Sand Talking

 Thanks to Beth at Alive On All Channels who introduced me to Sand Talk on her blog.

Trees Moved By Summer Wind / Mandala #62 (left hand)

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This may or may not be finished.  I'm 99.9% certain that it is.  I wish that my camera could show this mandala's true colors -- the way it looks to me as I sit at my drawing table.  This will have to be good enough until I get it professionally scanned.

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Your culture is not what your hands touch or make -- it's what moves your hands.

(Tyson Yunkaporta, page 242 of Sand Talk)

Further on / More of one thing leading to another / The Sand Talks / Gratitude

 

I want to thank Beth at Alive On All Channels for introducing me to so many sources of wisdom through the world's diverse traditions that communicate through books, visual arts, theater, dance, music, and often through oral tradition written down.  Most recently Beth has been posting excerpts from Tyson Yunkaporta's Sand Talk:  How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World.  I had just begun reading a copy that came from our public library when I learned about the concept of walking the spirits of the 215 children home through this YouTube channel which has its source in the Lummi Nation, located 30 minutes from where I live in Washington State.

We are all just walking each other home -- Ram Dass.