Today is a day of

Gratitude as should be every day...

News

I am pleased to say I was chosen as one of Western NC's best psychics by Mountain Xpress in August.

NEWS!

will have something wonderful to share in August! So, stay tuned!!!!

Wanted to share this message I received from Gabe Horn, one of the contributors to the new anthology

I have been reading Unraveling the Spreading Cloth of Time..., and it has been one of the greater reading experiences I have ever had. I have only gotten to read excerpts of some and a few shorter ones to Amy (she is blind) so far, but I shared with her on our walk yesterday how I felt about what I spent hours overnight reading. Here is how I see this book when I read it. All these native writers and artists are connected by the threads you have used to connect them to you, MariJo. It is like you are a kind of Spider Grandmother and you have connected each of us with each other with this incredible book, that is this extraordinary web. You gave us the chance to express appreciation to Vine, and all those teachers we have had on our journeys. They came from different places, like us. They came from different tribes, and blood, like us. But they were all indigenous, like us. This book shows this so powerfully. So defiantly. It is like this book is our tribe, our nation, born of struggles we can each identify with and all of us expressing this profound love and respect we have for the Great Mystery of Creation, and the Earth, the Moon, and all the universe. It is born of our connection to those who have made their Great Changes (death), and we share pages with their words! What an honor! And for one of the great poets, maybe her last poem? How humbled I am. At first, those old childhood poisons that Trace writes about clawed at my mind. I heard my inner voice say about me, You shouldn't be in such a book. Who do you think you are? You don’t deserve to be is such a book? But I walked outside and the Java plum is losing her big yellow leaves. So many, I thought. And then I looked up and the tree looked so much greener and healthier, and I know that I must let go of those things in life that serve no purpose in my growth, and now I feel proud of my, and my beautiful wife Amy’s, inclusions along with each of our brothers and sisters, young and older, and I am also so deeply humbled, and grateful. We live! We are still here! The indigenous perceptions of the world and the universe lives! This book is that living proof. We say it with our experiences. We say it with our hearts. We say it with our intellects. We may have felt isolated, and still might from time to time, but Unraveling the Spreading Cloth of Time brings us together all at once, and says, We are not alone. These are our people! This is who we are. This is what we do. These are my people! So, if you do feel that notion of being alone conjuring in your mind, pick up this book and hold it over your heart, and you will know, you are not alone. We are here with you.

And, if you want to truly live, America. To know what it truly means, to love one’s country. Of what Unraveling the Spreading Cloth of Time, is saying.... Take heed!

Thank you, MariJo, and Trace too, with all my heart for this gift of life.

gabe

Spring and Continuation

Spring is here... or close by..
For those of you who have my A Book of Ceremonies and Spiritual Energies Thereof, it is time to do the Nature Spring Ceremony. I find this ceremony to be especially crucial in my life at this time as it deals with opportunities and the discernment to know which are good for me. I am still in the process of healing and still on the heavy duty medicines, but I know I am getting better. Even a flare up now and then is not going to hold me back from what I want to do.
I have just co edited (with Trace A. DeMeyer) and recently published through my little press the following book:
Unraveling the Spreading Cloth of Time: Indigenous Thoughts Concerning the Universe, dedicated to Vine Deloria Jr (my late mentor).

I am so pleased with the book (there are 40 different writers from various different Indian nations, and the writings are full of wisdom that needs to be shared.

My purpose now is to market this book, continue with consultations/readings, and hold workshops- career wise, that is.

So, thank you to all who buy my books, attend workshops, and schedule readings.

This all gives me a purpose and determination to carry on...

A Thursday in February 2013

Reading Hermann Hesse's poetry this early morning:
"We evolve from the unconscious to total awareness
and spiral once back to our dark source through many paths
to what we knew in the beginning." A true mystic, Hesse understood the way of universal spirit.

My first poem of 2013 written this morning during the dawn

The Wind

The illustrious remembering prophesying wind
Sits atop the mountains and rests

Remembering tickling old wind chimes
Prophesying people filling with fear

Thinking laughing calling
Candidly sweeping hair out of Olden Eyes.

The wind
The illustrious wind

Whips down
Shakes the trees

Knocks on minds
And soothes crying babies.

All is good with the wind.

© MariJo Moore January 30, 2013

wanes not wains

just realized the word is wanes not wains.. but all of you know what I mean (:

life as I know it

I worry about something, I fret, I cry and my faith wains. At the last moment, help comes - things work out as they are supposed to - my faith is renewed. Cycle of belief... cycle of prayer... cycle of acceptance.

All is cyclical and right on course...



I am writing a discourse on thoughts concerning the healing of the rare autoimmune disorder I have been experiencing. This morning, during a prayer of gratitude, I heard the following: Ancestors who will become descendents also want us to heal so that they will not have to deal with these unbalances.

2013 The Next Big Thing in Books

Thanks to Dale Neal, a fantastic Asheville, NC based author whose new book is The Half-Life of Home. Check it out at www.dalenealbooks.com
Dale invited me to join a blog chain 2013 THE NEXT BIG THING - a series of self-interviews by/with authors about what they’ve been working on.
So, here are ten questions concerning my newest book:

What is the title of your book?
Bear Quotes

Where did the idea come from for the book?
My belief that everything is interconnected and bears are a very important part of the eco system.

What genre does your book fall under?
Spirituality/Environmental.

Which actors would you choose to play your characters in a movie rendition?
I really don’t think this book will be made into a movie but I really think Russell Crowe is a bear kind of guy – just in case.

What is the one-sentence synopsis of your book?
The spirit of the Bear is everlasting, demanding, and spontaneously intuitive.

Who is the publisher?
rENEGADE pLANETS pUBLISHING, my small minority owned press.

How long did it take you to write the first draft of your manuscript?
One week!

What other books would you compare this story to within your genre?
My books: Tree Quotes, Crow Quotes, Desert Quotes, and my forthcoming Moon Quotes. And the wonderful book by Richard Bach - Illusions.

Who or what inspired you to write this book?
The strong spirit of creativity.

What else about your book might pique the reader's interest?
An extra bonus in the back covering the importance of “Bear Spiritual Medicine.” The BEAUTIFUL cover art by Ojibwa artist Steve Hapy Jr, and you can order a copy or several copies from my website or order an ebook at amazon.com!




And to keep 2013 THE NEXT BIG THING going, here are some wonderful writers and their recent books:

Denise Low
Natural Theologies: Essays about Literature of the Middle Plains (Omaha: The Backwaters Press). This book is the first critical study of contemporary Mid-Plains literature. Denise Low, former Kansas poet laureate, shows how the region’s writers inherit a Frontier legacy from Indigenous and American settler communities. http://deniselow.blogspot.com www.deniselow.com

Trace DeMeyer
Two Worlds: Lost Children of the Indian Adoption Projects, an anthology of first-person narratives by Native adoptees, edited by Trace A. DeMeyer and Patricia Busbee, ISBN: 978-1479318285 (Ebook and Paperback). An important contribution to Native American history! Read more: http://www.splitfeathers.blogpot.com/.
Published by Blue Hand Books (Create Space/Amazon), http://www.bluehandbooks.blogspot.com/




Grace Walsh
“DIVINE ARROWS” - The authors own story of personal odyssey, infused with poetry and insights that cross time and space. This spirit oriented book begins with a search for healing in 1969 when her brother is killed in Vietnam and ends with her own healing reflection being found as a result of her following the road map (arrow) of spirit (divine) affirming something she always knew - there are no coincidences in life, only synchronicities.
http://www.earthenspirit.org/mybookblog/
Self Published May 2012 (Create Space/Amazon)
ISBN: 978-1470119027

A New Anthology by Native Writers
Unraveling the Spreading Cloth of Time: Indigenous Thoughts Concerning the Universe

I am editing and going to publish the above anthology of Native writers and am asking for help with funding for the cost of printing. I am attaching the intro to the book so you can see what it is all about and how important this book is.

If you would like to contribute, you can either send money by paypal to marijomoore@gmail.com

or you can send check to

MariJo Moore
PO Box 2493
Candler, NC 28715

Thank you in advance. Any amount is deeply appreciated.

Please email me at marijomoore@gmail.com for a peak at the intro...