The Following is a small part of the story of my experience with the
International Council of The 13 Indigenous Grandmothers over Spring Equinox 2014:
The water we could not drink.
Our collective thirst for connection to our bodies and to
the Earth, our mother.
Learning a way to be peaceful, loving, healing with one
another.
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| The Healer Gesso, Pastel, Charcoal on Brown Rag Paper 36"X42", 3/2014 by Glee Lumb |
How to be with our children
How to connect with the spiritual center of our oneness
daily with whatever ritual we choose.
Coming from our hearts, as bearers of life and holders of
the sacred waters of the womb, we are asked to be centered in this sacred
connection in each and every interaction we have.
To speak out with positive attention to those actions which
are healing
To be powerful in our knowing of the way of peace and nurturers of life.
We are to be seeds of hope.
We need to have deep roots, strong trunks, and then the
leaves are our future, but the flowers are the hope of the future, the children
of the 7th generation.
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| Wake Me Gently, For I Do Not Know I Am Sleeping Gesso, Pastel, Charcoal on Brown Rag Paper 36"X42", 3/2014 by Glee Lumb |
How do I share the vision of hope I have for the future? I feel so clearly I have been given a message to share about the living water, in that it means it is the sacred water we all carry within us, that it is how we relate to one another which will lead us to the health and healing of the future generations.
We cried and cried, we shared our sorrows, as women for our
sufferings, for the Earth as our bodies, as the way our own collective and
individual bodies have been treated. And
out of it comes a constant prayer for our children, for our men, for our
bodies, for the water that we carry…that we will be centered in ourselves and
in our beating hearts.
The Audubon Society of Portland urges you not to support Ballot Measure 26-156, the Portland Water District Initiative, which will be on Portland's May 2014 ballot.
For more information and photos of the event,
please go to Sacred Ecology Films.
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| In The Name Of The Mother 2014 Montezuma Well, Arizona |
What you can do: Vote, Learn, Talk
Portland Audubon Opposes Water District Initiative
The Audubon Society of Portland urges you not to support Ballot Measure 26-156, the Portland Water District Initiative, which will be on Portland's May 2014 ballot.
The initiative would take control away from the City of Portland of the Bureau of Environmental Services and the Water Bureau, including the $15 billion in public assets they oversee, and place these bureaus under control of an obscure new district.
The initiative is backed by industrial water users and corporate polluters who have a long history of opposing the City’s most important environmental programs. The same core group that backs this initiative sued the City in 2011, arguing that virtually all of the City’s core environmental programs - including Superfund, regulatory programs to protect the Willamette River, and restoration programs such as tree planting and greenstreets - are illegal.
While this initiative masquerades as a populist revolt, it is in fact a corporate initiative that perpetuates longstanding attacks on environmental programs and would make our public utilities more vulnerable to corporate takeover. More...
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