by Nate Long | Oct 16, 2018 | Illustration, Journey Work
Thunder Medicine : The Thunder people sit on highWatching in regal splendorPlaying their gamesBringing the rainsAnd the winds and the chill. Knowing that their purview is vast:From life-giving to life-takingFrom cleansing to chaotic upheavalWith a purpose we do not...
by Nate Long | Oct 8, 2018 | Illustration, Journey Work
Crow Grants a Visit : Passing through the fog With Crow flying nearby Crossing through this portal The sky seems to have fallen Upon this highway Where you have already passed I fly through now, too, As Crow gives me a tour Of where the living do not belong I know I...
by Nate Long | Sep 20, 2018 | Illustration, Journey Work
A Sanctuary for Lovers : Your great arms suspended above With fingers curling and twitching at the air, Shading and hiding the lovers Within the grasses below, Who touch each other softly And whisper vows with poetic lips. They have chosen to sit beneath you Because...
by Nate Long | Sep 11, 2018 | Illustration, Journey Work, Special Event
Seventeen Years Ago : The barber has passed on now, But he is not forgotten For he held sacred space for me Seventeen years ago. I am journeying back in time To a haircut And the sound of scissors Metal edge against metal edge. There’s an unusual chill Even when...
by Nate Long | Sep 5, 2018 | Illustration, Journey Work
Hollow Bone : Keep your healing tools well cleanedTo allow the free passage of sacred windsFrom the grounded and the etherealFrom feathers and fangsFrom the digging and the soaringFrom the crying and the growling Allow the Self to step awayYou MUST allow the Self to...
by Nate Long | Aug 29, 2018 | Illustration, Journey Work
Whale Wisdom : On a Western watery horizon and just below my left shoulder bladeA largeness breaches the surface with a splash of “in-your-face” truth. I drift next to this wall of flesh that has risen next to me, and looking downThe water is so clear I...
