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Grandma’s Know

Published July 17, 2020 by tindertender

Grandma, how can I live this quarantine?

“My daughter, quarantine is a special, mysterious and sacred period. In my days, newborn children could only leave the house for the first time after their 40th day of life. It is a period of waiting and preparing for a new life. It is the period that produces a great change.”

And how do you prepare for this change?

“With simple, genuine and loving actions. Every morning comb your long hair with dedication and untie all the knots, even the most hidden ones that you have always neglected. It is time to put all the knots in the comb. Then dedicate yourself to untangling even your beloved ones skeins. With patience and you will try to find the end of the skein, the exact starting point of the thread. Already with these simple but powerful actions you will create order outside and inside of you. Undoing physical knots with your hands you will begin to touch your internal knots.”

And after undoing the knots, what can I do, grandma?

Remove all parts of you that are no longer fertile. In many funeral rites of ancient peoples it is believed that the deceased leaves the body entirely on the 40th day after his death. In these 40 days, my daughter, cut your hair, eliminate clothes that you have not worn for a long time or that you no longer want use, open the windows of your home well to let the stale air out, cultivate new thoughts by abandoning the old, dedicated to creating new habits, new customs, new traditions.”

Grandmother, I’m afraid that after this isolation nothing will change. Man quickly forgets…

“How others will react to this quarantine is none of your business. Make a commitment to change and not forget. Make sure this storm shakes you up so much that it completely revolutionizes your life.”

―Elena Bernabé, Indigenous Peoples Cultures. April, 2020

I May Be A Cat …

Published July 16, 2020 by tindertender

But my best friends are DOGS.
If you’re looking for trouble, I’d be very careful if I were you.

My Grandmother Once Gave Me A Tip

Published July 2, 2020 by tindertender
(Image of Tasha Tudor, American Illustrator 1915-2008)

In difficult times, you move forward in small steps.
Do what you have to do, but little by little.
Don’t think about the future, or what may happen tomorrow.
Wash the dishes.
Remove the dust.
Write a letter.
Make a soup.
You see?
You are advancing step by step.
Take a step and stop.
Rest a little.
Praise yourself.
Take another step.
Then another.
You won’t notice, but your steps will grow more and more.
And the time will come when you can think about the future without crying.

– Elena Mikhalkova

Deliberate Mind

Published July 2, 2020 by tindertender

Even during trying times there is so much to celebrate. Family and friends, the sounds of loved ones voices …

There will be a time in our lives when some of us pass and we can’t talk on the phone or see each other anymore. So I hold it dear in my heart every day we get this blessing.

What I am learning … don’t hold grudges, it only hurts you. Put roses at the feet of anyone who has hurt you. You’ve learned something when you can do that.

Set boundaries. It’s not mean, it’s good for everyone and their mental, physical and spiritual health.

In trying times watch your thoughts, voice and postings. We are all connected. Don’t put out hurtful or negative things even if you’re in that space.

Pray.

You are the amazing lightness of Being.

You are Love Unconditional at your true core.

Don’t be petty, be BIG in LOVE.

Don’t be afraid, be curious.

If something overcomes you, don’t beat yourself up. Love yourself through your struggles.

Life is a gift. We don’t know for how long so make the most of it … every second.

And finally, YOU are AMAZING!!!!

I love each and everyone of you so much because despite how we feel individualized I truly believe we are the Oneness of everything beautiful.

My love to you today and always.

~ Patricia Roller
Balanced Manifesting

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Today I Am Thankful

Published June 24, 2020 by tindertender

I am thankful for the lessons in balance that I see in my loved ones.

Strength and gentleness, responsibility and laughter, stubbornness and flexibility.

I see you walk in a good way.

I see you work tirelessly to earn what you have and I see you give freely with a smile and without regret.

I see you make mistakes and I see you learn hard lessons.

I see you shed ego and become humble.

I see you stand together and I see you hold each other up.

In you I see humanity and my own humanity is awakened.

Little bits of myself that have lain dormant my whole life come alive and bring more and more clarity to my sense of purpose.

Thank you for being my teachers in life and for the lessons you give, but more, thank you for that part of you that becomes a part of me, to one day become a part of someone else. In that way, we are a continuous line of spirit that will stretch on and on, unbroken, as long as time exists.

Life has blessed me with more family than I was born with and WOW, am I blessed with family of blood and spirit!

Wado!

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It’s Simple

Published May 8, 2020 by tindertender

Notice your triggers when they are acting up.

Stop being trigger happy.

And just love people for who they are, where they are right now.

Is that so hard?

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Healing Effort

Published February 10, 2020 by tindertender

“To heal will require real effort, and a change of heart, from all of us. To heal means that we will begin to look upon one another with respect and tolerance instead of prejudice, distrust and hatred. We will have to teach our children — as well as ourselves — to love the diversity of humanity…. We can do it. Yes, you and I and all of us together. Now is the time. Now is the only possible time. Let the Great Healing begin.”

— Leonard Peltier, Native American activist (Turtle Mountain Chippewa)

Art: Restoration by Jade Leyva Art.

Full Recognition Denied

Published December 10, 2019 by tindertender

NATIVE AMERICAN COP25 DELEGATION REMOVED FROM US EMBASSY WHILE TRYING TO HONOR MISSING AND MURDERED WOMEN

Photo Credit: Indigenous Rising Media

MARDRID, SPAIN – U.S. Embassy — Over 75 Indigenous activists and their allies demonstrated in front of the US Embassy in Madrid, Spain to demand justice for missing and murdered Indigenous women, two-spirits and girls(MMIW). The delegation was removed from the sidewalk by Spain’s National Police and followed for blocks. The police liaison with the group was held back and forced to show his documents.

In 2016, the Urban Indian Health Institute found that only 116 out of 5,712 cases of MMIWG reported in the United States were recorded in the Department of Justice’s federal missing persons database.

Photo credit: Indigenous Rising Media

Full article here:

https://nativenewsonline.net/currents/native-american-cop25-delegation-removed-from-us-embassy-while-trying-to-honor-missing-and-murdered-women/

Inaccurate counts of blood quantum have had an enormous effect on Native individuals and nations.

PAPER GENOCIDE: THE ERASURE OF NATIVE PEOPLE IN CENSUS COUNTS

Native people were excluded from the first 70 years under the U.S. Constitution, which explicitly regarded “Indians not taxed,” or those living on reservations or unsettled territories, as not countable.

Native people, in particular, are the most undercounted ethnic group in the census’ history. Native people were excluded from the first 70 years under the U.S. Constitution, which explicitly regarded “Indians not taxed,” or those living on reservations or unsettled territories, as not countable. In more recent years, the U.S. Census Bureau’s own data has shown significant undercounting. In the 1990 census, 12.2 percent of Native people on reservations were undercounted, according to the Census Bureau’s findings. A decade later, the census seemed to improve, with the bureau not reporting a statistically significant undercount. But then in 2010, it jumped back up to 4.9 percent.

This is particularly devastating for Indigenous people because of how census data has been used to help determine many aspects of tribal sovereignty, such as tribal recognition and enrollment.

Full article here:

https://rewire.news/article/2019/12/09/paper-genocide-the-erasure-of-native-people-in-census-counts/