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Home. With the birds singing in the forest. The frogs calling in the night. The deepest bright blue of sky. The Icelandic poppy a bright yellow sun outside my door.

I went to another land for a few weeks with my family & fell in love with it. I love getting to know this beautiful planet. I don’t forget that my human days experiencing it are numbered. I am 32 already. So it moves me deeply, usually to tears with its beauty. I already know how much I will miss Earth when Creator calls me & my body gives itself back to the land.

I saw wild buffalo. Rolling golden plains. Waterfalls & springs. I drank water that came from the ground & stepped upon sparkling forest paths of salmon pink dirt, sandstone, mica, & rose quartz. I saw mighty, full clouds skimming the wide earth, so close I almost felt them. I saw sprinkles of snow in the woods, bright & clear sunlight, a splash of rainbow in the distance, & heard thunder rolling. I felt the strong winds as they whirled across the prairie, bringing messages from far away of other places.

I loved & I laughed & I learned & I received the land & people. & it brought so much to me. More than I can share here in this moment, so I will write of the layers of experiencing Mni Khata {Hot springs}, South Dakota soon. One new practice that has become very strong in my heart after my time there is to begin calling places by their original given names. Our indigenous family lived on this land first. This is their homeland that they named & loved. I will call it as they call it, not as colonizers have named it in their attempts to erase whole peoples & their cultures. I have much learning to do to find & remember the original names of this land, but it makes my heart sing to strive for it. I am going to try & make a song of all the names, to root it into my being. I am hungry for new ways. Life-giving ways. I want healing & reclamation for all the people of earth.

One of the questions in my soul right now is * how can I support that?*

Thank you, Mni Khata, for touching my being with your beauty & goodness.

The wonders & loves of my week have been ~~

~ The waters of Mni Khata. Kidney Springs. Thank you, waters. You are our life. You are a gift. The water was like silk, full of minerals, & fortifying in a way I have not found before. I want water like this for everyone. Every one.

~ Coming home to warmth & light & spring in full bloom.

~ My friends. My glorious friends.

~ Seeing our loved ones again !!

~ My next steps in life ever so gently whispering to me. I am just beginning to hear them in my heart.

~ Birthday magic. May is the month of so many loved one’s birthdays & it makes spring so fun on top of nature’s tender unfoldment into leaf & flower.

~ Moccasin Springs in Mni Khata. What a gift to sink into the peace present there.

~ The clouds of Wyoming & South Dakota. Healthy, natural, full clouds. To see & feel them was a true gift in the skies we often see now which are manipulated through weather modification.

~ My essential oils which brought me a lot of fortification & support while traveling, which was a movement needing constant adjustment, energy, lightness, flexibility, creativity, & perseverance with three littles in tow & on my own. Thank you to Adaptiv {a calming blend for the nervous system}, Oregano & On Guard {cleansing oils for the skin challenges I faced while traveling}, & my favorite oil of all-time with so many different healing uses, Frankincense. Thank you also to the songs that came through me in the times when my little family & I needed beauty & gentleness through singing.

~ My children, always my children. They are each at developmental places in their evolvement which are so precious & I feel in awe of them & grateful every day. Being their mother is my favorite part of this life.

I am so grateful for life. May I use it for good, always good, & give love to everything & everyone that has given to me.