Butterfly Dreams

 Today's post for the Ultimate Blog Challenge is brought to you by the number 4, ᏅᎩ (nv-gi / Cherokee)  Let's honor the ᏅᎩ Suits of  SoulCollage®  (links to my posts last fall on each suit )  Committee (our inner qualities) Community (those around us; family, friends, public figures, pets) Companion (animal guides for each Chakra)  Council (archetypes) This morning, my cohort for our SoulCollage® facilitator training will gather (virtually) for our Orientation . It's an exciting time, standing on the brink of a new adventure! Over a decade ago, my friend Inga and I took a day long workshop, to meet and paint our Creative Muses. Our teacher was enrolled in the Color of Woman teacher training, and one of her requirements was to offer a painting workshop with at least two students - we were those students! Good Medicine -2025 The questions Elisabeth invited us to consider, in preparation for that workshop  are appropriate for my upcoming jo...

   "King, did you hear that? The hands of a healer, I say." Return of the King - J.R.R. Tolkein Reiki altar Shortly after moving to McMinnville in the early 1980s, I began volunteering for Hospice. A few months later, I met my massage mentor Jeanne Christensen at a community event where we both had booths.  I'd grown up with a family practice of massage, rubbing my mom's back and feet from ~ 5 years old - and of course, receiving massage from her!  I got a short session from her booth partner,  and quickly signed up for a series of massage classes Jeanne was offering!  When I learned that like my mom, Jeanne had polio, and massage was a saving grace of her treatment, I realized I'd found my career path! Jeanne was looking for a couple of massage therapists to join her practice, and open a clinic! Little did we know that 42 years later, Nan and I would have renewed our licenses over 20 times each, and still offer sessions! Medicine Basket A blessing of growi...