Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Elder's Meditation of the Day January 30



Elder's Meditation of the Day January 30
"Bright days and dark days were both expressions of the Great Mystery, and the Indian reveled in being close to the Great Holiness."
--Chief Luther Standing Bear, SIOUX
The Great Spirit created a world of harmony, a world of justice, a world that is interconnected, a balanced world that has positive and negative, this way and that way, up and down, man and woman, boy and girl, honest and dishonest, responsible and irresponsible, day and night. In other words, He created a polarity system. Both sides are to be respected. Both sides or anything are sacred. We need to do good and we need to learn from our mistakes. We need to honor what takes place in the daytime and we need to honor what takes place in the nighttime. We learn that we need to learn and we see what we are supposed to see by staying close to the Great Spirit. We need to be talking to Him all the time, saying "Grandfather, what is it you want me to learn?"
Great Spirit, let me learn today that all things are sacred. Help me stay close to You, my Creator.

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Tuesday, January 29, 2013

8 indoor plants :]


8 aromatic indoor herbs that purify air naturally

This is a collection of some house plants which help clean the air in the room from pollution, bad smell and lower carbon dioxide naturally.
Some of them repel biting insects, other invite useful wasps that kill the parasites on the other plants.
Most of those plants below will live in perfect coexistence near each other (except the mint, if planted in the same box or pot).
They will also not grow too tall and wide, so you can fill small spaces around your windows and not risk stumbling upon them all the time.
Rosemary in pot
Rosemary in pot

Rosemary

Some use this herb for cooking, other use it as a herbal tea.
As with all plants having needle-like leaves, the rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis L.) is evergreen and can be held indoors in the whole winter, still leaving pleasant aroma.
Most of the needle-leaved plants are very good purifiers, especially for humid winter air. They breathe carbon dioxide and exhale oxygen. Rosemary is not exception.
The most important function of this herb is its ability to improve cognitive function and shield the brain from free radicals.
And the presence of this plant in the room is enough in the long run. Rosemary still exhales some of its essential oils in the room (you don't need to boil it in a tea infusion to benefit from it).
Lavender blooming
Lavender blooming

Lavender (Lavandula spica L.)

You need to check if you are not allergic first, but this herb makes very good house plant.
  1. It is excellent insect repellent.
  2. The aroma relaxes the lungs and helps for calmer night sleep.
  3. The aroma (also) helps relax if you suffer from anxiety.
If you don't want to buy oil lamp for aromatherapy or sleep with lit aroma candle beside your bed - have a pot of Lavender growing on your bedroom window. It loves sunlight so - don't deprive it or it will refuse to bloom.
At late autumn, the sunlight will be insufficient, so gather the seeds when the plant withers and reseed them at early spring.
The soil is best to be sandy and not too rich (exclude compost and fertilizers) and the plant is best kept in a pot with good drainage. Don't drown the roots or you risk losing the whole plant.
Basil
Basil

Basil

(Ocimum basilicum L.) a.k.a. Basil is one well known herb and spice.
Naturally it is spread in Asia and North Africa but can easily be cultivated for all climates and domesticated.
Grows about 1-2 feet long with small white blossoms and wide leaves.
The fruit is small 4-seed nut that dries and drops by itself at autumn and can be reseeded in the next Spring.
The rich aroma and the pleasant peppery taste are only one part of the coin. It can be also used as herbal tea and as all other plants will reduce the Carbon Dioxide in the room.
Gather some leaves for the salad and leave enough smaller leaves for it to grow.
Mint
Mint

Mint

The best herbal tea for winter.
The best plant for indoor planting.
There are many subspecies which are also called Mint. They include plants suitable with cooking with dry beans, plants suitable for baking meat, others suitable for extracting fragrant oils for perfumery and scent lamps and dozens more.
All of them has few things in common:
  • They make the air easier to breathe if you have lung disease.
  • They have very pleasant aroma.
  • They attract one small wasp when blooming. The wasp kills some parasites on other plants or injects eggs inside them.
  • They make excellent herbal tea or tasty cooking spice.
  • They love sun and water but are incredibly easy to grow.
You can cut a branch and leave it in a glass of water for one week. It will grow very potent roots and you can plant it everywhere.
From the main root system often grow additional spin offs which you can use or replant elsewhere.
In my own terrace garden, the mint is often partly rooted and removed, because the root is quite invasive and strong (smothers and kills other plants around the mint).
Jasmine grown indoors
Jasmine grown indoors

Jasmine

Jasmine opens its flowers between 6 and 8 PM, when the temperature is lower.
Having Jasmine aroma when dining is very pleasant.
Having jasmine tea is also very good. (Just bruise some petals in a cup and pour boiling water. Cover for 10 minutes with a small dish).
In China and India, it is mixed with green tea leaves and tumbled until the green tea absorbs all the fragrance form the Jasmine.
In fact - Jasmine tea bags bought from store are actually green or Oolong tea with Jasmine scent.
And even if Jasmine is not completely robbed from healing properties, Iit is better used as an evening house fragrance and air purifier.
I strongly recommend you grow this plant. It is not very expensive.
Rose geranium
Rose geranium

Geranium

Geraniums, (Pelargoniums) are more than 200 kinds.
For all of them is valid:
  • Excellent aroma if you can tolerate it.
  • Mosquitoes repellent.
  • Don't attract most of the parasites which suck plants dry.
  • Looks excellent when blooming.
  • Purify air.
  • A detached cutting can be grown by just re-planting it. Takes about a week to grow new roots.
  • Don't need much care. Can live without water for 2 weeks in cold days.
  • More sun = more blossoms.
If you are still not convinced or not having too much botanical knowledge - this is the best houseplant for beginners.
Even more: Rose geranium (Pelargonium roseum Willd.) can be used as a helpful herbal tea in Diabetes melitus (type 2). It lowers blood glucose levels very quick.
Blooming Coffea arabica
Blooming Coffea arabica

Coffee plant

Coffee plant (Coffea arabica L.) CAN be domesticated easier than an avocado seedling.
There are above 120 subspecies Coffee plants, with sub-gene arabica being most famous and easy to grow at home.
They are spread worldwide and you probably don't know how good this plant can be indoors.
It blooms in white and smells so refreshing in the morning, you will probably skip your coffee beverage and just breathe.
The normal coffee plant can grow to a small tree (3 meters), but indoors in a pot, it is quite compact - 1 meter (3 feet).
Takes about 4 years until it starts blossoming and if you allow sufficient sunlight and help germination from small wasps and bees - you can grow your own coffee beans.
Roast and grind them to coffee :) one plant provides about 50 grams dry coffee mass (~ 2 ounces). Sufficient for one week.
Woodbine flowering with bugs attracted by the scent.
Woodbine flowering with bugs attracted by the scent.

Woodbine

a.k.a. European honeysuckle or Common honeysuckle (Lonicera periclymenumL.)
This plant is very useful for indoor stairs, especially if your rooms have sufficient sunlight.
Regardless it is forest semi-parasitic plant growing over tree trunks, it can be domesticated and dwarfed.
You can grow it in pot with a wooden log or dry branch planted in the soil, so the vine can climb on it.
It has very sweet scent, especially at night.
Can be grown from a seed, and takes about 2 years to start blossoming indoors.
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January 29


Indian Country Today Media Network
‎"The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness, with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us."

Good Morning Everyone and Everything!


Elder's Meditation of the Day January 29
"We grieve more because we have been disconnected from our earth, our first Mother, our spiritual Mother."
--Larry P. Aitken, CHIPPEWA
Where does all life come from? The Earth. Where does everything return to? The Earth. Where do values come from? The Earth. Many people are lost because they don't know the importance of connection to the Earth. They connect to money, to relationships, to success, to goals. When we are disconnected from the Earth, we have feelings of being sad or lost. When we are connected to the Earth, we feel warm and secure.
Great Spirit, help me to stay connected to the Mother Earth.

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Monday, January 28, 2013

Elder's Meditation of the Day January 28



Elder's Meditation of the Day January 28
"We call it the `sacred' red road because it is the road that will lead us to living the good life, an honest and healthy life."
--Larry P. Aitken, CHIPPEWA
The Red Road is the path we walk on when we want a direct relationship with the Great Spirit. This requires sacrifice. This requires us to have our beliefs tested. To walk this path is really an honor. The returns for doing so are exciting, not only for ourselves but for the effect that will be felt for three generations. This means your children will see the benefits as well as your grandchildren. Do I want to walk this sacred road?
Great Spirit, guide myself and my family on the Red Road.

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Sunday, January 27, 2013

27 jan 2013



Idle No More as expressed by John Trudell (my favorite poet and activist)

standfast......some thoughts.....

i see idle no more..... as having evolutionary characteristics and intent to evolve beyond the destructive perceptions of oppressor civilizations...into the living spiritual consciousness of the sacred of earth and the spirit of life that is a part of that sacred....

in the course of this evolution it’s crucial to be alert to the language of spirit and feeling vs the reactions of emotion and frustration....

i see the evolutionary spiritual act of fasting....being promoted with the revolutionary language of hunger strike.....as a subtle and not so subtle way of diluting the spiritual intent into a political language.... as a means of de-emphasizing the native cultural reality of fasting as
a sacred way to communicate.....

as for standing fast with the people and the earth maybe Each of First Nation should consider having Volunteers from Each Nation Fast as part of of this evolutionary onsciousness on behalf of all human beings and the
issues pertaining to this c-45 thing.....Ceremonial fasting from all over the land......

the other side is getting ready to provoke and manipulate personalities and political differences....the agitators are coming....some will come with their own agendas of revolutionary rhetoric and rages there are
high emotions involved here and the other side has historically shown its effectiveness at divide and conquer....

just some thoughts.....not trying to start trouble......
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Native American Women Warriors
Hello FB Followers and Many Relations,

Thank you Anita Schaap Hauck for the share.

I (Julia) am so amazed of so many different comments positive to negative on so many different postings of our participation in the Inaugural Parade.

We put in our application to participate. The Ladies did all their proper traditional blessings from each of their tribes to march in this parade. The dresses were blessed and fed as they should be as they are a healing dress. We have been given instructions and advice by many Women Elders of this dress. I can not thank them enough. This dress has saved me (Julia). I dance/color guard to heal, to dance for those who can not.

Native Women have always been protectors of their Family and Elders. Western civilization has changed the perspective of what Native women represented, and how they are treated. Our Men are here, they protect us, they advise us and most of all they have supported us. There are many to be named from different Tribes, different states, and different countries. I thank them.

In the heart and in the spirit the Native Woman has always had determination to protect and take care of the family. I ask everyone to listen and record tribal stories. Ask the questions of long ago, look for those writings of the Elders if any. They provide so much insight, that then, you would understand.

I am glad that everyone has a right to their opinion. Opinions will always make one reflect, whether its the opinionated or the one you have an opinion about. I (Julia) will take any negative energy that is sent and turn it positive. I will take the positive energy and put it to good use.

I marched with eight other proud Native Veteran Women. I am proud of having the opportunity to color guard with them. Every individual has their story. Those stories will be told when they are ready. Its healing time.

If all we can do is get one Legislative action at a time to protect our Native women or reach one Native Woman at a time then we are accomplishing our mission. Bringing awareness that Native Women and Native Women Veterans are here. 
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Sunday Jan. 27,2013


Indian Country Today Media Network
‎"We are the natural nurturers of the Earth Mother. The Earth Mother needs our help, she needs our prayers. We need to educate the women of the world that prayer works."

Wan-Tanna-Hey: "Walk In Peace With Spirit"~
Elder's Meditation of the Day January 27

"The journey to the Spirit World is a long one, my friend. But when you die, that doesn't mean that this is the end."
Buddy Red Bow, LAKOTA

The Elders tell us of the other dimension, the Spirit World. Our spirit in our bodies does not die, it only looks that way to our eyes and our brains. Some of our ceremonies allow us to see into the Spirit World. Death is only part of a process of life. It shows the transition into the Spirit World. The Elders tell us this is a joyful life journey.

My Creator, help me to understand both the seen world and the unseen world. Let me not be afraid of the world You live in.


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Navajo Red shared Walking the Red Road's photo.
Representatives of Traditional First Nation's Women’s Sacred Societies witness respected Elder and Brave Heart Society Grandmother, Faith Spotted Eagle signing the International Treaty to Protect the Sacred from Tar Sands Projects, January 25, 2013 on Ihanktonwan Dakota and Nakota Territories. During the Ceremonial Treaty signing process all of the representatives of the Traditional First Nation's Women’s Sacred Societies, in full unity and unreserved unity, signed the International Treaty!

The Seventh and Final Article of this International Treaty between Indigenous Sovereign Nations in Canada and the United States declares:

“ We agree to the mutual, collective, and lawful enforcement of our responsibilities to protect our lands, waters, and air by all means necessary, and if called on to do so, we will exercise our peace and friendship by lawfully defending one another’s lands, waters, air, and sacred sites from the threat of tar sands projects, provided that each signatory Indigenous Nation reserves and does not cede their rights to act independently as the tribal governments see fit to protect their respective tribal interests, further provided that each signatory Indigenous Nation reserves its inherent sovereign right to take whatever governmental action and strategy that its governing body sees fit to best protect and advance tribal interests affected by the pipeline project consistent with the agreements made herein and subject to the laws and available resources of each respective nation.

This Treaty of mutual defense and support is made on the occasion of the 150 year anniversary of the Treaty Between the Pawnee and Yankton Sioux concluded between the Pawnee Nation and the Ihanktonwan Oyate/Yankton Sioux Tribe on January 23rd, 1863, and the parties thereto hereby commemorate the signing of that historic treaty that has endured without violation for 150 years.”
Representatives of Traditional First Nation's Women’s Sacred Societies witness respected Elder and Brave Heart Society Grandmother, Faith Spotted Eagle signing the International Treaty to Protect the Sacred from Tar Sands Projects, January 25, 2013 on Ihanktonwan Dakota and Nakota Territories. During the Ceremonial Treaty signing process all of the representatives of the Traditional First Nation's Women’s Sacred Societies, in full unity and unreserved unity, signed the International Treaty! The Seventh and Final Article of this International Treaty between Indigenous Sovereign Nations in Canada and the United States declares: “ We agree to the mutual, collective, and lawful enforcement of our responsibilities to protect our lands, waters, and air by all means necessary, and if called on to do so, we will exercise our peace and friendship by lawfully defending one another’s lands, waters, air, and sacred sites from the threat of tar sands projects, provided that each signatory Indigenous Nation reserves and does not cede their rights to act independently as the tribal governments see fit to protect their respective tribal interests, further provided that each signatory Indigenous Nation reserves its inherent sovereign right to take whatever governmental action and strategy that its governing body sees fit to best protect and advance tribal interests affected by the pipeline project consistent with the agreements made herein and subject to the laws and available resources of each respective nation. This Treaty of mutual defense and support is made on the occasion of the 150 year anniversary of the Treaty Between the Pawnee and Yankton Sioux concluded between the Pawnee Nation and the Ihanktonwan Oyate/Yankton Sioux Tribe on January 23rd, 1863, and the parties thereto hereby commemorate the signing of that historic treaty that has endured without violation for 150 years.”
Representatives of Traditional First Nation's Women’s Sacred Societies witness respected Elder and Brave Heart Society Grandmother, Faith Spotted Eagle signing the International Treaty to Protect the Sacred from Tar Sands Projects, January 25, 2013 on Ihanktonwan Dakota and Nakota Territories. During the Ceremonial Treaty signing process all of the representatives of the Traditional First Nation's Women’s Sacred Societies, in full unity and unreserved unity, signed the International Treaty!

The Seventh and Final Article of this International Treaty between Indigenous Sovereign Nations in Canada and the United States declares:

“ We agree to the mutual, collective, and lawful enforcement of our responsibilities to protect our lands, waters, and air by all means necessary, and if called on to do so, we will exercise our peace and friendship by lawfully defending one another’s lands, waters, air, and sacred sites from the threat of tar sands projects, provided that each signatory Indigenous Nation reserves and does not cede their rights to act independently as the tribal governments see fit to protect their respective tribal interests, further provided that each signatory Indigenous Nation reserves its inherent sovereign right to take whatever governmental action and strategy that its governing body sees fit to best protect and advance tribal interests affected by the pipeline project consistent with the agreements made herein and subject to the laws and available resources of each respective nation.

This Treaty of mutual defense and support is made on the occasion of the 150 year anniversary of the Treaty Between the Pawnee and Yankton Sioux concluded between the Pawnee Nation and the Ihanktonwan Oyate/Yankton Sioux Tribe on January 23rd, 1863, and the parties thereto hereby commemorate the signing of that historic treaty that has endured without violation for 150 years.”
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