tonight it will be -11 degrees here that will be a 43 degree drop in the temperature isnt that amazing?
I just took the dogs on a walk they love to go and they are so pretty running through the snow and the weeds we saw squirrels and a pheasant and bunnies and deer tracks everyone has been busy in the night
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| storyteller going for a walk |
I have been busy as well today I am washing the sheets on the bed and will change them out it will take me all day to accomplish this task they are nice strong flannel sheets and I have many blankets that go on top of them the weight of the work is what takes so long my wrists get tired and my forearms are so sore at the end of any task that it is really funny so how do I look at it ? as a miracle to think that I can move them at all after falling 8 feet and bouncing and landing on my face and shattering my right wrist, and fracturing my left shoulder in two places it is truly a miracle that I can move my arms at all so it is with meditative joy that I take as long as it takes and work steadily with rest between effort like the resting beat of the heart to do the chores until they are done it is interesting that the responses to me being cheerful have been such a mirror of how others see and or need to see the events around them we are connected you and I Relatives we are the same being so how you see things affects me and like throwing off old clothes and old worn out stinky blankets Im going to throw off some accumulated judgements and thoughts today.
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| a good boy waiting for life to be kinder |
Remember that in the circle we ask for what we need and we give what we can
last summer I asked a GMa to teach the young people that come to her house about the circle of reciprocation. She supports and gives to them and "teaches" them in their efforts to gain an education and a foothold on life. she feeds and houses them, helps them with homework or studies, and supports their economic foothold in the college age time of developing their life. she asked me what could she do to help support the GMa house here in Pipsetone. What I shared with her was this
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| there is no secret ingredient |
do not make the mistake of only teaching to take and look forward to these young people If you do not teach them to reciprocate and to give back to the circle that has and is sustaining them then you are teaching them to burn like an endless fire of consumption rather than create the heat of recycling energy
I asked her how important the GMa house was and is to her and she said it was extremely important and that she hears the spirits speak to her about it and that she knows that this work is so very important to her personally. She has come here and seen and felt for herself that this house is for her and for the people. She assured me that she gets it. so I asked her put out a bowl on the table where you eat and feed these young people put out a bowl and a little note that says for the GMa house and when they ask you what it means tell them. Simply tell them about the house and what it means to you and ask them to give to you to give back to you $1.00 or $5.00 the cost of a coffee or a beer or a movie ask them to put that in the bowl and to give of them selves back to that which matters to you.
Three times since last fall she and I have spoken and three times I have said put out the bowl. simply ask them to sustain what has sustained them teach them to give back
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| medicine wheels are everywhere |
dont wait and don't falter give now a little bit give what you can and do it until the need is finished then you will have taught them that every little action can add up each thing that gives back is sustaining that brought them to that place . you will have taught them that you will speak up for what is dear to your heart and that it is important for them to give to what matters to you even as you have given to what matters to them. if you do not teach them this way of thinking and giving and doing now now while they are being trained for their future then it will not be a part of their future it will not be a part of their fabric and then the cloth that they weave will have holes in it and the clothes that they create from that fabric will not wear well and will not break down into sustainable support for the next weaver
the world right now has been made in the image of the seller to the consumer not the give and receiver it has been made in an unsustainable manner for every mile that we drive with our cars do we put back in the earth one barrel of oil? for every gallon of water that we drink do we put back in place the filter that will provide the next drink? for each bag of groceries do we make sure that one square foot of earth is free from trash so that it will grow food for a cow or for a lettuce? if we do not choose to teach those who are within the reach of our own table, including ourselves, to give back to look and to recognize what has sustained us and what is and has provided us with the life that we are freely given to use each day to the end of our own choosing then how long will it take for that life to run out? how many lives will it take being lost before we have the gumption to ask that those sitting at our table give back to what matters?
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| are we there yet? |
Still after all this time there is no bowl on the table no teaching the children to understand that the food and money and opportunity come from a mentation, a heart and mind that recognizes the importance of the opportunity that those young people represent. She has yet to teach them that they are not the only opportunity present!!! it is perhaps just as if not more important to teach them to turn around and sustain what sustains them. You we I must teach that if we do not sustain what sustains us then in the end all opportunity will cease. GMa's ask that the world around you sustain you. that it sustain me that this house be sustained. Brush aside fear or judgement or habit brush them into the trash like so much debris and get down in the mud dig up the pearls and make bricks out of this opportunity.
Otherwise we are teaching selfishness we are teaching consumerism we are teaching judgement we are teaching ego
You know we ask the spirits for things we ask for care, for healing for grace, for food, for heat, for money, for comfort in death, for joy, for understanding, for ??????? we ask and they give
but what do we give do we give all we can do we ask for what we need? GMas call me and ask what can I do? and I say put out the bowl
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| Story driving |
put out the bowl everywhere you go put out the bowl ask that what sustains you be sustained
ask that what sustains you be sustained
include everyone in that opportunity
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| Lewis and Clark and thier dog |
include everyone in that opportunity
if you decide for someone that they are not worth asking then you are using them to mask your own faltering thought
If you are waiting for me to come and ask then you are missing the point of you
how much do you want the spirits or life to falter when it comes to you ?
if you are not giving all that you can then why do you expect others to?
if the circle that we are creating is based on not asking and not being willing to receive and not being willing to give all that we can then how much will that circle accomplish ?
not much
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| snow business |
it is going to be -11 degrees this evening here in Pipestone
how much does it matter to you what the spirits have given to you from this house? from the Pipes, from the travels I have and do make to give all that is given to me to you. I have said before that you called and the spirits answered. you asked that myself and this house and these pipes come and we showed up. I have been traveling to this place since I was born. and I am delighted to love you and meet you and be here with you and for this great circle. All i have I have given to this great circle and will continue. but I have to give and act in a sustainable manner. so for me to understand this I had to be stopped. And also to stop doing for you and ask you for what I need. Not just for heat and not for physical reasons that can be justified by an accountant or a consciousness but because the asking and the giving and the action must be from a sustainable perspective. It has to be done in a way that changes everything in the present while preparing the resources for the future. If we grow a one time big crop of high dollar food that takes the ground years to recover from ( i.e... nuclear power and waste) then we have made a non sustainable choice. and the bible teaches us that giving pearls to swine is not just stupid it is wasteful so shall we ask the spirits to eliminate the swine? shall we stop giving the pearls? or shall we get the people out in the mud working together to clean up the system?
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| the beginning house was not sustainable |
I say we clean up the system I say we learn to give not from acceptable loss but from a commitment that refuses to not be fulfilled, from a trust that asking and including all as one will not only meet this small need but create a way of communicating and interacting that will actually change the world. You can do this that easily. Everyone I meet here and everywhere I have been knows about the panda, the house, the GMas, the work and the blog. I do this because I am still holding the fire at Lame Deer, and because like GMa Margaret I know that the prayer is still being delivered.
It is time for me to ask you to learn to go out in the world and talk about the GMa house, the pipes, the panda, the commitment to the now and the future, that we go out and ask for what we need from everyone that we know
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| kitty in his winter outfit |
we must take the circle practice out into the world
we must with everyone we meet and in every arena ask for what we need and give what we can
if you go to church take your bowl to church and stand up and ask them to fill it
if you are saving for an inheritance call that relative and say what is more important? heat and the sustainable gift of the house or a large cant take it with you chunk when you die?
Is it more important to put non sustainable toys under a christmas tree or to give something that cant be measured like the original gift of christmas?
where are the pearls ?
what is the mud?
are you making bricks or pigs out of your relatives friends and life?
think about it
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| are we handicapped or handicap able? |
I am asking you to change to change not because I need heat and the house needs work
I am asking you to change so that we have a different world so that it adds up to bricks not pigs in the mud
so
put out the bowl
it is going to be -11 here tonight
love and light shadow and song
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| Please send more long romantic letters; they burn so well |
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