Totem Spirit Designs

I am pleased to say that courtesy of my fellow blogger Selchie, who can be found at http://womanwithmen.blogspot.com/ or http://purpleshaggycows.blogspot.com/ I have now managed to upload some of my creations!

Each of these Medicine Bags were based on the unique characteristics of the Totem Animals of their bearers. I have included two images of each of the bags, to provide an overall view and depict the detail of the work. Each bag is handcrafted, and each bead individually sewn!

I have just finished a Crow Medicine Bag, which I will be uploading to add to the collection soon.

Having recently received inspiration at http://soulshamans.blogspot.com/ I shall be beginning my next creation shortly...watch this space!

On The Cusp...

I'm lying on the cusp,
darkness, daybreak,
wakefulness and sleep.

He unfolds before me,
tall, taller than my father.
A bare chest blazoned with a glimmer of steel.

Hair shaken, drifts across his shoulders,
my eyes wander and absorb.
He is beautiful, I muse.

Sinews stretched,
contours shimmer,
I gasp bewildered by my gaze.

Before thought, before breath,
As it reaches for me,
the bullwhip cracks.

Vibrations resonate,
forces throw me,
shaken I wonder what's occurred.

A third eye throbs,
waiting, anticipation,
words slosh like soup inside my mind.

Illusion dispersed,
reality reinstated,
Crack, the spell within snaps.

A chuckle breaks the silence,
"So, Do fish swim?"
This one does, it's free.

A New Adventure

Today the first step was taken on a new adventure; a path that once diverged has met again. I don't know what this means, or question its presence in the greater scheme of things but I welcome the opportunity to walk my path with heart. I carry with me the hopes of meeting those that I have journeyed with before and the expectation of meeting future fellow travellers, the players of the game that we call LIFE.