Tag: Aboriginal Experience
Canada at 150
Reboot
What a couple of weeks…
I do not write about work very often. Preferring it is our business, so to speak. But at these times, as a part of my own route to healing, this I need do. Mortality: “the state of being subject to death” How often I’ve heard: “I’ll be living forever.” Denial, … Continue Reading What a couple of weeks…
Restoration
our ancestors respected their kind domicile Mother Earth’s abundant refuge light, birdsong, their time pieces a morning musk offered forecast rustling leaves identifying the day’s temper animal moments framed seasons of waste nothing of use all then all torn asunder nearly obliterated: language, ritual, spirituality in near total genocide yet … Continue Reading Restoration
Torn from Their True Life
their profound blood born in the pristine lands of Turtle Island were then, by invading men torn from their true life in genocidal assimilation yet look to the sunrise how fragmented hearts, spirits, minds bring themselves up drum, feather in hand sing proudly for the distressed lands for their children’s … Continue Reading Torn from Their True Life
