Road signs along the way

I could not take photo of my Welcome to Arkansas as I saw the sign in the middle of of an Interstate bridge.

Drove thru Arkansas Am now in Missouri

Welcome sign to Arkansas was in the middle of Omterstate bridge .
Needless to say I did not stop to take a picture of it.
Did get a photo of  my Welcome to Missouri.
Will see if I can post pictures.
Ramblin' on the roads toward the Black Hills.

Tennessee welcomes me!

Driving thru Memphis.
Leaving Mississippi.

I am welcomed to Mississippi

I took a picture of the sign but can't rember how to post picture yet

Big Mama Plans Her Getaway To The Black Hills

At first Big Mama had talked herself outta going. After all she had just recently come back from hopping outta the nest and hopping offa the cloud where she and Lordy lived to go see sonar pictures of her daughter Sarah-Star and son-in-law Al's baby girl Aeraly Ember. Lordy had been too busy with The Theater to go along with Big Mama on that trip to North Carolina and he was certainly more busy with The Theater now so he couldn't trek offa the cloud to go to Unity's Concert for the Black Hills. Still in her heart Big Mama longed to go so she explored the website to see who all would be there musically and possibly to do ceremony. Of course, Buffy Sainte~Marie who was on Big Mama's bucket list would be there but when Big Mama discovered Xavier Rudd would be there from Austrailia she took it as a sign. He was all tied up with her dead son Josh and the Hangout Musical Festival in Gulf Shores and one of the last times she'd seen her son before he dropped his body when that lady ran a red light and killed him on his motorcycle and Josh,without his body, went dancing in spirit along the Milky Way Road to his next realm. Anyway by the time Big Mama stayed up all nite listening to Nahko Bear (Xavier Rudd's friend) Big Mama aka Mama Bear was convinced she should try and go even if she had to travel sans Lordy. She mapped out the 25 hours and 39 minutes it would take her to get there. She waited awhile~ then she made her reservation for the free concert and place to pitch a tent. On a day about a week and a half before she'd hafta leave she sat down and wrote Lordy a letter explaining why she had to sneak and run away from home to be in South Dakota on September 13th and 14th. She felt CALLED TO GO similar to when she and Lordy had felt called to become co~ coordinators for the SE region of Edgar Cayce's ARE/ Association for Research and    Enlightenment.  Would she see Rickie and Michael Beckwith again? Would she meet some Native American teacher? Or was she just hungry to be on the road again? She'd missed having freedom to travel in the summers like she'd had back when Lordy was the Chief Marine Biologist for the State of Alabama and was up to his neck with alligators in the busy summertime when she'd had time off from teaching kindergarten munchkins. Finances were in the red most months since big Mama and Lordy had retired but in her Wild Desire to go she convinced herself she could make this trip cheaply. Stopping @ rest stops to nap along the way and driving straight through and packing 2 jars of peanut butter for sustenance. So Big Mama began to pack her Jeep Libertina with her winter coat, long jeans and clothes she might need if it was cold out yonder in them that Black Hills. She made arrangements to borrow a tent. Yep! It looked like the good Lord willing and the creek don't rise she was gonna make her getaway on Wednesday, September 10th. And so the story goes. Big Mama is NOT running away to join the circus and the gas money $295,55 will hafta be paid for somehow but she is gonna fly the coop to see just why her heart is calling her to trek on out to the Unity Concert for the Black Hills. More tales of Big Mama's Adventures will be posted here. I'm jest sayin' Y'all come back here, 'ya hear?

Our Lady of the Open Sky

EAST

What's AIR got to do with it?

A painting for Shiloh McCloud Lewis' Red Madonna Matrix 2014

Story I wrote for my friend Becky's Birthday July 10, 2014

• Posted by Flamingo Gypsy/Susan Daniel on July 10, 2014 at 10:40pm
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Homework July 3 2014 We were given two ears but only one mouth

/Take the night train

Big Mama in the sky sat with Lordy one day

on the cloud edge with their feet danglin’ down

lookin’ at the Earthball they had co~created.

“That place needs sumpin’ Lordy

but I jes’ don’t know what it tiz,” she said.

Lordy took his pipe outta his mouf,

blew smoke rings up toward Venus, and said,

“Now Missy, I think you do too know what it needs.

You been talkin’ about fairies and imps

and hearts filled with sunshine and love

and magic and sparkly, shiny stuff

with the trickster magician thrown in

and the one true soul what’ll

love them others into be more positive.

Why don’t ya go into your treehouse kitchen

and see what you can conjure up?”

So Big Mama heaved herself up off

the edge of the cloud leanin’ on Lordy’s good shoulder

to get herself up and sashayed on over to the tree

where they lived when they were in this part

of the heavenly realms. She opened the round

front door and went in to the bookfilled cottage.

Lordy came toddlin’ in. And she swung the cookie

sheet in his direction and said, “Old Man, I’ll not

have you puttin’ your 2 cents in while I’m creatin’.”

So he took the cat with him and went outside

to sit at the Creatin’ Oven Saint Peter had made

for them and called Buddha to play chess

with him while they waited to see just what

Big Mama would conjure up thisatime.

They could hear Big Mama singin’,

“What’s gonna happen when the rainy season comes,

will yore roof cave in on you?

Will the lightnin’ spoil yore view

and the rain come pourin’ through?”

and other songs as she mixed up her dough

and added all her special ingredients.

When she finally had the little fairy princess

shaped out and placed on the cookie sheet

she brought it out to the Creatin’ Oven

where Lordy opined her Becky creation should have

2 ears but Buddha said she should only have one mouth.”

“Thataway she can listen and learn and spout great wisdom,”

Buddha added. Big Mama put stardust in her eyes

for sparkle and the three of them kneaded the red dough

that wuz gonna be her heart and smushed it into place.

Big Mama shoved her Becky girl creation into the oven

and they all stood at the oven’s door shoutin’ blessings to go

in it. Buddha shouted, “Let her heart be a sanctuary.”

Lordy said, “Let the Luna and the Sun be married in her

so she can create brandy new days.” And Big Mama hollered,

“Plant a fire seed in her tummy so she can grow into a

living tree of life and spread Love and Grace and Truth

and Beauty all around her wherever she goes.”

The three, Buddha, Lordy and Big Mama waited around

the Creatin’ Oven’s door till all the stars came out

and it got to be nigh onto midnight. Then Kwan Yin

came around drivin’ the Night Train and agreed to deliver

her to her destination. She and Big Mama exchanged papers

and Kwan Yin released the back flap on the oven and slid

her into the Night Train while she was still hot from

cookin’ good and drove off on a golden path through

the stars. Buddha gave his jolly hugs to Lordy and Big Mama

and wandered off into the night. Old Man Lordy threw

his arm over Big Mama’s shoulders and asked, “Where’d ‘ya

send her to?” And Big Mama said, “She’ll be part time

in Kentucky but then later on I gave Kwan Yin

the papers so she cah switch up and go to Alabama

and cause some waterspouts there and stir up some love

wherever it’s needed.” And Lordy leaned over and kissed her

on her forehead and said, “I’m sure everwhere she goes

there’ll be goodness and sweetness and light and good lovin’

cuz you made her special, Big Mama.”

Our Lady of The Flowering Earth

This is one of my paintings for Shiloh McCloud Lewis' Red Madonna Matrix 2014.

NORTH

What's EARTH got to do with it?

My Writing April 17 2014 TODAY I LIVE FOR ONE THING

 Reply by Flamingo Gypsy/Susan Daniel on April 17, 2014 at 12:32am

TODAY I LIVE FOR ONE THING

to sing my song this day

Sing, sing, sing my song this day.

Talking is my human voice.

Singing is my spirit voice.

There’s an ancient gypsy in me

who longs to dance.

TODAY I LIVE FOR ONE THING

I am not pretending I know anything.

In this way I leave open spaces for discoveries.

Each Aha! And Eureka! is a precious gem or jewel,

a treasure to pass through my hands

and into the hands of others

so my hands may become empty again

receptive to receive new blessings of abundance.

I yearn to learn. I live in wonder….

and my wonderings lead me wandering

down side trails filled with awe

and love and truth and beauty.

TODAY I LIVE FOR ONE THING

to stomp dance my bare footprints

into the dirt and sand skin of our Earth Mother.

My path with heart tattoos itself

in crisscross lines of great power

imprinting our land with the map of my intentions.

We stack rocks to mark our prayers.

TODAY I LIVE FOR ONE THING

Twirling, swirling, spinning I create

my stitches into the tapestry

that is my life.

Each step I take is connected to the steps all others take.

The strings connecting us shine with phosphorescent luminance.

Our stories are etched into the clay vessels

that are the bowls of our being

and painted onto the secret hidden walls of our caves.

My heartbeat is the drum I dance to.

My flute song is the bridge between us.

With magic afoot we create heaven here on earth.

TODAY I LIVE FOR ONE THING

to hold up the mirror so you can see your reflection.

I am your crystal ball for scrying.

I am the catalyst that causes you to open your ears and eyes and heart.

Our true essence is the Divine spark within that gives us our essence.

I am the questions you need to answer

to find your way to our Shambala/ "place of peace/tranquility/happiness".

TODAY I LIVE FOR ONE THING

to build little altars everywhere.

I honor everyone’s creativity and art.

I see with the eyes of my heart.

I listen with my helping hands.

I practice my spirituality so I can weave

poetry, magic and miracles

into the seeds I plant, nurture and nourish.

I pray and light prayer candles.

I bead and say my prayers.

I breathe in the One Creative Force Source

I breathe out Love.

~~~

 My Writing April 28 2014 Faith prayer to Our Lady of Flowering Earth

 Reply by Flamingo Gypsy/Susan Daniel on April 28, 2014 at

9: 56am

Open my heart to the awe and wonder of

your truth

and your abundance

and beauty

and love

~~~

My Writing May 17 2014 Inspired by BECOMING HUMMINGBIRD by Galer

 Reply by Flamingo Gypsy/Susan Daniel on May 17, 2014 at 3:23pm

How can I journey THE love WAY?
Inspired by Jane Galer's BECOMING HUMMINGBIRD

I interrogated myself
so that I could personally expand.
I picked up touchstones
and held them next to my chakras.
I heeded the call
of my Muse's invitation.
I charted my own journey
on my path with heart.
I identified my place,
my goals, my gifts.
I set the stage
for the magic to begin.
With light and dark
I weave my human story.
I unveil the stories to expose
Revelations of life lessons.
I am a catalyst using my toolbox of magic
with tarot card pictures and stories
to shake things up with stardust and pollen
and gift to others the transformation
they need to play their part
in creating the sacred into our New World.

~~~

My Writing May 26 2014 Faith and Creation

 Reply by Flamingo Gypsy/Susan Daniel on May 26, 2014 at 8:30pm

My Lady of the Flowering Earth

FAITH

Faries

Are

Igniting

Truths

Here

CREATION

Cherub

Revelations

Enter

At

The

Instant

Of

Need

~~~