At 10:57 AM 10/24/2007, you wrote: >Such knowledge! How cool are you!!! > >Marsha >I'm not cool, SA asked. >Trying to teach my children what was taught to me. I think it is >important >To pass on survival skills and the appreciation of natures bounty. >They had fun, I passed on some knowledge. My oldest is on a nut >Jag and feels empowered being able to provide food for the family, >I try to encourage this. > >I remember my father showing me while we were tracking one evening. >We were way out into the woods, My dad had hit a buck and the blood >Trail stopped and it was getting dark. I started a fire while dad made a > >Lean-to. He asked me to fetch some water with an old mess kit he always >Kept with him. He made sassafras tea with some root he pulled before >it got too dark and then boiled some acorns, he said it would be enough >to keep our stomachs from growling in the morning. His mind was fixed >on that wounded buck. He did not like the fact it was not a clean kill. >It was near noon the next day when we found it. Never would have >If we went home and gave up the trail. > >You may find this odd but this time of year always reminds me of >tracking >Sign Among the colored leaves. > >Leaves nuts and blood...when I think of it now and in relation to our >changing social norms it seems archaic and odd.
Ron, Before I joined this group, I connected with a medicine woman through a council leader. I don't remember the name of the tribe or council. I wanted to learn just such things that you are talking about. Her name was Eileen, and she had setup a Indian church in Connecticut. We wrote for many months, and then she traveled with her cousin across the state to meet me. But I screwed it up, and gave her the wrong telephone number. I was very ashamed, because I felt underneath that screw-up was fear. And maybe because I was smoking weed at that time. The connection was lost after that. I still regret it. Cool was too frivolous a word. I apologize. Marsha Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
