Good morning Relatives
what a great weekend we have had and the week is so beautifully beginning
a very cool thing happened well more than one cool thing I want to share with you some coolness
I helped out at the depot next door over the weekend they had to be out of town so I took my book and went over to keep the shop open for sat and sunday hours on saturday the coolest family came in
it was two women and a young man so three generations a mother her daughter and her grandson and they were amazing so I am passing on their amazingness to you they were from quebec they were Anishinaabe and they spoke their native language and a bit of french as well it was cool to listen to the beauty of their words they looked around the shop and purchased a few things like sweetgrass and kinnikinick and some beads
it was wonderful to see the generations of peacefulness and depth of kindness between them after purchasing the beads the grandmother turned and right there gave them to her daughter handed them to her and looked in her eyes and loved her it was beautiful
they were on their way to sundance I cannot think of a better group of generations of love and giveaway to have dancing at the beginning of the worlds year
the next day a whole group of family people came in randomly and accumulated they were here in Pipestone for a family reunion they were so interesting and diverse the boys ages 6-late 20's were interested in the dreamcatchers that were for sale and hang up over the shop on a wire we worked together to take down about 4 or 5 of them in all as they picked them out it was very cool that they wanted dreamcatchers for their bedrooms
one boy the 6ish one did not want a dreamcatcher he wanted a slingshot LOL who at age six did not want a slingshot! and his mom did not push him or argue or try to change him he told me that he did not dream he had no dreams ever and I laughed with him and said that is good to sleep so soundly
then he said well I had a dream today in the day his mom urged him to tell it to me and I asked him if he wanted to and he said yes
so he said he fell asleep in church which made me laugh even harder and i told him I used to as well and he said he had a dream in it he was walking around the hotel where they were staying (which is the Calumet, the one where the Thai women are trying to make a go of it and where I teach qigong) and he said he came to the door of the fitness room ( where we have our qigong class) and he said that as he got to the door it opened and a big brown horse came out it was there to visit with him and he got on it and when he kicked it to get going with the ride he kicked out in church whoever was next to him and he woke up!
I laughed and said to him do you want to know what I see in your dream? and he said yes
so I told him that I was Arapaho and we are the horse nation we are horse people and wherever I go those horses go with me then i told him that in the hotel in the room the fitness room is where I teach qigong and that qigong is about care it is about self awareness about balance and energy that flows between all of us to me I said that energy is being connected to you through the qigong and the horse of my ancestors in your dream we are connected through time and space
how cool is that!
what a gift what a gift this child brings to us to make the vibrations and the Spirits of our activities and our intention move through time and space
I wanted to share with you relatives so that you will see and understand that our practice our qigong our daily activity and intention that we release with our hands and minds and words and breath it creates motion and the spirits hold it and carry it
and when we are sleeping when we think the world is not active (even in the daytime) the children are open to that energy they are walking around the hallways of opportunity in our world the world that you and I create on a daily basis and they will meet what ever is the spirit that we have made and left in our wake in the wake of our opportunity and effort
someday I hope that all the horses of all the motion that come from my heart come to play with you relatives and your children and that like the Anishinaabe women and the son we can grow generations of beauty
is that not the purpose of the garden
love love love
mb
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