Festa de Iemanjá

My offerings and appreciation for the diety, Iemanjá, is practiced year round near our waters edge. My shrine is lit each New Years Eve in celebration.

Iemanjá, goddess (or orixá) of the sea, is a central deity in the Candomblé, afro-religion of Brazil. She watches over sailors, fishermen and women, and controls their catches. She is very powerful, and is concerned with every aspect of fertility and family; she is also the protector of children - and always draped in either blue or white. 

On each New Years Eve, small, personally related gifts are gathered. These are then released out on the water as an offering, and by acceptance, float out to the sea.

For 25 cents .....

Today in Arcadia, I took her photo - and The Great Madam Zoltar tells of an upcoming fortune, predicting my future year. Both of us possibly traveling on the same train.

day after

 

 

 

"the impeccable peach"

An amazing young woman, Miss Veniece.  Her first solo journey on the road, across Florida, with her "in progress" Bluebird, a Chevrolet B6, 30 ft long raised roof, long bus. She's on the road building as she goes - improvising on all the needed mechanical necessities, while devising her own unique interior layout and design. 

The overall excitement as she explains all this, is infectious. Some improvements sounded radical, but she's seemed fearless and sound.

 

 

As I first entered the bus, Veniece immediately apologized as the driver's seat appeared occupied. 

 

 

And, as she explained the overall visual chaos, she reassured me that all was still "in progress". (Currently installing lamb's wool for the needed ceiling insulation).

 

Veniece's current sleeping quarters with a privacy wallboard temporarily installed.

 

Her new friends Lucas & Jim, cooking an outside "road lunch" using a portable butane cooker.

 

Veniece, happy with her served-upped meal of black beans & rice, and happy with her added new friends.

 

An amazing project - and an amazing young woman. A solar paneled vehicle; a self-sufficient traveler with big dreams and the mechanical know-how, soon to be out on the road as a full-time big adventure.

 

 

VISIT;  Veniece Cameron; of Naples, Florida. A High School Science teacher, hittin' the road - on Instagram, @theimpeccablepeach.  https://www.instagram.com/p/CBvcut6HzB1/