by Nate Long | Jan 2, 2019 | Illustration, Journey Work
Generation Medication : Why is it so easy to forget that the challenges we have today were confronted and battled and healed a million times before by our ancestors back to the dawn of humankind? Why do we think we are so alone and so unique with the struggles and...
by Nate Long | Dec 20, 2018 | Journey Work, Photography
Child Medicine : Let our children remind usHow to see the world as a playgroundAnd as a dance floorAnd as a place of laughter and joy. Let them teach us that getting olderDoesn’t make us an adultAnd doesn’t remove the child from within. Let them heal us of...
by Nate Long | Dec 12, 2018 | Illustration, Journey Work
Perspective : Sitting across from youAcross the expanseThe other side of the worldYou upon the Western horizonMe here in the EastWhile I rise, I watch you retireWhile I am born, you pass awayWhile I am fearful, you are depressedWhile I anticipate, you rememberI...
by Nate Long | Dec 6, 2018 | Journey Work, Made-Art
Wasp Catcher : I was once afraid of you.You kept me from entering .Guarding that sacred place from me .You scared me. Then you came to me in dreamtimeDressed as an old wrinkled woman.You told me: “Learn by changing your perspective,By seeing a new way to get...
by Nate Long | Nov 29, 2018 | Illustration, Journey Work
Mapmaker : Imagine that you are constantly drawing a map of where you wish to be going. YOU are drawing it and no one else. You include lovely things like pleasant sunsets and waterfalls and maybe the perfect home. You include friends and family and lovers and all...
by Nate Long | Nov 19, 2018 | Illustration, Journey Work
Turkey Medicine : Nourishing the body, mind and soul Blessings from the underbrush and For the earth we stand upon Gratitude for all abundances For all of the harvests For all of the relations that grow A “Thanks” that is given For all that Mother has...
