"Welcome Home!" the Folks shouted as I walked through the Front Gate
The excitement of hundreds of people shouting "Welcome Home" reached a crescendo of exhilaration that I've never experienced. Raven and I climbed out of Luke's motor home with excitement but we were not in a hurry to leave our newly found friend and mentor. Luke shared his years of experience in the healing arts and all things rainbow. Shanti Sena Luke, as many folks called this endeared brother, spent time talking with us to share his memories and knowledge about rainbow gatherings. Luke had been going to these gatherings since the early '70's so he was a wealth of information about every thing and every one.
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I had limped my truck with a broken spindle for 20 miles to get here with the help of a bunch of kids in two vans and one bus. We were a caravan and they waited for me to catch up and enclosed me in the center with a van behind and a van in front of me as I kept moving, heading home. I had never been there. I didn't know what to expect. Even now it brings tears to my eyes as I remember the fire that night as we pulled in and the hippy in rainbow colors from top to bottom coming to my window and saying welcome home sister.
Whitecrow gave us the truck that was only a remnant by the end of the gathering at our first gathering in Oregon 1997. It had been stripped of many parts in the parking lot down to its wheels. Many folks pitched in to help us gather parts from broken and abandoned vehicles. Sailor co-ordinated the effort and Raven plugged in to gather parts and help with the wrenching. That truck helped with clean up and we drove it off the mountain. Marken gave us bags of cans to cash in so we could buy gas in Prinveville. Whitecrows gifted truck put us on the rainbow trail from that day forward. The wheels of this 1971 Ford pick up rolled for 3 1/2 years until the tags expired and we could not renew them without the paperwork. Police confiscated that truck in Utah in 2000 before the Montana gathering. We have never forgotten the love and togetherness that put wheels under us and carried us down the rainbow trail. The feelings are part of our soul. We love you family. And I still weep tears of joy, reflection, and sadness for the spirits who have gone to the sky. It's only that I miss them so much. I can't wait till we're all united by that great rainbow in the sky.
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