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Grandfather Says
Grandfather says: When you feel powerless, that’s because you stopped listening to your own heart, that’s where the power comes from.
— Gianni Crow
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I find myself longing to live like this — to live in a village where life’s simplicity was the tapestry of intimacy with the earth, where councils were held and elders were respected and we truly listened to each other especially to those with different opinions. It models a culture I wish I had more of in my life….
…The contrast between cultures is painful — the best of the Lakota and the darkest of those Americans who used the law and the military to destroy an entire people. It is a painful time of American history that causes me to weep every time I am face to face with this truth. I do not want to forget because as Noam Chomsky says, if we do not know our history, we are doomed to repeat it….
Weeping for the wrongs we have perpetrated on people does not diminish the fire of optimism that burns in my soul and in every cell of my body….I serve life and the healing and what I have seen and what I have borne witness to causes me to be a stand for more truth, more beauty, more justice and more goodness.
We must fall to our knees in awe and wonder and beauty even in the small things and cry when we are moved by life. We must be a stand for…
