This will be a place where we can share and learn a variety of ways to remember and honour our family and ancestors... via memories, stories and creative expression.
By walking with our Ancestors we can help to keep their memory and wisdom alive in our hearts and lives... for ourselves and the generations to come.
Meanwhile... as I continue to sort and bring together my many years of gathered material for Ancestors Alive! (which might take a wee while!) I thought I would pop by each day and share some words and pictures with you for contemplation and inspiration... Enjoy!
Today I will leave you with the following message which feels so timely for me and resonates deeply with this new work in progress...
Message from the Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers:
"As you move through these changing times... be easy on yourself and be easy on one another. You are at the beginning of something new. You are learning a new way of being. You will find that you are working less in the yang modes that you are used to.
You will stop working so hard at getting from point A to point B the way you have in the past, but instead, will spend more time experiencing yourself in the whole, and your place in it.
Instead of traveling to a goal out there, you will voyage deeper into yourself. Your mother's grandmother knew how to do this. Your ancestors from long ago knew how to do this. They knew the power of the feminine principle... and because you carry their DNA in your body, this wisdom and this way of being is within you.
Call on it. Call it up. Invite your ancestors in. As the yang based habits and the decaying institutions on our planet begin to crumble, look up. A breeze is stirring. Feel the sun on your wings."
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| Wisdom of Grandma: Photo by Carmen Hunter |
Enriching our lives through the stories and ways
of our Ancestors...
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| Artwork detail from a collaged Gourd I made some years ago. (I will share more info and images about this creation process later!) Image © Raine @ Inner Voice Art™ |
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| Quw'utsun' Made © Be A Good Ancestor sticker |
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