Rattling the Bones

I teach the Medicine Wheel and Indigenous Dreaming. GP and I try to offer 4 to 6 workshops a year. Some are open to everyone and others are for special interest groups. Between the workshops and the conferences we give classes, do ceremonies, and do dream time charts. We may sound really busy but we often complain of boredom. Don’t ask me why? LOL Recently I asked myself the question why is it so difficult to be content? And why are we always looking for something new to experience? Why is it necessary to always be useful? Lately, I notice how grateful each member of our family has been through the last decade because we’ve experienced together a lot of great adventures. My daughter was mentioning to a friend this weekend how “we’re” kind of like ghost busters. I couldn’t help but laugh at the words she used and how she attempted to make something, which sounds “crazy” to most people an event that is extraordinary and somewhat normal. KT told a story, which occurred al...

Almost 15 years ago I put up some posters in New Age shops all around the Montreal area inviting people to a conference where I would be lecturing on Aboriginal Dreaming and the Medicine Wheel. The turn out was amazing, 100 plus people showed up and we had a great time at this gathering. Two months after the event we received a call from a woman who had lost her husband. She explained that her husband loved Shamanism and left her with boxes and boxes on the topic. "My husband wouldn't want these books to fall in the hands of just about anybody," she told us and hoped that we would be open to inheriting his collection since we shared the same passion. "Why us?" was my first unspoken question. Almost as if she was reading my mind the woman explained that she had never shared her husband's passion and didn't know the first thing about how to find people who did... She explained that she made a prayer and left it to her husband to guide her to the peop...