by Roland | Mar 17, 2015 | News
Petrified Tears Last summer I traveled with my partner Barb to visit her ancestral home in Poland. Being situated by the Baltic Sea, most of the world’s Baltic Amber is found there. A few days ago I held a piece of amber in my hand that we had brought with us from...
by Roland | Mar 4, 2015 | News
In the Dragon’s Mouth One morning after waking up, six year old Anderson was very excited: “Mom, I had a dream! You know the red dragon in the playground that I like to climb on? I was sitting in its mouth and in my dream, all of a sudden the mouth closed and I was...
by Roland | Feb 7, 2015 | News
All My Relations Many years ago I learned the word Niksookwa. What that means is All My Relations. I was living on the Blood Reserve in Southern Alberta back then, and my adopted father Naamoo told me to say this whenever I entered a sweat lodge for ceremony. So I...
by Roland | Jan 26, 2015 | News
Eagle on the Hunt Yesterday I was sitting at my desk and, instead of working, I looked out the window over the ocean and pondered about all the violence in the world. The events in Paris had touched me deeply and even more so the millions of people who went on the...
by Roland | Dec 24, 2014 | News
Rough Nights Last night I put a little candle on a cedar sheet, lit it, and with my two most important intentions for the coming year I let it float down the river to the sea. There they went, my wishes, dancing on the current until they disappeared around the bend of...
