I know I fail on the blogging front.  I have been so busy living life in Silverton that blogging this summer has taken a major back seat.  As earlier mentioned I’ve been hiking, jogging, and enjoying the beauty of this place as much as I can. I wake up go to breakfast and take to the mountains for some powerful empathic communing with Mother and her creatures.  I have to say that I am missing Thankful Thursday. What I am really missing is the euphoria that stays with me through the day from being so thankful and experiencing the feel of it so thoroughly through my body, mind and spirit. So yes I’m about to embark on another flurry of Thankful Thursdays.

Simrat, a good friend, posted a video on Facebook that grabbed me and set me off to contemplate on something I have grappled with for many years.   I have always believed that every person had the ability to communicate empathically, only figured they just didn’t tap into it for whatever reason. Having spent nearly all of my life living empathically, communicating with animal kingdom beings mostly, but also occasionally if not fleetingly with people as well, it always amazes me how few people embrace it.  Horses and other animals I have known taught me how.   I’m so connected to them intellectually and spiritually through empathy that there really is no need for verbal  communication.  In fact I find empathic communication to be the truest sense of communication.

I miss it!

It’s a void here for me other than visiting with Cookie the guinea pig and Dragon the bearded dragon, or someones occasional dog or cat.  There is one person in town who is empathic in a powerful way but does not use it in any beneficial way.  You can feel the empathic nature of another person and see it as well. It is either there or it isn’t, and when it is there the connection is unmistakeable. I have found myself  strongly attracted to this person and wanting to immerse myself in silent communication with them.  But it’s pretty one sided and not going to happen.  They are not aware of their special connection.  It saddens me to find these lost people, who are missing out on a much deeper experience in life

Recently I have reconnected with an old friend who is also empathic, they have a powerful connection and do communicate on an earthly level with other living beings.  This person was strongly connected with me through my horses many years ago that created a certain bond. This reunion as brought back some powerful memories of a time when the majority of my communication was done silently between me and a horse while being around a certain few people who wanted to tap into their own ability.

As my regular readers know, I’ve been broken where  horses are concerned.  I’ll be reunited with them soon, as I’ll be visiting my reconnected friend in a couple months.  It will be wonderful to see him again after so many years, but  I’m petrified to see his horses, one of which I was strongly connected to. The thought though of passing through that veil into a world of empathic bliss is intoxicating.  A dangerous place for a empathaholic. Yet exhilarating!  Being with my friend again will be so perfect, but being with the horses… I don’t know yet.  When I think about it tears seep from my eyes and wash down my face.  Pro will be coming home next summer, and somehow I have to find a way to engage him empathically without fear.  I’m not going back over how I got here – read the blog you’ll learn.

I am so thankful for the reconnect with my friend from the past, all the possibilities we are seeking to explore in the future, and the opening back up of that door to an empathic communication with life.  We have a song.  “Start All Over” by Tracy Chapman.  This song applies to our   journey, my friend and I… but also to everyone and the world in general.  It says it all, and this particular video is amazing to listen to…

Tracy is just the most beautiful woman!

(Paris 1998 – Tracy Chapman)

Here is the video that Simrat posted on Facebook that sent me off  on this reminiscence of empathic connection with life.  Its amazingly accurate in  my book.

(RSA Animate – 21st century enlightenment )

I agree with many of the thoughts in this video – that humanity can recreate their situation if they reunite with a common empathy.  I believe humanity if collectively empathic with their Mother and each other can have a New Beginning.

I believe my friend and I will soar this time around. You know why? Because all we have to do is be presently empathic for one another and set our egos aside. Something we both understand and seek.  To experience a kinder, gentler more compassionate life for the better of both.  Being on the same Red Road is an amazing way to journey through life with a friend.

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This is how we humans should live with our fellow Brothers and Sisters of Mother Earth.  This woman is truly Walking The Red Road and living in the light of White Medicine.

AHO

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Great Grandson tells how One Bull was blamed by Lakota people for the demise of Sitting Bull and the Lakota people.

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Something from me…  where the wild horse issues are concerned the answer is not slaughter.  Not mass slaughter for certain. Ethical behavior is the answer.  Not every horse will live out his life as in every other species including mankind, someone will parish.  Mass murder of a species is not the answer to government issues, wild life issues, grazing and rancher issues, pipeline for a greener America issues.  Creating a sustainable environment that addresses those issues and the habitats of wild horses is the answer.  When we elected our President  and Representatives and Senators to lead America toward a greener world, we did not elect him or them to murder our horses to do it.

The “Government” does not own those horses.  We “THE PEOPLE” of America do not own those horses, “MOTHER EARTH” owns them.  They are her children.  Stop killing the children!

AHO

“WILD HORSES” – by: Mike “Hawk” Huston (excerpt from Bulls and Beavers)

Captain Smith slows his tired gelding to a stop. Every man and horse in his regiment is either tired or nearly broken. For the life of him, he cannot figure how the savages and their wild horses can consistently outrun and outmaneuver his highly trained and conditioned men and military stock. For ten years, he has chased, tracked, and pursued the savages, and never once has he caught a lone warrior… even on open ground. Maybe instead of shooting the Indian ponies at every opportunity the army should consider commissioning the wild stock and using them for troop movement. Never! He and his regiment would be the laughing stock of the western army…

A modern victim of wild horse slaughter as seen “Straight From The Horses Heart:

Mike Hawk Huston continues…

Today, the wild mustang is still wild and free upon the western plains and mountains; but who can say for how much longer. Their habitat is under attack by those wishing to use the land to graze cattle, sheep, as well as those hoping to open the wild horse habitat for oil exploration. Often times the majestic wild mustang is viewed as vermin by those wishing to profit from their home range. I do not begrudge the rancher for needing graze for their cattle, nor the oilfields for drilling American oil. The media would like everyone to believe that the horses are in need of a drastic decrease because of overpopulation. The truth is, their home range is being taken away so quickly and loss of food sources on crucial winter range to overgrazing is causing the wild mustang to have to fight for survival within their own designated habitat…

(The entire story can be found at Bulls and Beavers)

Livelihoods at stake…

Toas Art School – Wild Horse Photography

Now for some more FANTASTIC (these are must see) images of wild horses by another Photographer check out the link Naturescapes – Wild Mustangs of the Rockies

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Using myself (my life’s experience) as a measure of how to obtain balance and breath in happiness every day including fulfillment in the life being lived, the secret I believe is in simplicity.  Also humility, lack of greed, stayed pride (checking ones pride into submission), along with a conscience effort to be gentle. Not just being gentle to each other and not just to the world at large, but specifically to Mother. Allowing good judgement to over-ride poor judgement.   

Many times poor judgement is powered by “I want it to be – So I’ll make it be”.  An absolute walk down the Black Path. Bolstered by ” I can make it be so if I try hard enough”.  Not that having goals, dreams and desires is bad. They are not and we should strive toward making them come true.   True?  That is the pivotal point of this discussion.  What is true for the Black Road is an illusion. We never see it coming until it hits us usually knocking us down changing everything as we know it.  We worked so hard for it too.  For most Walking The Red Road means giving up the illusion of what we think we want.  With that sacrifice comes peace creating genuine fulfillment. With it the Red Road appears luminous before us.

My estimation of the Red Road or the correct Path to walk is many things:

1) we choose to walk it.

2) we were born to walk it.

3) we were forced upon it.

Explanation: We choose to make correct decisions based on living a humble and simple life choosing to be stewards of Mother and each other and all creatures.  It is believed that he Red Road is our destiny. That we were born to walk it and that we many times fall off of it.  This I believe is true. Many times we walk paths that we believe we are meant to walk only find that they come to an abrupt cliff edge leaving us teetering or falling into the depths. Why? Because those Paths were only meant to prepare us for the true Red Road. Sometimes we find ourselves walking Paths we did not choose for ourselves and again they end abruptly at some point  forcing us to finally make a choice against opposing forces striving to make that choice for us. Bottom line is we have choices…

A message from “Republic of Lakotah”

The RED ROAD vs The Black Road

There are many roads in life, but there are two that are important; the Red Road and the Black Road. They represent good and bad in every one’s life. It’s the two choices people have to make frequently in life. The Red Road is the good way, the good side, and the right choice. It is a road that is difficult with dangers and obstacles that are hard to travel on. The Black Road is the bad way, the bad side, and the wrong choice. The Black Road is wide and easy to travel. The Red Road and the Black Road appear in our lives not as roads but as the personifications of right and wrong, good and bad, light and dark.

The Lakota never were known to accumulate material goods. It was never done in pursuit of wealth; it was done to get around hard times or to help someone who ran short. Generosity has its rewards. The lack of it has its consequences. It was not practical for a nomadic people to accumulate too much because it only meant more to haul when the camp moved, which could be up to three or four times a year. The more you owned, the more you hauled. 

Truth is the marker along the roads we travel in life. The Red Road has many markers. If you choose the Black Road, there is only the illusion of truth. We can be influenced by the truth or by illusion. Sometimes truth is like the wind.  You cannot see it, but you can see the effect it has. Truth is also like the sunrise and sunset. We see the sun come up over the eastern horizon in the morning and then disappear behind the western horizon in the evening.  From the perspective of our existence on a spinning globe, the sun appears to “rise” and “set.” In reality the sun does neither. Living a humble and giving life keeps one on the path of the Red Road…

Continued here

Something to think about.  How we live our lives and the consequences of those choices and of those lives lived.

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AHO

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And for our first message from the WakanTanka…

Aho

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