Kwe k8e Tiwahutinanske, I'd like too try to share something I believe is very important.... Sunday my daughter Rachel and I hiked up the mesa behind our home and sat at the "edge-of-the-earth" over looking the valley below... We saw a helicopter below us, fly along the highway ...the strip of asphalt that once was a dirt track called "the Santa Fe trail" The ruins of an ancient native village accross the valley are still visible and look like a red streak of mud in the straw colored plain..two redtail hawks soared to our right... I took some objects from my pouch and arranged them on the tip of the ledge that dropped away at my feet...it was silent.. i took the PIPE into my hands and began to share with her the past,the future and the present...using the objects to illustrate the things I have learned over the years.... I asked her to fill the Pipe as I sang the directions with my rattle(that has all of you in it).... when my eyes were finally opened it was brimming and loaded...and we smoked it together in silence... I have been learning things,,, things that are changing me, helping me...I'd like to think of them as gifts,but not gifts to horde but to pass on...I can't think about how they will be received I can only open myself and let them flow..,feathers in the wind.... It has to do with the differance between HOPE and DESIRE DESIRE is a hunger unsatisfied, a knowing emptiness, or a fungus that grows feeding on our spirit in the dark recesses... DESIRE is an eye infection that coats the eye till even that which is lovely is distorted and our daily lives become an irritating distraction... DESIRE turns the mind into a scheming and decieving machine,to bend every thought to it's cravings...it turns the Heart into a den of robbers... HOPE is born of Light...it spreads contentment and waits actively, HOPE is active NOW,,,it's no good to say 'I once had hope' (past) or 'I will someday have hope'(future) it must be NOW or never. HOPE is patient,gentle and kind...ready to learn... HOPE builds joy block by block,,,and DESIRE topples them in one fell sweep. One brings light the other brings shadow,One plants trust,the other plants distrust and suspicion. The dominant culture around us works hard to enflame our DESIRE, working it's wizzardry on creating discontentment,'out with the old in with the new.' Because they know that once DESIRE is conceived, we will be back for more! It is why our Earth Mother has been pillaged. If we are to create UNITY as Wendat/Wyandot people we have to be careful that we BUILD UNITY on the HOPE of unity... for HOPE will bring us back together...HOPE WILL HEAL US ALL... I took these thoughts for a run today down the dirt track along the Santa Fe Railroad tracks...at the place I turn around I paused and sat in the cool shade of a Pinion pine...on an impulse I decided to cross a barbwire fence and as I leaned to go through the wires,there lay before my eyes a tiny perfect arrowhead of agate in the red dirt...it was the confirmation I needed to share these things with you ,my brothers and sisters... I've shared my heart Skenon! Yuséatah |
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| The Words of Yuseatah |
| From the Bear Clan |
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| Tsonkwadiyonrat (We are ONE Spirit) |
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