Native Roots Revival

A person has to have enough confidence in himself to go ahead and run a good race, even when he knows it is going to be grueling and that he might not be the winner. But that is so much better than sitting down and saying to himself that he isn't good enough to try. Most people tend to lean on the belief that they are not good enough. But no one starts out good enough. It is the getting up and getting into living that makes us good enough. At times self-esteem melts like ice in the sun, but it certainly does not mean we do not qualify. The fight is not with others - but with ourselves. We have to overcome ourselves and all our hidden voices that tell us we are not going to make it. ~ I am here on my own ground and I will never go back. You can kill me here but you cannot make me go back. ~

Over the years we forget how many times we followed the same paths. So accustomed to the twists and turns most of us could walk with our eyes closed - except for the gnarled plum that grows too close to the path. Somewhere in our deepest memory are all the little paths, the little rabbit runs we have walked. Plans were made, fears were put aside, tears were shed, and decisions made along these paths. When we were children, around the bend was a long way from home. Even now we sense we have strayed too far. But we are still within earshot of those paths that lead us back to everything that waits with open arms. ~ Before our red brothers pass to the happy hunting ground, let us wash off our war paint in the river. Let us break our arrows. ~