It seems like only yesterday that I heard you laugh, only yesterday that I saw your smile. But then sometimes it seems like it’s been forever and the only constant … is how much I miss you. No, Mom, I promise. I don’t cry all the time anymore. I am passed that. More often […]
Excuse the expression, but … it never ceases to amaze me how often non- Natives fight back their tears. If you have the instinct to do something as natural as crying, why in GOD’s NAME would you fight it? Anishinaabe know to cry is to heal. We know that the longer you hold in […]
You have heard me say it before, life is a river. There are beautiful trees and calm, amazingly clear waters, rapids, and waterfalls. Rough water is not a personal attack on you, or Creator trying to stall your progress. It simply ‘is’ but today I realized the second ‘layer’ (if you will) to this […]
I didn’t know that the last time I yelled, “It’s time to get up.” That it was the last time because now you are old enough to decide When to get up on your own. I didn’t know that the last time you went off with your friends That you weren’t coming back because […]
Sandi’s story followed a path all too common for Indigenous women, a path that included career success while hiding the violence, poverty, and alcoholism that rocked her family to their core.