Hey Everyone,
It’s National Indigenous Peoples Day here in Canada, and given that I’m 3rd generation myself, I am dedicating today’s entry to my grandmother. She was Mi’kmaw, and a member of the Miawpukek First Nation. I’m currently a voting member of the reservation band council and have been for many years now.
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“There’s not a day that I don’t thank the Lord for…so far, so good I suppose”
– Theresa Douglas
“I have late night conversations with the moon, he tells me about the sun and I tell him about you.”
– S.L. Gray
All I hear is the wind,
the rain…slaps at me.
My mind has frozen,
but whitecaps still capture.
To the bone and in drench,
I see the window…
where you’re waiting.
Fist held against your chin staring beyond, adrift in recollection.
A ponder of well-being was the focus of those faraway eyes.
Rock…rock until contentment, unbroken ritual.
You miss, you worry, because you loved.
The tittle-tattle of your kindred always spawned a glow in your half-cocked smiles, your infectious being.
Dear grand, by and by with a simper,
someday again.
