PoetKitty is Tina M. Courtney, aka Kitty.
Say hi, tell me I’m crazy, ask me about the meaning of life, or just reach out and find a friend.
poetkitty@mindspring.com
A slew of personal truths:
◊ Born in Helena, MT – Gemini sun / Aquarius moon / Aries rising
◊ Madly, insanely, ridiculously in love with Orion, aka This Man.
◊ Writes poetry, novels, short stories, blogs
◊ Practicing shamanista – 25 ceremonies to date, 21 with my sacred shaman family in Peru (16 Ayahuasca and 5 Huachuma) and 4 with a us-based shaman angel (4 Ayahuasca)
◊ Meditator, tarot card reader, healer
◊ Mom to four children: 1 human, an eleven-year-old powerhouse I’m blessed to call Stepson (also known as Hijo), plus three felines — Crescent, Mr. Boo, and Yogi
◊ Lived in Montana, Portland OR, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas
◊ Produced / developed numerous web communities and online games, including Disney’s Blast, Preschool Time Online, and SpadeClub.com
◊ Must-do’s include publishing multiple novels, opening a restaurant, traveling to Iceland, funding a charity, learning flamenco, mastering Tensigrity (a martial art created by Carlos Casteneda), and falling in love with myself and everyone else
◊ 4 tattoos and counting – Hip = Herman the wise old moon, Ankle = Mascha the fiery celtic band + tribal sun, Shoulder = Wassily the good luck tree frog, Neck = Chavy the Chavin icon
◊ Favorite place in the world – tied between the Amazonian jungle of Peru, and the Temple of the Jaguar, eye to eye with the Lanzon (also in Peru)
While words are the threads by which I survive, people are the real reason for all the blasted efforts. I love all you crazies; even the darkies among us. We all have a little Gandhi and a little W; in differing doses, of course. I choose to illuminate the greatness, except when I’m in W-mode. It happens. Please forgive.
Get used to my Amazonian babblings, by the way — it’s become my life’s work. I found myself and the Secrets of the Universe down there, and it’s my biggest joy to divulge every last insanely amazing detail.
Read on, be real, feel blessed. I am, because you’re here.
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I love your blog!!! I am just starting to write poetry!
http://www.seasofsilver.wordpress.com
hello its danielle, just checking out your site.
Hi Danielle – yay! Glad to see you in here – email me at poetkitty@mindspring.com if you have any questions
I invite you to get a copy and read Margaret’s DeWys’ amazing new book
BLACK SMOKE: A Woman’s Journey of Healing, Wild Love
and Transformation in the Amazon.
The story is as astonishing as it is miraculous and unfolds much
like an adventure tale or detective novel.
“Black Smoke is a wonderful, beautifully written story…a true adventure told in a style that rivals the best of novels. This first person account by an extraordinary woman of her inner and outer journey through darkness into light is a must read for anyone interested in healing.”
John Perkins, the NY Times Best-selling author of Shapeshifting: Spirit of the Shuar
“This book will thrill and support all readers traveling–or wishing to travel themselves–into
the unknown and the mystery of the human spirit.”
Josie Ravenwing, Author of The Book of Miracles
When composer and Bard College music professor Margaret De Wys learned she had breast cancer, the diagnosis shattered her comfortable life. Seized by fear, crushed by existential loneliness, she couldn’t respond when her loved ones reached out to her. To everyone’s concern, the illness propelled her away from her family and deep into the Amazon to work with Carlos, a charismatic Shuar master of medicina milenaria, an ancient mystical tradition with a highly sophisticated and precise technology
of healing. In Black Smoke, De Wys writes of her amazing encounter with Carlos as he guided her into a world of potent visionary plants, harrowing initiations, and ritual purification. It was, as Carlos called it, “the path of the warrior.”
At once an adventure story, a romance, and a rich exploration of a little-known culture, Black Smoke is destined to become a classic. It captures one woman’s physical, emotional, and “holy voyage” through a world that differs vastly from our own in its perception of healing and wholeness. And what emerges is a revealing chronicle of spiritual insight and a trenchant exploration of the limits of idealism. Not only does De Wys offer a probing look at how our modern technological culture can learn and benefit from indigenous wisdom, but she also weaves a cautionary tale about how potentially dangerous it is—on
both sides—to try to cross those frontiers.
Now available at Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble bookstores.
Black Smoke: A Woman's Journey of Healing, Wild Love, and Transformation in the Amazon
To read the beginning of the book, hear healing songs
from the Amazon, and contact the author, go to:
http://www.blacksmokethebook.com
I actually read Black Smoke 2 weeks ago – WONDERFUL read
Hey Kit Kat. Enjoyed reading this bio entry this morning. The thought of you makes me smile and to even be typing in this box is a kind of comfort.
You give me hope. I hadn’t thought of all of us having some W, but it is true–dang!
This thought alone will go so far toward all of us learning about forgiveness. Hope things are going well with…(I want to say Trevor?…)
See you soon I hope. Love, (you can call me Dubby if you can get used to it. It seems to be reserved for my oldest friends and family. But you’re welcome in this crowd