clutch64

Thank you to you who expressed concern. I got a long story...no short version. Actually there are several fires on different fronts. I really like to spend time on this site and cultivate relationships of varying degrees.Therein lies some of the problem;I feel guilt when i've spent time on the site and somebody said that they couldn't get through the busy signal....etc
BUT i like...
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I have some serious family issues that are going to require attention. I don't know when i'll be getting to this site. If i do have time, i don't want to feel guilty about clowning around on here. Sorry if i don't write back this morning, i'm going to be late for work.
You all bring a little more fun into my life, thank you....
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good morning, or good afternoon,or evening.

The women and her family, her daughters, her daughters' husbands would constitute a family group and they would live not as individual families, but would live in family units. Grandparents, all of their children, and whatever relatives happen to be around...Anthropologists have said that the Apaches had a patriarchal society, but it was only superficially patriarchal. The women had an extreme amount of power in...
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Men were not thought able to survive for any extended time without the presence of women to provide the necessary functions of gathering and preserving.Women, however, were thought capable living for extended time periods without the presence or assistance of men.

Cole, "An Ethnohistory," page 123 quote from Women of the Apache Nation.


Good health and good luck to you all.

They will return again.
All over the Earth,
They are returning again.
Ancient teachings of the Earth,
Ancient songs of the earth.
They are returning again.
My friend, they are returning.
I give them to you,
And through them
You will understand,
You will see.
They are returning again
Upon the Earth.


Crazy Horse, Oglala Sioux (1842-77)

Ahhhh. I like getting up early. I always have. I love watching the morning come to life, and being part of that. I hope everyone has a nice day, wherever your at.

I don't have anything of significance to write in this journal...now or lately.


When a man does a piece of work which is admired by all we say that it is wonderful; but when we see the changes of day and night, the sun, the moon, and the stars in the sky, and the changing seasons upon the earth, with their ripening fruits, anyone must...
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A happy union is not one of perfect partners, but the triumph of love over imperfections. So I'm told...

When a child my mother taught me the legends of our people; taught me of the sun and sky, the moon and stars, the clouds and storms. She also taught me to kneel and pray to Usen for strength, health, wisdom and protection. We never prayed against any person, but if we had aught against any individual we ourselves took vengeance. We were taught that...
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Whenever the white man treats the Indians as they treat each other, then we will have no more wars. We shall all be alike...brothers of one father and one mother, with one sky above us and on country around us, and one government for all.

Joseph (Hinmaton Yalatkit) (1830-1904)
Nez Perce` Chief

This goes for all people, in my opinion. Have a good day. Good...
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I,m thankful to wake up and face another day.It hasn't always been this way.I've come to believe that it's not quite my time to push up daisies,so in the meantime...I count my blessings and stop to smell the roses along the way.
Have a nice day,one way or another.