| Milestones: | Other point of view | Dreams | Results: | |
| Milestones: 1979 “Transformation” I got an Ontario Arts Council. and got to choose the schools I wanted so chose “Wandering “Spirit” school. .When I walked in Vern Harper said he had been expecting me as he was told I was coming. I took part in the sweet grass ceremony they had every morning for the children. Children painted a mural from storytelling of “Magical Earth” I also lead a workshop on ocean painting and Tedrian Chizyik from New York did movement. Dale Bertrand shared his flowers in Giant Flower Island. Dale Bertrand led a workshop on painting a Medicine Wheel. We later did workshops there thru the Inner city Angles. In 1979 we attended the Symposium for Humanity ( where one major event was Stevanne Auerbach leading the Butterfly Parade) and we marched to ‘love and protect the earth’. Dale Bertrand and I attended and had a booth at the Rainbow Rose Festival. | People: Dale Bertrand Vern Harper Pauline Shirt Luana Harper Les Harper DeanaHarper children Merian Soto Elisa Lodge Tedrian Chizik. Diane Godynick Dr. Stevanne Auerbach. Jerry Shrair Merian Soto Brenda Parres Jerry House Karin Clifford Research: Diary photo Painting Dream Wheel | Dream: “ I was in the center of the Medicine Wheel and it was turning around me. I could make it turn for others” “Dodoland is part of a whole.. it has the depth of the earth but light and freedom” “ If you keep looking you will find the fruit” “I saw a man who stood in front of paintings and did movement” “I was told to tell the story with slides” | Tedrian went to Peru and prayed for Dodoland’s success at Macchu Picchu at the Altar to the Sun God. He did his first performance of Dodoland with himself as the Elemental Dodo at the Humanistic Psychology Conference in Philadelphia the Humanistic Psychology Conference. Starting to do workshops with the Inner city Angels. I (Della) worked as an artist with them for 17 years. Dale also worked part-time with them. Wrote a Teacher’s Guide for Dodoland. |
Create a Dream, with Della Burford 
Remember it well. Transformational.
We were so lucky to experience this event. Never forget Buckminister Fuller speaking, Meeting Derald Langham, Elizabeth Kubler Ross, and Patricia Sun
– Dale went to see Patricia Sun speak and her “I love” philosophy stuck with him forever it seemed. Since we were leading a workshop for children had the good fortune to meet Stevanne Auerbach who has been a life-long friend. Also met Elizabeth Kubler Ross. Since we both have butterflies in the stories of how our work developed I gave her a copy of Dodoland and she wrote me back to ask me to come to Shanti Niyala. I couldn’t go because I was so involved with working with the New York project but thought of her often. Dr. Stevanne Auerbach – I was so thrilled to meet again in 2017 in Berkeley.. never wavering she was still after 40 years working on saving the butterflies and has recently produced both a beautiful book ‘My Butterfly Collection/On the Wings of a Butterfly” and a video.. much love to friends.