Menopausal Years
The Vision Quest
by Waynonaha Two Worlds
Dreams and Wishes
by Waynonaha Two Worlds
The Vision Quest
The Sun is climbing high and my back starts
to warm up through my old Levi jacket. I sit in this place
of sacred vision with my prayer ties all around me. Each
small bundle of red cloth filled with tobacco and a prayer
for the guidance I seek. My mind empty and my heart free
of pain and loss; I open the door to the spirit word and
ask for entrance.
Creator grant me wisdom I pray help me to
find my path and my purpose at this time of my life. I sit
quietly and listen to the bird calls, winds blow through
the trees, and the grasshoppers sing in the tall grasses.
White clouds drift off into a deep aqua sky on their way
to places where other eyes will behold the wonder of them.
My life a square of prayer ties all else separated
and yet connected to all things. A small dandelion grows
at the edge of the space; the fading life in transformation
reminds me of my own age and years passed. I seek a future
when half of my life has passed already do I dare ask for
more?
My third day passes and the next day arrives
finding the once bright dandelion flower changed to a white
ball of fluffy seeds. I watch this process and remember
the baby owl and how it resembles this fluffy seed head.
I lay down on the sun warmed grass, and place my face close
to the downy seeds. With a gentle puff of air I gift my
breath to the tiny seeds, just as Creator has given the
breath of life to all things.
The seeds take wing and fly into the air drifting
on the wind that carries our voices to Creator. With light
and airy beauty from earth bound to sky, they fly free of
all things as a spirit is free of earth when released.
I watch as the tiny seeds created in such
delicate beauty drift away. Where will they come to earth
again and find shelter? Who will once again watch them on
some distant land grow and come to life? All this is the
infinite wisdom of Creator and all we need t know it that
life continues on and one into the infinity. We have only
to live our lives and trust in the Great Mystery for guidance.
Is my life like too drift for a while not
needing the security of the earth to grow but once again
find roots and shelter in a strange place? I will for the
time drift and wait for the wisdom of Creator who forms
all things and is the Great Mystery of all that exists.
I leave my life once again in the trusting
hands of the ones who guide me with love and understanding.
Help me to accept my life and continue to
do the work for the good of all. My body a hollow bone without
weight floats in the air free of all earthly needs. I thank
you Creator for your gift of life you have given me, may
I always live it in a good way and walk in harmony with
the Earth Mother.
Mitakuye Oyasin. Waynonaha
Dreams and Wishes
Oh what a waste are the years we women have
spent not being allowed to ask for even a simple wish or
dream. The song the (Every Day Housewife) come slipping
in as I write this. “The every day house wife who
gave up the good life for me.” Why should we have
to give up our dreams and wishes, we are entitled to these
and our birth rights of passage on this Earth Mother.
I some times feel Mother Earth cry from loneliness,
she morns for all the woman who never shared their dreams
and wishes. I feel her reaching out to hold me in her arms
and says to me, “dare to dream my daughter of the
red earth, dare to dream.”
I will speak of my dreams because they are
not just for me they are for all women who dare to dream
and have a wish for life that they would care to share.
I see this dream of the center so clear now,
The Tree of Life is in the process of incorporation and
will soon be a not for profit organization. This is my life
dream of having a place for women to come for healing and
to learn the healing ways.
I believe out there some place, there is some
one who can actually help make this happen.
I will take you for a walk through the center.
It consists of an old farm house set in the Amish country
side near here with a few acres of Land nothing fancy. The
place is now clear it is Cherry Creek not only for the fact
that I love cherries but it was also a place that UFO’s
were seen several times. I think if the UFO’s were
there then this is affirmation for me that the land is good.
I have taken you to a place of peace and gently
rolling hills where people live close to the earth and respect
all nature.
The farm house is just that an old farm house
with a huge kitchen for baking wonderful bread and making
jams and jellies of all sorts from the surrounding country
side.
This will be the trade mark of the center
the bread and produce from the farm will support and maintain
the functional needs.
We have some large open rooms with sun shining
in for guests to rest and find peace in their minds and
hearts. Each room dedicated to a famous woman who has walked
this path before us and made a difference. Helen Keller,
and others of her era plus some wonderful women such as
Florence Nightingale, we may even have to add the Susun
Weed room soon and fill it with her books and work. These
rooms will hold the works and life dreams of the women who
dared to make a difference in life.
There is one large room with book lined walls
and soft deep chairs to curl up in. The sun room hosts tea
every afternoon at four complete with scones, and cream.
There is pleasant conversation of the intelligent kind,
talks of herbals dreams and ideas, mostly just life in general.
Discussion of books and ideas flow and catch flight around
the old room and fill it with love and light. There are
readings and music played after we have supper at the long
table in the dinning room. Each woman is invited to read
or recite that which she finds soul inspiring in her life.
On some evenings we may even drum and dance or sing our
favorite songs.
Only long flowing cloths are worn here we
encourage freedom in all ways so jeans and informal attire
are welcome. We adorn our bodies with flowers and trinkets
from the old trunks bulging with yesterday’s treasures.
Plays are written and performed for the other guests on
any given occasion.
The large barn hosts many treasures of the
animal kind. Goats, chickens, rabbits, and other wild life
find a resting place in the deep dark space.
A pond with a bench to sit on and contemplate
the beauty of all things, sits in a small gully behind the
house. Bass and other fish, surface to take our offering
of food. Geese paddle around the pond trailed by the latest
hatch. Old turtles sun on the banks and many small no legged
ones peek out of the grasses.
The garden abounds with wonderful fruit and
vegetables, that are bordered with herbs and sweet sage.
Roses of all kinds full the English country garden with
sweet smelling heavenly scents. The array of herbals and
edible flowers find there way into the old farm kitchen
and hanging room to grace the meals. If you wish you can
dig your feet into the warm rich earth and tend these plants
and flowers.
Small hand made seats from twisted vines are
refuges for the weary at heart to sit and read or just relax
from the every day cares they have left behind.
The classes will be offered on all things
including putting your hands into bread dough and creating
the staff of life for the table. Flower arranging and art
will be offered crafts of all kinds will be done. We will
even make our own fancy dresses or create a quilt there
is not end to the things we can do. Bring the visions and
weave then into being.
In the fall we will harvest our bounty and
fill the pantry behind the old wood stove with bright and
colorful jars of food and jams. For those who never had
a Grandmother then this is the place to come and learn.
Corn Credit is honored here your loving hands
and work for your stay and classes are welcome. Each woman
can earn her corn credits in many ways as a contributor
or as hands on worker. All contributors will have a place
in the register as a life time member.
The abundance of life and love is worked and
woven into every fiber of the center. All pain and anger
will be left outside the gate in a burden basket. Women
on moon time will be honored for there moon and will rest
during their giving time.
Who ever is of like mind can simply add to
this dream and become a creator of life.
Blessings of the free spirit. Waynonaha
For all of you husbands and sons of great
women remember to honor the women in your life and encourage
them to fulfill their lives no matter what the age may be.
As they are fulfilled then you will be fulfilled, and your
children will be blessed with love and abundance forever.
Copyright © Waynonaha Two Worlds 2004
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