spear head adventure, cont'd

while i was working on the spear head pendant i discussed in the last post, i was wishing for a feather... my cardinal feather wasn't talking to me... and i wasn't about to buy any for this work... 

2 days later, coming up my drive, i found a blue jay feather... 


this morning, i found another


and so decided to see what i was being encouraged to learn... 


'blue jay is highly adaptive and will teach knowledge of survival in this world and in others. he will guide in the proper use of power to utilize abilities to their fullest potential.  blue jay will aid in this discovery and developing personal power, awareness and higher knowledge... '
(taken from this website)


you just cannot make this kind of thing up... 

when a child knows you best of all -

i don't know how many of you are familiar with totems or animal spirit guides... 

i have a belief that the bear is my lifetime companion - drawn to them since childhood (not in the teddy bear kind of way) and inexplicably since... they seem to come to me in different ways... 

i have worn this every day for the past 15 years...

don't know how long i have had this native american piece... i find it fascinating that the  symbols found on this bear are ones that i have chosen to use in my work... this bear is near to me physically, but has been around so long that i had stopped looking at it... 

i personally wear this charm of beth hemmila's on a bracelet each day... 

choose nan emmett's open hands frequently in my work... 

and then emily made me this in her ceramics class - it is a spirit rattle... i love it and am so touched that she thought to make it for me... because really, when you have a piece of clay (or any medium) in front of you, the choices are almost unlimited in terms of what you can make... she chose this - and i am grateful... 

i find it fascinating in life when certain things keep coming back to you - when you make connections and feel the richer for it... 

what do you connect to? and how is it integrated into your life?