I have started to get distracted on this blog. I do that. I get bored and get scattered until the next thing peeks my interest. So, it is actually fitting that as I am intending to draw this to a close, or morph it into a different sort of journal, I see it as a close to a cirle. An earlier turning point in my life involved a turtle. Yes, a turtle. On my wedding day, we were decorating the hall in rural Iowa and my mom excitededly pulls me away and says, "You have to come see what is blessing your wedding. I was waiting to see what it would be, and it has arrived." And, outside the front door of the hall was a huge snapping turtle in the grass. Hanging out, it was. We were married on mother's day and, in some Native American traditions, turtle's "medicine" is mother earth, among other things. My mom was so pleased, and incorporated its blessing into her reading during the ceremony.
Now, my latest celebrity sighting (and last celeb post?) happened at San Juan Pueblo in New Mexico during the annual winter solstice Turtle Dance ceremony on December 26. Ally McGraw was visitor, like me, to the ceremony. She is best known for her role Love Story with Ryan O'Neall, but here she is on YouTube. The Turtle Dance is very cool, but I won't say much about it because I love the fact that you can't find a ton of information about these traditional ceremonies and I won't pretend to be an authority on the subject. Simply though, the ceremony defines the end of one year and the beginning of another. I highly recommend the experience. I appreciated that there was nothing commercial about it: nothing was sold, no vendors in sight, no billboards, no plastic banners. Ahhhhh.
Monday, January 07, 2008
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