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Performance with Paul Horn at MUM

Posted by admin on May 30, 2011 · 2 Comments 

Photos of the recent performance with Paul at Maharishi University of Management(MUM) Music Symposium. Many thanks to dear friends, new and old, who came and shared this loving event in this beautiful performance space!

Gratitude to www.jarphoto.com for the photos!

Link HERE for comments from those who were there.

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Women’s Gathering on Mother’s Day

Posted by admin on May 5, 2011 · Leave a Comment 

Link here for feedback on this extraordinary event

Sponsored by the Global Mother Divine Organization, and the MUM Women’s Institute at Maharishi University of Management

We warmly invite all the women of our community to enjoy a most memorable Mother’s Day this Sunday by coming together with a truly renaissance woman—Ann Mortifee—to celebrate being, “In Love With the Mystery.”
This event continues the theme of the October 2010 event with the Indigenous Grandmothers: powerful, nourishing, wise women and cultural visionaries—whose work upholds and unfolds the beauty, power and mystery of the creative, evolutionary force of Almighty Nature—coming together with the women of our community to enliven this divinely nourishing quality in the heart of each of us….

Come spend an afternoon with a truly Renaissance Woman! Ann Mortifee is a unique, award-winning performing artist, singer, songwriter, and author. Ann and her husband, world-renowned flautist, Paul Horn, are coming to share with our community their artistic genius.

In this special event for women, Ann will:

  • Share with us her journey into the divine, creative, feminine principle
  • Transport us with her unique musical performance
  • Inspire us with stories of her work with indigenous women shamans and musicians
  • Engage us with her poetic prose that expresses the mystery that resides in the depths of our Being

…all illuminated by Maharishi’s piercing insights into the “reality of the far beyond.”

Sunday, May 8th, 1:45–4:00 pm, at MUM, Dalby Hall

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Message for Mother’s Day

Posted by admin on May 4, 2011 · 4 Comments 

Once again I am thinking of you all as the sun rises over the desert.  The morning is unusually chilly for this time of year. And so I am wrapped snugly in shawl and woollen slippers. There is a nest being built in the Mesquite tree close to where I am sitting and three turkey vultures are soaring effortlessly overhead.  All is very still and peaceful and right with the world.

I know that there are many places on earth where things are not peaceful. It is one of the great mysteries to me how some of us seem to be so blessed with bounty, while others of us must suffer so deeply. And so, here in this vast landscape, I pray that the inner and outer stillness I am feeling will somehow, by some strange alchemy, pour like a healing balm out into our collectively shared atmosphere.

I am remembering a moment with Gosololo, my nanny in South Africa.  She was a second mother to me. Her beauty and richness of soul resonates in me still.  Once every two months on her days off, Gosololo was able to return to her village to be with her own children. The rest of the time she lived with us.  She was doing what was required of her.  Yet, in spite of the loneliness she felt for her children, she never withheld her love from us.  She fed us on its warm and nourishing sustenance.

Once after she had just returned from a visit home, I came into the kitchen and found her staring out the window.  Quiet tears were rolling down her cheeks.  I had never seen Gosololo crying before.  I felt awkward and shy. I climbed onto her knee and with my child’s small arm, I clumsily tried to comfort her.  I patted her back and stroked her hair, as she would have me.  The sadness in her dark eyes gave way to tenderness. Slowly they changed to laughter, and then returned again to tears.  Back and forth her feelings flowed until she pulled me close to her heart and half crying, half laughing, she whispered ever so softly.

“Oh Anna, the reason I am grown so fat is so I can hold all these feeling, all in the same body, all at the same time.”

This is the great mystery of Mother.  It is the power of unconditional love.  No matter the circumstance, no matter what is right or wrong, love does what needs to be done. Love feels what needs to be felt. And whatever it takes, love accepts and then it loves some more.

And so, on this Mothers Day, I wish you love.

In the great Mystery,

Ann

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