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Our Journey to Our Source to Bring Back Abundance for You, Our Community

As we always do in late October and early November, we made the long trip from our Appalachian home to Mexico City. This time, we met companions there and explored the many sacred treasures at Teotihuacan, a sacred city to our spiritual ancestors where they lived and acted out their awareness and honoring of the sacred patterns of this human life that we, like they, live in this beautiful realm.

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Our Sacred Journey to Our Sources of Blessing

This spring, we flew through the sacred clouds to attend our annual Spring Ceremonies for the twenty-first time. There, in our tradition’s homeland in Mexico with our compadres, we called the rains to bless those dry lands and renewed our commitment to our ancient Nahua tradition. Now, we have returned, ready to pray for beneficial weather and mediate destructive drought and storms here in our beloved Appalachian region.

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We Love Weather, and Weather Loves Us.

Last night, I dreamed about a bird. I was standing outside on the deck on the third floor of our home. Our home is located high in the sky on the side of an Appalachian mountain.

A dark gray falcon that I had seen before flew to a nearby tree. It was small, but fierce, trim, vital and beautiful in its humble gray feathers. I could see its hooked beak and its yellow eye. It flew nearer, to a branch I could almost touch….

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A Well-worn Path to Becoming Human

My tradition inspires and requires me to honor and celebrate the intricate web of nourishment and interplay around me, with its dangers and competitions, with its bliss and deep connection, with its profound and inherent meaning. Humbled, I remember not to take anything, or anyone, for granted, including the weather, the trees, the insects, the birds, the stars, the unfolding of time.

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