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I read this over a month ago, and was called to re-read it again today. Thank you for a wonderful piece!
I am copying the poem into my journal to remind me to follow my name. After years of studying, taking courses and feeling that I didn’t quite know enough yet, I found the line “Apprentice yourself to your self’ and “follow this trail to the horizon of your own vision” to be the prayer flag I needed to start the new year.
Thank you for a wonderfully written and inspiring piece.
Betty
Hi Betty, Thank you for your reflections. I am glad it was helpful.
Bright Blessings!
Kedar
My adoptive mother, Lenora Pretty Weasel – Apsaalooké/Oglala Sioux gave me my Apsaalooké/Crow name, ”itche Iichiile”, Good Horse would be the English translation with the supporting story rooted during the “Buffalo Days”.
While I enjoyed your story of “Singing Stone” my take away was focused on your explanation on how to approach a Medicine story and how/where to find your personal medicine within the story.
“Before I tell you this story, it’s important to know that the point of a good medicine story is not that it be understood; for if a story is completely understood, it is considered dead and has nothing more to teach you. Stories are living and breathing entities. The point of any good story is to notice where your attention enters the story for the first time, or where your attention stays fixed in the story even though the story moves forward; or where your attention leaves the story and where it travels to after that. It is at these thresholds moments in a story that you will find the coded messages for your own clarity and healing.”
A’ho!
Forrest Good Horse
Forest Good Horse,
Thank you for your refections and sharing. I hear in your words below that the place you entered the article was the place of conscious awareness of how and where one enters stories and what happens once they enter… the living relationship to story. In a way I think of name “Good Horse” as one who carries the medicine of keen awareness of various trails that can be followed. I hope to you and I meet down one of those trails one day. May the name you carry be one the carries you into a life that is blessing to all your relations both in this world and in the other.
Bright River Blessings!
Kedar… Lightening Bear White~Hart