Canyon in Bloom: Updates & A Botanical Stroll

by Anima on June 17th, 2009

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Greetings everyone. We are fully into the busy season for guests, with two women here into the weekend, and a deeply feeling Becky having just arrived for a level one quest. I completed my newspaper articles ahead of time this week, as there are several magazine deadlines coming up at the first of the month. Kiva has been sending back lots of online course responses, but I have postponed replies to my students until after the Shaman Path Intensive on July 4th weekend. Of all the seemingly vital projects, I am feeling extra anxious to write the essay and curricula for the Shaman Path “Awareness” lesson, something that has never been covered from our particular nature-informed perspective.

We’ve received advance copies of the hardbound version of my “I’m a Medicine Woman Too!” book, and it looks even better than we imagined. Thank you Thomas Elpel and Hops Press! Kiva is completing a special website just for its promotion and sales, and we will post a new announcement for it here as soon as we are ready to fill orders. To compete with the discount sellers of this title, all copies directly from us will be signed by Rhiannon and I. In addition, we will include a signed, numbered, limited edition Medicine Woman color art print that you will get to see a preview of here first.

For a break the other day, I took the camera out for a study of the plants blossoming from the early June rains. I started with the Sage growing in our garden, a European immigrant that – like us – has rooted and adapted long enough to this continent to earn a degree of native status. Its petal shapes fascinated me, held me rapt as I caught them straight forward at first, then backlit with the last rays of the sun illuminating them as if from within.

I was drawn next to the new growth on the Snakeweed contrasting against a red volcanic rock, and then to a composition of flowering vervain below a flourish of Silverleaf Nightshade.

A nearby Bladderpodc caught my eye with its bright yellow blossoms and swollen pods, and then the budding Beeweed which I caught from straight on first, and then shot from directly above for a trippy Beeweed Mandala effect.

For those of you with fathers deserving of recognition, or who know of fathers who do, on Friday I will be posting a short essay reflecting on the subject of fatherhood that you may want to share with them: Fathers’ Day Every Day. It was inspired by the card Rhiannon made me, and all the thoughts and feelings it brought up.

To all of you, have a wonderful weekend. And even if you have nothing else to commemorate or celebrate, celebrate the truth of your being and the great beauty and challenge of life.

-Wolf

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jill

June 18, 2009 at 10:56 am

I’m a longtime reader of your blogs and fan of you, Loba and Kiva, and I cannot wait to see the actual book! A print too? Have you all thought of selling the book and print on etsy? I’ve been selling my jewelry and organic lip balms there for a few years and I’m very pleased, the fees are low, uploading items is pretty quick, all in all very simple. Just thought I’d mention it

Namaste
jill
Dave

June 18, 2009 at 11:53 am

The colors and the delicate structures we produce in our brains from a bunch of electro magnetic frequencies never ceases to amaze or inspire me.
Polly

June 18, 2009 at 3:21 pm

You already have a good start on your Awakening essay . I loved the May 2nd posting.
Sidney Barthell

June 24, 2009 at 12:20 pm

Wonderful pictures! This is a living book, this blog/website, and to have the privilege to interact in real time just blows me away. Bound books are great, without them, my dreams would have evaporated, but this, THIS is Medicine.