{"id":1731,"date":"2009-02-06T20:11:02","date_gmt":"2009-02-07T02:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=1731"},"modified":"2009-02-08T21:56:19","modified_gmt":"2009-02-09T03:56:19","slug":"tonight-we-dance-on-the-prairie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=1731","title":{"rendered":"Tonight We Dance On The Prairie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imbolc\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Wild Moon<\/p>\n<p>Blue Cloud Abbey \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Marvin, South Dakota<\/p>\n<p>A group of about 30 Missouri Synod Lutheran church women have come for retreat.\u00a0 Their energy differs from ours. \u00a0 A lot.<\/p>\n<p>Frank played a wonderful adagio movement by a Spanish composer named Rogdriguez.\u00a0 A very moving piece.<\/p>\n<p>We have a conversation started about a Woolly Way, a brief evocative expression of our Tao. \u00a0 Our 20 + years together commend us by their evidence of stablity, intention, commitment.\u00a0 We have never tried to spread or split ourselves, though we have taken on the occasional international associates.\u00a0 We have two in St. Petersburg and one somewhere else I can&#8217;t recall right now.<\/p>\n<p>Blue Cloud Abbey has a distinctive Plains Indian imprint.\u00a0 The American Indian Cultural Resource center has a collection of Lakota beadwork, parfleching and quill work that contains several museum quality pieces.<\/p>\n<p>The Wild Moon has grown fat, swelling almost full.\u00a0 It colors the clouds and gives the night sky a romance.\u00a0 Venus also hangs in the northern sky.\u00a0\u00a0 Here the sky runs on and on, the earth gives little obstacle to the eye.\u00a0 The spirit takes a breath here, fills my lungs with the light of the Wild Moon.\u00a0 Tonight we dance on the prairie, the wind in our hair and moonlight shining out through our eyes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imbolc\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Wild Moon Blue Cloud Abbey \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Marvin, South Dakota A group of about 30 Missouri Synod Lutheran church women have come for retreat.\u00a0 Their energy differs from ours. \u00a0 A lot. Frank played a wonderful adagio movement by a Spanish composer named Rogdriguez.\u00a0 A very moving piece. We have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=1731\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tonight We Dance On The Prairie<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-woolly-mammoths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}