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This will be my very first blog post ever created by the hands of Jenna "liiciious" Wirch! I'm writing this blog because I need to find a better outlet to share the knowledge of my Jennaventures! Up until this past month, I've been trying my hardest to stay true to myself and my community by cleaning up my act by walking my talk that I will never shut up about. Living that good life "bimatisiwin", I have been taught through out the years the teachings of our ancestors, the seven sacred teachings. I have learned them inside and out, like what animal goes with what teaching, how to say the animal in my language (Aniishinabemowin) and also the teaching that the animal brings. For a long time I could tell you all of those teachings but only have it come from a place of repition cause I would see it everywhere! But now I am able to tell you the teaching and honestly know how to apply that teaching to my own life and maby inspire you to do the same, so here goes. Humility is the wolf (Maengun). The wolf teaches us that it can never survive alone in the wild and in the cold, it has the knowledge that it cannot take down that buffalo alone, and that it needs the help of the whole pack to help it survive. When applied to life, the wolf shows you how to reach out to your family and if you don't have close connections with your family, you have to reach out to the community you have made around you. You have to bow your head and allow for people to help 'cause other wise you're gonna starve and catch hypothermia; you will freeze cause you aint' no wolf hunny and don't got fur to keep you warm. You need the warmth and strength of the community to keep your fire from going out. Today I'm putting an end to that voice inside my head telling me that I don't need help, 'cause I'm sitting here at the age of 25 and I haven't dealt with the trauma of my past. I'm sitting here wondering how do I get better and then I realize I have been guided all these years from the community and now just to put it to work and apply it in my life. Now I have to get off my big bannock bum and commit to changing and walking the talk. I'm learning everyday from the wolf to ask for help when in need, to swallow that jagged little pill of pride; once I do it may hurt going down but its going to help heal me. Still learning and forever going to be bowing my head to ask for help because I know I can't do it alone anymore, I've tried to do it on my own for too long now and it's not been working. I want to stop fighting and see what life is like without the fight, I want the love of others in my life and I don't want to be alone anymore. I need a wolf pack, i don't want to be 50 years old and not have anyone around me 'cause I pushed them all so far away that they gave up and took off with their own packs, leaving me to my own devices in the woods alone. :D miigwitch <3 theres more to come in the hood liiciious blogs so stay tuned, #stayhoodneverghetto ;) |
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