Friday, in the land of the New Age, I am informed that this is an auspicious weekend. At 12 something last night the spring equinox began/happened, at 4pm a new moon phase commenced. It’s springtime and a time of new beginnings. Ann said that during the spring equinox, the Native Americans would tell a story to a tree, a story that they wanted to be done with. Earlier today I blogged a blog that I have deleted. I told it to a tree and will leave it there. The trees can handle your worst stories, today is as a good day as any to leave them behind.

OBJECTIONS: as though all tribes did this, as though one can make blanket statements about the manifold peoples who were more native than Amerigo. If we group the pre-Amerigo – the pre-colonized as “Native” peoples then anthropologists will of course note that this is a relative distinction since “they” did not spontaneously generate on this continent. But then again “they” may have common ancestors who crossed a land bridge, but “we” all share a global Shamanic heritage among all races/nations but by their distance from materialist capitalism “they” may have been closer to the pulse of perennial truths of humanity’s more spiritual dimensions, or “they” are romanticized and colonized with odd projections of chicken soup for the new ager’s soul….etc. Continue with your own objections. It’s fun.