My prayer

Oh Mighty Wakan Tanka,

Throughout the ages you have held many names, worn many faces, looked over many people. I come to you as Medicine Woman, Shaman, humble supplicant to ask that you look over one who has served you well and long.

A great warrior, faithful follower, devoted husband, loving family member, cherished friend is in need of your aid and comfort this day.

I humbly beg you to look down upon him with your favor and ease pain and grant comfort in the best way that you see for him. Guide the doctors in their workings. Provide solace to friends and family as we need.

I have no right to ask for the miracle that we need, but I ask anyway. There is much that he has yet to give to those here. We have much to learn yet from him.

But should you decide that the best way for him is to join the Great Hunt, I ask that you please grant him the dignity due his station, and help those of us who must go on through the trying times to come.

~The Grass Child.

*sigh*

September 22, 2008
Time Alone For Reflection
Cancer Daily Horoscope

You might feel like isolating yourself from others and this could make you want to hide out at home today. Wanting a secluded place where you can be with yourself could be a result of your desire to really get in touch with your own feelings and reflect on the way things have been going in your life recently. This might be a good time to hole up and spend time writing down your innermost thoughts and feelings about the things that matter to you the most in your life and relationships. Journaling today could also give you a new perspective on the things that are happening to you, allowing you to first voice your feelings and then sit back, ponder and evaluate them.

by Jack Prelutsky

ONCE THEY ALL BELIEVED IN DRAGONS

Once they all believed in dragons
When the world was fresh and young,
We were woven into legends,
Tales were told and songs were sung,
We were treated with obeisance,
We were honored, we were feared,
Then one day they stopped believing--
On that day we disappeared.

Now they say our time is over,
Now they say we lived our last,
Now we're treated with derision
Where we once ruled unsurpassed.
We must make them all remember,
In some way we must reveal
That our spirit lives forever--
We are dragons! We are REAL!


THE DRAGONS ARE SINGING TONIGHT

Tonight is the night all the dragons
Awake in their lairs underground,
To sing in cacophonous chorus
And fill the whole world with their sound.
The sing of the days of their glory,
they sing of their exploits of old,
Of maidens and knights, and of fiery fights,
And guarding vast caches of gold.

Some of their voices are treble,
And some of their voices are deep,
But all of their voices are thunderous,
And no one can get any sleep.
I lie in my bed and I listen,
Enchanted and filled with delight,
To songs I can hear only one night a year-
The dragons are singing tonight.