
watercolor 8 x 10 4/2021
Advice from a River
Go with the flow
Immerse yourself in nature
Slow Down and meander
Go around obstacles
……….Jlan Shamir
watercolor 8 x 10 4/2021
Advice from a River
Go with the flow
Immerse yourself in nature
Slow Down and meander
Go around obstacles
……….Jlan Shamir
watercolor 8 x 10 3/2021
“Nineteen generations ago the beautiful spirit we now refer to as White Buffalo Calf Woman brought the Sacred C’anupa (Sacred Pipe) to our People. She taught the People the Seven Sacred Rites and how to walk on Mother Earth in a sacred manner. Pte-san win-yan. As she left, she turned into a young beautiful white buffalo and then she walked over the hill and out of sight. This is where she received her name, White Buffalo Calf Woman. She gifted us with the Seven Sacred Rites that still sustain our People today. The person who smokes the sacred pipe achieves union with all Beings. By smoking this C’anupa, you will make direct personal contact with the Great Mystery. . . Following the Way of this Sacred C’anupa, you will walk in a sacred way upon the earth, for the Earth is your grandmother and your mother and she is sacred. . .″
— Chief Arvol Looking Horse
The story is also a prophecy. White Buffalo Calf Woman told the people that she would return in the form of a white buffalo calf and that it would be both a blessing and a warning. When the white animal shows its sacred color there will be great changes upon the earth. Arvol and many others interpret those changes to mean the current ecological crises taking place. If humanity continues to live without harmony with the earth it will be cursed, but if spiritual unity and harmony with the earth is achieved humanity will be blessed.
watercolor 12/2020
Silence is Prayer
Prayer is faith
Faith is Love
Love is Service
The Fruit of Service is Peace
…..mother teresa
watercolor 12/2020
watercolor 6/2020
Go where the Mother’s blanket
heals you, where she gives you
new dreams…if you learn to live
in these places, you will live through
these times…this is the time to
relearn how to live with the Earth.
it is a time to honor Spirit, to listen
to the Mother, to reawaken our
emotional awareness so we can
communicate with the higher octaves of
reality, upon this sacred egg we call
…..Earth.
……Last Cry, Native American Prophecies
watercolor 5/2020
“Just slow down.
Slow down your speech.
Slow down your breathing.
Slow down your walking.
Slow down your eating.
And let this slower, steadier
pace perfume your mind.
Just slow down…”
……….Doko
watercolor
I just received the following information from my son Ben who is working on the front lines in a Massachusetts ER. It contains guidelines to stay uninfected by the virus and it goes way beyond anything I have heard or read. Feel free to forward to friends and family. peace, love and light gretchen
Hi
I was meaning to send this out to you all sooner, but I have been busy lately. I wanted to offer my help and advice if desired for info about the pandemic. Unfortunately, this is real and is likely to be a problem everywhere in the US. Hopefully, the curve will flatten with people self isolating and we can delay how many people get this right in the beginning which will allow the medical community more time to prepare for this and also for the cases to be spread out more over time.
A couple of principles to live by for the near future to keep you and your families safe. Some of this may seem like overkill, but these are the steps you can take to try to avoid getting this.
I could go on and on about lots of things, but I think I will lose some of you. If you have questions about the virus, how to protect yourself, when to go to the hospital please, how the virus spreads, what the symptoms of the virus are… ask me, I will try to help. If you think you already have it, I will try to help you with that also. The only time I cannot talk is when I am seeing patients, but I will try to call you at the end of my shift. You can also email me. I do not keep a good email address books, so please feel free to forward this to family and I will happily help them also.
Take home points: wash your hands, consider your hands dirty if you touch anything outside of your house or anything that came from the outside house. Social distancing will work, and even if you are young it likely will not be awful if you get the virus, but by not getting it you can prevent the spread of the virus to friends and family. I am currently washing my hands 25-30 times a day minimum when I am not working clinically (far higher those days).
I hope all stay safe and healthy.
Love,
Ben
Ben Osborne, MD, FACEP
Residency Program Director
Vice Chair, Education
Department of Emergency Medicine
Baystate Medical Center
Springfield, MA 01199
watercolor 3/2020
I was dead, then alive.
Weeping, then laughing.
The power of love came into me,
and I became fierce like a lion,
then tender like the evening star.
………
watercolor 1/2020
‘If you listen close at night,
you will hear the creatures of the dark,
all of them sacred
-the owls, the crickets, the frogs,
the night birds
and you will hear beautiful songs,
songs you have never heard before.
Listen with your heart.
Never stop listening.’
…..Henery Quick Bear, Lokota
watercolor 10/2019
In Japanese folklore, all foxes (Kitsune) exhibit some level of magical ability including shapeshifting into people, other creatures, and inanimate objects. These powers increase with age and wisdom. There are thirteen different kinds of Kitsune, each with a corresponding element. I named this silver fox “Seishin” or spirit element.