Reflections...

The presents have been wrapped...

decorations hung with care

the gingerbread house has been made...

and

we seem to be ready...

*

The past week has be already filled

with the hustle and bustle of the season

there has been a Christmas dinner with family

and an evening with special friends...

there has been shopping

present exchanges

there has been life

and death

and too much wine

tis the season;

as they say...

and the big show has yet to arrive...

truth is

it's late right now

and I should be in bed

but this week needed a voice

even if it is a little one

Tomorrow is a big day...

It is a day of celebrating Alice

I will be photographing

the days events

it is a service I offer

It may seem strange, but memorials are a great place to capture the realness in people

people are changed by grief...softened

and a memorial is the next thing to a wedding

that can bring together so much family in one place.

It will be an honour.

The evening will bring a gathering of another kind

a gathering of a tribe

some of who will meet for the first time 

around the flame

we will gather to release

we will gather to unite

we with gather to make room

for what is to come

*

And then

later

when the work is finished

when the last client leaves

I will share with you what this season means to me

this season of 

Love

Hope

Joy

and Peace

Love and Light

Storytelling continued...The End

2:20am Dec. 17, 2011

Alice passed on from this world to the next.

She leaves behind

her husband

2 sons

1 daughter

2 daughter in laws

1 son in law

4 granddaughters

2 grandsons

and a tribe of family and friends

who loved her

and will miss her steadfast ways

a tear drop of her story found

here

brave

brave is the word that keeps coming to mind

you were so

brave

beautiful

vulnerable

a testimony

thank you Alice

thank you

Love and Light

Calling in The Tribe....

Calling in the Tribe!

Who: YOU, and if you wish, your circle, tribe, family, or village.

What: A fire ceremony, to release the old year and shift up into the new.

Where: In your backyard firepit, on a bonfire beach, around your fireplace, (even in your kitchen sink if you can make it scout-safe with a fireproof container).

When: Winter Solstice, December 22nd, 2011.

Why: We release what no longer serves us on the Winter Solstice, because it is the darkest day of the year. We let go so that we can step freely into what is waiting for us, as the light begins to grow brighter with each day. We're doing it as an extended community to raise the energy level of letting go, together!  (written by Pixie Campbell)

This is a chance to let go of those things that do not serve us anymore...in a tangible way. Letting go of the shadow  in ourselves allow more room for the Light.

Things like.....

Fear into Courage

Not Enoughness into Plenty                   

Old patterns of behavior into fresh responses and vulnerability           

Anger into Cleansing Breath

Sorrow into Hope

Grief into Rebirth

Loneliness into Circle and Support

Disempowerment into Confident Action

Creative Dormancy into Full Expression

Superficiality into True Being

Masks into Love of What Really Is

Shortsightedness into Eagle's Vision

Limitations into Possibility

Projections into Conscious Ownership

Stuckness into Movement

Depression into Light

Bondage into Freedom

Control into a Loose, Flexible Grasp

Obsession into Letting It Be

Anxiety into Flow

Fragmentations into Wholeness

Duality into Oneness

Shame into Acceptance of the Processes of Life

Mistrust into Trust

Judgment into Allowing...c/o Pixie Campbell

This ceremony will be attended by women across the globe and  hosted by the Sweet Pixie Campbell.

To see her official Women in Circle video go here

Will you join us?


for my local readers I will be hosting a circle myself, on this date in the evening ...please leave a comment or email me if you would like more information.
I am in the great Vancouver area. (British Columbia, Canada)


Love and Light


(account of our "letting go" found here)