President Trump just pardoned a Turkey. Imagine that, a human being pardons a live animal. Where does that concept come from? I mean a human choice in deciding whether an innocent healthy turkey is to live or die?
Perhaps there is something to be learned here, a matter of personal contemplation. Sometimes messages are discreet. We don’t all have to be on the same page you know, especially when the pages turn and there is a lot more to be read.
It reminds me of something Russell Means spoke of years ago. “Before I was six years old, my grandparents and mother taught me that if all the green things that grow were taken from the earth, there would be no life.”
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“If all the winged creatures were taken from the earth, there could be no life. If all the four-legged creatures were taken from the earth there could be no life. If all our relatives who crawl and swim and live within the earth were taken away, there could be no life.”
“But, if all the human beings were taken away, life on earth would flourish. That is how insignificant we are. “ – Russell Means, Oglala Lakota Nation. (November 10, 1939- October 22, 2012.)
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Perhaps a century old white house tradition has a hidden message. Pardon me, but I get it.
If Governor Brown had his way we would all be eating veggie burgers. Personally, I am thankful for the realism in our Native American teachers. Now, if we could just do something about all that traffic.
Patricia Huff, author.