TO ENCOURAGE MY SISTER

"Look at your words, Mereana, from three years ago. Yesterday was the present and today is in the present. It is important to be relevant and in touch with oneself to be in touch, as an Elder, with the young. It is how we share, and how the young learn." - Gregory

"Stance of the young world is upright, head lifted facing this world straight on her tools for life reflected in the Patu the resource/implement of choice she holds as a Child. Life is this Woman against this backdrop of Great Mother calling us forward to BE all that we can BE in every now that is constantly becoming." - Mereana Taki 3.29/10

It is the Elder's Talk the child and the uninitiated crave as much as toasted bread craves butter to melt within its pores. Three years ago you spoke, Mereana, as if the Ancients spoke through you. You still do. You gave cultural and ancestral lessons and connection to the young of your people. Even though many reject their spiritual responsibility the responsibility is still present. It is still viable. Fulfilling one's spiritual responsibility is needed and without it the ensuing violence will not allow itself to be contained. Violence, like other entities can be changed, transformed or attacked. The dream of an outcome determines the method, or the tools employed in spiritual development and societal policies.


There are a number of approaches to the generations coming from us. Teaching the language and the ways of your people in modern times roots culture within a society governed by the restless nature of the Western social designs and constructs. Within the Black and the Native communities here in the Americas to hear the Elder's Talk is the ache of the soul. In the African Diaspora and within numerous tribes in Turtle Island language and customs and traditional stories and songs are lost along with the ceremonies. That is a loss you heal with your teachings amongst your own. It is the way you were taught and the knowledge you have of what is important to grow from and into one's self that is the strong nectar of your Medicine, and the sacredness of your Womb teachings. Look at what you've shared here:

"Kaitiaki (Caretakers) of the tangata (people), whenua (lands), moana (seas & waterways), rongoa (plants), kai (foods) of (whenua) land & the moana (sea), manu (birds), waiata me korero (songs & stories), taonga (treasures), etc of the rohe (area) Te Hiku o te Ika a Maui (the tail of the fish of Maui known today as the far far north of Aotearoa (NZ). Te Hei Mauriora (Behold there is life!)"

You go deeper and further and touch the spirit of your People:

"Tuurangawaewae is your main personally identifiable base from which you are able to acknowledge and maintain your identity in terms of whom you are and where you've come from. Today's world, having a sense of tuurangawaewae is as important as it ever has been, because as you travel all over the world seeking out new ideas and set out to do new and different things, it is always important to define who you are and what makes Maori unique and different from others, Paakehaa, or any other race or creed." - Gregory 9.13.13