Healing Ceremony Opens Hearts

June 8, 2010 was a beautiful healing day for our growing community of individuals eager to take part and be a part of a change in the way we do things.

In an outreach from Chief Arvol Looking Horse of the Sioux Tribe, we gathered in Atlantic Beach in a ceremony of healing -- healing mother ocean and mother earth.  Nurturing and tending to the wound of the oil spill catastrophe. 

Our friends, beach onlookers, and local community interest individuals shared vials of water from their homes and ceremoniously combined the waters in a wooden bowl and carried enmass to the ocean's edge.

With all bodies, hands, and minds touching we offered pure and clean water to Mother Ocean on World Ocean Day.  She accepted the water and gathered it quickly so to wash the wound of the oil.

It was beautiful and sad at the same time, but peace was brought to us on that special day.

Lynn Curtin played the guitar and sang her new song ' White Buffalo' as the group drummed, Gerald Behler played the flute, and received the energy from the didgeridoo from Constance Frankenberg.

The gathering consisted of business owners, retirees, children, biologists, musicians, drummers, writers, etc.
such as Sharon Elliott, Kathleen Boudreau, Lauren and Nada, Joan Niegler, Lelia, Deb Goin, Bette Bucci, Kate Cordell of Ocean Yoga, and many more. 

The next day, Joan shared with us a poem she wrote while still glowing from the day before:

A SAD TALE

I live in a time,
When there is water and earth
Air and fire
They are constant
But I had forgotten
How sharply their powers
Conflict with the power of man
I’m back in my spirit
No longer ignoring
The reality of things
Not seen or heard
Only felt and imagined
Accept
Embrace
Sadness that surrounds us
Will balance
With happiness
That waits for a solution
Look for it
Hope for it
Find it
Or
Someday, children will be taught
How flowers bloomed
In every color of the rainbow
Oh yes,
Rainbows were prisms of color the sky
The sky was blue
Clouds were white
Forests were thick with the tallest trees
Oceans were constantly in motion
With waves rippling to the sandy shore
All of this took place
In an ancient world
Called Earth.