Druidry, Shamanic practices and healing, Celtic spirituality and history, Native American lore and healing, healing art, meditation and visualization, herbal healing, organic gardening, raw food regime, psychology, mind-body bridges, psychoneuroimmunology, ecopsychology, geomythology, reading, horseback riding, camping, the Ogham, Scotland and her history, learning Gaelic and the bodhran, poetry, writing novels, Native American beadwork, carving, clay working and pottery, leathercrafting, horsehair hitching, drawing, dollhouse miniatures... and dancing in the rain!
"There is pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more,
From these our interviews, in which I steal
From all I may be, or have been before,
To mingle with the Universe, and feel
What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal."
LORD BYRON, Childe Harold
Music
Luka Bloom, Mary Fahl, John Trudell, Harry Chapin, October Project, Richard Thompson, Loreena McKennitt, The Poozies, Runrig, Steve Roach, R. Carlos Nakai, traditional Scottish and Irish, Dan Fogelberg, Stan Rogers, Evanesence, Triumvarat, Clannad, Jethro Tull, Billy Joel...
Movies
Princess Bride, Now Voyager, Random Harvest, westerns, LOTR series, The Secret of Roan Inish, Pow Wow Highway, Last of the Mohicans (with DDLewis!), V for Vendetta, Harvey, Rebecca, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Gaslight, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Braveheart, anything with Johnny Depp, Colin Firth, Gregory Peck, Jimmy Stewart, Cary Grant, and Gary Cooper...
The Bird Tribes and the Winged Ones
We are the Bird Tribes, We are the winged Ones,
who have not lost connection to the whole.
We are the Gardeners of this field of stars
wherein there grow the flowers of consciousness.
It is our work to oversee your soul's
development and growth towards the light
and to this aim we bring perception of
the Beauty and the Harmony of Love.
We are the people of the Truth, of Peace.
We are the Bird Tribes, listen for our Songs
in field and forest, mountain and sea shore
and you will hear us calling you back home.
~ Ken Carey, Return of the Bird Tribes ~
Television
The Big Bang Theory, Gilmore Girls, Deadwood, BBC comedies (especially Coupling and Monty Python), old TV western series (Bonanza, Big Valley, etc.), documentaries...
Books
Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon; The Spell of the Sensuous by David Abram; Soulcraft by Bill Plotkin; Desiree; Bride of the MacHugh; Earth Medicine by Jamie Sams; Medicine Cards by Jamie Sams; Ogam, The Celtic Oracle by Mountfort; Singing the Soul Back Home by Caitlin Matthews; Journeying by Jeanette Gagan; Eat Love Pray by Elizabeth Gilbert; works by Frank MacEowen; Miracle of Mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hanh; Simple Abundance by Sara Ban Breathnach; Art Is A Spiritual Path and Art Is A Way of Knowing by Pat B. Allen; Creative Healing and Healing With The Mind's Eye and Shaman Wisdom~Shaman Healing by Michael Samuels and Linda Rockwood Lane; Urban Shaman by Serge Kahili King; The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz; Finding Your North Star by Martha Beck; Life Paint and Passion by Michelle Cassou and Stewart Cubley; The Shaman Way by Michael Harner; Love Medicine and Miracles by Bernie Siegel; The Joy Diet by Martha Beck; Living the Wisdom of the Tao by Dr. Wayne Dyer; Codependent No More by Melody Beattie; The Blank Canvas by Anna Held Audette; Return of the Bird Tribes by Ken Carey; Women Who Run With Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, PhD.;
Woman as Healer by Jeanne Achterberg, and more to come!
As the sun rises, the shadows become sharper and more clearly defined. As the energies of love grow stronger, the shadows of fear become more visible than before. To some it may even appear that they have grown in number and in strength, but this is not so. What was hidden has simply become revealed - that it might be healed and brought to peace.
~Ken Carey, Return of the Bird Tribes ~
Heroes
My son and my daughter, my guy, my niece, my great-grandmother... Gandhi, Alice Paul, the women in my peer group, and all the nameless people who have stood up for what they believe.
Clubs: Student Government - Graduation Chairman, National Honor Society
1976 to 1980
Status and Mood
♥ wren ♥ the weaver is still at the course work, while selecting courses for my final semester before transferring...
Mood: Da do run run
Posted at 2:19 PM Oct 29
♥ wren ♥ the weaver is very excited about a new opportunity the Universe has presented!
Mood: thrilled
Posted at 1:26 PM Oct 23
♥ wren ♥ the weaver is very happy that my favorite witch has found what he's been looking for!
Mood: thrilled
Posted at 11:23 PM Oct 16
♥ wren ♥ the weaver is researching PTSD in kids and community resources, while writing an analysis of Imoinda from "Oroonoko" by Aphra Behn... busybusybusy...
Mood: busy
Posted at 2:29 PM Oct 6
♥ wren ♥ the weaver 's girl is reading a combined "Romeo and Juliet" and "West Side Story"... she's engrossed and probably won't come up for air unt
After 20+ years of MS and 7+ years in a wheelchair, I am symptom-free and dancing to the music of the Oran Mor... thanks to Spirit guiding me to an overwhelming and life-changing spiritual awakening combined with a raw food regimen, herbal remedies, meditation, visualization, and creating art as a healing process. After too many years in two abusive marriages, I have free myself of codependency and enabling habits... free to love and to be loved! Free to be who I was meant to be all along! The masks are off and I'm off and running...literally!
I am a Wanderer and Seeker on the path of Druidry, Shamanism, nature-based and Celtic spirituality, Native American spirituality, and mind-body healing who loves my kids and my guy. I believe I have found my calling and vocation using art as a means to heal the whole person, rather than just treating disease, and intend to follow that path wherever it shall lead me. So, along with studying and practicing all I can about healing, I am pursuing my degrees in Special Education to become a Learning Disabilities/Literacy Specialist and Teacher!..
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"Some people there are who, being grown; forget the horrible task of learning to read. It is perhaps the greatest single effort that the human undertakes, and he must do it as a child.” ~ John Steinbeck
In oranges and women, courage is often mistaken for insanity..." ~ from Iron-Jawed Angels
"A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born." ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery.
The finished work of art not only contains the original clay but pieces of the artist's soul. And, that art then resides within the artist. Our own growth, shape-shifting, and transformation changes the universe, even as it offers us that growth. ~ me
Be the change you wish to see in the world ~ Mahatma Ghandi..
"The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience" ~ Emily Dickinson
If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man ~ said Albert Einstein. ..
To dance is to give oneself up to the rhythms of all life ~ Dr. Maya V. Patel
You will find something far greater in the woods than you will find in books. Stones and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters. - St. Bernard
The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has power. ~ Oprah Winfrey
"...rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life." ~ JK Rowling, Harvard 2008 Commencement Speech
"I live in a state of radical appreciation. I give humble thanks for all that I have. Paradise is wherever I am." ~ Dr. Wayne Dyer
"Relish the quiet, wren, enjoy the mysteries, and welcome the whole truth...."Notes from the Universe, www.tut.com
"Our task is to chant the world, chant the beauty. The world is a reflection of our chanting." ~ Navajo medicine man Billy Yellow
"Wars were fought , peace was made , love was sought, all on visions and dreams." ~ Comanche saying
"A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having..." from V for Vendetta
"Ideas are bulletproof..." from V for Vendetta
"My country is the world and my religion is to do good" ~ Thomas Paine
"Truth in our hearts, strength in our arms and fulfillment in our tongues..." ~ Caelte
"I dwell in possibility, a fairer house than prose..." ~ Emily Dickinson
Respect the elders...Work with the pack
Hunt when you must...Share your affections
Leave your mark...Teach the young
Play when you can...Rest in between
Voice your feelings
Aho , Amen , e-men
Om Namah Shivaya...
I honor the Divinity that resides within me...
Who I'd like to meet:
Any and all who challenge me, inspire me, and stretch my imagination!..
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happy b-day miss u bunches sorry i havent had the chance to comment or write lately been trying to move and keep a stedy job but it is had to do here in richmond.
You took the reins and went forward. Maintain that course and you will have your dreams. You are already well on your way and I am very proud of you. Nothing keeps an Austin woman down!!! Love you lots and lots. You've done good little sister.
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Sep 4 2009 8:04 AM
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Aug 19 2009 6:01 PM
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Greetings
Wil
Jul 7 2009 12:45 PM
Greetings
Wil
Jun 30 2009 6:52 AM
Greetings
Wil
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May 24 2009 1:53 PM
Happy Memorial Day
Remembering those who paid the ultimate price
For our freedom!
May 11 2009 5:06 PM
I hope you had a
xoxoxo!
---Sonya
May 3 2009 11:50 PM
I love you!
May 3 2009 4:26 PM
Have a Peaceful Sunday!
Apr 22 2009 9:10 PM
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Apr 22 2009 4:17 PM
HAppy EArth DAy!
Apr 20 2009 4:30 PM
Hey Wren,
Hope all is well!
Spring is here!
Try Organic Gardening!
Apr 12 2009 1:58 PM
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Sending Love
Apr 7 2009 3:53 PM
Have a Blessed Day! Where ya been girlfriend?
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Mar 22 2009 4:35 PM
Greetings
Wil
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