Fist-Fight at the Sunrise Ceremony, circa 1996. Okay,there wasn’t any fist fight. Not out loud. Not with physical fists. But, i wager that, on some level, it looked just like a fist fight. What it was billed as was an interfaith ceremony. I was attending because i was working, at that time, with a Traditional…
Month: June 2015
Skirt: the Issue – Part One
Illegal religions make for subterranean ways of saying things. That’s the only way these religions can survive. And sadly, just as humans exhibit a natural pull toward organising our spiritual lives, we seem to find it al too easy to make the jump from sharing and coordinating our impulse to acknowledge Deity, to proscribing the…
Washing the World: TRC Offering
To mark the release today of the report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, in honour of the best in all of us: Washing the World In the dark in the bitter wind listen to a dream in which grandmothers stand shoulder to shoulder, on the rim of a hill and bend as one,…
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