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Medicine Wheel Ceremony & Flag Offerings for the West Direction

The Medicine Wheel I go to is located in Stoney Park, 30-45 minutes outside of Calgary, Alberta... It was laid out in 1987 under the instruction of Albert Lightening, a respected Elder from Hobbema, Alberta. My husband helped make the Medicine Wheel... We had just been married the day before in a traditiional wedding ceremony... Each time I go do ceremony at the Medicine Wheel site, I am so greatful that we have something so sacred as this to go to... to talk to Creator.. I go at each changing… Continue

Added by SkyBlue on November 8, 2009 at 3:30pm — No Comments

Ojibwa Prayer

Ojibwa Prayer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEBvo8Y4ZIY

Ojibwa Prayer..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEBvo8Y4ZIY

(don't know how to connect the video to my blog...)

Added by SkyBlue on September 17, 2009 at 8:00pm — No Comments

Honouring Indian Residential School Survivors

I have been requesting honor songs at any major aboriginal event since the anniversary of the Prime Minister's Apology on June 11, 2008... so here are the honorings I was able to achieve:

June 11, 2009 Fort Calgary, Alberta Prime Minister's Apology anniversary - pipe ceremony and honor song by Louis Moves Camp drum group

June 15, 2009 Calgary, Alberta Homeless Lunch - pipe ceremony and honor song by Lawrence Houle

June 18, 2009 Calgary, Alberta City of Calgary Aboriginal… Continue

Added by SkyBlue on July 23, 2009 at 5:00pm — No Comments

National Day of Reconciliation - Manitoba Member of Parliament

Larry Kusch Winnipeg Free Press 12/06/2009

People gather at Memorial Park Thursday to celebrate the one-year

anniversary of the federal government's public apology to First Nations.

(MIKE.APORIUS@FREEPRESS.MB.CA)

Manitoba teachers will have greater resources this fall to teach grades 9

and 11 students about residential schools, Education Minister Peter

Bjornson told several hundred people marking the first anniversary Thursday

of Prime Minister… Continue

Added by SkyBlue on June 11, 2009 at 6:00pm — No Comments

June 11, 2009 - National Day of Reconciliation - British Columbia Premier

Sarah Douziech, Westerly News, Thursday, June 11, 2009

Premier Gordon Campbell urged British Columbians to consider the part

reconciliation with First Nations peoples can play in developing positive

future relationships, to mark the federal government's historic apology to

residential school survivors made a year ago today.

Campbell said the apology made last year by Prime Minister Stephen Harper

was a beginning, not an end to the reconciliation… Continue

Added by SkyBlue on June 11, 2009 at 6:00pm — No Comments

June 11, 2009 - National Day of Reconciliation - Anglican Church of Canada

Anglican Church of Canada, June 11, 2009

A year ago today, the Prime Minister of Canada rose in the House of Commons

to make a apology on behalf of all Canadians to the survivors of Indian

Residential Schools. He acknowledged that the policy of assimilation of

Aboriginal Peoples was wrong and expressed remorse for the many abuses

suffered by those who attended the residential schools. “There is,” he

said, “no place in Canada for the attitudes that inspired… Continue

Added by SkyBlue on June 11, 2009 at 6:00pm — 1 Comment

Sunrise Ceremony for Indian Residential School Survivors - June 11, 2009

CBC News, Thursday, June 11, 2009

A sunrise ceremony was held in Ottawa Thursday to mark the one-year anniversary of the federal government's historic apology to residential school victims.

The ceremony was one of many planned across the country, which brought politicians, aboriginal leaders and residential school survivors together to mark both the anniversary and the relaunch of Canada's Truth and

Reconciliation Commission.

The commission was formed to… Continue

Added by SkyBlue on June 11, 2009 at 6:00pm — No Comments

National Day of Reconciliation for Indian Residential School Survivors - June 11, 2009

By Jorge Barrera, Canwest News Service June 11, 2009

OTTAWA — Assembly of First Nations National Chief Phil Fontaine walked

beside Indian Affairs Minister Chuck Strahl on Thursday as they led a

procession of about 1,000 aboriginals, students, union workers and church

officials to the steps of Parliament Hill to mark the first anniversary of

Prime Minister Stephen Harper's apology for residential schools.

On the steps, Fontaine held an eagle feather and… Continue

Added by SkyBlue on June 11, 2009 at 6:00pm — No Comments

Prayers from a Tibetan Child Monk

Received a letter from the Tibetan child monk in south India..... Here is a portion of his message:

"I am very happy to know from our tour group monks who were in Canada stating that I have been selected under your goodself kind guardian sponsor for my studies. So, I would like to pay my hearty thanks to you and from my side, I will do prayers for you and your family members to be a good health, long life and with successful one. Here I am quite fine and doing my studies well, especially… Continue

Added by SkyBlue on May 14, 2009 at 9:30pm — No Comments

Do It Anyway by Mother Theresa

DO IT ANYWAY

People are often unreasonable

illogical and self-centered

Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind

people may accuse you of selfish ulterior motives

Be kind anyway.

If you are successful

you will win some false friends and true enemies

Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and frank

people may cheat you

Be honest anyway.

What you spend years building

someone could destroy… Continue

Added by SkyBlue on April 6, 2009 at 8:00pm — No Comments

Druid Prayer for Spring Equinox

Spring equinox is celebrated by druids every where, so Earth Children have put this event together for people to join in as if at a druid ceremony. First off, once in a circle at a druid ceremony they call the Quarters. This is where the druid taking the ceremony calls the directions one at a time, is there peace in the north, the repose is yes there is peace in the north……. This carries on till all four directions are called, this is included this in the following prayer.

PEACE… Continue

Added by SkyBlue on March 22, 2009 at 6:00pm — No Comments

Nechi Friends

Friends: say hello

Nechi Friends: shake your hand and give you a hug

New Friends: want you to make an appointment to visit them

Nechi Friends: say the door is always open

Friends: knock on your door

Nechi Friends: walk in and say “we’re here”

Friends: Never have to ask for food, you will feed them..

Nechi Friends: are the reason you have no food..

Friends: Eat at your dinner table, then leave

Nechi Friends: spend hours visiting after… Continue

Added by SkyBlue on March 21, 2009 at 9:35pm — No Comments

Random Acts of Kindness

I read somewhere that when you perform a Random Act of Kindness you release seratonin (the hormone that tells us that all is well in the world) in the brain..... And the people that you are giving Ramdom Acts of Kindness feel good...... And, people seeing the Ramdon Acts of Kindness also get the same effect.... So, I have started noticing Random Acts of Kindness and how many people one Random Act of Kindness would benefit..

Here is one of my Random Acts of Kindness: In a movie line… Continue

Added by SkyBlue on March 20, 2009 at 9:00pm — 1 Comment

8000 Drums Ceremony - June 21, 2009 (Sunday)

Please join the 8,000 Drums Ceremony. Inviting people, agencies and organizations to gather at 12:00 noon June 21, 2009 to drum and sing a prayer song for the Earth. A 500 year old Otomi prophecy: When 8000 sacred drums sound together, an intense healing of Mother Earth will begin. All My Relations..

I have four hand drums and will be seeking helpers to help me sing honor songs on that day no matter where I am...
All My Relations

Added by SkyBlue on March 8, 2009 at 7:30pm — No Comments

Prayer Meditation with Tibetan Monks

The last two days, March 7th & 8th, I was very honored to participate in prayer meditations led by five Tibetan monks exhiled in India at the Zongkar Choede Monastery.

“The Zongkar Choede Monastery is historically one of the oldest monasteries in Tibet. It was established in western Tibet in 1270 by the Tibetan king Tri-bum-de-gon. The monastery became a thriving spiritual community in western Tibet and emerged as on of the largest repositories of Tibetan folk and monastic art,… Continue

Added by SkyBlue on March 8, 2009 at 5:30pm — No Comments

Circle Hug in Tuscon Arizona

My best friend reminded me of the time we did a circle hug in Tuscon, Arizona.. She said she uses it as a teaching to people in workshops, in sharing circles..

After a four day conference, about seven of us had become quiet close.. we headed to Bear Canyon for a walk to the Seven Sacred Falls.. Upon arriving there, I made tobacco offerings and sang a stone song to the stone plateaus of the Seven Sacred Falls.. The song resounded off the stone canyon walls of Bear Canyon.. This was an… Continue

Added by SkyBlue on February 14, 2009 at 7:30pm — No Comments

Habitat for Humanity - Day 3 (Jan 31/09)

Today, I helped work on a house that was almost ready for floor covering, so this was good.. seeing a house that is almost ready for finishing.. Started at 8:45 a.m. after the Habitat Safety meeting with the Construction Manager where we reviewed the safety risk assessment and were told the jobs that needed to be done that day.. Two guys arrived late to the Safety meeting, but got us all humoured up as they were wearing painter pants and white t-shirts. They had never painted before, but they… Continue

Added by SkyBlue on January 31, 2009 at 5:00pm — No Comments

Habitat for Humanity - Day 2 (Jan 24/09)

Okay, so I didn’t pound any nails today either… After the Safety meeting with the construction manager who also gave us the jobs for the day, we were split into three teams… I was in the only painting crew and painted with a roller brush using an extender pole to get at the lofty walls up the stairs into the living room area.. started painting at 9:00 am and finished at 3:30 p.m. .. painted the den, bathroom, main hallway into the entrance of the house (duplex) and the stairwells… painted the… Continue

Added by SkyBlue on January 24, 2009 at 5:00pm — No Comments

Habitat for Humanity - Day 1 (Jan 17/09)

The Habitat for Humanity site overlooks the deerfoot off 16th Avenue NE.. there is a row of 4 duplex houses (8 houses in all), each painted differently on the outside. Each of the houses have been funded for materials by different businesses..

So.... I didn’t pound nails today.. I painted with a roller brush.. started painting at 9:00 am and finished at 3:15 p.m. .. painted three upstairs bedrooms with a woman who was getting one of the Habitat houses… also painted the bathroom which… Continue

Added by SkyBlue on January 17, 2009 at 5:00pm — No Comments

The Secret

“An unlimited supply of ideas is available to you. All knowledge, discoveries, and inventions are in the Universal Mind as possibilities waiting for the human mind to draw them forth. You hold everything in your consciousness.” (The Secret)

“Praise and bless everything in the world, and you willl dissolve negativity and discord and align yourself with the highest frequency - love.” (The Secret)

“We will never run out of good things because there’s more than enough to go… Continue

Added by SkyBlue on December 31, 2008 at 11:30pm — No Comments