ROMANCE

"Romancing the Stone was a 1980's movie women and men loved all around the world. The fantasy woman and man relationship of conflict and resolution, resistance and attraction were at work within the two main actors. The Bonnie & Clyde's of the movie genre, as well as reality shows, and soap operas play a pivotal role in the thinking and behavior of couples and individuals. Unexamined the custom of watching TV, and movies is often a catastrophe. It oft'times seems pointless to drag on about the whys of the sad predictable outcomes in today's marriages, and relationships because enlightenment, although available to all, is received and expanded upon by a few. Why? Don't ask me. Listen to the fables, and the stories about stories we live out; we act out in our daily lives. Pay attention to your stories; your governing stories, and creation stories and see how they play in your relationships, and marriage. If stories feed us look at the picture below, and feel the reassuring and loving energy between this couple, and read their story."

 Gregory E. Woods 

Keeper of Stories 

9/9/12

Mo Gelber's "Last Kiss" 

True romance: photo of couple kissing as they are handcuffed by police

by  Eric Pfeiffer, Yahoo! News

Fri, Sep 7, 2012

One man's timely photograph of a couple kissing just as they are being handcuffed by the police could end up being the basis for a film.

That's the good news for amateur photographer Mo Gelber, 42.

The bad news is that Gelber's "Last Kiss" snapshot will be eligible to win this year's "Project Imaginat10n" contest sponsored by filmmaker Ron Howard only if Gelber can obtain written permission from the couple.

Gelber is a finalist in the contest. Each year, the top 10 submissions are turned into short films.

It's already been quite a journey for Gelber, who first had to track down the couple, whom he photographed as they were being arrested in August in front of Manhattan Criminal Court on graffiti charges.

"I am completely ecstatic. To get this recognition means a lot to me," Gelber told the New York Daily News.

The problem is the unnamed man in the picture is still in jail and his forlorn girlfriend Alexis Creque, 28, won't cooperate with Gelber until her boyfriend is released from jail.

"We knew that we were going to be split up once we got to Central Booking," Creque said of why she and the man kissed as they were being arrested. "I was just the look-out," she said. "We had a crazy romance all summer. It is like a movie."

In fact, the couple bear a striking resemblance to the characters portrayed in "True Romance," starring Christian Slater and Patricia Arquette. Somewhat mirroring reality, the film's couple fall in love while in the midst of a major crime spree.

As for Gelber, he says he's willing to do anything within his power to keep his chances alive.

"I will bring the release form to Rikers if I have to," he told the paper. "I just really want to win this contest."  By Eric Pfeiffer, Yahoo! News 

PRAYER from Chief Dan George's heart to the Creator

♥May the stars carry your sadness away,
May the flowers fill your heart with beauty,
May hope forever wipe away your tears,
And, above all, may silence make you strong.♥

by Chief Dan George

from Silvia Mamani's gallery

12 SEPTEMBRE 2012

Ty Gray-El, you said, "... 'self-inflicted' wound of 9/11."  Well, physics, and the science of explosives, and building structures was explained in relation to the Trade Center within two years after the attack, but most Americans I know, or read about weren't interested in evaluating the day. It was physically dangerous to voice introspection into conversations in the mid-West and on the East coast the first 3 years after the attack. In the first week I took my life into my hands sharing what I knew to frightened white college students about the relationships between Saudi Arabia, the bin Laden family and the United States. A retired, and re-hired Vietnam soldier came after me when I did not share or express surprise at the attacks. When I answered him, and said, "You wouldn't be if you understood American foreign policy!" He came at me. He tried to fight me on my job with his two new knees.

I took that shit serious. I had something for him under my desk.

I mention that in part because Forrest A. Wright's trip to Ground Zero, even today, took courage because Forrest has an obligation to teach his son the truth, and the truth is not always a valued commodity, and sharing the truth is a teachable skill best taught to a boy by his father! - Gregory E. Woods, Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories

PRETTY IN RED

Cosetta Chantal with her love in August of 2012

GOLDEN DREAM

Golden Dream by VICTOR CRISOSTOMO GOMEZ

Message from Mayan Master teacher Don Miguel Angel:

As many of you know, Dr. Carl Johan Calleman, who is a respected scholar and foremost researcher on the subject, states that his years of in-depth research in decoding the calendar have led him to believe that the culmination of the great cycle lines up on October 28th, 2011 rather than December 21, 2011. You can read his official statement of

 his explanations in my previous post here.

When Saul asked Don Miguel Angel to clarify the confusion over the date, Don Miguel Angel answered by saying, that it’s not really about a particular date. He encouraged us to meditate and check in to what we feel connected to within our truth and to follow our intuition with what resonates.

This is the same message that the Mayan Grand Elder Wakatel Utiw / Wandering Wolf /Don Alejandro Cirilo Perez Oxlaj has been saying. Dr. Calleman in fact also echoes this sentiment by saying that “it’s not about a date, it’s a process.”

So regardless of the actual culminating date, which is really not an “end” anyway but rather a new beginning, we are in the midst of a great transformation and we are waking up to the truth of who we are.

The Ancient Mayans forsaw this time of great change and connectivity. Their vision and focus was on this age that we are living in. I believe this portal has already opened. I feel within me that the message that all these great teachers have confirmed is aligned.

Listening to the great wisdom shared by Don Miguel Angel was tremendous. I was moved by the experience and wanted to share some of the things that stayed with me. One of the most potent messages Don Miguel Angel shared was the importance to live our truth, to experience our own Divinity. ”Cielo… nirvana…heaven” are inside.

He said many masters have left the planet so we could lead this life by ourselves but not alone. In having moved on to other realms they are always with us, helping us. He said it’s time to find the “INNER TEACHER inside you, who you are, develop a real connection with the knowledge and wisdom inside of you.”

Profound words.

“Increase the life and love inside yourself” he advised and with complete relaxation, have faith and be inspired.

“We are the children of the Earth. We are Beings of the Sun. We are light.”

We are the center points between the cosmos and the earth, we are the connecting points between the roots of the earth and the branches of the cosmos. He said beautifully, “part of our being is connected to the stars and part of our being is connected to the Earth.”

As we are undergoing this re-alignment, and our planet is re-calibrating into balance, we are also internally mirroring this transformation. You can read more about these changes here and here.

In order to help balance and ground some of these energies, we should visit power places in nature if they are calling us. The Earth Mother is emanating powerful healing light grids in many spots all over the world.

Don Miguel Angel said that these sacred sites are catalysts that can open us to new energies, but know that wherever we are, we can access them within.

So remember that it’s not about a particular date. Like Don Miguel Angel said, find what is true for you and what resonates with you. The time is now. Tune in through your inner frequency. Find your teacher within and be present.

I am deeply grateful to have received these teachings, to Don Miguel Angel for his generosity of Spirit, and to Saul for opening these channels and always guiding us and grounding us into our truth.

In La Kesh

“I am another mirror…

of myself…

of you”

Peace

{The idea for this display came from Silvia Mamani }

SEPTEMBER 11 & the ALAMO

on January 21, 2012
Samantha Gutstadt

9/11/12

“It is an impossible assertion to claim the attack on the US in 2001 changed the country and the world for the better. It neither smells nor feels good to wrap up sentimentality with a series of lies, and false hopes of revenge like a cowboy in a 1930’s movie out to save the white girl. In these times with cyberspace free, and unencumbered telling the story, the truth, and a global rise of developed intelligence ascending beyond American’s childish whining about what they did to us, and our ‘we are victims’ lament. 9/11 is being seen for what it is: an attack on an ideology, and a worldview that has hurt and conquered for a long time.

If bringing peace to the world was an American objective in 2000 the nation could have sat with the other nations petitioning for world peace. Sitting with other nations to negotiate for peaceful solutions during our time of relative peace wasn’t the American, or the White House agenda. President Bush, at the time, did not respect the process, and made that very clear. The first weeks after the attack the opportunity for restoration, and resolution and peace action were ripe and in the open. The wrong president was in office without the prerequisite skills to lead beyond fear mongering, or the heart and ability of a Peace Keeper. He and the nation could not see deeply into the moment with an historical grasp of the subjects arising in the smoke beyond numbing fears, and gut reactions. 

Fire has to burn, but with the right Fire Keeper fire becomes a healing element. A warring beast and a raging man have to fight, and in our culture the United States has to fight. 9/11 is more a testament to that fact than anything else.” – Gregory E. Woods 

actress and producer Samantha Gutstadt
on September 10, 2010

Trail of Tears

In the beginning, the Cherokee believed that the earth was covered with
water and that beavers came from the sky to drag the mud from the ocean
bottom and bring it to the top.  The beavers then attached it to the sky and created the land. The "great buzzard" now flew to the ground where he flapped his wings while the valleys
and mountains were formed. It was on one of these flights that the "great buzzard" created the land on which the Cherokees lived.

By the 1800's, the Cherokee had taken to the white man's ways. They were
farmers who cultivated the land while living peacefully with those around
them. But this was not good enough for some who envied their land and
others, like President Andrew Jackson, whose racial hatred towards the
natives now drove them to rationalize any excess. In 1829, the Georgia
legislature passed laws that would extend its authority over the land of the
Cherokees. The Indians were given a choice that either the Cherokees could
leave the state or they could succumb to white rule.

Chief John Ross protested against this unjust policy and went to President
Jackson and to ask for federal protection. The Cherokees had signed a
treaty with the U.S. government that promised them protection, however, their protest fell upon deaf ears.  Jackson not only refused their request, but the old Indian hater sent his
Secretary of War, Lewis Cass, to negotiate a new treaty with a minority faction of the tribe who favored removal. The removal faction was granted $3,000,000 in payment. The treaty
had to be ratified by the whole nation so Cass proclaimed that only the pro removal faction would be eligible to vote. The vote was a sham with only about 4% of the Cherokee
nation approving of the treaty. Congress, despite protests from Chief Ross,
quickly passed the accord.

This set off a tidal wave of land grabbers who plundered the new land, often
killing the natives in the process. Most of the Cherokees refused to leave
and federal troops, under the command of General Winfield Scott, were sent
in to remove the natives. Their tactics could only be described as genocide.
The Cherokees were given no time in which to gather their belongings before
they were ordered on a forced march in which 25% of the tribe would perish.
Their homes were ransacked as plunderers stole their belongings and then
sold them right in front of their eyes. The sellers and the buyers conspired
to cheat the Cherokee.

The march took place in the middle of the winter as one of the exiles commented: "Looks like maybe all be dead before we get to new Indian country." The removal took them from their sacred home where the "great buzzard" had come and left them in a land that they knew nothing about. Their land went to speculators and slave owners. The Cherokee were left alone for a while but white settlers would again take their land in the Oklahoma land rush at the end of the century.
This injustice haunts our history since reparations have never been made to
the Cherokee. Maybe it is time they should.


By Denis Mueller From the Archives of Blue Panther

Blacks on the Trail of Tears