Thanksgiving

Thirty-three years and counting

My children. From then to now.

Thanksgiving, we still love each other, We still like each other. We still share a meal with each other whether together but always in the heart.

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The 334th Anniversary of William Penn's Treaty with the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape People

"by deeds of peace"

The Friends of Penn Treaty Park celebrated the 334th anniversary of the of the signing of the unbroken peace treaty. A small group gather around the great-great grandchild of the original Peace Elm under which the peace treaty was made in 1682.
The Reverend John Norwood, the founding Pastor of Ujima Village Christian Church,  is a Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Councilman and Judge and also serves as the government liaison for the Confederation of Sovereign Nanticoke-Lenape Tribes, which is a union of the three interrelated tribal nations of Nanticoke and Lenape people remaining in the area of the Delaware Bay.
Reverend Norwood delivered a heart felt speech of the meaning of the oneness of all people and the Earth. He lead all in attendance in a blessing of this noble truth "by deeds of peace."
This blessing comes through prayer and the sacred use of tobacco. Tobacco, a herb, has the quality of being able to absorb. When made into a poultice, it can absorb toxins out of a rash or bug bite.  When you pray with it, it absorbs your prayers. And when smoked, the smoke carries your prayers up to the Creator.
Hold a pinch of tobacco between the first three fingers of your hand, say your prayer, then open your fingers and let the tobacco fall to the ground. Don’t toss it, let it fall. The nature spirits will then work on fulfilling that prayer.
“White people misused tobacco, the sacred medicine of the native people, and it made them sick.  When native people misused white peoples’ medicine, the sacred wine of the mass, it became their undoing.”
We must respect one another’s medicines.

We must respect our different worldly cultures.

The sharing of the sacred tobacco

The blessing and prayer

Barbara Morehead founder of the Friends of Penn Treaty Park along with Reverend John Norwood standing at the site of  great-great grandchild of the original Peace Elm 

Children enjoyed coloring nature's related picture of this event and made a necklace of the Turtle Symbol

Reading for an in-depth history introduction to the Lenni Lenape or Delaware Indians courtesy of  the Penn Treaty Museum.

words and pictures by roman blazic_all rights reserved

sacred tobacco sourced from Molly Larkin 

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A funny thing happened

I was approached by a person today who has been reading my blog. This person commented that my Veteran's Day post was very thought provoking and had much depth of feeling. They also said that hearing the actual song surprised them because it was well composed. They strongly advised me that I should have someone who could properly perform it. 

I replied that I did the best that I can and that next time maybe I shouldn't produce a video in high-defamation. 

We both had a good laugh.

such is life by roman blazic_all rights reserved

Veteran's Day

Coming home is not so easy for some

"Finding the Place of the Heart"

Deep into the heart

Deep  into the part

I'm falling away from love

Day into the night

night into the day

I'm calling to you, my heart

When you're near I feel your warmth

I can feel you breathe

Don't ask why I need to know I'm alive

Tether me I'm blind but see

I'm falling as I fly

Finding the place of the heart

Finding the place of the heart

words and music by roman blazic_all rights reserved
i did the best i can to honor a request