Six Turkeys and a Moose

In today's world, applications for scholarships, college entrance, job offers and grants are applied for online.  Often a companion video is part of the application.  


The assignment is to tell the story of "why you think you should receive the funding."  


I live in a charming little village in south central Montana.  Recently I took on the job of creating a video to tell a story of our village in 4 minutes or less.  This is the result - which I am proud of.  

At my age, learning a new skill, especially a technical skill in the digital era, is an accomplishment.  Now my children can be impressed of their mama.  Mama can be impressed with herself!


Postcards from the heart and soul of the Rocky Mountain West ~ with love ~ Deborah

Guardian Angel

Angel of God, my guardian dear, 

to whom God's love commits me here, 

ever this day be at my side, 

to light, to guard, to love, to guide.

For some unknown reason, my last blog was nearly 3 months ago on my Mother's 90th birthday.  She passed over almost 19 years ago.

Before bed each night we would kneel and say our prayers.  A favorite prayer of my Mother's was the Guardian Angel prayer, which I find myself reciting when I'm fearful.

It seems I have a lot of fears...fears of finding my voice...fears of what a mess we humans have left Mother Earth in for our children...fears of my own physical pain which bodes uneasily for the rest of my life.

Your guardian angels may touch you with music, whisper in your inner voice, or be there when you nurture your child.  

YOU may be a guardian angel ~ yourself!

If I may, please indulge me in a study of the angel realms.  Let me touch you with little videos of beauty.  I know my guardian angels by name and I wish for you to know all your angels too.  There are many and they are there for you when you call for them.  Just ask!

This 3 minute video is an example of two people's encounter with their guardian angels. Thank you Pippi Jeanne for the lead. 
Click below.
Guardian Angel


This begins a history of the angels in our realms ~ deborah

Dear Woman

We've come a long way baby!

There are many ways to pray, believe me when I say I've tried most of them.  No matter how you pray, whether it is collecting a stone on the beach to remind you of someone precious, fastening an Athena and her wise owl medallion around your neck each morning while you smile at Sekhmet the Egyptian Lioness headed goddess... next to the icon of Saint Anna, the mother of Mary, or drumming in church with a gift from your daughter while singing Christian hymns or dancing with ankle jingles at a Sundance...it is a prayer nonetheless.

Being a woman means you can read prayers from the Lenten seasonal booklets while walking the stations of the cross or meditate with your miracle sisters listening to Om Deeksha...or best...turn the pages with your mother's hands of her manual of prayers and discover a flower delivery card tucked inside honoring your birth.

Women can multi-task inside a world view...with an open heart for all. 

Please enjoy the following video from conscious men.

It's a message you shall want to hear and see.  Luv ~ Me

On my mother's 90th birthday, I received this video prayer from conscious men in this world who are apologizing for all the men who have come before and have ignored the feminine way.  
I didn't really know it but I've waited a long time for this moment.  
Thank you miracle sisters for keeping the flame burning.  
Thank you men for speaking this truth.

Humanity Ascending

Today is the first day of the rest of your life.  

It's the time of the blue full perigee moon of the vernal equinox. 

How auspicious is that?  

These are photos below that I took very early this morning - as the moon was setting - of Grandmother Moon who shines on us all everywhere.

The vibrations felt within the core of Mother Earth and in my body "make me tremble, tremble" as the old Christian hymn goes.  The sleeping giants are waking up...I am waking up..we are waking up together. Here I am standing tall in my moon shadow, moon shadow.

During a conference years ago, whose topic was on the spiritual consciousness evolution and the role of media in that awakening...I had the good fortune to sit side by side with the great visionary Barbara Marx Hubbard.  

She is a lovely petite woman born in 1939.  

Ahead of her time in her global views of human evolution, she graciously supported my journey into the realm of filmmaking and my interest in teens and young adults in the shaping of their rapidly changing world.  I love her beautiful smile.

Barbara Marx Hubbard is not only alive to see the changes going on in today's world, she is giving birth to her own self... again... and showing us the way to be an integral part of humanity's ascension.  If you haven't heard of Barbara yet, please allow me to introduce you in the short video trailer for her latest film below.
  Brava Barbara!

http://www.humanityascending.com/trailers/ha-trailer.html

The Flowering of the Feminine

The Women of Resistance are on my mind this morning. I am seeing flowers in my dreams.

What I am just learning about women in resistance in Greece through layers of occupying armies over the centuries until as recent as the 1970's, sets me off in chokes of tears and fears for the future of our world.

How brutal can man be...what is my legacy to uphold...  

...how strong can women be?

Resistance is in the air.  I can breathe it as it permeates my heart and penetrates my very existence.  What to do...?

Like wild herbs clinging to layers of fragile stratifications of life - I grasp at my role for today.

Shall I be fearful today or powerful beyond my wildest dreams...

...shall I fight the goliaths of evil who are spreading toxins over us all everywhere...

...or hug an old olive tree...

...or my child in his endeavors.Is this enough?

Today is the day to revel in the small pleasures of life...like sunshine and hanging clothes on the line and holding a puppy...

...as the tiny star of Bethlehem returns in the spring again and again...

...I light a candle to shine on all the women who have gone before me and live for them...in the moment...right now.  

There is only now.  Make it a good one!  Hugs!

Carnival in Greece or What?

Today is the day before Lent in Greece.  

As is the custom in Christian countries the world over, followers must clean out the fat foods and set in for 40 days of fasting.  

Called by many names - 

Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday), Shrove Tuesday, Carnival (meat be gone), Clean Monday (Greek Orthodox Lent is one step ahead of Catholic days), giving up fat foods will soon begin...like lamb soup...

...and lamb shanks with lemon potatoes.

...or wild boar and hyacinth bulbs (I think) in Agios Vasilios (Saint Basil) in the mountains.

Yesterday afternoon all that fat food ended with carnival in the village.  Party time for all ages.  Or was I in my little village in Montana during Halloween?

Apokriatiko!  Time to party!

Dress up in some sort of theme and let the fun begin while parading down the main street.

...and circle dance the night away.

Finish with a dinner with friends next to an olive wood fire at 

Takis' Taverna.  Yamas!

Hortapita alla deborah

Horta = greens    Pita = pie

You may have heard of Spanakopita.  That would be Spinach Pie.

Sure enough, spinach is a common green used in Greece.  

But around these parts, all sorts of greens can go into a pie.  

This is a recipe I concocted, based on available greens in my pantry one day.

I wasn't sure about the fennel bulb as well as the capers instead of olives and couldn't figure out what 5 TBSP of sweet "trahanas" were or even the parentheses meant (a Greek product similar to burghul) until...you guessed it - I Googled the word.

Go ahead and Google it yourself.  I found a package of them in the store and will bring the mystery Greek product home.

But in the end, what a wonderful flavor this 

Hortapita alla deborah turned out to be.  So here is the recipe:

Ingredients:

1 package phyllo pastry

1 big mound of clean spinach

1 cup capers

1 fennel bulb sliced & diced

1 bunch of scallions diced

2-4 leeks sliced

1 bunch of fennel leaves chopped

1 cup of feta cheese crumbled

3/4 cup olives diced

5 TBSP trahanas (optional)

1 cup olive oil (IF using trahanas - or less without)

4 eggs lightly beaten

4 TBSP toasted sesame seeds

salt and pepper to taste

Directions:

Saute chopped spinach, fennel bulb, scallions and leeks in olive oil until soft.  Remove from heat and cool slightly and add rest of ingredients.  Mix and dump into a pastry lined pie pan.  Bring sides of pastry over top and swirl into shape, leaving a vent hole in the middle.  Sprinkle with sesame seeds and bake in a medium temp oven (350 F or 175 C) for about an hour, until brown on top and bubbly inside.  Cool and slice and serve with a salad.  It gets better and better for leftovers and can be eaten even cold. 

Yamas!