URNotAlone

Uwoduhi Wadaduga

September 7th, 2006 4:56 pm MDT

Happy September to everyone!

    I happily enter a new month much rewarded with added names to my newly refreshed friends list. Thank you to all who have sent me friendship invites as well as those of you who accepted me. I am glad and am grateful to have such beautiful people gracing my page.

    I am also pleased to share a new name which has been kindly bestowed upon me by my enlightened good friends Atsilv and Allason. I am honored and proud to call myself in Cherokee fashion U-wo-du-hi pronounced ooh woe dew he meaning : Beautiful, Wa-da-du-ga pronounced wah dah dew gah, meaning: Dragonfly;

    thus U-wo-du-hi Wa-da-du-ga, Beautiful Dragonfly.                      

   It's ironic how the dragonfly inspired my friends to ally itself with me upon attuning themselves with the great spirit guide.                                                                                                       

   For as a youngster it was always my pleasure to go off into the woods on summer afternoons at the meadows to capture barehanded such wonderful insects. I recalled that it particularly reminded me of faeries. I scrutinized with admiration it's beautiful sparkling cellophane-sheer wings and wondered at it's psychedelic hues imbellished as if dressed of the rainbow. It seemed to me that they gave off a magical glow in my fingers as I held it up close against the sunlight for my inspection.

    I would then allow it to escape from my clutch and watch it fly off hurriedly to their freedom; marvelling of it's graceful flight as if tiny angels of the forest, blazing a trail of pixilated golden moondust. The solitude of my eager visits to the wildwoods seemed all the more enchanted for my innocent young imagination which fancied the woodlands as a fairyland filled by benevolant divinities of mythical beings such as elves, dwarfs, leprechauns, goblins, cherubs, puck, and pixies.

     Which indeed it was, inhabited of butterflies, birds, frogs, bees, chipmunks, squirrels, turtles, flowers, majestic trees, etc., and ofcourse dragonflies.

   I felt welcomed in their kingdom where I entertained myself a princess awaiting her loveling, a prince. There I sang songs of my 'girldom', and danced amongst unjudgemental subjects. I took care never to harm any of the creatures, or plants and trees; as I was in possesion of an innate goodness and feeling for all creation, much in the way younglings have such a rapport and communion with nature.

   Ahh to have such carefree faultless vision as that of a childhood's playland's dreams. It is something I feel blessed to look back on in my adulthood; and occassionally if I am really good at heart, freed from the constraints of daily accumulated fears imposed on me as a grown up; I am still yet able to go there. Somehow I am often brought back to such a special place, no matter where I might be. It's lure never really dissipates, and it will always be there within me.                                     A memory enriching, a reward from child's play.

   Burried deep this treasure of my mind, a tappable force of empowerment which no one can steal or take away. A winsome little girl inside me, that I was, endowed with loving empathy for all inhabitants, in her hidden secret garden of illumined imaginings. Enthralled by the magic in a dragonfly. A cerebrate wealth, a gift from the Gods! 
  

   How touching to be so named in the Cherokee language. A tribe which had/have a special bond with the universe.

   Thank you ladies for adding to my experience the wonderful gift of this name which I know was always mine, and moreover shall continue to be so whenever I am transported into such moments of an innocent's joy!

   ~much love to all members and visitors in this our Utopia of dreams!

                     ~my most deepest regards for all of us!~