Are you carrying weights placed upon you by yourself or others? There are different schools of thought in weight-lifting. Some say to take a lighter weight and do multiple repetitions. Others suggest lifting the maximum weight possible one or two times. Then of course there are many variations on what is best depending on…
Belief and Words
We must believe the things we teach our children. — Woodrow Wilson How nice it would be if I only uttered what I believed. Maybe President Wilson was suggesting I practice this unique way of speaking with my children to get the hang of it. Or maybe he was reminding us that children have a…
Balanced World
“Bright days and dark days are both expressions of the Great Mystery.” — Chief Luther Standing Bear, SIOUX God created a world that contains justice and injustice, a world that is interconnected, a world that has positive and negative, this way and that, up and down, man and woman, boy and girl, honest and dishonest, responsible…
Ashes To Ashes
Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust. The words still give me goosebumps. Yet many American Indians believe all life comes from earth and that is where all life returns in some form of the other. To them the earth is sacred and we should treat it as such. The rest of us have…
Red Roads
“We call it the “sacred” red road because it is the road that will lead us to living the good life, an honest and healthy life. — Larry Aitken, Chippewa nation. Those of you who know my wife Suzy know that she doesn’t like to travel on interstates, especially I-40. She prefers blue and black…