Never Alone
Painting from a Musea Training
What Painting Class or Training is the artwork from?
Red Thread Guide Certification Training
What year was this painted?
2021
What medium is this painted on (i.e. Acrylic on Canvas, Acrylic on Watercolor, Watercolor, etc)
Acrylic on Canvas
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Women are gathering for circle
Bringing hopes and wishes and dreams
Perhaps a little fear
Because the most important things
We have come to know
Quicken the heart
The blood in our veins
Anticipation
Longing
Excitement
Promise and possibility
Born of our remembering
Our connection to our sisters
Our connection to the land
Our connection to this moment
As the only moment;
This.
Woodsmoke permeates the air
As the women arrive fireside
Their baskets overflowing with offerings
Of scarlet thread and bannock,
Fairy bells and heather—
A welcome
A calling
A drum beat in the distance
A heartbeat deep within
A pulsing beneath our feet
An invitation
Do you hear it?
Will you hear it?
What will it take for you
Sweet sister
To admit the call?
To feel the pull?
To say yes?
To say yes to yourself
To say yes to this life
To say yes to one another
Full engagement
Wherever this path takes you
Whatever is asked
To dance with the mystery
To share your gifts
To weave with the threads of experience
The offering of your very existence
For the benefit of others
A treasure for all
Will you say yes to the adventure
That beckons?
Honoring not only your own life
But the life of every soul that joins you?
We are here for you.
For one, for all
Bearing witness to your story
The stories of those before you,
Of those beside you
Of those behind you
Leagues of ancestors and allies
Of births yet to come
Calling to you
Whispering your name
Coaxing you on
“We are here”
They say
As if they never left,
For they never have.
We have only forgotten:
Our legacy
Our legend
Our sovereignty and power—
You and me
And we and they
Together as one
As we always have been
And forever will be.
“We are together”
They say
Reminding us
Strong beautiful women, that
With every word shared
With every song sung
With every hip that sways
With every head thrown back in laughter
With every strand of red thread we weave
With every intention uttered
And sent up on the wind
Into the ether
To the ears of the divine
We are heard
And seen
And held.
And so we remember
We remember why we’re here
We remember how to hear
With the ears of the heart
And see
And hold
One another in love
The sweetest love
Born of connection
Of trusting the call
That brings us into sacred responsibility
Sacred reciprocity
In witness of the glorious magic
That infuses us,
Every one.
Rise, sisters, rise!
Gather here in circle
Bring what no one else can bring
Bless us with your presence
Just as we have done,
Divine Sisterhood,
Since the beginning.
Our birthright is to celebrate
One another.
Let us hold fast
Hand to hand
Thread to thread
Heart to heart
To our collective
Unrestrained becoming,
Remembering we
Are never alone.
