>And it felt ALIEN to me.
>All the authority figures in my life; parents, teachers, TV, national
>leaders, etc. talked about how lucky I had it and how I
>should dive right into the system and take advantage of this huge
>material headstart that i had on the rest of the human race. I came from
>a long line of conquerors and couldn't let their sacrifices down.
>And it felt utterly empty, repugnent, and ugly to me from the very
> I started getting high on pot while a young teen. There was something
>there that spoke to the emptiness inside me. I started reading about
>other cultures and history- what i could find that wasn't rewritten by
>the conquerors -
>The oriental path had some truths that spoke to me but it was too
>different a culture to embrace fully.
>I started getting away from the highly developed suburbian culture and
>landscape and spending time in less developed landscapes up to and
>including wilderness. There was definately something in nature that
>spoke to me. Something huge but i needed a framework to view it thru.
>At the same time, i was in the middle of the antiwar movement here in
>the states and the federal government that i had always thought of as
>"officer Friendly" was the enemy. Cops were dragging my longhaired
>friends away to their cells and kicking them out 3 days later missing
>their pot, money, teeth, and hair. I had been reading the underground
>press and Bury my heart...
>I took some acid in the woods 5 days after Kent state and I suddenly saw
all the parallels between the native americans and the hippies.
>I went to the gathering in 72 in Colorado and it really hit home.
>I started reading everything I could about the TRUTH of the native
>american struggle. I saw how we were following in their footsteps.
>The eagle rose in my chest and screamed for the blood of his people.
>By the time I heard of the prophecies, it was "Of course, how can anyone
>doubt it"
>My blood might be from europe, but my spirit belongs to the forests,
>plains and mountains of turtle island. and i will die for my land and my
>people.
>HO!
>marc
marc -
having personally experienced many of the actions and the thoughts as you
speak of - i think i can feel quite strongly what you are saying.
i read this and thought - that is beautiful, marc.
thanks!
Spring
(yep, I was just given a new name by a very most remarkable brother and i
will now be
posting as Spring. used to be holly!)