What a week of great joy and absorption we recently shared. It was appropriate for us to meet in the northwest since the northwest is symbolic of maturity that calls for adults to act responsibly, especially in caring for family and community. I was reminded about the concept of childhood as the time when one is essentially a "human sponge," absorbing all the different facets of life. I believe that we were engaged in the process of absorbing much that was different in that brief stopover on the journey we each walk. I learned that each of you constitutes the core of goodness from which balance and harmony will result. Each of you is hope personified. I am not the same, and neither are you.
I thank you for being respectful of and caring for me,
and for transporting me to places unknown, as well as seeing to it that I
returned safely home. I see each of you as vital human beings engaged in
taking care of the place you each occupy on the great circle of life. I send
my blessings and love to you and your families as you go about creating
peaceful places in your hearts and workplace, places that are as equally
peaceful as the homeland of the Samish people that we were privileged to
enjoy.
Lovingly and joyfully, I remain Grandmother