Tales From The Labyrinth

4th of July & 4 Directions

This 4th of July...
I feel the most connected I have ever felt
to having a sense of community with a group of people
who identify themselves as an entity...

For the first time in my life... I feel patriotic...
I feel a part of the whole...

 

From the South...

To the West...

To the North...

To the East...

May we come together and celebrate our differences...

and be partners with the rest of the world
in creating a future that is beautiful...

Happy Birth Day to US... May we embrace with all our heart the incredible joy of opportunity we have in living as a part of this beautiful world...

Photos: Finial on our flag made from apoxie clay and rainbow mirrored tiles; Four direction labyrinth alter in the heart space of our Santa Rosa Labyrinth created in honoring the passing of two dear people this past week.

aDRESSing The Situation~The Women of Juarez Mexico

Artist everywhere today... are sending the dresses they made off to Stampington and Company with the hope that our heARTs and voices will bring more attention to the plight of the women of Juarez, Mexico...

I find that there are usually at least two sides to every story... So my dress has two sides and my story comes in the words that follow...

Bring a light
to the darkness of night that veils
the tears, the loss, the fear…



Bring a light to the seven silver sisters
watching from the night sky
so they might point the way for us all to start again...

Bring a light
to the sacred hearts...



even when life seems lost and broken...

so that the tears shed might transform...
becoming seeds of hope scattered to the wind...
taking root in the fertile soil of the soul...

Bring the light of day to hearts made whole...
where women may grow and flourish
like the flowers of a garden

their beauty a radiant sun...
bringing life giving joy to all men, children,
and women everywhere…

Bring a light, a voice,
and the song of our hearts...
now and forever...

It's because of Stephanie from the Mango Studio and Rodrigvitz Style that I first heard about the women of Juarez, Mexico... Thank you Stephanie for BEing one of those links so that we don't forget what matters to the heart...

And I am forever grateful to Monica of a Girl Gone Thread Wild for inviting us to bring our heARTs together and give voice to these women who have touched us so... Every woman deserves a beautiful dress and the birth right to walk and dance in the world, free of fear, harm, and with respect and dignity...

Juarez Women~ADRESSing The Situation

When I don't know what to do...
When there is nothing I can do...

I turn to the creative flow...
and surrender to what emerges...

My dress and story is ready to travel on July 1st...

Please join in Monica's vision by visiting her blog, Girl Gone Thread Wild, for all the information you need to add the voice of your heart to this plight of missing women in Juarez, Mexico... to the women and girls, for our sisters, mothers, grandmothers, wives, daughters, aunties, cousins, nieces, girlfriends, lovers, neighbors...

Did You???

Will you???

And if you can not?
Will you send us your best thoughts and wishes???

We and the world could use them...

Honoring and celebrating Eighty-Eight years of women's right to vote in the United States of America. Thank you to the women who came before me, and the men who supported them, so that I could have the privaledge to vote and have a say in our government and what matters most to my heart... just think... only 100 years ago, women and many other american citizens could not cast their vote...