Woke up at 6:30a. greeted the sun. peeled cedar while waiting for b-fast. Went up to arbor after b-fast. Got coal buckets, started smudging. Then the dancers pierced; toni, cathy, bill, big jim, john, troy, chuck. Chuck took 4 pulls before he broke free from the tree. Toni didn’t break from the tree, so bill and patsy had to pull the ( Read more... )

Went home for football game last night. Game was cancelled due to lightening. Took Rachel out to dinner, ate at IHOP. Then we went to her house… we sat in her sunroom and watched the storm… was so beautiful. Felt good to hold her in my arms. Woke up, ate b-fast went back to bill and patsy’s for recreation. Rained whole way there. Got to my ( Read more... )

Just now, vision came of tree-person and turtle walking around arbor. Both looking for a new home. The turtle thinks it found the new home, but tree-person doesn’t like turtle, so tree-person chases turtle away from that spot in the arbor. Outside at the gate in east stands wolf. Wolf is angry that tree-person is being unkind to turtle. At ( Read more... )

At home thinking about dancers and arbor. When they danced today, the first round (the one that I saw) there were skeletons dancing behind each of the dancers. And another skeleton for each one of the drummers and singers. It wasn’t as if they were chasing the dancers, but more as if they were dancing along with them, participating with them.

Fire watch last night. From 3a-4a before that, woke up Bo @ 1:45. he’s getting better… I think he’s starting to see more of the big picture. Woke up this morning @ 8:45. Bo and I peeled cedar for later today. Then had b-fast around 10a. changed into regalia, went on top of hill. Started smudging… was smudging all day. Have lost a lot of ( Read more... )

Dancers came to bless sweat lodge. Then went to open and bless arbor, stomp down grass and such. At this point, dancers are sequestered for weekend; no food, no talking to main camp. Only line of communication is a system of runners/ cedar people. Ate dinner, was ok (cold cuts, soup, chips, cookies) dancers ate w/ main camp… surprising because ( Read more... )

Woke up around 8:45a. Waited for everyone else to get moving. Between 10a-11:30a set up canopies throughout camp. Interesting because when needed help w/ lifting and such, all sorts of people were standing around but no one was quick to help, even when asked. When setting up canopies near arbor/ arena: could definitely feel positive energy. ( Read more... )

In Pa for recreation ceremony; left john and Cindy’s @ 6:30p. drove to BK to eat. On highway (rt. 680) by 6:45. arrived @ bill and patsy’s by 8:30p. set camp @ 9:00p. 10:30p started making prayer ties for village. Gilletta, Bo, Cindy, & I made prayer ties ’til 1:10a. smoked new corncob pipe filled with some of john’s kinnick- kinnick. ( Read more... )

I’m at Rachel’s soccer game vs. what was supposed to be Ursuline, but they don’t have a JV team; so, the Struthers varsity team came instead. It’s the second half of the game ( Read more... )

i wrote two letters tonight, well, this morning. one to tristan, and one to autumn. the subject for this post is a line in autumn's letter. this line is especially meaningful because of it's hilarity. it is hilarious because it is ironic. last night 5/3/04 around 10pm, after we had just gotten done burning a calculus book in the fireplace ( Read more... )