I worked with a national park ranger for a time in Oregon. I watched her play this game with children called the web of life. The children would form a circle around the park ranger; she represented the sun and would be holding the end piece of string to the ball of yarn. She would pass the ball to a kid and each child would hold on to a piece of the string and pass the ball on to another and so forth until a web was formed in the circle. Each child represented an organism in our ecosystem, a plant or animal or person. In the final part of the game, the strings get cut one by one to show that when something in our ecosystem is damaged it affects the health and vitality of other organisms.
Think about the different cultures of people connected in that web of string. What happens when these connections are severed? We only have to look at the history of the human race to answer this question, look at our wars and catastrophes, hunger and poverty issues, and genocide. Ultimately, we are all connected: we all hold a piece of that string. There is someone else on the other side of the string you hold, it’s necessary to treat your piece with love and compassion. Let’s create a strong, lasting, and healthy web of the human race. Let’s look out for one another; people are helping others all the time without regard to being young or old, rich or poor. I was reading a blog from Autumn Twobulls whose blog is called “Bringing Awareness for Pine Ridge Reservation“. In one of her postings (http://lakotawinyan.blogspot.com/ ), Autumn talks about the importance of giving back as she passes this belief and lifestyle down to her children through example. Her and her kids cut wood by hand for heating homes of others and they deliver care packages to families who live out in the country. Two things that resonated in this story is that Autumn and her family do not have much money themselves but still find ways to contribute. The other is something Autumn’s son said about the work he is doing “it makes me feel like a real warrior to help those in need.”
I encourage people to become warriors, get inspired and find ways to help others; hold up your part of the web. Giving is a lifestyle, do it often as it will not go unnoticed. These are the thoughts that are on my mind as I begin to work with Conscious Alliance for the next several months.
There is a Lakota Sioux prayer called Mitakuye Oyasin which translates to “all my relations“. The last couple lines say: You are all my relations, my relatives, without whom I would not live. We are in the circle of life together, co-existing, co-dependent, co-creating our destiny. One, not more important than the other. One nation evolving from the other and yet each dependent upon the one above and the one below. All of us a part of the Great Mystery.
For the most part I think all races of people believe we are co-dependent, sometimes we forget this from time to time (including myself) and we just need a little guidance to set us on our way again.
By Tracy Kosinski
Think about the different cultures of people connected in that web of string. What happens when these connections are severed? We only have to look at the history of the human race to answer this question, look at our wars and catastrophes, hunger and poverty issues, and genocide. Ultimately, we are all connected: we all hold a piece of that string. There is someone else on the other side of the string you hold, it’s necessary to treat your piece with love and compassion. Let’s create a strong, lasting, and healthy web of the human race. Let’s look out for one another; people are helping others all the time without regard to being young or old, rich or poor. I was reading a blog from Autumn Twobulls whose blog is called “Bringing Awareness for Pine Ridge Reservation“. In one of her postings (http://lakotawinyan.blogspot.
I encourage people to become warriors, get inspired and find ways to help others; hold up your part of the web. Giving is a lifestyle, do it often as it will not go unnoticed. These are the thoughts that are on my mind as I begin to work with Conscious Alliance for the next several months.
There is a Lakota Sioux prayer called Mitakuye Oyasin which translates to “all my relations“. The last couple lines say: You are all my relations, my relatives, without whom I would not live. We are in the circle of life together, co-existing, co-dependent, co-creating our destiny. One, not more important than the other. One nation evolving from the other and yet each dependent upon the one above and the one below. All of us a part of the Great Mystery.
For the most part I think all races of people believe we are co-dependent, sometimes we forget this from time to time (including myself) and we just need a little guidance to set us on our way again.
By Tracy Kosinski
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