If you have been following my blog, chances are you'll have noticed my flagrantly eccentric style of living.
Living a traditional life. Learning Ojibwe culture from my adopted family. Dancing and singing at the pow wows. Dungeon and dragon ing with my highschool homies. Rising the crypto waves. Blasting fireworks for the holidays. And resting my weary nomadic legs at the best of times.
Still, the choice comes naturally when it comes to the ways I wish to spend my time. And that's always (maybe just more recently) been applied to doing the things I love.
Sure, there's a special allure to crypto networking, learning new techno advanced remedies to help cure my bank account at times. Definite benefits to sharing my thoughts and feelings with you all here, as a means to those gains. And something pretty clever I've seen in the investment in the latest pornd tokens. Stretching my brain to levels that had never previously existed.
That sweet release from societal norms that are brought on by group hallucinatory devices through the dungeons and dragons field. A chance to gather with fellow nerds to get down to the nitty gritty, and share some hardy laughter.
That special feeling I get when I go blast off some heavy duty fireworks. The pyro boner that lasts for weeks after launching a big show. And that rock star moment when the whole crowd blows off their excitement and pure delight for having appreciated a show that's taken us hours or sometimes weeks (months even) of preparation, in a mere matter of 12-15 minutes.
But after all that is said and done. There's a truly golden place inside of my heart. Where the connection through my spirit reaches a whole other level through the honour and humility I gain in a life I've devoted to traditional practices.
Learning about traditional medicines. A way of life that's survived thousands of years. Practices and protocols that have been maintained through a euthenization, holocaust, and generations of attempted extermination. Through that all, we are seeing the truth. That culture is surviving, and coming back in a strong way.
Spirits are talking directly with the ancestors as we share and continue to grow to former greatness. Treatments that have all but been forgotten are coming back in dream fragments. Shared among closed circles, and being restructured in ways that have yet to be unfolded.
Understanding is being cultivated throughout the countryside.
And I'm just a part of that process.