Rainbow Spirits in the Sky

Being Memorial Day, I wanted to take a few minutes to pay tributes of love to the memories of some of my rainbow family who have gone to the Great Spirit in the Sky. I only know a fraction of the names, so if you are reading this and you know some rainbows who have passed on, please email me at themidnightwriter1@gmail.com so I can add those names to this list.

These are some people, brothers and sisters, that inspired me greatly in my life.

Joseph Greenfeather
A brother who attended the rainbow gatherings since the beginnings in the early 1970's. Joseph volunteered at the alternative healing camps known as C.A.L.M., Center for Alternative Living Medicine. He taught me the ways of C.A.L.M. in my first year at a Rainbow Gathering in 1997 in the Ochoco National Forest in Oregon. Joseph blew the conch, a seashell at dinnertime during the gatherings. It signaled thousands to gather in the main meadow to circle, om a universal prayer, share information and to share a meal together.

Luke Clementis, a/k/a Shanti Sena Luke, Luke Skywalker
Luke was old Woodstock family in the early days in New York. His post office box was the Woodstock PO Box. Luke contributed to teaching many newbies and young folks the way of rainbow and being community. He traveled endlessly around the country in his later years attending gatherings and picking folks up on the side of the road to bring them "home". Luke brought Raven and I "home" to our first rainbow gathering in the Ochoco National Forest in Oregon 1997. Luke did a lot to promote communications for Shanti Sena at the gatherings, making sure there were radios and batteries to go around. I really miss brother Luke. In West Virginia in 2005, Luke adopted me as his daughter. I am so honored. I love this man with my soul and I cannot wait to see him again.

Rainbow Steve

Russell Turcotte

Suzanne Colpetzer

Harry Colpetzer

Ziggin One Love

There are more that I will think of eventually. I will have to update this post as there is so much more to say about each one. I am pondering what to say about the last five listings, so I will come back to this. Please check back.

Dreams of Gathering

My heart longs to return to the mountain forests to gather with my tribal family spirit.

Time for the annual gathering of the tribes of the rainbow family of living light always captures my spirit into a deep sense of longing to be with my family again. I long and dream of being on the land with my brothers and sisters, fellow rainbow spirits, keepers of the vision for this new world founded on peace and love. It is a world where all are welcome, all are loved and all are fed. No one is homeless for all are at home in the community.

Villages pop up in the wilderness. Some are very primitive and simple with just a mat or sleeping bag on the ground under the stars. Others put up tents that they brought along or erect teepees, which is one of my favorite types of lodging. More creative wilderness builders erect wikkiups, wood and earth lodges in the earth or in the rocks or trees. Others live in their campers, buses, vans, station wagons or whatever type of vehicle was driven the miles to the gathering.

I usually travel in a vehicle and have one bed in it while I live in a camp where my tent is put up. The camp where I put my tent is often much further away from any road, down a trail and through the forest under the trees. I love shade on my tent!

As I write this, folks are assembling in the outer wilderness parts of Wyoming scouting for a safe and healthy site for approximately twenty thousand people to assemble in a united peace and healing prayer assembly.

How I wish I was there already ! Our vehicle is not up to par and will probably not make the journey from California to the hills and mountains of Wyoming. Raven and I are working on a remedy to that situation. As I write this,we are awaiting the registration and title transfer on a new Old van that our brother purchased for us. It is a lot more accomodating as a house since it has a kitchen complete with stove, refrigerator, and sink and toilet. It is ready to hook up to electricity and water in campgrounds but can go primitive in the wilderness, where we spend most of our time any way.

The actual gathering begins July 1-10. Holding camps are forming around the nation as near to Wyoming as possible and most likely dotted throughout the state. There is a large one forming near Salt Lake City in Utah. I am certain folks are gathering in scattered locations throughout Wyoming. God willing I will be on the road within the week heading there myself.

Stay tuned for stories of Medicine Wheel Gatherings.

Medicine Wheel Ceremony for Summer Breeze

A few days ago, some friends and members of the Longhouse Coalition, asked my permission to hold a medicine wheel prayer ceremony for me. Of course, I granted that permission. I am honored that my friends think enough of me to want to hold a prayer ceremony for me. They know how troubled I have been this year and how intense my life has become. I am still struggling with some life events, and consequently, some decisions that have to be made because of those events.

My path has remained strong and steady. However, my course on that path has been slightly altered, at least for the time being.

I want nothing more than to continue on the path for peace and healing gatherings,for medicine wheel gatherings and prayer ceremonies. My heart and soul is in the Four Corners praying even though my body is not there, as hoped and planned to be, until my brother in law Kenny passed away. My heart and soul desires more than almost any thing else to be in Wyoming for this year's gathering. I pray I will still make it.

Peace be with you.
Summer Breeze
a/k/a The Midnight Writer

Postponed Four Corners Prayer Ceremony

Hello everyone,

By now, most of my readers are wondering about the Four Corners Medicine Wheel ceremony that was planned for early May 2008. It was indefinitely postponed this year due to a sudden death in my family.

My brother in law Kenny passed away suddenly on April 13, 2008. His birthday was yesterday being young in years at 49. My husband Cephas and I left Idaho where we were working and planning the Medicine Wheel gathering and the Wyoming annual rainbow gathering.

Now we are in Willits California area helping our brother and mother get through this grievous time. Kenny's passing struck us all to our core. He is deeply missed. We need to help Mom till she is over the shock of her son's death. No mother or father should ever bury their child.

I have no idea at this time what to say about rearranging this prayer Medicine Wheel gathering. The Great Spirit called me to come to California ten days before Kenny's passing so we could help prepare Mom for this. She was in strict denial and who can blame her. Kenny passed away a week after our arrival to California. We have been assisting with Mom's home and Kenny's apartment, daughter and belongings.

There is one idea that occurred to me about the Four Corners gathering. Traditional Native Americans and Indigenous Elders gathered at a location in New Mexico and a medicine wheel was built through sacred prayer and fasting. Go to this location and fast and pray for four days. Offer the prayers of the nation and the world upon this sacred Medicine Wheel or build another in the vicinity. Do not disrupt the first one or take any objects. Let the Native Elders know that you are coming there to pray. They may want to meet you there. Dedicate the new medicine wheel and let the elders know of its location, should you decide to build one.

Let me know on this website or by email if you are making a prayer vigil to the Four Corners this spring or summer and please give me permission to write about it on this website.

I will be there with you in the spirit as you pray.

The locations of these sacred sites can be found by doing an internet search.