posted June 03, 2007 08:31 PM         

“...we can't survive without enchantment... the loss of it is killing us.”

-- Thomas Moore

“There is one thing that all true spirituality has in common, whether that spirituality is derived from faith, from science, from nature or from the arts – a sense of wonder.”

-- Andrew Schneider

"There are only two ways to live your life: One is as though nothing is a miracle, The other is as though everything is a miracle. I believe in the latter."

-- Albert Einstein

“We live in a world of theophanies. Holiness comes wrapped in the ordinary. There are burning bushes all around you. Every tree is full of angels. Hidden beauty is waiting in every crumb. Life wants to lead you from crumbs to angels, but this can happen only if you are willing to unwrap the ordinary by staying with it long enough to harvest its treasure.”

-- Macrina Wiederkehr

posted June 03, 2007 08:42 PM         

I am with Albert Einstein

I also very much like the last quote by Macrina Wiederkehr. That is how I feel about spirituality. Look for God in the ordinary and that is where you will most likely find him and come to know him and ourselves as well.

posted June 03, 2007 09:40 PM         

I really have taken a shinning to them also!!!!

I think their becoming a part of who I AM!!!!!LOL!!!!

Well, I'm sure learning alot!!!!

Love!!!

posted June 03, 2007 09:48 PM         

Mirandee, I think thats why " RAINBOW " was here at LindaLand, was to teach ENCHANTMENT & WONDERMENT.....!!!!!!Plus so much more!!!!

GENTLENESS OF SPIRIT!!!!!

posted June 03, 2007 11:20 PM         

Had I seen it I would have thought of you too. We seem to take a liking to the same guys, Star.

I feel the same way about his songs and voice.

posted June 03, 2007 11:42 PM         

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otUFuMo-lNo

posted June 04, 2007 01:39 AM         

Love that song and I don't know who the woman was who did the solos and backup but she has a beautiful voice.

Also want to say that I agree Rainbow did teach enchantment and wonderment. As a friend she certainly brought it into my life.

This first song is for Rainbow:

Robbie Robertson and the Red Road Ensemble
http://www.youtube.com/p.swf?vide o_id=wTY2pmKguDg&eurl=&iurl=http%3A//img.youtube.com/vi/wTY2pmKguDg/2.jpg&t=OEgsToPDskKZw5CoJX-ltB1BjnIJ17ed

posted June 04, 2007 03:23 AM         

On the right of the stage the backup singers they show first in the video, there are three of them standing there, on the left is Rita Coolidge and the blond next to her is the daughter of Rita Coolidge and Kris Kristofferson.

posted June 04, 2007 11:21 PM         

Where alot more connected then I think you realize!!!

If you count down seven posts of mine on this thread, you will see the same " Ghost Dance " Video!!! WOW!!! WOOOO!!!

Mirandee Your Great!!!!

Now thats connected & on the same page!!!!LOL!!

posted June 04, 2007 11:33 PM         

I have been asked many times who are the Star Nations to which I am always referring to in my talks and articles. Unless one understands the nature of the Native American culture, it can get confusing. We have a belief that we are related to the stars and have always been. It goes back into our history for thousands of years. One of my ancestral nations is Anishinabe, which means “People who fell from the sky”. The very name explains that we believe our origin is of the stars. In another one of my blood lines “Osage”, we have a drawing of a staircase with us walking down from the stars. It is a picture explaining our origin. I am of a clan called the Tiz-sho, which means the Sky People clan. That is why cloud is in my name. I am also of the Honga clan which is the Earth clan. That is why I have bear in my name. Native people believe we work with star languages. It is held as sacred in our culture. The connections to our star realitves are found in many things such as blankets, beadwork, paintings, wall hangings and is often in ceremony. The eight-pointed star is the most commonly used and could be said to be the native star. It carries many meanings but is a symbol of our connection to the Universe and the Earth. The belief we are connected to the stars in native culture is very common place.

Here are the words to a Star song we sing of the stars.

We are the stars which sing
We sing with our light
We are the bird of fire
We fly over the sky
Our light is a voice We make a road
For the spirit to pass over
(Algonquian “Song of the Stars”)

We have star shields that carry spiritual understandings and essences and pictorially speaks of our connections to the stars. We understand that our spirtual and universal laws came from the stars. The native culture which spans 750 different nations in the US, feel we are connected with the stars nations and that they are our relatives. Our close relatives of Central and South America feel the same. We have names with stars in them, for example “Red Star”. We believe that we are so closely related to the stars that we call them the Star Nation People. In the same understanding we would also call the trees, the Tree Nation people, the Cloud Nation people and the Stones, the Stone Nation people. We also are of the belief that we have star relatives that have visited us and there are living star relatives existing elsewhere in our Universe. We are related to all celestial bodies so much so that we call them relatives. For example, the Earth Mother, Sky Father. The universe and the sky are seen as the Grandfather. The moon is the Grandmother. It is my belief that these universal symbols that are appearing around the world and mostly in England are from these Star Nation people. They have put many symbols in the fields reflecting their origin to be that of the stars. There are some of us who believe that these star relatives are putting these symbols in the field to heal an out of balance Earth. We as people for the most part, have fallen into the traps of the material world and have forgotten our relatives. They wish to remind us. These star relatives are silent about their origin as they are all of these I have spoken of. It can be challenging for some people as the elements of the stars move into areas that are beyond the threshold of the logical mind, and swims in water that requires feeling and trust and higher sight. I can only say that our star relativities have given the people of Earth some of the most beautiful gifts imaginable, Star Glyphs.

Mitakuye Oyasin

Many Blessings
Wah-we-nah
Bearcloud

posted June 04, 2007 11:45 PM         

NICE PIC!!!!

Sure fits YOU!!!

posted June 04, 2007 11:53 PM         

Just as we are connected Star Sisters, Star