Category: Life
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Awe is always around Us
What does it mean to be awestruck? Do you actively cultivate awe in your life Kelter) As an Indigenous person, a Dene. I am gifted vibrant oral stories passed down for generations and our traditional ecological knowledge, we are intrinsically part of ecosystems. The Importance of nature, trees, green space. Seeing sunrise and the sunset…
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How I Imagine Stuff – I Don’t
What is in people’s Mind? Could be nothing at all “I tasted it, and that was all I got. A one-time deal. I can’t taste it again in my imagination.” -Brian Leibold It is like that for me too because I have what is called aphantasia. It was discovered in 1880 and coined it in…
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Denesuline Therese Deranger – May 08, 1919 – February 12, 2016 The last Traditional arranged Dene marriage.
She was born into this world at Old Fort, Alberta on May 08, 1919. Eldest child of 11 Children, 2 sisters and 8 brothers. she got married just after turning 15 on July 1933 in Fond du Lac (Isadore Deranger) and became a widow on April 4, 1992 in Fort McMurray, Alberta. Born into an…
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To Honour And Respect
GIFT VISION All life is sacred. Every living being is sacred each one of us carries a sacred gift. These gifts have been obscured through colonization and genocide that has created intergenerational trauma. Substance abuse, mental health, and community and family breakdown are symptoms of this trauma. The GIFT Foundation envisions a collective way forward…
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Love Perspective
January 05 What is LOVE? (Hint a perspective) Canadian born rapper spoken word artist a poet and now an international bestselling author who writes about love and goes by Humble The Poet. this is from his new book How to be Love
From the Shores of the Ottawa River 