T-for the earth

IN THE STILLNESS

He stands alone

In the stillness

In the softness

The world shrouded

He stands alone

Searching

Sound muffled

Questions unanswered

Why he stands alone

Why the world is shrouded

Why all sound is quiet

Where have the others gone.

-Jennifer Tait

AWAKENING TO A NEW BEGINNING

Darkness wanes as days grow longer

The circle turns again

There have been harsh losses

There have been new beginnings

As the spiral encompasses all

Grief wanes as joy takes its place

The circle turns again

And what has been learned

must now be taught

As the spiral encompasses all

None can know what tomorrow brings

As the circle turns again

We must do what we can today

So the spiral continues to encompass all

The knowledge shall continue

As the circle turns again

Some shall be lost,

others shall be found

And the spiral encompasses all -

Jennifer Tait

FOLLOW THE DREAM

A time of warmth

Long days and starry nights.

This is the time of making dreams

come true ...

How many days will pass

Until the courage comes

How many dreamy nights

Will remain unfulfilled

And yet the times are many

We will awaken to find

That dreams long buried

In the warmth of summer days

And the cloak of starry nights

May be ours in the magic of longing

For the dream long buried

Will finally emerge, not separate

But entwined as our Spirit

Touches the Earth.

JOY TO THE WORLD

Do not try to cage us

Like the sun we must be free

Do not try to tame us

Like the wind we must be free

We are not evil

For nature does not create black and white

We are as we were meant to be

We mate for life, giving our whole love

We care for our children

We care for our friends

We grieve their deaths, all too common

We eat, sleep, and play

We are so very like you

Allow us our lives

Allow us to be free

Jennifer Tait

LIFELINE

Our connection to the past

teaches our truth for the present.

Our ancestors understood that truth.

The answers to all we experience

can be found in the art of feeling.

If we can learn to feel

our deepest desires,

we will know the mystery,

not of becoming, but of being.

We will know that feeling

is our connection to each other,

to the universe, and to

All That Is.

MESSAGES

Don't know what's ahead

tho today seems vague and cloudy

my vision is blurred

my thoughts are not clear.....

Yet, I have heard the messages

in Ancient Teachings.....

Hope from so long ago

brings my attention back

And I remember

more clearly now,

the signs of coming spring

are a Knowing Deep Inside

And it will always be

FREEHEART BECOMES THE WIND

This drawing was done from a photograph by Edward Curtis. The chief's name was New Chest and he was a Piegan Indian. This tribe was part of the Blackfoot Confederacy and lived in the northern plains area. New Chest was part of a warrior society in which membership was

based on age. Their function was to preserve order in the camp and

on hunts. They kept informed of the whereabouts of the buffalo herds

and helped organize feasts and dances.

When this photograph was taken, New Chest was living on a reservation in Montana. Most of his people had died of disease and were living on land that was rapidly decreasing in size as the white man found new ways to take more of it away from them.

Horse represents power, and true power is wisdom that can be found in remembering our total journey. Compassion and love for all of humanity will come to one who balances all pathways on the Medicine Shield. The wind is the breath of Great Spirit, connecting us to all.

With the help of the wind, New Chest may have found some balance within the power of his wisdom, to see beyond the immediate picture and into a time when all people would be able to exist in

harmony with each other.

PROMISE OF PEACE

Ancient legends tell of many prophecies for this time in history.

It is said that there are images and words and symbols in our minds that can help us to understand this process of life that we are experiencing, an inner knowing that we are somehow

connected to everything on this earth and beyond.

Our journey is often so difficult, often so painful, and when

we see the suffering of others, of the animals, forests and mountains, of the rivers and oceans and of our loved ones, it is then we can become overwhelmed by it all.

But this is a very special time in history..perhaps we can find deep within our memory the wisdom planted there a long time ago. Perhaps we can use this wisdom to open our hearts to the strength, truth and love that lives within, and become willing to bring our lives into harmony with this greater intelligence,

to actually become peace and to remember that

we are the ones we are waiting for .

This is the promise of peace.

PAINTED PONY

If there are to be keepers

Then it is compassion

That understands the true spirit

of freedom

FROM THE HEART

From my Heart I feel such deep sadness

feel my love for Her.

and it is then I must remember

not to cry for all Her pain ....

For if I can see Her gifts of beauty,

gifts of so much beauty,

would I find the need to love Her ,

the need to care enough,

and to remember

that all I really need

is love Her even more.

INTO HISTORY II

Edward Curtis took over 50,000 photographs of the American Indian about 100 years ago. "The Vanishing Race", a Curtis photograph of a column of Indians riding into a canyon in Arizona, contains a "haunting mysticism rarely found in pictures" [New York Times]

This photograph was the basis for my drawing "Into History" and tells of today's earth crisis.....of all that is vanishing from our beautiful and life-giving Mother Earth.

We must listen to the words of

our Native People.