Attune to your body, your womb, your menstrual experience, your rites of passage and the stories of those who’ve come before you…
Moonsong
What is Moonsong?
Moonsong is a one-day workshop in which to reclaim FEMININE WISDOM, by normalising and celebrating our cycling bodies, our RITES OF PASSAGE and our experience of being born with a womb.
This Workshop Will Help You:
- Explore the wisdom of Nature’s cycles and your life seasons
- Discover how the lunar cycle and the Earth’s seasons influence you
- Remember the spiritual practice of Menstruation and your whole cycle
- Understand the transformative power of Menarche and all your rites of passage
Why the menstrual cycle?
Our menstrual cycle is a normal, healthy and healthful aspect of being a woman. It is a powerful process which shows us how to live authentically and uniquely as our selves. Our menstrual cycle – though culturally derided – is a great source of energy, regeneration and renewal.
Getting to know your cycle is getting to know yourself! During your reproductive years you are your menstrual cycle, and you see this though your moods, your energy levels and your mucus.
Our rites of passage – birth, menarche, giving birth (to children, art, careers, projects and ourselves), and menopause – are also natural, healthy and powerful initiatory processes which deepen our relationship to ourselves, our communities and the Earth.
Connecting with your menstrual cycle and your rites of passage is part of the re-wilding of the feminine that is so needed now.
“"At menarche a young woman enters her power, throughout her menstruating years she practices her power, and at menopause she becomes her power.””
Native American Saying
“Through this Moonsong workshop, I have now learned to love my bleeding time as an opportunity to give back to Mother Earth and embrace the desire to retreat and reflect.”
Myshell
“Had such a great day connecting and understanding. Thank you for the knowledge and love that you shared.”
Kirsten
“I can't believe that it took me until I was 41 to grow curious of my own cycle..”
Participant
“While I had an idea about what Moonsong was about, I did not expect to be so deeply touched by the openhearted tender acceptance of the beautiful women I sat in circle with.”
Participant
Workshop Structure
Each Moonsong workshop begins with the creation of a safe container to hold us all during the day, our sacred circle. In the magic and safety of circle we pass the talking bowl, to talk, to listen, to share and to reflect.
In this space we open the floor to whatever wants to be expressed and we also explore feminine wisdom, what it is and how and why so much of it has been lost.
The map, the way home, is within us. We draw the wheel, delineating the correspondence between the major influential cycles of the earth seasons, the lunar phases, the stages of the menstrual cycle and our own life seasons.
The transitions between the seasons of our lives, the rites of passage of birth, menarche, motherhood, menopause, retirement and death are reframed as initiatory processes offering us deep opportunity for personal and collective growth and understanding.
We explore each of these aspects of the wheel, charting the changing energies, actions, feelings, and ways that are associated with each aspect – always mindful that this is the just the map, your own body is the territory.
What emerges is the basic cyclical map of birth, growth, full bloom, harvest, decay, death and rebirth – a cycle we can live by, flow with and become present to in our own lives.
Bringing consciousness to these ever present patterns engages us in the creative process of life, and positions us as active participants in the web of life.
Seeing our own patterns, and stories is helped by paired share discussions, personal mapping and inner guidance through a drum journey.
Emphasis is also given to our menstrual cycle – understanding the fundamentals of fertility, of the monthly changes in our bodies, and the ways we can anchor ourselves in the spiritual practices of menstruation and menopause.
Moonsong Teachers
Founder of the School of Shamanic Womancraft • Creator of Moonsong, Shamanic Dimensions of Pregnancy and Autumn Woman Harvest queen workshops • co-creator of Winter Woman, Bone Wisdom Workshop • Grandmother •
My interest in bringing and offering this information is to help how I can in healing the wounded feminine and the wounded masculine of our patriarchal culture.
My mission is to help women reclaim feminine knowledge and wisdom, to help heal birth, menarche, menstruation, menopause and death, for all my relations.
I represent three lineages:
Home birth Midwifery – ancient wise woman practices passed down the generations that I learned from Maggie Lecky Thompson (Australia).
EarthSong (Boulder, Colorado, USA) Shamanic Teachings and Practices – that I learned from James Harvey (AKA BlackBear) and Cedar Barstow.
Shamanic Midwifery – the teachings and insights of the Late Jeannine Parvati Baker (USA).
(Jane Hardwicke Collings is not registered as a midwife with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia.)
Listen to Jane on the Womancraft Podcast→ Episode 2 ~ Growth ~ Founder & Shamanic Midwife
Shamanic Craftswoman • MagaWoman • Workshop Teacher • Shamanic Womancraft Teacher • Shamanic Drum Making Teacher • Story Teller • Earth Dancer • Wild Bird Protector • Tree Sister •
Sarah Bird Miller is enchanted by this Earth and has a passion for embodied earth wisdom. She is deeply held by the stories/myths and ways that reweave humanity back into the web of life.
She is a teacher of the Four Seasons Journey and Moonsong Workshop for the School of Shamanic Womancraft. She is also the founder of Embodiments Dance, a dance, drum and women’s circle space.
She lives an embodied spirituality, honouring feminine wisdom, the cycles within and without, and the gentle-wild rhythms of Life that hold us all.
She is a Mage woman, married for over 20 years and has two young adult children.
Listen to Sarah on the Womancraft Podcast
→ Episode 18 ~ Embody ~ The Drum Journey
Shamanic Craftswoman • Workshop Teacher • Blood Keeper • Sister • Aunty • Daughter • Explorer • Observer • Creator •
Brittany is a teacher of the Moonsong workshop, drawing on many years of cycle-tracking and retreating during her blood time. She loves sitting in sacred circle with sisters and is passionate about supporting women and girls to reconnect to self through the menstrual-ovulation cycle and reconnect to the earth mother through the cycle of the seasons.
She has a special interest in Fertility Awareness for body literacy and has studied with fertility specialist Kerry Hampton.
Shamanic Craftswoman • Workshop Teacher – Moonsong • Circle Facilitator • Integrative life coach • Shamanic Drum Making •
Bianca offers community events and circles in the Sydney Northern Beaches area and supports women 1:1 in their growth, healing, and transformation.
She is a shamanic craftswoman, integrative life coach, circle/ceremony facilitator, Moonsong workshop teacher, drum maker, and meditation teacher with a background in healthcare.
Woven through her work is an emphasis on rewilding, reconnecting, and restoring wellbeing. You can see Bianca 1:1 for integrative life coaching and shamanic womancraft. You can also join a Moonsong workshop, shamanic drum making workshop, the monthly women’s circle or monthly shamanic drumming circles in Freshwater.
Bianca offers bespoke rite of passage ceremonies such as mother-to-beblessings, bridal blessing circle, and maiden moon blessings. And offerings for workplace wellbeing programs.
Midwife • Shamanic Craftswoman • Shamanic Womancraft Teacher • Workshop Teacher • Priestess of Avalon • Mage •
Judy has a professional background in health sciences and women’s health. She is an experienced midwife who has spent over 20 years working with birthing women and families in Australia and England. She currently practices as a midwife in the public health system. She holds a passion for all aspects of child birth and an awareness of pregnancy and birth as a transformational rite of passage. She offers clinical supervision and mentorship to student midwives.
Judy is a Graduate and Teacher for The School of Shamanic Womancraft. She teaches the Four Seasons Journey, Moonsong and Shamanic Dimensions of Pregnancy workshops.
In all her work, Judy guides women to remember and reclaim their innate wisdom, inner knowing and authentic nature. She creates and holds the sacred space, the safe container for inner healing to take place.
Judy leads ritual and ceremony to honour significant times of transition in our lives including rites of passage, seasonal Sabbats and phases of the lunar cycle. Judy facilitates women in reconnecting with Self and the Divine Feminine, grounded in Nature Based Spirituality.
Judy holds workshops, courses, individual transformational sessions and community-based women’s circles, including:
The Women’s Spiral of Transformation: year-long program
Pregnancy and Birth: The Inner Experience
Wise Woman Rising: Introduction to the Women’s Mysteries
Journey to Avalon Immersion
Moon Circle for Soulful Women program
Frame Drum journey work
Student Midwife Support Circles
Co-Creatrix of regular Red Tent Rising gatherings.
Judy brings the wisdom of many years of spiritual, personal and professional education and enquiry to all that she offers. A woman of Goddess, Judy delights in the continued unfolding of a synchronous, magical and meaningful life.
Judy recognises Biripai Country and offers her respect to the Biripai people as the original guardians, custodians and wisdom keepers of the land where she lives, the beautiful Mid North Coast NSW.
Listen to Judy on the Womancraft Podcast
→ Episode 12 ~ Priestess Wisdom ~ Maga, Honouring our Transitions
Shamanic Craftswoman • Workshop Teacher • Shamanic Womancraft Practitioner • Becoming a Woman Facilitator • Doula • Menstrual Educator •
Fiona is a mama of 3, a birth and postpartum doula, childbirth educator and shamanic womancraft practitioner.
She teaches our workshops, Moonsong and Shamanic Dimensions of Pregnancy, and co-teaches the Becoming a Woman workshop alongside Jaz.
Fi has also completed the Praxis training so is able to offer the 1:1 Shamanic Womancraft Sessions (which can be excellent birth preparation). Fi also worksclosely with our not-for-profit arm Hygieia Health, a charity with the mission to prevent and heal perinatal (birth) trauma
Founder of the School of Shamanic Womancraft • Creator of Moonsong, Shamanic Dimensions of Pregnancy and Autumn Woman Harvest queen workshops • co-creator of Winter Woman, Bone Wisdom Workshop • Grandmother •
My interest in bringing and offering this information is to help how I can in healing the wounded feminine and the wounded masculine of our patriarchal culture.
My mission is to help women reclaim feminine knowledge and wisdom, to help heal birth, menarche, menstruation, menopause and death, for all my relations.
I represent three lineages:
Home birth Midwifery – ancient wise woman practices passed down the generations that I learned from Maggie Lecky Thompson (Australia).
EarthSong (Boulder, Colorado, USA) Shamanic Teachings and Practices – that I learned from James Harvey (AKA BlackBear) and Cedar Barstow.
Shamanic Midwifery – the teachings and insights of the Late Jeannine Parvati Baker (USA).
(Jane Hardwicke Collings is not registered as a midwife with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia.)
Listen to Jane on the Womancraft Podcast→ Episode 2 ~ Growth ~ Founder & Shamanic Midwife
Shamanic Craftswoman • MagaWoman • Workshop Teacher • Shamanic Womancraft Teacher • Shamanic Drum Making Teacher • Story Teller • Earth Dancer • Wild Bird Protector • Tree Sister •
Sarah Bird Miller is enchanted by this Earth and has a passion for embodied earth wisdom. She is deeply held by the stories/myths and ways that reweave humanity back into the web of life.
She is a teacher of the Four Seasons Journey and Moonsong Workshop for the School of Shamanic Womancraft. She is also the founder of Embodiments Dance, a dance, drum and women’s circle space.
She lives an embodied spirituality, honouring feminine wisdom, the cycles within and without, and the gentle-wild rhythms of Life that hold us all.
She is a Mage woman, married for over 20 years and has two young adult children.
Listen to Sarah on the Womancraft Podcast
→ Episode 18 ~ Embody ~ The Drum Journey
Shamanic Craftswoman • Workshop Teacher • Blood Keeper • Sister • Aunty • Daughter • Explorer • Observer • Creator •
Brittany is a teacher of the Moonsong workshop, drawing on many years of cycle-tracking and retreating during her blood time. She loves sitting in sacred circle with sisters and is passionate about supporting women and girls to reconnect to self through the menstrual-ovulation cycle and reconnect to the earth mother through the cycle of the seasons.
She has a special interest in Fertility Awareness for body literacy and has studied with fertility specialist Kerry Hampton.
Shamanic Craftswoman • Workshop Teacher – Moonsong • Circle Facilitator • Integrative life coach • Shamanic Drum Making •
Bianca offers community events and circles in the Sydney Northern Beaches area and supports women 1:1 in their growth, healing, and transformation.
She is a shamanic craftswoman, integrative life coach, circle/ceremony facilitator, Moonsong workshop teacher, drum maker, and meditation teacher with a background in healthcare.
Woven through her work is an emphasis on rewilding, reconnecting, and restoring wellbeing. You can see Bianca 1:1 for integrative life coaching and shamanic womancraft. You can also join a Moonsong workshop, shamanic drum making workshop, the monthly women’s circle or monthly shamanic drumming circles in Freshwater.
Bianca offers bespoke rite of passage ceremonies such as mother-to-beblessings, bridal blessing circle, and maiden moon blessings. And offerings for workplace wellbeing programs.
Midwife • Shamanic Craftswoman • Shamanic Womancraft Teacher • Workshop Teacher • Priestess of Avalon • Mage •
Judy has a professional background in health sciences and women’s health. She is an experienced midwife who has spent over 20 years working with birthing women and families in Australia and England. She currently practices as a midwife in the public health system. She holds a passion for all aspects of child birth and an awareness of pregnancy and birth as a transformational rite of passage. She offers clinical supervision and mentorship to student midwives.
Judy is a Graduate and Teacher for The School of Shamanic Womancraft. She teaches the Four Seasons Journey, Moonsong and Shamanic Dimensions of Pregnancy workshops.
In all her work, Judy guides women to remember and reclaim their innate wisdom, inner knowing and authentic nature. She creates and holds the sacred space, the safe container for inner healing to take place.
Judy leads ritual and ceremony to honour significant times of transition in our lives including rites of passage, seasonal Sabbats and phases of the lunar cycle. Judy facilitates women in reconnecting with Self and the Divine Feminine, grounded in Nature Based Spirituality.
Judy holds workshops, courses, individual transformational sessions and community-based women’s circles, including:
The Women’s Spiral of Transformation: year-long program
Pregnancy and Birth: The Inner Experience
Wise Woman Rising: Introduction to the Women’s Mysteries
Journey to Avalon Immersion
Moon Circle for Soulful Women program
Frame Drum journey work
Student Midwife Support Circles
Co-Creatrix of regular Red Tent Rising gatherings.
Judy brings the wisdom of many years of spiritual, personal and professional education and enquiry to all that she offers. A woman of Goddess, Judy delights in the continued unfolding of a synchronous, magical and meaningful life.
Judy recognises Biripai Country and offers her respect to the Biripai people as the original guardians, custodians and wisdom keepers of the land where she lives, the beautiful Mid North Coast NSW.
Listen to Judy on the Womancraft Podcast
→ Episode 12 ~ Priestess Wisdom ~ Maga, Honouring our Transitions
Shamanic Craftswoman • Workshop Teacher • Shamanic Womancraft Practitioner • Becoming a Woman Facilitator • Doula • Menstrual Educator •
Fiona is a mama of 3, a birth and postpartum doula, childbirth educator and shamanic womancraft practitioner.
She teaches our workshops, Moonsong and Shamanic Dimensions of Pregnancy, and co-teaches the Becoming a Woman workshop alongside Jaz.
Fi has also completed the Praxis training so is able to offer the 1:1 Shamanic Womancraft Sessions (which can be excellent birth preparation). Fi also worksclosely with our not-for-profit arm Hygieia Health, a charity with the mission to prevent and heal perinatal (birth) trauma
Founder of the School of Shamanic Womancraft • Creator of Moonsong, Shamanic Dimensions of Pregnancy and Autumn Woman Harvest queen workshops • co-creator of Winter Woman, Bone Wisdom Workshop • Grandmother •
My interest in bringing and offering this information is to help how I can in healing the wounded feminine and the wounded masculine of our patriarchal culture.
My mission is to help women reclaim feminine knowledge and wisdom, to help heal birth, menarche, menstruation, menopause and death, for all my relations.
I represent three lineages:
Home birth Midwifery – ancient wise woman practices passed down the generations that I learned from Maggie Lecky Thompson (Australia).
EarthSong (Boulder, Colorado, USA) Shamanic Teachings and Practices – that I learned from James Harvey (AKA BlackBear) and Cedar Barstow.
Shamanic Midwifery – the teachings and insights of the Late Jeannine Parvati Baker (USA).
(Jane Hardwicke Collings is not registered as a midwife with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia.)
Listen to Jane on the Womancraft Podcast→ Episode 2 ~ Growth ~ Founder & Shamanic Midwife
Shamanic Craftswoman • MagaWoman • Workshop Teacher • Shamanic Womancraft Teacher • Shamanic Drum Making Teacher • Story Teller • Earth Dancer • Wild Bird Protector • Tree Sister •
Sarah Bird Miller is enchanted by this Earth and has a passion for embodied earth wisdom. She is deeply held by the stories/myths and ways that reweave humanity back into the web of life.
She is a teacher of the Four Seasons Journey and Moonsong Workshop for the School of Shamanic Womancraft. She is also the founder of Embodiments Dance, a dance, drum and women’s circle space.
She lives an embodied spirituality, honouring feminine wisdom, the cycles within and without, and the gentle-wild rhythms of Life that hold us all.
She is a Mage woman, married for over 20 years and has two young adult children.
Listen to Sarah on the Womancraft Podcast
→ Episode 18 ~ Embody ~ The Drum Journey
Shamanic Craftswoman • Workshop Teacher • Blood Keeper • Sister • Aunty • Daughter • Explorer • Observer • Creator •
Brittany is a teacher of the Moonsong workshop, drawing on many years of cycle-tracking and retreating during her blood time. She loves sitting in sacred circle with sisters and is passionate about supporting women and girls to reconnect to self through the menstrual-ovulation cycle and reconnect to the earth mother through the cycle of the seasons.
She has a special interest in Fertility Awareness for body literacy and has studied with fertility specialist Kerry Hampton.
Shamanic Craftswoman • Workshop Teacher – Moonsong • Circle Facilitator • Integrative life coach • Shamanic Drum Making •
Bianca offers community events and circles in the Sydney Northern Beaches area and supports women 1:1 in their growth, healing, and transformation.
She is a shamanic craftswoman, integrative life coach, circle/ceremony facilitator, Moonsong workshop teacher, drum maker, and meditation teacher with a background in healthcare.
Woven through her work is an emphasis on rewilding, reconnecting, and restoring wellbeing. You can see Bianca 1:1 for integrative life coaching and shamanic womancraft. You can also join a Moonsong workshop, shamanic drum making workshop, the monthly women’s circle or monthly shamanic drumming circles in Freshwater.
Bianca offers bespoke rite of passage ceremonies such as mother-to-beblessings, bridal blessing circle, and maiden moon blessings. And offerings for workplace wellbeing programs.
Midwife • Shamanic Craftswoman • Shamanic Womancraft Teacher • Workshop Teacher • Priestess of Avalon • Mage •
Judy has a professional background in health sciences and women’s health. She is an experienced midwife who has spent over 20 years working with birthing women and families in Australia and England. She currently practices as a midwife in the public health system. She holds a passion for all aspects of child birth and an awareness of pregnancy and birth as a transformational rite of passage. She offers clinical supervision and mentorship to student midwives.
Judy is a Graduate and Teacher for The School of Shamanic Womancraft. She teaches the Four Seasons Journey, Moonsong and Shamanic Dimensions of Pregnancy workshops.
In all her work, Judy guides women to remember and reclaim their innate wisdom, inner knowing and authentic nature. She creates and holds the sacred space, the safe container for inner healing to take place.
Judy leads ritual and ceremony to honour significant times of transition in our lives including rites of passage, seasonal Sabbats and phases of the lunar cycle. Judy facilitates women in reconnecting with Self and the Divine Feminine, grounded in Nature Based Spirituality.
Judy holds workshops, courses, individual transformational sessions and community-based women’s circles, including:
The Women’s Spiral of Transformation: year-long program
Pregnancy and Birth: The Inner Experience
Wise Woman Rising: Introduction to the Women’s Mysteries
Journey to Avalon Immersion
Moon Circle for Soulful Women program
Frame Drum journey work
Student Midwife Support Circles
Co-Creatrix of regular Red Tent Rising gatherings.
Judy brings the wisdom of many years of spiritual, personal and professional education and enquiry to all that she offers. A woman of Goddess, Judy delights in the continued unfolding of a synchronous, magical and meaningful life.
Judy recognises Biripai Country and offers her respect to the Biripai people as the original guardians, custodians and wisdom keepers of the land where she lives, the beautiful Mid North Coast NSW.
Listen to Judy on the Womancraft Podcast
→ Episode 12 ~ Priestess Wisdom ~ Maga, Honouring our Transitions
Shamanic Craftswoman • Workshop Teacher • Shamanic Womancraft Practitioner • Becoming a Woman Facilitator • Doula • Menstrual Educator •
Fiona is a mama of 3, a birth and postpartum doula, childbirth educator and shamanic womancraft practitioner.
She teaches our workshops, Moonsong and Shamanic Dimensions of Pregnancy, and co-teaches the Becoming a Woman workshop alongside Jaz.
Fi has also completed the Praxis training so is able to offer the 1:1 Shamanic Womancraft Sessions (which can be excellent birth preparation). Fi also worksclosely with our not-for-profit arm Hygieia Health, a charity with the mission to prevent and heal perinatal (birth) trauma
Founder of the School of Shamanic Womancraft • Creator of Moonsong, Shamanic Dimensions of Pregnancy and Autumn Woman Harvest queen workshops • co-creator of Winter Woman, Bone Wisdom Workshop • Grandmother •
My interest in bringing and offering this information is to help how I can in healing the wounded feminine and the wounded masculine of our patriarchal culture.
My mission is to help women reclaim feminine knowledge and wisdom, to help heal birth, menarche, menstruation, menopause and death, for all my relations.
I represent three lineages:
Home birth Midwifery – ancient wise woman practices passed down the generations that I learned from Maggie Lecky Thompson (Australia).
EarthSong (Boulder, Colorado, USA) Shamanic Teachings and Practices – that I learned from James Harvey (AKA BlackBear) and Cedar Barstow.
Shamanic Midwifery – the teachings and insights of the Late Jeannine Parvati Baker (USA).
(Jane Hardwicke Collings is not registered as a midwife with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia.)
Listen to Jane on the Womancraft Podcast→ Episode 2 ~ Growth ~ Founder & Shamanic Midwife
Shamanic Craftswoman • MagaWoman • Workshop Teacher • Shamanic Womancraft Teacher • Shamanic Drum Making Teacher • Story Teller • Earth Dancer • Wild Bird Protector • Tree Sister •
Sarah Bird Miller is enchanted by this Earth and has a passion for embodied earth wisdom. She is deeply held by the stories/myths and ways that reweave humanity back into the web of life.
She is a teacher of the Four Seasons Journey and Moonsong Workshop for the School of Shamanic Womancraft. She is also the founder of Embodiments Dance, a dance, drum and women’s circle space.
She lives an embodied spirituality, honouring feminine wisdom, the cycles within and without, and the gentle-wild rhythms of Life that hold us all.
She is a Mage woman, married for over 20 years and has two young adult children.
Listen to Sarah on the Womancraft Podcast
→ Episode 18 ~ Embody ~ The Drum Journey
Shamanic Craftswoman • Workshop Teacher • Homebirth Midwife • Perinatal Educator • MIPA teacher • PLYM Teacher • Mother •
Noemi is a Homebirth midwife, Saluto physiology midwife, a wife and mother. She is a teacher of the Moonsong and Shamanic Dimensions of Pregnancy workshops, and a perinatal educator. Noemi is also a MIPA teacher and PIyM teacher.
She offers Midwifery and shamanic support for girls approaching menarche, and in pregnancy and postnatally.
Noemi offers Sex education, Homebirth care and bereavement support.
She works with women in one to one sessions or group workshops.
Shamanic Craftswoman • Workshop Teacher • Menstrual educator • Contemporary dancer • Cranio Sacral Therapist •
Lisa is a contemporary dancer and Cranio Sacral therapist based in Berlin, specializing in gynecology and female anatomy.
She supports women in reconnecting with their womb and menstrual cycle, guiding them tomeet their body and their blood in a new way, giving space to release and integrate past experiences.
Passionate about the sacredness of menstruation, Lisa creates dance pieces inspired by the cycle and works as a menstrual educator.
Shamanic Craftswoman • Shamanic Womancraft Teacher • Workshop Teacher • Priestess • Astrologer • Circle Facilitator • Creator of the Cyclical Wisdom Journal • Scrybe Witch •
Grace is a priestess, ceremonialist, astrologer and seer, as well as teacher with the School of Shamanic Womancraft. She is the creator of the Cyclical Wisdom Journal, a year-long self-reflection tool based on menstrual, seasonal and lunar cycles.
Grace offers astrology and Tarot readings, as well as hosting various circles and ceremonies. Each year, she and her husband host a Wilderness Solo, singing up transformation through relationship to self, others and nature.
She is passionate about intentional living and deepening into radical self-trust.
Grace lives with her husband and three children outside of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, nourished by a big vege garden and the great expanse of prairie sky above.
