VISION PURPOSE~LOVE OUR SPRINGS COMMUNITY CEREMONY
september 6, 2008

Shoes Off! You are the community! You are the sacred ceremony!

We have come together from the four corners of earth, sharing stories of life through our songs, rhythms, dances, art, and food. All given to us by our ancestors who for generations have listened to the melodies of birds, the rhythms of thunder, the colors of rainbows, and the dances of animals. We have voyaged to the moon, invented the internet, and sent satellites in space so that we can take a look at ourselves from a high angle. We thrive on innovation, and creation.

However with our progressive culture, we have turned our backs to our ancestors. We have forgotten to be humble to nature, Mother Earth. We have forgotten the ancestral songs, and dances that open our hearts and minds together to the voice of our dear Mother who has given us life since the beginning. Her body temperature has risen because she’s sick and has a fever. Her fever has sent her to bed sweating for some time now. Animals that are closely tied to the rhythms and songs of our mother feel her pain, and are sick as well. Some feel it so deeply that they die in the shadows where no one cares to see.

Our culture has lost it’s way and forgotten that we are nature. We are lost in the darkness in the middle of a forest at night with little light to give us enough sight to get back on the right path. But there is hope, and techniques to finding our way onto the right track. The first step is to take our shoes off, and regain connection to our mother earth. As our feet serve as eyes in the dark, removing the shoes of un-mother-earth-friendly building technology, the shoes of not knowing where to build, how to build without placing another fever to our mother will give us more light in this dark forest night as we strive to find the correct path.

With nature instrumentation as our intuition, the rhythms of the insects and melodies of the night birds, will guide us so we can live to tell the story of how humanity found its way back. In joy and gratitude our Mother Earth still loves us so dearly that by being humble to her sweet voice we find our way back home.

We are all artists, musicians, and dancers. And if we have forgotten this notion, all we have to do is have faith in ourselves, self respect, and keep our senses humble to our mother that gave us our precious life. Let’s make patterns from nature around us with drums, drawings, songs, and dances.

The creative process inspired from nature connects the heart and mind to our mother making every part sacred. Suddenly songs of little fish at the bottom of our springs are treasured, and the direction of the wind is then downloaded to our hearts with intuitive insight. Such patterns can then be gift-wrapped as the most priceless gifts for the next generations to come. And when we travel to each others cities, states, or countries, our passports will be the creative patterns inspired by nature.