Loretta Afraid of Bear Cook is Oglala Lakota and describes her purpose as: “living by her women teachers’ sacred instructions: wahwoptetusni (to be uniquely steadfast), shakica (to be physically strong and beautiful), and wagluhtapi (to offer sacred food in ceremony).” For 30 years she has participated in the Sun Dance, her people’s annual four-day ceremony of intensive prayer through fasting and ritualized dance. Because her family was one of the […]
Annette Gagliardi | Ancient heart
The Italian writer Carlo Levi said: “The future has an ancient heart.” feed your self unspeakable moments spent in anguish whatever happens: terrible, beautiful, interesting, frightening suckle and consume them feed them to yourself let them nurture and sustain you allow surcease to ease through the cold and snow below ground in tunnels and caves in the clouds continue your examination— the contradictions of human motivations, the complexities of desires […]
Susie Gharib | Ancient wisdom
We’ve always taken pride in family names in coats of arms in crests in shields but what have we learned from ancestral heritage, the sages of the past, the wisdom of the ancients? So much anger is strangulating the globe who pays heed to Seneca for whom anger is more pernicious to the receptacle in which it’s stored than to anything on which it’s poured! In a world of babbling […]
John C. Mannone | Selected poems
Soul Beat I want to hear Jesus, I want to hear Jesus rap, I want to hear Jesus rap to a hymn about Him and I don’t mean that Mexican man I’m listening to on the radio who has the same first name. I do not want to hear Jesus rap in my car in private as I ride to the church, but I want to hear Him, dear and […]
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