October 2010

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Some thoughts: Take the breath…

10/26/2010 in Intelligent Designing, Reflections & Discoveries, Thoughts, What Matters Most by Curt Siters | No comments

Stonehenge at dawn - take the breath of the new dawnBreath. It is life – for without it we could not be.

The feather that is attached to a dream catcher and hung over a baby is there to teach them about the importance of breath and remember as they grow older that one breath is sacred – a gift from our creator. It is there to also collect bad dreams (dreams that cause one to not breathe correctly) and disperse them into the dawn of the new day.

Dawn is a time of new beginnings, freshness and rebirth. A time to inhale and give thanks for all that we have been given and will receive. It is a time of power.

To breathe in the breath of dawn and make it part of you is to take into yourself the newness and the energy of the new day, to gain strength from that first breath of the day so that you can become one with all that surrounds you.

For the dawn of the new day gives strength to all living creatures and sharing it makes us all related.

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Take the breath…

10/25/2010 in Living in Beauty, Reflections & Discoveries, What Matters Most by Curt Siters | No comments

Hopi MotherTake the breath of the new dawn,

and make it part of you.

It will give you strength.

Hopi

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Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.  ~Albert Einstein

Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.  ~Standing Bear

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Some thoughts: We are of one mind…

10/19/2010 in Reflections & Discoveries, Thoughts, What Matters Most by Curt Siters | No comments

Mother Earth - We are of one mind

Being of one mind is a simple but powerful concept. It is to think in unison, though there may be differences.

Native peoples were aware that the health of the environment was reflected in the health of their body.

They also knew that the health of their body was reflected in the health of the environment.

By keeping in mind, though it may not have always been stated, the health of the environment when they made any decisions, they were able to keep both themselves and the environment fit and clean.

This concept lead to the formal declaration in laws of the Iroquois of “the Seventh Generation” whereby all decisions must consider the impact of that decision through to the seventh generation.

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Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.  ~Albert Einstein

Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.  ~Standing Bear

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We are of one mind…

10/18/2010 in Living in Beauty, Reflections & Discoveries, What Matters Most by Curt Siters | No comments

Chief Joseph - Nez PerceThe earth and myself are of one mind. The measure of the land and the measure of our bodies are the same.

Chief Joseph

(1830-1904)

Nez Perce

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Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.  ~Albert Einstein

Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.  ~Standing Bear

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Some thoughts: He fits into the landscape

10/12/2010 in Living in Beauty, Reflections & Discoveries, Thoughts, What Matters Most by Curt Siters | No comments

Small landscape with indians by Victor CassanelliFitting into the landscape is a lifestyle it is not a means of camouflage.

It means to be at peace and work with what is available to live your life.

You never take more than you need and you give back what you can so that life can continue.

You don’t consume as in today’s western way of thinking.

You think and live your life concerned for generations unconceived.

You think about how your actions affect the environment.

You are respectful to and honor all your relations – as the Lakota say: mitakuye oyasin.

You remember your roots, where you came from.

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Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.  ~Albert Einstein

Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.  ~Standing Bear

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He fits into the landscape

10/11/2010 in Living in Beauty, Old Ways, Reflections & Discoveries, What Matters Most by Curt Siters | No comments

Luther Standing Bear - Oglala Sioux ChiefThe American Indian is of the soil, whether it be the region of the forests, plains, pueblos or mesas. He fits into the landscape, for the hand that fashioned the continent also fashioned the man. He once grew as naturally as the wild sunflowers; he belongs just as the buffalo belonged…

Luther Standing Bear

(1868-1929)

Oglala Sioux Chief

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Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.  ~Albert Einstein

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Some thoughts: A relative I am!

10/06/2010 in Living in Beauty, Reflections & Discoveries, What Matters Most by Curt Siters | No comments

White Buffalo Calf WomanThe four quarters. The East, South, West and North.

From Black Elk Speaks: “…west where the thunder beings live to send us rain; …the north, whence comes the great white cleansing wind; …the east, whence springs the light and where the morning star lives to give men wisdom;… the south, whence come the summer and the power to grow.”

For any native culture these are very important and drive their daily and yearly life. These directions have power.

By declaring “A relative I am” one says that we are all related, we have kinship.

In this prayer you acknowledge that we, as human incarnates, are not all powerful and we need help sometimes and who better to ask for help from than a relative. In native societies the social structure and paradigms revolved around family and clan with each member doing their best to support the whole.

By acknowledging that we are related to all that surrounds us we are able to gain help and knowledge from everything we come into contact with.

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Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.  ~Albert Einstein

Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.  ~Standing Bear

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A relative I am!

10/05/2010 in Living in Beauty, Reflections & Discoveries, What Matters Most by Curt Siters | No comments

Black Elk, Oglala SiouxHear me, four quarters of the world -

a relative I am!

Give me the strength to walk the soft earth,

a relative to all that is!

Give me the eyes to see and the strength to understand,

that I may be like you.

With your power only can I face the winds.

Black Elk

(1863-1950)

Oglala Sioux

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Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.  ~Albert Einstein

Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.  ~Standing Bear

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Food Miles: the true cost of the food we buy

10/04/2010 in Cooking, Food, Gardening, Health, What Matters Most by Evelyn | No comments

A factory farm grain fieldThe term ‘embodied energy’ refers to the total amount of energy used at every stage of the manufacturing and transportation of a product. ‘Food Miles’ refers to the distance food travels, from where it is produced to the person who finally eats it. Food miles incorporates the issue of the use of non-renewable resources, such as fossil fuels, and the pollution caused in transporting food.

Regarding the ‘embodied energy’ part of food we must look back far… to the inception of the equipment and tools necessary to get the seed into the ground. The human hours and supplies that go into the design of the planting tractors, combines, harvesters, the delivery trucks, and the vehicle that ultimately gets you to the store where you purchase the food item or product to bring home; the metals, plastics, and rubber which goes into the manufacturing of these enormous machines. Wow! Already this ‘embodied energy’ is huge; and we haven’t even planted the seed in the plowed field laced with chemical fertilizers, pesticides and fungicides!

It seems to me the extraction of the raw materials and man-made chemicals that go into each of the different types of vehicles and machines, long before anything reaches the farm, has got to produce tons of pollution! Continue reading “Food Miles: the true cost of the food we buy” »

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