The Living Weave At Our Feet

Autumn Forest Fungi Walks 

Whitaker Ponds, Powell Butte, Tryon Creek, Hoyt Arboretum

Portland, Oregon 

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Beaver Full Moon

"The Beaver Full Moon reminds us that wellness is collective and relational. Our beaver relatives shape water into safety, food, and home; their lodges and dams slow the rush and make room for life. This is a moon for remembering responsibilities—mending relationships, protecting wetlands, honoring the ones who kept these teachings alive. May we move like beaver: quiet, thorough, committed to the whole watershed." 

Stephanie Craig, Molly Leno

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Good Medicine, Strong Medicine

Lummi Nation master carver Jewell Praying Wolf James

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Rustling Leaves

Cautious, careful people always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be everything or nothing in the world's estimation. Susan B. Anthony

The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay. The thinker must think for truth, not for fame. W.E.B. Dubois

We were a lawless people, but we were on pretty good terms with the Great Spirit, creator and ruler of all. Tatanga Mani, or Walking Buffalo

Recommended Reading:

Touch the Earth, compiled by T.C. McLuhan; 1971

 Kaianere’kó:wa: The Great Law of Peace; Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederation