“Woman” Up

We need to step up and take responsibility. The times, when we used to say: “oh, maybe tomorrow” are over. Barbara

“It is our job to honor and protect our babies. Both our physical children, and all of nature that is around us.”
-Floredemayo, Mayan

Wisdom from the Elders

Elder’s Meditation of the Day - February 9
“It can be 100 degrees in the shade one afternoon and suddenly there comes a storm with hailstones as big as golf balls, the prairie is all white and your teeth chatter. That’s good - a reminder that you are just a small particle of nature, not so [...]

For our children

Elder’s Meditation of the Day - August 10
“Nature is the storehouse of potential life of future generations and is sacred.”
–Audrey Shenandoah, ONONDAGA
We need to honor and respect our Mother Earth. She is the source of all life. The sun shines life to the earth, then the earth produces life in all forms and in a [...]

Relatives

Elder’s Meditation of the Day - May 12
“All the stones that are around here, each one has a language of its own. Even the earth has a song.”
—- Wallace Black Elk, LAKOTA
To believe that every tree, plant and insect can talk takes an open mind. Go by yourself into nature and sit quietly. Then pick [...]

Grandmother Moon

When I was growing up I was told you will have a monthly cycle and you can get pregnant, that was it in a nutshell.  My mother and older sister later on went more into details about cramping, bleeding, pads, and how I can get pregnant.  What was missing in their upringing and consequently in [...]

Nature

Elder’s Meditation of the Day - May 3
“But I have learned a lot from trees: sometimes about the weather, sometimes about animals, sometimes about the Great Spirit.”
–Walking Buffalo, STONEY
Nature is the greatest teacher on the Earth. Nature produces many different plants, animals, trees, rocks, birds, insects and weather patterns. Nature designed all these various things [...]

First Day of Spring

Have you ever thought about the change of seasons? When you look at our greatest teacher-nature- Spring is among many other things a time of growth and renewal. We are part of nature which means something is happening within us too.
Do you pause for a moment and reflect on times like the Spring Equinox?
Please let [...]