingbird ~j oyous ~ story cycle dance of creation} 

“HERE ARE YOUR WATERS AND YOUR WATERING PLACE. DRINK AND BE WHOLE AGAIN BEYOND CONFUSION.” --ROBERT FROST

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Organic Hummingbird Garden in a Cup Gift Set - Great for Mother's Day

 - http://tinyurl.com/bkosna
Currently listed on ETSY

Description This is a great gift for the hummingbird lover or gardener in your life. I'll start with the cup. It's a vintage and hard to find Corning mug in their Meadow Pattern. Inside, I've put turquoise tissue paper and filled it with packs of the following seeds for flowers that hummingbirds adore:
- Cypress VIne - Self seeding annual vine with ferny foliage and bright red flowers in fall, approximately 20 seeds
- Four O'Clock - Perennial with hot pink and yellow scented, tubular flowers blooming in the afternoon, approximately 20 seeds
- Cosmos - Tall self seeding annual in shades of pinks and white, approximately 50 seeds.
- Blue Sage - Perennial with spikes of purple flowers, also great for tea and in cooking, approximately 25 seeds.
- Trumpet Creeper Vine - Perennial vine that can be used as a ground cover or climber that gets loads of red and orange trumpet shaped flowers, approximately 10 seeds.
- Bee Balm - Perennial with gorgeous pink and red flowers that smells great and makes an excellent tea, approximately 25 seeds.

I've tied a rainbow colored cloth ribbon around the mug and cut and stamped a folded gift card on heavyweight pale pink paper, tied with hemp string.
This is a truly green gift! For photos of the flowers and more information on them, please see my individual listings for the seeds. All of my plants are grown organically and these seeds were hand harvested with love.

" Deep in our bones resides an ancient, singing couple who just won't give up  making their beautiful, wild noise. The world won't end if we can find them."
Martin Prechtel

Let me take your hand and step you into a moment in time when the world changed.. (one little hummingbird):

It was pre-dawn in Coyote Hills and Lakota were singing in my veins. I love the spirit of Lakota, in the same way I love the steep moss & rocky waterways of our own Scottish Highlands.

We were carrying the Pounamu greenstone rock from New Zealand Aotearoa, carrying the Waitaha stone of the stars, stone of Peace.

And there was one, we knew; whose body had told her in no uncertain terms, that she was not to come, and so she lay somewhere in San Francisco.

The sense arose so strong in me as we sat in the pre-dawn darkness; she should touch this stone even as the hummingbird women were now converging

Yet through a string of early 21st century urban America circumstances, she had lived through a period of unstable abode and I knew not where to find her

I closed my eyes, allowing the desire to have her hold the stone flood my Being..; we could drive there and back before the sun was above the trees if we knew where to find her, I thought. Then hard on the heels of that thought came another, more powerful; So do it!

And the message was crystal clear; no need to take that physical drive; do it now, through the super-highway of your Heart...

And there we were;
Standing at Her Door

Oh My Sister..
My sweet sister..

May I sing with you
my sweet sister
may I sing with you
sweet river...

Floods, floods, waves, waves of waking-love-relief as we sing
round and round

May I sing with you
my sweet Sister
may I sing with you
sweet River...

The lichen breaks down the rock
And the tree root lifts up the curb
and if one by one we Send A Voice
Our hearts take wing on our word

Nothing to bind us to Earth
Nothing to hold us apart
words were created to share the pictures
we carry within our hearts..

And so it was
As Women of All Nations Gathered

'Love see no color'
it's true
except
we were irridescent effervescent
brilliant flashing colors
hummingbird women in creation
A Nation
of women with wings...

We can speak of the grandmothers
who came
and were honored

And of the daughters
who came
and were honored

And to the daughter
who held her wisdom place
to sage and greet us all

To Mothers and Sisters
held, heard, embraced
honored

Words become nectar
words become prayer
filling the Air

May I dance with you
My sweet Sister
May I dance with you
sweet River...

Water
Fire
Water
Earth
Water
Air..
Oh My Heart

So from this multi-faceted diamond
I can but flash to you
nuances
And yet
you will know
the essence
of this
epic
occurrence

From the Congo women
medicine bundle
to the Waitaha stone of Peace
to the water spirits in the rocks
of that place
to the Give-aways
nectar flow
to the special gifts that came
from Hawaii medicine women
to hummingbird quilts
and hummingbird ribboned shawls
from Ohlone

To the nectar garden
kitchen devas
and the sewing
of medicine pouches
filled with
crystal
cedar
corn
lavender
pine
tobacco
sage
rosemary...
blessed ingredients
each given
in the spirit
of hummingbird
for hummingbird
 women
to take home

To the faerie bells
of womens laughter
to the tears of relief and release
to the cathartic
to the magic
to the songs
to the stories
to the Lodges
to the weaving
dancing
interweaving

To the Condor medicine woman
who worked all night
to ready the place
and who was prepared
when the momentous
was presented

And to the men
who lent themselves
at the periphery
should we need
this or that
in our wide-loom-weaving
drumming
singing

Who stood as we gifted them
for their kindness and presence
in our sky
Who stood immersed
in women's kindling Power
Powerful and Kind
Women and men
Powerful and Kind
Kind and Powerful

And from that place we go
Back into our myriad worlds
yet heartsong sage
in this knowledge:
We have found
that ancient couple
and are bringing them Home
Oh My Heart
Bringing them Home
on our broad shoulders.

" Deep in our bones resides an ancient, singing couple who just won't give up  making their beautiful, wild noise. The world won't end if we can find them."
Martin Prechtel