dream #4 - Planned for August 2024

 A Turtle Walk is an extraordinary experience where humans have the opportunity to provide support for the nesting and egg-laying process of sea turtles. 

Here's a great video of the turtle hatching process from the BBC.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYF_vUBFSsA

The Beach House movie provides an in-depth look at the turtle reproduction process and why these precious creatures need our help.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pf94MmVyRp

Here's a beautifully written account of a real turtle walk night
http://itsohapppenedthat.blogspot.com/2014/06/a-turtle-walk-to-remember.html

In early 2019, I met Flow, an amazing print by Shannon Willow.

The mystical writing says:

Look Deep Dear

Your Flow is the Ocean Flow

Moon Tide Align

I immediately ordered the print and Flow arrived a couple months later, on the very day my adult children and I moved back in together.  It felt like a house warming gift from Mother Earth. 

Moving back in together was something we were planning to do in a couple years.  It was not something we had planned in 2019.  Little did we know 

we were being divinely guided.  

In March 2020, a global pandemic hit and we felt incredibly blessed to be together.

As the global pandemic wore on and self quarantine stretched from days and weeks into months, I felt myself

slipping into sadness.

I prayed

"God/Goddess/All-That-Is, help me."  

Little did I know that help would come in the form of Flow t-shirts.  As soon as I heard they were going to be available, I knew I had to spread Flow as far and wide as possible.  

The Turtle Movement was on!

Over the next few weeks, I was inspired to order shirts for seemingly random people.   People I saw regularly on my Recovery Zoom calls, 

people I hadn't seen in over a year, 

new friends, old friends

and my children.

 I felt called to add some fun goodies

to the Flow shirts - beads, bags and little stuffed turtles joined the party.

I was at the hospital dealing with an issue and I offered the woman working with me an extra turtle I had in my book bag.  

Her face lit up.  I said, "It's just..."

"A little bit of Joy!" She said finishing my thought.  Yep, Flow is a "little bit of Joy"

Flow was officially on the move.  

And so was the sadness that had

been creeping in!  

I was "over the moon" excited the day I went to the post office to send Flow.

She went to five states!

My company even provided financing in the form of an unexpected bonus!

 With Flow on the move, I felt like there was still something missing.  

What would sustain a fellowship that could come together to nurture Turtleness and make it to grow??

That's when it hit me!  A web site complete. with input from the "We".  

We would have a blog where we could share our thoughts about what's going on in writing, host a virtual Talking Turtle Tea to talk about whatever is on our minds and be a resource to

communities in need.*

Now the vision felt complete.  The final piece was in place, or so I thought.... 

then it got personal.

*This part of the dream also came true.  We provide a resource for neurodiverse recovery groups and for a group working to keep the Lakota language alive!  

 In my old place, I had a bathroom that I adored but when I moved in with my adult children, my new bathroom was small and plain.  I found I actually missed my old bathroom, silly I know.

Until the day the Turtle Lights arrived!  Turtle Lights made my bathroom

feel magical again. 

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2 years later, Turtle Magic struck again in the form of a wonderful story about Ungalli from the book Eating in the Light of the Moon.   3 of us meet to discuss the book and do exercises from the book so here I am with a hand drawn picture with 3 little turtles. 

 On my laptop, I have one of the turtle stickers along with some inspirational writing from the same book.

Turtle Magic - Alive and Growing!

Feeling inspired to create your own magic with amazing art?

Would you enjoy the creation of a 

Talking tree to explore your roots and your connection to your community?

Maybe you would like some Flow

of your own?

Visit Shannon Willow Art at: https://shannonwillowart.com