What are a few of your faverote Rainbow Gathering memories? Mine is the water bucket line at the wyoming gathering. Nothing made me prouder then that day.
baby stroller racing back to camp after main circle in Shawnee last year... that night we all sat around and ate some zuzus someone brought with them in our camp. One thing that made that so special to me was because I have kids, I can't leave them while they sleep(hell, leave them period! lol) and all the action was around our camp area for once so I got to join in. The fire pit was huge. Almost everyone in the woods was there so it was nice to all gather together and laugh. The whole night was beautiful. If I close my eyes I can still see the trees swaying in the breeze and across my face. ah. Shawnee. One of the favorite places. ummm...lets see Another Shawnee memory I like is taking my babies to go swimming in the lake where the rock bridge is. They were so silly, sticking their little naked baby bellies out(hey they love showing off their bellies!), afraid the fish would bite their toes! I remeber their smiles and giggles... the way they squealed about the water being too cold... their little eyes squinting to look up at me in the sunlight. heres another... Ocala... My kids were staying with grandmom for a week since the holidays were coming up so I got some much needed alone time. It was nice to beable to wander to the different camps and visit everyone. I loved that I could just get up to wherever I heard the drum beat and just join in instead of listen from afar. It was great just to lay out in the grass and stare up at the sky and see what its like to be able to sit down for a second!(ok, yea I was stoned, thats prob what made it so nice) lol Eh, I missed them alot so the whole trip I was torn on missing them and enjoying the vacation time. Some of my favorite memories aren't even at the gatherings as much as they were getting there. I liked at night when the kids were sleeping and we where driving and Zenia and I would sit in the back and just talk and talk or get on the cb radio to listen and laugh at the wack job truckers. Another thing I like about the travelin' part is the excitment that churns up in your belly as you get closer and think about all the family you miss being their already. Just looking at the open highway and seeing the light shine down and feeling absolutely free and at peace with life. Simple things get me teary... a smile from a baby, god giving us a beautiful day, the beat of a drum, a hug from a much missed friend... Hope I didn't ramble and go on too long.
Laughter, games, friendship, and the close feeling of one big happy family. Makeshift clotheslines everywhere draped with everything from wet bath towels, to jeans, panties, blankets, and diapers. The crackling of a big open fire with lots of people sitting around hugging and talking. The quiet subdued boom-boom-ba-ba-boom of bongo drums in the distance, and the dancing of people. No time limits, no appointments. Just a gathering of a group of people in search of peace.
just the peacefulness, and finaly feeling loved, i was adopted at age 3, my real mother died while givng birth, and my real father got shot when i was 3, i then got adopted, and it was not good, i was abused at the age 15 i ran away and found rainbow famliy and ive been hooked ever since, i love u all
aww earthymama, your post was so lovley :0) my favorite would have to be my first gathering. There was a creek running through the site, and a little clearing right by it. One day there was a drum circle right in the clearing, and my friends 2 little girls asked me to go dance in the river with them, It was a perfect day, and just being with all these amazing people (it was a really great gathering) and the cool creek on my feet, the whole thing is prolbably one of my favorite memories of all time.
ohhh theres just way too many to list north carolina though was my 1st, i remember sitting under a watterfal with this sister named peter pan & another named monkey, then i climbed the falls & strolled upstream..the strea,m was full of rock piles of all sizes, about a mile upstream it opened into a peaceful pool..all full of these rock piles, & in the center was a rockpile alter, with a tray with a couple dozen hits of acid, a few grams of shrooms & 1 great big bud there were candles everywhere, & it was so peaceful..i sat down right there in the water & took 2 or 3 hiits..& honnestly i dont remember anything after that except a beautiful couple that could have been angels guided me back to the falls another favorite memory was hangin with ram das in cali in robbies tipi. another is the sun dogs in..was it michigan? or pa? ohh & everyone who was there will tell u..the energy in the main circkle on the 4th..at the vermont naytional..was the highest momment of theyre lives soooo many more...i could go on forever every memmory will last a lifetime
This year, there was the look on that mamma's face when I told her that her 6 year old son was found and safe at Kid Village. He'd decided to go off to Trade Circle from R Kitchen on his own. ...Scared as hell to madder 'n' hell in 0.42 secconds!
I have had a lot of beautiful memories at gatherings, the 6 that I have been to. I'd say in Edgar's Tipi in Montana, 'nuff said; and in Michigan on the fourth, the rainbow circle around the sun. It felt like everyone had risen off the ground and touched the sky. But the most incredible gathering memory was this year in WV when I gave birth to little Maggie Jo Rainbow. I would say that was the most high time in my life. The whole rainbow spirit was with me that night. (July 3)
Were you aware that there was a birth in Bus Village in MI while that rainbow ring was around the sun ? Little girl.
