Through continued learning about the importance of Reconciliation and meaningful dialogue with Indigenous peoples, the NWMO has published its first Reconciliation Report evaluating its Reconciliation journey. Learn more at the link in bio.
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I wish I had the energy to communicate what finding this means to my #autie brain. I’ve spent so much of my life wondering WHAT THE HELL?! and attached myself to the idea that we are at the end of a world but!
I had invested so much into masking for the world that is steadily crumbling - that I felt an intense need to piece together how we got here - what the fuck is the timeline?!?
The timeline that is comprised of many timelines! The events that unify vs divide and how they ebb and flow thru the generations. This video will make you cry, especially if you haven’t in a while. We are desensitized at times but there’s a breaking down of how insidious colonization has been and it’s hit me like a brick to the head.
my lil brain has been understanding something INTENTIONALLY hidden and finding evidence! proof that I’m not anxious for no resin, signs that life did not always include VIOLENCE! feels vindicating but also alienating.
My mind tries to stretch itself centuries, beyond factories and settlements…beyond plantations and beyond Christopher Columbus and maybe that’s just how I’m coping with colonization but maybe! it’s collective dreaming - I cannot be the only one desiring a way out/thru/up! maybe we’re syncing and information is just floating thru us/around us? #sevenfiresprophecy#turtleisland
My Dad died a week ago today. Two days ago we laid him to rest beside my Mom. Today we celebrate his life, grieve our loss, and consider his legacy.
I have been surrounded over the last few days by family - My loving, teasing, funny, embracing, warm, gracious, singing family.
I brought some art stuff along with me on my trip but didn't feel moved to make anything until this morning, the day of Dad's funeral. My mind has been on family so I started to consider the animals of Turtle Island that represent family and community. I first had in mind to create a group of some kind of bird or animal. Instead a single orca felt right.
As I was working on this during a quiet and beautiful morning, it dawned on me that many Indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest see a connection with the souls of those who have died with the orca. I'm sure my subconscious was working overtime and it took awhile for my conscious mind to catch up.
It now seems so fitting to picture a single orca, as a reminder of the soul of my father passed on to a new creation, at the same time representing the vast and impactful family around me now in the present.
My Dad and Mom are only gone in the physical sense, in the sense of Time we are aware of. They live on strongly and sweetly in a family legacy, in people who make this world warmer, kinder, more gracious, and embracing.
I am overwhelmed with pride and love for that family, and so thankful for the legacy that continues through generations.
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