Tag: columbus day

• We are Still Here

  

  This morning dawned warm and bright, with autumn’s colors seemingly more prevalent across the landscape than they were last evening. While today is forecast to be in the mid-seventies, there is talk of snow in the mountains by the weekend. Today is Columbus Day,  a good day to consider the history of European influence in…

  Michael Watson PhD

  October 12, 2015

  First Nations

  columbus day, First Nations, genocide, healing, Native American

• Silence, Story, and Healing

  The woods are increasingly silent. Now and then a blue jay or a nuthatch calls, or a squirrel scolds. The wind in the trees is low-pitched as it moves through the bare upper branches of the golden-yellow birches and beech trees. As the world grows quiet, our voices fill the evenings with story; it is…

  Michael Watson PhD

  October 13, 2014

  Healing, native american, Shamanism, Stories

  columbus day, healing, Native American, Shamanism, silence, stories