"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind." - Dr. Suess
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Someday I will have more time to write about politics! As for my quick note right now, I'm scared for the country that our children and their children will try to grow up, the poor people in this country have always had it rough. But now the country that I want to contribute to as a teacher and an artist is so far out of line it is very scary.
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Heart in the Art, Eyes on the Stars and Feet on the Ground.
.................................And then there is this....................
This is something I've been looking for a long time:
THE INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF THIRTEEN INDIGENOUS GRANDMOTHERS.com
Grandmothers Mission Statement
WE, THE INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF THIRTEEN INDIGENOUS GRANDMOTHERS, represent a global alliance of prayer, education and healing for our Mother Earth, all Her inhabitants, all the children, and for the next seven generations to come. We are deeply concerned with the unprecedented destruction of our Mother Earth and the destruction of indigenous ways of life. We believe the teachings of our ancestors will light our way through an uncertain future. We look to further our vision through the realization of projects that protect our diverse cultures: lands, medicines, language and ceremonial ways of prayer and through projects that educate and nurture our children.
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Statement of Alliance
WE ARE THIRTEEN INDIGENOUS GRANDMOTHERS who came together for the first time from October 11 through October 17, 2004, in Phoenicia, New York. We gathered from the four directions in the land of the people of the Iroquois Confederacy. We come here from the Amazon rainforest, the Alaskan Tundra of North America, the great forest of the American northwest, the vast plains of North America, the highlands of central America, the Black Hills of South Dakota, the mountains of Oaxaca, the desert of the American southwest, the mountains of Tibet and from the rainforest of Central Africa.
Affirming our relations with traditional medicine peoples and communities throughout the world, we have been brought together by a common vision to form a new global alliance.
We are the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers. We have united as one. Ours is an alliance of prayer, education and healing for our Mother Earth, all Her inhabitants, all the children and for the next seven generations to come.
We are deeply concerned with the unprecedented destruction of our Mother Earth, the contamination of our air, waters and soil, the atrocities of war, the global scourge of poverty, the threat of nuclear weapons and waste, the prevailing culture of materialism, the epidemics which threaten the health of the Earth's peoples, the exploitation of indigenous medicines, and with the destruction of indigenous ways of life.
We, the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers, believe that our ancestral ways of prayer, peacemaking and healing are vitally needed today. We come together to nurture, educate and train our children. We come together to uphold the practice of our ceremonies and affirm the right to use our plant medicines free of legal restriction. We come together to protect the lands where our peoples live and upon which our cultures depend, to safeguard the collective heritage of traditional medicines, and to defend the earth Herself. We believe that the teachings of our ancestors will light our way through an uncertain future.
We join with all those who honor the Creator, and to all who work and pray for our children, for world peace, and for the healing of our Mother Earth.
For all our relations.
Margaret Behan-Cheyenne-Arapahoe Rita Pitkta Blumenstein–Yup’ik Aama Bombo–Tamang,,Nepal Julieta Casimiro-Mazatec Flordemayo-Mayan Maria Alice Campos Freire-Brazil Tsering Dolma Gyaltong-Tibetan Beatrice Long Visitor Holy Dance-Oglala Lakota Rita Long Visitor Holy Dance-Oglala Lakota Agnes Pilgrim- Takelma Siletz Mona Polacca-Hopi/ Havasupai Clara Shinobu Iura-Brazil Bernadette Rebienot- Omyene
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The International Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers has group projects that represent the whole Council, and they also have projects as individuals. As women of tremendous energy and resources, the Grandmothers generate a great deal of energy and enthusiasm around projects that they sponsor themselves, as well as outside projects that they endorse.
For 3 years she remained a single mother filled with love, patience, determination, and protectiveness, while also filled with overwhelming not so hidden rage. She kept her peace through her lively involvement with her children and domestic arts. But she also began to travel and write. Her writings were in the form of letters she never sent. Catharsis. Her breakthrough was St. Thomas. In St. Thomas nuri Burville consciously decides to paint about her mission. She choose a genre that is popular, multicultural and religious in order to best convey her feelings. Opens up her possibilities, and in a nutshell,she defines her style She is innovate, to make it new, with tradition, to make it new, various forms of intimacy
the only choice she has given her emotional pain.
an artist that is able to innovate,
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"The most marvelous ideas were conceived after a 3 hour nap. Most of them just after midnight."
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Here are nine of the most common ways food labels lie, so you can prepare before your next trip to the grocery store.
“Made With Whole Grains”
Unbleached wheat flour is still the main ingredient; whole wheat flour is further down on the list, indicating that the product contains relatively little. One truth -- the presence of whole grains -- masks another; that whole grains make up an insignificant portion of the food.
Another factor to keep in mind is the presence of potassium bromate, a dough conditioner found in commercial bakery products and some flours, which is a major, but hidden cause of thyroid dysfunction. This ingredient may be used even in whole grain breads. For more information, please review this previous article.
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