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 illnesses and turbulences, when our ancestors have been with us all along waiting to be invited in to lend a hand?
I say “Thank You” to all who have been through what I am going through. The medicine you have gained from your experiences continue within me and within those who come after me.
Of these past generations, I ask for a more direct communication … to hear and understand more clearly.
And to my descendants, I ask for a better voice to speak clearly what you need to hear to be whole and healed.
This is my journey.
— Nate Long “Owl”
Pen and ink with digital manipulation