Last night as I was finalizing the recipe for the no-name tea, I tried a couple more combinations and just let loose.  In a flurry of flowers and herbs, I created five ~ yes, FIVE ~ new blends of signature teas.

I was moving from inspiration, thinking of friends and family from all walks of life.  With my hand on the warm and vibrant pulse of the creative muse, I let go of expectation and simply opened the jars.

My mind’s eye gravitated to my gypsy tribe ~ firedancers, hoopers, designers, witches, bellydancers, seamstresses, djs, painters, masters of clay…I hold them all with me daily thanks to the wonders of modern technology.  Before the kids, we used to actually see these friends at shows and festivals and gatherings.  Though everything is far away from Montana, we used to hit the road with  whatever money we could scrape together, a ticket in hand, and a long drive ahead, ready to give our work-weary bones a stretch.

Though we love to travel, our destination is generally a place where we can shake it down and get our freak on–something that we haven’t been able to do in the last few summers of baby-pregnant-baby.  Well, the hormones are shifting back onto the regular gridline and this girl’s ready to rumble.  Ready to make my mama life and my music-lovin’-free-spirit-flyin’ colorguard mesh into one complete world.  I have to give technology some pretty serious credit though–thanks to the communities I’ve been able to join and create online, my outside tribe stays close to my heart all the time.

The Grateful Dead song Terrapin Station includes the words “Inspiration, Move Me Brightly” and it’s a popular phrase among my stitching sisters online.  We use it in moments of funky exasperation, in times of creative clarity, and in those instances when we need to hear a word of support from those who understand how our shoes fit.  When this phrase pops up in a status update, a choir of cheers and encouragement usually rises up right along with it–blowing the hinges off of the creative doors and freeing up all the good energy on which our creative visions thrive.

Asking the muse to take you by the hand and lead you to a place of higher consciousness, a world within where the light resonates with love and joy.

In deepest gratitude to my muse and my tribe, here at home and out there in all of the corners of the earth and beyond, I present:

Move Me Brightly.

A highly sensual blend of fine organically grown ingredients, including:  white tea, lavender, rosebuds, catnip, and peppermint.  Just a bit of caffeine to push you through the rest of the day (15 mg), but not so much that it makes you twittery.  A smell so intoxicating, your senses will rise into a moment of mystery and gentle grace with ease.

Move Me Brightly ~ for the mamas, the sistren, the inspired.  I offer this blend of Mother Nature’s finest to you in humble gratitude for so generously and continuously sharing your visions of peace and beauty.  Thank you.

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