...in a certain sense, we are all made of words...our most essential being consists in language.--N. Scott Momaday (Kiowa)

Nature is fire and ice and gravity, falling rocks and rushing streams, but it moves as well through myth and poetry: voices, sounding through the smoke.--"Foreward, " C. L. Rawlins in Nature and Madness, Paul Shepard

Father, Mother, Spirits that guide…

The sun of the East that is life
The inspiration of the South
Life's path to the West
The knowledge of the North

...I am here with open heart