had begun during the night and then into morning and just going.  Thunder that stays,  rolls and rolls and rolls around into itself and back to begin again.   I have never known thunder like this before.

 

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from early this morning.  Now,  more.  More Sky Water than from the whole of the monsoon season during the summer…in 2 days,  maybe even just in this one day.

 

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Tay loves the muck boots

 

 

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Today,  November 4,  2016  the Paris Climate agreement enters into Force.  

Today on Democracy Now there is an interview with Amy Ray and Emily Saliers,  Indigo Girls….there is the name of the man who is CEO and owner of the pipeline that pushes to enter Standing Rock land.  We have a name of a person.  A place to send a LETTER.  Kelcy Warren CEO and owner of Energy Transfer Partners.   Owner of Cherokee Creek Music Festival.  There is confusion in this man's heart and where there is confusion,  change can take hold.

 

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Came out in 2004.   Probably the book most needed in this country of the US of A.  And i thought about the buddhist term…karma ripening…and thought about how maybe that's exactly what it is.  There are so many ways to talk about these days,  but maybe this is what makes most sense to me.  A collective karma here,  in this country?

So i went to UTube and watched and listened to all those things that i love and loved so much when i had to drive the long drive on Sundays years ago.  How on my way home i would listen to Native America Calling and turn up the volume loud and rip down that freeway watching the land to left and right,  rims,  and how the singing and drumming were such natural sounds to what i saw.  Black Lodge Singers…Crow Hop,  Northern Cree Smilin,  and even the most loved dorky NDN car,  Keith Secola.  It's all falling into place,  even the horrible confusion of the election…that kaleidascope  thing.  There will be so much WORK to do once the mess of the election is finally over.  WORK to do.  Nothing will be Over,  it will be just Beginning.

 

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14 responses to “day of Thunder”

  1. Irene Avatar
    Irene

    Such expressive eyes…true windows to the soul.

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  2. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    Nothing will be over….. such a sad commentary …. scary!!

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  3. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    LOVE those boots…and the new drawing is intriguing. Looks like a being wearing a bird mask, or perhaps a bird being with sharp eyes. The line is lovely.
    Yes-Indigo girls AND Jackson brown and many more musicians have stood up against ‘that man’ siting the pipeline–http://www.democracynow.org/2016/11/3/i_do_not_play_for_oil
    Partial Lyrics….”Which side? The corporations attacking The natural world – drilling and fracking All done with the backing of the craven and corrupt Or the ones who fight For the Earth with all their might And in the name of all that’s right Confront and disrupt”–“Who owns the elections? Who profits either way? Who ends up with all that money politicians pay? To be the fearless leader, to put themselves across To be the one entrusted with the profit and the loss You try hard to believe that when you cast your vote it counts But elections are won with money in ever larger amounts Take the money out of politics and maybe we might see This country turn back into something more like democracy.” and the song: https://youtu.be/jLVF_j3a7xY
    I think it’s never over (the power struggles) even when we think it is.

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  4. jude Avatar

    right, do we look to all these fools for a solution?
    these latest drawing keep reminding me of the first email you sent me.

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  5. Mo Crow Avatar

    love the drawing Crow Woman

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  6. Mo Crow Avatar

    love the drawing Crow Woman

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  7. Dakotah Avatar

    Yes, there is such a thing as collective karma…and history repeating itself…nothing new under the sun. And with a new “leader” it will be more of the same, a forcing of will onto the people. Thanks for the name. There is power in that. Hopefully, power to change. A lot of healing needs to happen for things to be good again. I have faith in that.

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  8. grace Avatar

    everything begins with eyes for me

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  9. grace Avatar

    but it’s OK, i think. I think we have come into a time
    where instead of assuming that THEY will take care of
    everything, we are in a time when we all are needing
    to participate. Each in place, in our own ways. We are
    all needing to speak.
    So much going on with grass roots effort.

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  10. grace Avatar

    i don’t think it can be “over” any more. i think we need
    to become more active with personal responsibility and
    that ‘s a Good thing

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  11. grace Avatar

    we look to them because we are lazy and want things to
    go one and on with no inconvenience.
    you know…i don’t remember having sent a drawing then…
    don’t know what i might have been.

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  12. grace Avatar

    the beak got better

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  13. grace Avatar

    it’s up to “the people”.
    it will take Work.
    and i have faith in that too.

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