Friday, September 30, 2016

A red ball rolling

It was May of 2011. While making jewelry I would listen and peek at the computer: many biographies, history, quantum physics, the amazing Universe, or any program that would enrich my brain. Next, it was the documentary that would change it all for me: "The West" by Ken Burns.
Someone was about to show me something I had been waiting to know for a long time, like an initiation of some sort. 
Only two times before in my life had that happened:
Once, when I took a personal growth seminar when I was 18, and a second time, after surgery, in my twenties, when I had a very intense dream that showed me some significant information. This proved to be the third time.



Don't take me wrong, it's not like I didn't have a general idea of what happened with Native People, but the realization that my view was (and is) tinted and lacking information, made me ashamed. I started to see the world in a different way. How come I had heard so much of the Jewish Holocaust and not about the extermination of so many different tribes in the Americas? How come this information was not openly available? Had I not been paying attention? Wasn't I ready then? 
My brain couldn't stop the avalanche of thoughts and questions...                                                                                                                                        

I contemplated the imperfections of the human race, I experienced many different feelings and none of them were pretty, nor did I want to stay and linger in that for much longer. Nevertheless, I would be in for more heartbreak without knowing it yet.
Needless to say, I spent the next five days researching about Native People "today". Where were they? What were they doing? I mean, were there actually any Natives left alive?

Serendipity is a process where everything aligns at a certain point in time and space, intention comes forward, and thoughts and answers start taking place and manifesting physically. 

Three days after that door opened, my heart still sore and heavy from the just discovered "news", I received a call, letting me know that Arvol Looking Horse was in town. His daughter was finishing high school, and he and his family had come for a visit. This was a time when it was all so surreal, I didn't know what to make of it, when I knew that I had to look in, and dig deep to find out why this red ball was rolling towards me. 

We were casually invited to assist to "World Peace and Prayer Day"  in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, which would be taking place June 21st. 2012.  Just like that, I was embarking on one of the most enriching experiences of my life, without knowing why, it seemed a part of me knew, I just didn't.

Arvol and Paula Looking-Horse and me, 2012. 



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