My Summer Solstice Art in 1985

About the year 1985 I was living in Key West, Florida. There was, at the time, a womyns living compound up on Sugarloaf Key. My friends and I took off from our home at 1208 Bay Street in a VW van. That van is another story in itself. When we got to Sugarloaf we were met by a large gathering of women. I think KC, Devona, Mary and Jean a Cotton were there. About sunset all of the women were instructed to form a big circle out on the large lawn. There was a group of houses on one side of the property, a large lawn, then a road next to that and then the water. All of us sat on the grass in a big circle. Blue carried a large clay bowl filled with sage grass and sat down as a part of the circle. Blue said she would light the sage and each of us should verbalize what we wish to "let go of" and when the smoke from the burning sage would rise up and disappear, so would the oppressing baggage we carried with us go up in smoke when verbalized. I had never been in such an environment and not used to putting my feelings out there for a bunch of strangers to hear. I sat next to my friend Captain Mel. When it came time for me to speak I said, "I am so moved by this whole scene I can't speak.". Everyone went Wow!. The next person to speak was Captain Mel and she muttered under her breath, to me, "Bitch.". She was caught off-guard.
Following this ritual there was alot of music and nude dancing under the stars. Martha, I can't remember her last name, who had just lost over a hundred pounds, shed her clothes and was frolicking in the grassy area and near the waters edge. The full moon was out. The pot was burning. Girls were everywhere I looked. The weather was steamy hot.