December 2010
12 posts
This is Indian Country IX
“Stomp Dace...
This is Indian Country VIII
Check out this “Mount Rushmore”-esque monument to the REAL founding fathers…
NEVER FORGET
120 years ago today was one of the greatest displays of imperialism, greed and thievery every committed by this country. On December 29th, nearly 300 innocent Lakota men, women and children were massacred at Wounded Knee Creek.
For the whole story, read my earlier post on the Wounded Knee Massacre
This is Indian Country VI
After quite the hiatus from posting I figure it’s time for me to return to my Tumblr and - as promised - reveal the inspiration behind my blog title: The Medicine Wheel
The Lakota universe can be described as Mitakuye Oyasin, which means that everything in connected, interrelated and dependent in order to exist which is represented by a sacred circle. The colors Black, Yellow, Red and White...
Earth Album Alpha - (a slicker google maps +... →
One of my favorite web-sites that I return to again and again. Truthfully, it is just an interactive world map that, when a location is selected, produces an album of fantastic images
(suggested location: Iceland! Do ittt!)
Happy Birthdays
Many of you know how little emphasis I put on birthdays, essentially my own, under the argument that I’m “a day older than yesterday” and something along those lines. Today I received an email from SteepandCheap which sums my sentiments up very nicely although a bit creepily seeing as how it occurred the day after my own birthday…
Celebrating one’s own birthday is a...
Finals DOES actually teach me something...
wellthereyago:
It’s odd how being consumed by studying reignites a desire to recommit to things that I actually care about. Like…. *not* studying.
A Meditation
“Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea?” — Job 38:16
Some things in nature must remain a mystery to the most intelligent and enterprising investigators. Human knowledge has bounds beyond which it cannot pass. Universal knowledge is for God alone. If this be so in the things which are seen and temporal, I may rest assured that it is even more so in matters spiritual...
...on George MacDonald
(Scottish Christian author and poet who wrote many fairy tales and children’s stories and was a major influence on C.S. Lewis)
We have learned from Freud and others about those distortions in character and errors in thought which result from a man’s early conflicts with his father. Far the most important thing that we can know about George MacDonald is that his whole...