“She flipped through a book her mother was reading about native people in a distant country, how everyday they would take pieces of white silk and draw on them in wax, then dip the silks in dye, then draw on them more in wax and dye them some more, then boil the wax out in …
Tag: Ceremony
Prompt: Oppression
“They are afraid, Tayo. They feel something happening, they can see something happening around them, and it scares them. Indians or Mexicans or whites—most people are afraid of change. They think that if their children have the same color of skin, the same color of eyes, that nothing is changing.” She laughed softly. “They are …
Prompt: The Flower Ceremony
“Never take the first plant you find, as it might be the last—and you want that first one to speak well of you to the others of her kind.”― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants On their 18th birthday, kids became adults. They each ceremonious wandered into …
Prompt: The Curse of Talent
“The only way to get change is not through the courts or — heaven forbid — the politicians, but through a change of human consciousness and through a change of heart. Only through the arts — music, poetry, dance, painting, writing — can we really reach each other,”― Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony Rory found his love for …
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