There was this Native Aboriginal Park that I went too. Ironically they were just re opening after two years of being closed. I came back online and was looking at how we all do think within this area of politics. Life is a politic for some but yet that could very well be the nature of our being.
I was taking pictures throughout this place, I recall it from some time ago when I would travel in to see my folks. My roots are not of this decent but here I saw this older lady while I was leaving and I thought about who really was the first on these land. I wanted to talk to here but I thought would not interrupt her.
What did come to mind was whom were the very first people on these lands and how the look at things in a different way - the older and wise elders that is.
How we so often miss the true reason of our being.
Nice post.
ReplyDeleteThanks Terri....this was a marvelous place. And how often we think to much and here this one was probably had so much wisdom...
ReplyDeleteI love listening to the stories and pictures my Dad tells and shows me of his growing up and you are so right we do tend to forget...
ReplyDeleteI think we literally do Julie. It was very easy to see that this one was of a native decent yet you just knew that she has a vast amount of stories.
ReplyDeleteI love hearing stories told by those much older then I. The problem is that I'm running out of those that are much older than I.
ReplyDeleteThe older people are passing on aren't they...but I think that heritage is something that more so today is passed on from generation to generation Jimi.
ReplyDelete"How we so often miss the true reason of our being."
ReplyDelete...and the congregation said "Amen"
Sounds like you were doing some very profound thinking today, Jack. Yes, it would have been wonderful to talk to the woman, our elders are so full of love and wisdom. It seems especially so, of our Native Americans( and Canadians.) who are so close to God and nature.
A truly wonderful post, thanks for sharing these thoughts.
Thanks Deb......oh there is always a thought or two.
ReplyDeleteWe need to listen to all our elders more. Let them tell their stories.
ReplyDeleteCorrect we must learn from our past ..always.
ReplyDeleteElders have stories that we learn so much from, I just so wished that we can learn never to go to war again and to have kept written their herbal health remedies, bless all those that have gone before that left a good track for us to follow, hugs:)
ReplyDeleteI loved hearing stories my grandmother would tell me, her childhood. I only wish I could have recorded them.
ReplyDeleteBoy, I had to think a minute how could your roots be indecent! :-)))
ReplyDelete"the true reason of our being" and also our true nature which is not only physical and mental but also spiritual. We could make things more fair for everyone.
a well shot image, it tells a lot!
ReplyDeleteHi i work with the elderly, Dear never think that you might disturb them , they love to talk to people , many elderly in the old folks home who never have a visitor,I loved this post, thank you for sharing,,
ReplyDeleteTHAT is an awesome shot! lots of emotion there
ReplyDeleteAh yes....and that opens a whole can of worms doesn't it?
ReplyDeleteWisdom of the elders is quite unfashionable in todays world, but we would do well to spend time at their knee.
She is beautiful. Your shot is very expressive.
ReplyDelete"How we so often miss the true reason of our being. " ...a sad thing too.
ReplyDeleteSo true....DJ :)
ReplyDeleteSilvia it was all in respect yesterday as I did not know really how to approach her as she could have very well been within some self thought at the time. Thank you!
ReplyDeleteIt's a visual Danette but not conjured up from any group just my own thoughts of yesterday - thanks.
ReplyDeleteI think that there is a little of this person in all of us...
ReplyDeleteWe do miss it yet we are imperfect as we are human beings...
ReplyDeleteI could spend hours listening to stories told by the "old timers" here in WVa .they can talk for hours about coal mining in the old days. They don't make men or women like them anymore.
ReplyDeleteMike it's different for each and everyone - so often I think we thing within a manner that is self serving but how I do think there is a true regards to those that are older and wise.
ReplyDeleteIn a time that there is so much "things", which really are empty in many ways - it's something to talk to people as such and we all do have elders or the older generaton from which we gain something from.
Yet we all do as we please - I don't believe in the "shoulds", I believe in the areas that have substance. Just my own thoughts. It's much different when or if we all sat around and talked with each other but we write and within it it's obvious to see what of our own value.
I never really have know much with regards to the natives of these lands but when I saw her there was a host of thoughts. Maybe we are to self centered in a way - not sure here...