03/30/2024
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Elder’s Meditation of the Day March 30
“If anyone has children, they better teach their children to follow the traditions that we’re leaving behind because it is later than we think with all that’s going on.”
–Juanita Centeno, CHUMASH
The habits, attitudes, and beliefs that carry the human through the trials of life are developed at a very young age. If we are taught respect at a very young age, the odds are we’ll be respectful throughout our whole lives. If we are taught to dance at a young age, we’ll dance our whole lives. If we are taught to sing the traditional songs while we are young, we’ll sing those songs throughout our whole lives. And who do we drum and sing songs to? Our children. This is how we keep it going.
Great Spirit, today, teach me to teach the children.
Copied with the permission of Don L. Coyhis, from the book Meditations with Native American Elders: The Four Seasons
Elder’s Meditation of the Day March 30“If anyone has children, they better teach their children to follow the traditions that we’re leaving behind because it...
