The 12 Day Ceremony
How I will be celebrating December 21, 2012. Ironically, December 21 is my birthday too! Very excited and looking forward to counting down and what I will be doing each day til then!
The following links will give an idea of what I will be doing to bring in the 21st!
The 12 Day Festivities: Celebration of Life
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Agenda
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Tuesday, 4 December 2012
Monday, 3 December 2012
18 Days to December 21, 2012
Greetings!!
Very excited that the 12 Day Festivities will begin in a weeks time! The last day of the 12 Day Festivities will also fall December 21, 2012! Very excited and very pleased that I will be celebrating this very special day in our history, all of creation and human life via this ceremony of my ancestors, the Anishnaabe. The 12 Day Festivities is a special event that my ancestors did every four years that also marks the leap year. This ceremony was a time to observe, honour, and commemorate all of the gifts that creation has given to us, the original human beings. This ceremony has many important functions that this event served: review our scrolls and teachings, celebrate creation, and our existence, review our prophecies and visions, feast creator, creation, and the spirits, fast and take the time to sit and gain new knowledge and relations, acknowledge the passing of responsibilities between students and teachers, the awakening of new pipes, drums, and our other tools, naming ceremonies, and re-enacting our creation story. I am grateful that I am able to see this day so close upon us. As my teacher used to say to me, "you will live in such an exciting time. You get the chance to change history and share the knowledge of ancestors with all of our brothers and sisters from the four directions."
I believe, that I am only a keeper of knowledge in the same tradition as those before me with the exception of no longer operating secrecy. It has taken me the better part of the last 21 years to share what I know because, I used to fear many things. However, I have found the courage to move past my fears. Many of my ancestors worked hard to preserve this knowledge and they went through a great deal of suffering to ensure that I may have this opportunity to share. I do not want to forget or not acknowledge their suffering but to know for me that their suffering was a sacrifice to some degree but a choice to ensure the future and continue the legacy of sharing our knowledge and the journey each of has with Mother Earth. My aunt Nellie used to say to me that she and her elders knowingly made and were willing to endure whatever consequences came with their choices to preserve and pass on the knowledge they carried. The choice was always clear, to ensure that those seven generations ahead will know who they are as Anishnaabek peoples and that the knowledge of the ancients, our ancestors will live on. I say this with conviction that the 12 Day Festivities is the reflection of many of our traditions and representative of the very core of our Traditional Anishnaabe Knowledge. It has been my life's work to bring all the pieces of my learning together. In the next week, I will be preparing to share the knowledge of so many and share the very best of my peoples traditions and knowledge. It seems ironic that so many are calling for the end of the world on December 21st, 2012, when in reference to our scrolls, calendars, and the 3 regional times scales , namely, The 10 Figure Thunderbird of the Bear Nation- The Anishnaabe, The 100 Sun's Ages of the Jaguar Nation- The Maya, and The Fifth Sun Stone of the Eagle Nation - The Aztec, that no such catastrophic event is foretold. Rather, our scrolls point to the unification of all members of the human family and the beginning of change. What I have come to learn has always seemed more like a challenge from the ancients - how will we, the new nations, live together with our Mother the Earth for the next few hundred million years? I'd give an exact number but I like to see who is paying attention! I look forward to next week and what will come!
Pitchi aka Robin
Very excited that the 12 Day Festivities will begin in a weeks time! The last day of the 12 Day Festivities will also fall December 21, 2012! Very excited and very pleased that I will be celebrating this very special day in our history, all of creation and human life via this ceremony of my ancestors, the Anishnaabe. The 12 Day Festivities is a special event that my ancestors did every four years that also marks the leap year. This ceremony was a time to observe, honour, and commemorate all of the gifts that creation has given to us, the original human beings. This ceremony has many important functions that this event served: review our scrolls and teachings, celebrate creation, and our existence, review our prophecies and visions, feast creator, creation, and the spirits, fast and take the time to sit and gain new knowledge and relations, acknowledge the passing of responsibilities between students and teachers, the awakening of new pipes, drums, and our other tools, naming ceremonies, and re-enacting our creation story. I am grateful that I am able to see this day so close upon us. As my teacher used to say to me, "you will live in such an exciting time. You get the chance to change history and share the knowledge of ancestors with all of our brothers and sisters from the four directions."
I believe, that I am only a keeper of knowledge in the same tradition as those before me with the exception of no longer operating secrecy. It has taken me the better part of the last 21 years to share what I know because, I used to fear many things. However, I have found the courage to move past my fears. Many of my ancestors worked hard to preserve this knowledge and they went through a great deal of suffering to ensure that I may have this opportunity to share. I do not want to forget or not acknowledge their suffering but to know for me that their suffering was a sacrifice to some degree but a choice to ensure the future and continue the legacy of sharing our knowledge and the journey each of has with Mother Earth. My aunt Nellie used to say to me that she and her elders knowingly made and were willing to endure whatever consequences came with their choices to preserve and pass on the knowledge they carried. The choice was always clear, to ensure that those seven generations ahead will know who they are as Anishnaabek peoples and that the knowledge of the ancients, our ancestors will live on. I say this with conviction that the 12 Day Festivities is the reflection of many of our traditions and representative of the very core of our Traditional Anishnaabe Knowledge. It has been my life's work to bring all the pieces of my learning together. In the next week, I will be preparing to share the knowledge of so many and share the very best of my peoples traditions and knowledge. It seems ironic that so many are calling for the end of the world on December 21st, 2012, when in reference to our scrolls, calendars, and the 3 regional times scales , namely, The 10 Figure Thunderbird of the Bear Nation- The Anishnaabe, The 100 Sun's Ages of the Jaguar Nation- The Maya, and The Fifth Sun Stone of the Eagle Nation - The Aztec, that no such catastrophic event is foretold. Rather, our scrolls point to the unification of all members of the human family and the beginning of change. What I have come to learn has always seemed more like a challenge from the ancients - how will we, the new nations, live together with our Mother the Earth for the next few hundred million years? I'd give an exact number but I like to see who is paying attention! I look forward to next week and what will come!
Pitchi aka Robin
Tuesday, 14 August 2012
I am working on my birch bark scroll
I am working hard to finish my project for my master in environmental studies. One of the results will be the birch bark scroll that I am currently making!
The scroll itself holds more meaning than I am able to fully explain via writing as it revisits and teaches our traditional Anishnaabe knowledge. I am going to tell reflect in part on why this is relevant to my counting down. This has been my journey towards counting down to December 21, 2012. That date will coincide with the last day of the 12 Day Festivities and the scroll I am working on tells of that ceremony, our ways of knowing and our history. So much has been written about the world ending but, is that what the mayan and Aztec calendars really say? I beg to differ and will continue to say no. Long before this date became a point of focus, my teacher, Nellie Ashwasegai, and family worked long before my arrival to keep alive our knowledge. In doing this work, they reviewed our history in order to walk back our ways of knowing. The point of doing so was to insure that our history would not be lost. In walking back and reviewing our history, more questions and a deeper pursuit followed that has driven me and those before me for centuries and longer. Eventually, i learned and was given this great responsibility to share what was shared with me and now I am following through with that goal and task: to reveal all knowledge that we once kept in our scrolls. I attempting the impossible to write and be able to speak to fulfilling my goal and task.
The scroll is a reflection of my learning and my effort to illustrate what I have learned through having conducted the 12 Day Festivities with my family and friends. The 12 Day Festivities is a celebration of life and the scroll also illustrates our mathematics and understanding of creation. The ceremony is a reenactment of our creation story. The scroll also tells of this story and the multiple layers of our ways of knowing. So for now this where I will stop. The world is not ending it is only beginning and turning into a new direction for all of the human family.
The scroll itself holds more meaning than I am able to fully explain via writing as it revisits and teaches our traditional Anishnaabe knowledge. I am going to tell reflect in part on why this is relevant to my counting down. This has been my journey towards counting down to December 21, 2012. That date will coincide with the last day of the 12 Day Festivities and the scroll I am working on tells of that ceremony, our ways of knowing and our history. So much has been written about the world ending but, is that what the mayan and Aztec calendars really say? I beg to differ and will continue to say no. Long before this date became a point of focus, my teacher, Nellie Ashwasegai, and family worked long before my arrival to keep alive our knowledge. In doing this work, they reviewed our history in order to walk back our ways of knowing. The point of doing so was to insure that our history would not be lost. In walking back and reviewing our history, more questions and a deeper pursuit followed that has driven me and those before me for centuries and longer. Eventually, i learned and was given this great responsibility to share what was shared with me and now I am following through with that goal and task: to reveal all knowledge that we once kept in our scrolls. I attempting the impossible to write and be able to speak to fulfilling my goal and task.
The scroll is a reflection of my learning and my effort to illustrate what I have learned through having conducted the 12 Day Festivities with my family and friends. The 12 Day Festivities is a celebration of life and the scroll also illustrates our mathematics and understanding of creation. The ceremony is a reenactment of our creation story. The scroll also tells of this story and the multiple layers of our ways of knowing. So for now this where I will stop. The world is not ending it is only beginning and turning into a new direction for all of the human family.
Monday, 27 June 2011
539 Days to 21/12/2012
Ahnee, Greetings:
I have been writing with gusto lately and that leads to a great deal of thinking and reflecting. I have been busy writing a book that was started by my aunt and left to me to finish. With each day going by I am excited because this process also includes preparing for the 12 Day Festivities.
My late teachers, elders, mentors, my aunt Nellie and my late mother Emma were women who were classic, Anishnaabekwe (Ojibway women). They consistently went over and demonstrated the very first circle of learning: kindness, honesty, sharing, and respect. This circle of learning is a life long circle. I have been doing my daily check-in, was I kind and honest with myself today? My aunt used to say honesty is a balance of kindness and truth. These are things that I have always found most challenging because my aunt used to say if you can not do these things for you then how are you able to be kind and honest with others? If you are not happy then be honest with yourself, and ask what makes you unhappy then make the choice to change it. Kindness, I think as women we are challenged by this one because we are so used to being caregivers. What did you do to be kind just to yourself? I like to think I shared in order to be kind to me, but this not really what this is about because we spend most of our days as women giving, sharing, and caring for others it is our motherly instinct. So, how was I kind to myself? Hmm, road my bike. I took time to care for myself. This is in part what respect and self-respect are about. It is not only about caring for my body but taking care of my body and allowing my spirit to just be.
My aunt who you will get to know was so cool because, we talked about so much and she loved to argue as much as I did! Yeah, we yelled and pounded our fist on the table but we then stopped and looked at each other and laughed. Then we still sat their and were able to sit and get down to what brought us to raising our voices. It was so amazing to sit and not be afraid of saying what I thought and if I didn't understand then I said so, a far cry from our beginnings. I forget from time to time that not everyone is comfortable arguing for sport and debate that a raised voice may scare someone! We had some good debates that used to last for days. No kidding and it was not going over the same thing but looking at an issue and asking why from different perspectives and positions.
She used to be this incredible force. When she walked in a room she lit it up. She was confident in who she was and she knew who she was. I always admired her confidence - not over bearing or in your face. She was intelligent and articulate. She may have spoke with an Ojibway accent but she took great care in speaking well. Mind you she was loon clan, a leadership clan. In our community the hereditary chiefs came from this clan before the intrusion of the Department of Indian Affairs. My clan or my dad's clan - Bald Eagle was often where the war chiefs came from. In time of war, this clan became the primary clan to govern during war. So I am cursed - I come from two leadership clans. My mom and dad expected a great deal from me and my sister! I often think this was why my mom and aunt were adamant that we took our core Anishnaabe values to heart as those guide and teach us. The circle of four also leads into our medicines: sweetgrass, sage, ceder, and tobacco and the circle of four also represents our cardinal points of east, south, west and north.
What I am going over may seem simple enough but these are the basics to ceremony. The 12 Day Festivities is a re-enactment of our creational view or Creation Story. I will discuss more of this ceremony as we go along. But I look back and remember how my mom and aunt gave us the foundation to do ceremony and conduct. One of my favourite ceremonies is the Feast for the Dead because alike most ceremonies the most interesting and challenging parts to this is the food! It is not just a question of preparing or finding our traditional foods come the day of the feast but cooking absolutely everything the day of the feast. All cooking being done, the day of the feast, is such a huge challenge this goes in sync with the spirits eat first. Usually no tasting of feast food is allowed or no advanced cooking. Why? I used to wonder then after cooking and learning with many of my aunts during feasts I learned we are observing the tradition that whatever food that is not eaten up then you have til the next sundown to eat it. Then if all the food is not eaten by the next sundown then it must either be burnt or buried with tobacco. Most feasts occurred at sundown, once the sun moves beneath the horizon, the door to the West is open and the spirits of our ancestors and family are able to venture from the spirit world to the Earth and join us for a meal together. It is a special moment in Creation we are recognizing, that "day" as our day to feast and gather with family, friends, and community. A day in this setting is recognized as that of our solar calendar, the time it takes from sunrise to sunrise in a 24 hour period. I may be boring you with what we already know, however our people followed and knew of many calenders besides the lunar and solar calenders that we commonly know. The Venus Calendar, the 100 Suns Ages, The Fifth Sun Stone, and many more calenders were others that we tracked and understood. This is in part why doing ceremony at certain times and for specific durations offers a doorway to greater levels of learning. I used thinking cooking was the only thing that a feast was about but cooking or eating is not what it is all about but the process. How we go about doing these things together. This art of feasting or doing feasts in some ways is being lost because it is so darn easy to stop and grab pre-made food or beverages. My aunt used to get me to clear my mind whether that was through smudging myself with sweetgrass or grounding myself with my thoughts. The point was to put good thought and good energy into what I was cooking, give it that little bit of extra handling and love. Another protocol was not cooking when I had my monthly cycle to recognize that time of the month to rest and rejuvenate. Most especially when it came to the Feast for the Dead remember the fun and good times of those who have passed and bring them in by cooking something just for them, either a fav food or something they may have liked to try but maybe they had an allergy too. She used to ask when we were cooking if my mind wondered away and used to say stay in the present with your thoughts and keep those good thoughts moving. Until recently, I did not realize how serious I take these things. I do because I am honouring what I know and learned from my teachers. Carrying on the traditions. There is so much more to our teachings than sitting in the ceremony but the work that leads up to it and the "why we do what we do" is neither random or arbitrary that's all for now, enjoy!
Miigwetch,
Robin
I have been writing with gusto lately and that leads to a great deal of thinking and reflecting. I have been busy writing a book that was started by my aunt and left to me to finish. With each day going by I am excited because this process also includes preparing for the 12 Day Festivities.
My late teachers, elders, mentors, my aunt Nellie and my late mother Emma were women who were classic, Anishnaabekwe (Ojibway women). They consistently went over and demonstrated the very first circle of learning: kindness, honesty, sharing, and respect. This circle of learning is a life long circle. I have been doing my daily check-in, was I kind and honest with myself today? My aunt used to say honesty is a balance of kindness and truth. These are things that I have always found most challenging because my aunt used to say if you can not do these things for you then how are you able to be kind and honest with others? If you are not happy then be honest with yourself, and ask what makes you unhappy then make the choice to change it. Kindness, I think as women we are challenged by this one because we are so used to being caregivers. What did you do to be kind just to yourself? I like to think I shared in order to be kind to me, but this not really what this is about because we spend most of our days as women giving, sharing, and caring for others it is our motherly instinct. So, how was I kind to myself? Hmm, road my bike. I took time to care for myself. This is in part what respect and self-respect are about. It is not only about caring for my body but taking care of my body and allowing my spirit to just be.
My aunt who you will get to know was so cool because, we talked about so much and she loved to argue as much as I did! Yeah, we yelled and pounded our fist on the table but we then stopped and looked at each other and laughed. Then we still sat their and were able to sit and get down to what brought us to raising our voices. It was so amazing to sit and not be afraid of saying what I thought and if I didn't understand then I said so, a far cry from our beginnings. I forget from time to time that not everyone is comfortable arguing for sport and debate that a raised voice may scare someone! We had some good debates that used to last for days. No kidding and it was not going over the same thing but looking at an issue and asking why from different perspectives and positions.
She used to be this incredible force. When she walked in a room she lit it up. She was confident in who she was and she knew who she was. I always admired her confidence - not over bearing or in your face. She was intelligent and articulate. She may have spoke with an Ojibway accent but she took great care in speaking well. Mind you she was loon clan, a leadership clan. In our community the hereditary chiefs came from this clan before the intrusion of the Department of Indian Affairs. My clan or my dad's clan - Bald Eagle was often where the war chiefs came from. In time of war, this clan became the primary clan to govern during war. So I am cursed - I come from two leadership clans. My mom and dad expected a great deal from me and my sister! I often think this was why my mom and aunt were adamant that we took our core Anishnaabe values to heart as those guide and teach us. The circle of four also leads into our medicines: sweetgrass, sage, ceder, and tobacco and the circle of four also represents our cardinal points of east, south, west and north.
What I am going over may seem simple enough but these are the basics to ceremony. The 12 Day Festivities is a re-enactment of our creational view or Creation Story. I will discuss more of this ceremony as we go along. But I look back and remember how my mom and aunt gave us the foundation to do ceremony and conduct. One of my favourite ceremonies is the Feast for the Dead because alike most ceremonies the most interesting and challenging parts to this is the food! It is not just a question of preparing or finding our traditional foods come the day of the feast but cooking absolutely everything the day of the feast. All cooking being done, the day of the feast, is such a huge challenge this goes in sync with the spirits eat first. Usually no tasting of feast food is allowed or no advanced cooking. Why? I used to wonder then after cooking and learning with many of my aunts during feasts I learned we are observing the tradition that whatever food that is not eaten up then you have til the next sundown to eat it. Then if all the food is not eaten by the next sundown then it must either be burnt or buried with tobacco. Most feasts occurred at sundown, once the sun moves beneath the horizon, the door to the West is open and the spirits of our ancestors and family are able to venture from the spirit world to the Earth and join us for a meal together. It is a special moment in Creation we are recognizing, that "day" as our day to feast and gather with family, friends, and community. A day in this setting is recognized as that of our solar calendar, the time it takes from sunrise to sunrise in a 24 hour period. I may be boring you with what we already know, however our people followed and knew of many calenders besides the lunar and solar calenders that we commonly know. The Venus Calendar, the 100 Suns Ages, The Fifth Sun Stone, and many more calenders were others that we tracked and understood. This is in part why doing ceremony at certain times and for specific durations offers a doorway to greater levels of learning. I used thinking cooking was the only thing that a feast was about but cooking or eating is not what it is all about but the process. How we go about doing these things together. This art of feasting or doing feasts in some ways is being lost because it is so darn easy to stop and grab pre-made food or beverages. My aunt used to get me to clear my mind whether that was through smudging myself with sweetgrass or grounding myself with my thoughts. The point was to put good thought and good energy into what I was cooking, give it that little bit of extra handling and love. Another protocol was not cooking when I had my monthly cycle to recognize that time of the month to rest and rejuvenate. Most especially when it came to the Feast for the Dead remember the fun and good times of those who have passed and bring them in by cooking something just for them, either a fav food or something they may have liked to try but maybe they had an allergy too. She used to ask when we were cooking if my mind wondered away and used to say stay in the present with your thoughts and keep those good thoughts moving. Until recently, I did not realize how serious I take these things. I do because I am honouring what I know and learned from my teachers. Carrying on the traditions. There is so much more to our teachings than sitting in the ceremony but the work that leads up to it and the "why we do what we do" is neither random or arbitrary that's all for now, enjoy!
Miigwetch,
Robin
Thursday, 2 June 2011
My First Blog! 566 Days to go...
Ahneen, Boozhoo, Greetings,
I wanted to blog my journey to December 21, 2012. This day has so much significance for me as I will be turning 43, but that is not the only reason. This will also be the last day of the 12 Day Festivities to coincide with the end of the current 52 year cycle. Moreover, this ceremony is a re-enactment of our Anishnaabe creation story that I have been heading since the year 2000. There is more to this ceremony than just the appearances but the review of traditional indigenous knowledge and the prophecies of our peoples. This ceremony was traditionally done every four years in conjunction with the leap year that also happens to coincide with the 52 year cycle on the Venus calendar. These dates and the elapse of time have long been observed by my people and members of the Midewiwin society. I come from a long line of members of this society. Our goal has always been simple to preserve the ways of knowledge that our ancestors carried in the form of birch bark scrolls and to bring this forth upon the beginning of the 8th Prophecy. I am not a member as I follow the prophecies of the my ancestors. In part, very briefly, the 7th and 8th prophecy direct that all knowledge is to be revealed and we are to make our way out of isolation that the time has come for this knowledge to be spoken of once again and the vail of secrecy and isolation no longer be. Thus, this great society in its current form is no longer necessary. For years, members of my family practiced and learned this knowledge in secrecy and isolation. As the mid 1900's approached it became apparent that even the old protocols were adapted to allow women to learn. My teacher was the first woman taught outside of the usual protocols of waiting until a woman approached menopause in order to learn at the same level as men. But the eldership of my grandfathers, great uncles, and elders saw what was before them an opportunity for this knowledge to live on.
My people the Ojibway aka Jimendamaag - the memorizers - once had vast territories from the gulf of Mexico, to the Great Lakes and along the Mississippi towards the Ottawa Valley and to the Great Plains. My ancestors were the Mound Builders. So many have contributed from across generations to make this possible. So I am sharing this journey towards a grand celebration. I am also in the course of bringing the writing of my teacher to print. This was her wish to write a book to share this knowledge. Our motivation to ensure the survival and transmission of our Traditional Indigenous Knowledge to our own people but also to those that share our homelands with us.
As we know, re-unification of the Indigenous peoples from the America with the peoples from the East came with great change and with it suffering, pain, hope, and unity. The circle is now complete. Many nations and peoples now inhabit this great turtles back, North America, which was once known as the Civil Land of the Turtle. This title was in recognition of our mythological stories of a great battle but also to honour the Great and Ancient Civilizations of our ancestors who left us with the tools, knowledge, and capacity to live in a civil way with one another, the animal world, the sky world, the earth, and creation. This knowledge in part gives to us the basis to attain our potential as the true human beings in the time that we have in this world that we are first and foremost spiritual beings with unlimited potential.
This is my beginning to what I envision will be a remarkable point of change and celebration as we move towards gaining honour with Creation and becoming one human family.
Robin
I wanted to blog my journey to December 21, 2012. This day has so much significance for me as I will be turning 43, but that is not the only reason. This will also be the last day of the 12 Day Festivities to coincide with the end of the current 52 year cycle. Moreover, this ceremony is a re-enactment of our Anishnaabe creation story that I have been heading since the year 2000. There is more to this ceremony than just the appearances but the review of traditional indigenous knowledge and the prophecies of our peoples. This ceremony was traditionally done every four years in conjunction with the leap year that also happens to coincide with the 52 year cycle on the Venus calendar. These dates and the elapse of time have long been observed by my people and members of the Midewiwin society. I come from a long line of members of this society. Our goal has always been simple to preserve the ways of knowledge that our ancestors carried in the form of birch bark scrolls and to bring this forth upon the beginning of the 8th Prophecy. I am not a member as I follow the prophecies of the my ancestors. In part, very briefly, the 7th and 8th prophecy direct that all knowledge is to be revealed and we are to make our way out of isolation that the time has come for this knowledge to be spoken of once again and the vail of secrecy and isolation no longer be. Thus, this great society in its current form is no longer necessary. For years, members of my family practiced and learned this knowledge in secrecy and isolation. As the mid 1900's approached it became apparent that even the old protocols were adapted to allow women to learn. My teacher was the first woman taught outside of the usual protocols of waiting until a woman approached menopause in order to learn at the same level as men. But the eldership of my grandfathers, great uncles, and elders saw what was before them an opportunity for this knowledge to live on.
My people the Ojibway aka Jimendamaag - the memorizers - once had vast territories from the gulf of Mexico, to the Great Lakes and along the Mississippi towards the Ottawa Valley and to the Great Plains. My ancestors were the Mound Builders. So many have contributed from across generations to make this possible. So I am sharing this journey towards a grand celebration. I am also in the course of bringing the writing of my teacher to print. This was her wish to write a book to share this knowledge. Our motivation to ensure the survival and transmission of our Traditional Indigenous Knowledge to our own people but also to those that share our homelands with us.
As we know, re-unification of the Indigenous peoples from the America with the peoples from the East came with great change and with it suffering, pain, hope, and unity. The circle is now complete. Many nations and peoples now inhabit this great turtles back, North America, which was once known as the Civil Land of the Turtle. This title was in recognition of our mythological stories of a great battle but also to honour the Great and Ancient Civilizations of our ancestors who left us with the tools, knowledge, and capacity to live in a civil way with one another, the animal world, the sky world, the earth, and creation. This knowledge in part gives to us the basis to attain our potential as the true human beings in the time that we have in this world that we are first and foremost spiritual beings with unlimited potential.
This is my beginning to what I envision will be a remarkable point of change and celebration as we move towards gaining honour with Creation and becoming one human family.
Robin
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