the Fireball games

confronting family tragedies

And it turns out that the raccoons are willing to lend a hand

and the rivers run”

Standing Bear sought to tell the white man "just how" they "lived as Lakotans

Embers: One Ojibway's Meditations Cree the Fireball games"Life sometimes is hard. There are challenges. There are difficulties. There is pain. As a younger man I sought to avoid them and only ever caused myself more of the same. These days I choose to face life head onand I have become a comet. I arc across the sky of my life and the harder times are the friction that lets the worn and tired bits drop away. It's a good way to travel; eventually I will wear away all resistance until all there is left of me