Happy New Year's

Hi Everyone, I just want to wish you all a Happy New Years. May it be filled with love and peace. This world is getting crazier every day....My New Year's Resolution is try to bring peace to my community in whatever way I can even if it is just saying prayers and offering smudge smoke...for the people that I am truly struggling with to find compassion for, may they be my teachers of patience and compassion. May I practice loving kindness no matter what the situation may be...I will recycle everything that I can, and we hopefully will be switching to biodiesel here this summer when the plant gets going. I will walk or ride my bike whenever possible as my way of trying to reduce greenhouse gases in honor of my beloved Polar Bears and all of Wakan Tanka's beautiful creations.....We can only dream a new dream by starting out small, and watching it spread like a wildfire...so on New Year's Eve night, I will go out in my garden with a seed of corn from the Holy Corn that was gifted to me at Hopi with these prayers...my prayers for this generation and for the next seven.

This is a painting I did of these beautiful women I saw at Indian Market two years ago. They were watching me as I was watching them. They allowed us to take a picture of them, and we exchanged contact information. As I painted them, I heard John Trudell sing, "We Are The Seven Generations," and this became the name of the painting. The elder is a beautiful woman and a renegade with her rugs.....and she is stern, and she sized me up pretty good. Her daughter was in absolute bliss as she held her beautiful son....and the Grandmother doted on him in a silence that was so gentle and loving....

Please forgive me for not writing of late. I have been without a computer, and then I got a cold. I am almost over it...take care and be safe!

Go San Diego Chargers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!