Category: death

• Remembering Annie Mercredi: A Sister’s Legacy

  ANNIE 1946- Christmas 2024 Remembering Annie: A Christmas Day Goodbye and the Power of Forgiveness1946–2024 Annie was the sister who always wrapped me in the warmest, tightest hug when we greeted each other. “I love you, my baby sister,” she’d whisper as she held me close, her embrace full of comfort and reassurance. When I…

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  December 26, 2024

  Christmas, death, death, elder, family, Grief, Healing, Life, Stories

  death-loss, family

• Our Mind is a powerful thing

   I am blessed. Today I started another year around the sun. As I look back on what I wrote on my siblings. I feel sadness.  I started out with ten brothers and five sisters. Over the years, I have experienced the loss of five brothers and one sister. Many nieces and nephews. a nephew, Sean…

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  December 10, 2024

  Coaching, death, family, Grief, Happiness, Healing, Life, Life Goals, Stories

  bad-luck, Life, luck, poetry, spirituality

• Rambling-Rose: An Inspiring Activist and Survivor’s Journey

  Rose is providing me with invaluable life lessons by example.  We don’t get to see each other often but when we do get together, her stories and laughter sustain me for months, the sub text is we love and support one another. No matter our differences we will always encourage and support each other in a loving…

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  July 28, 2024

  death, death, Education, elder, family, Grief, Healing, Indigenous spirituality, Indigenous worldview, Life, Residential School

• Join Our Diverse Tribe: Fostering Engagement and Authenticity

  OUT OF THE BOX ENGAGEMENT  In 2018 I created a group on Facebook named  “We Belong”.   You may have wondered what is this group about, and what is the purpose of this group? Thank you those who have joined me after I invited you, trusting me and accepting my invitation to join this group even…

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  June 7, 2024

  death, Empathetic Witness Podcast, Grateful, Happiness, Healthy food, intention, Life, Life Goals, Mother Nature, Perspective, Real Talk, social Media

  digital-marketing, facebook, networking, social Media

• 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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  May 24, 2023

  Awe, death, death, death, intention, Life, Memorials, Mother Nature, Natural laws

• 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 Seventh Generation Indigenous Foundation and Training GIFT…

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  February 3, 2023

  death, Education, elder, Healing, Indigenous spirituality, intention, Life, Life Skills, love, Memorials, Mother Nature, Natural laws, Relationship, Seventh Generation Indigenous Foundation and Training, Stories, Trauma

  dedication, Life, seventhgift, Traditional knowledge