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Photographs © 2004 by J R Compton.
All Rights Reserved.
Photos are arranged chronologically till the end.
Captions by Amy Martin, J R Compton & Bradley Ellis
Flowers for peace in his hair
Singer/guitarist Annie Benjamin, the Rocket Girl
Preparing Melons
The Proper Hat is Important
Cooking Flames
Cottonwood Snow
Faery Wings
Stripes and Elephants
Everybody needs a Friend
Colorful Cap
Resting
Julia Schloss Hanging Ribbons
Representing All Religions
Face Paints
Captivated by magician Bryan Lankford
of Spellbinding
Entertainment
Hopi inspired labyrinth, provided by
Pleasant Valley
Unitarain Universalist Church
Summer Solstice altar and drums
to be used
in the ceremony
The Gathering Awaits the Ritual
Ducking Through the Arch into Summer:
Event coordinator
Bradley Ellis leading.
Everybody went
through the purification aisle
before entering the portal into the peace procession.
Timothy Carmicheal (dig those horns!),
Maria Candoloras and Bradley Ellis
Stretching Our Bodies
Every form is perfect form.
All ages and persuasions in the big circle of 140 people.
"Look Into Your Neighbor's Eyes" in
the peace prayer and
invocation led by Rev. Petra Weldes of Center
for Spiritual Living.
At that moment the purple
martins were putting
on
quite a show, catching flying bugs overhead.
Ear Ring
A Serious Moment
Bradley
leads us in the Crossroads &
the Rising
Light Below Ritual.
Framed Drummers & Dancers
Big Circle
Drummers Maria, Scarlett, Toby, and Puck
Mom
Joe Stokes Howls at Sunset
Betwixt & Between exec director Angela Logan in prayer.
Maria,
Scarlett, and Bradley drumming for a blur of dancers
dancing the Spiral
Dance, led by Nirtana
Teri Thompson.
The Dance for Universal Peace spiral tightens inward.
And tightens some more.
Before unwinding in a rush into ...
... the blur of summer.
Photographs © 2004
by J R Compton — All
Rights Reserved.
No reproduction in any medium without written permission.