""... And one good thing about our culture, we don't die ..."

Elders / Spiritual Friends / High School Class of 2021

It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.

-- His Holiness the Dalai Lama

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Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world. 

--Archbishop Desmond Tutu

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We, the Sehome class of 2021, are children of uncertainty.  We've spent the last four years of our life with question marks and what ifs clouding our skies, and we've embraced every minute of it.  We navigated life as teenagers in isolation, each of us dealing with our own struggles, searching for signs of hope.  But despite the turbulence, many of us learned, grew, and got to know ourselves.  We accomplished a lot in the midst of uncertainty.  We didn't just survive our four years, we lived every moment.

-- Izzy Jones, Sehome High School student speaker (Bellingham, Washington)

Talking Late Afternoon Light with Rainbow and Great Spirit

A Lummi friend told me about this website some time ago, and just recently I have subscribed to their daily meditations for elders via email:

Elder's Meditation of the Day April 9
"Everything really is equal. The Creator doesn't look at me any better than He looks at the trees. We're all the same."
--Janice Sundown Hattet, SENECA
Sometimes humans think we are the center of the Universe. Sometimes we think we are above or better than other people or things. The Great Spirit made a set of Laws and Principles by which all things should live. Everybody and everything lives by the same Laws. We are all made of atoms just like the trees. The life force in the middle of the atom is the life force of the Great Mystery. It is the same for everything. We are all equal in the eyes of the Creator.

Great Spirit, today, I will respect your handiwork.

Painting from Memory / Evolution of Forgiveness (2006)