In Honor of Memorial Day

In Honor of Memorial Day and those who walked gently upon the earth.

• A short post for remembrance and inspiration of what’s important.
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• Indigenous Pride Post
• Where the Gentle Ones Keep the Way
• The elders say
• some spirits are taught by the wild,
• not to escape the world,
• but to walk through it with balance.
• There is a strength
• that does not rise through struggle,
• but through trust—
• the quiet kind that never betrays life.
• What changes in the soul
• often arrives softly,
• like old fears loosening
• when the heart remembers freedom.
• The Great Mystery sends signs
• through what is pure and untamed,
• teaching that tenderness
• is not separate from power.
• Walk with the courage of mercy.
• Carry beauty as medicine.
• Let each season of becoming
• shed what no longer belongs to spirit.
• Even the long road has companions.
• What walks beside you in silence
• may guard your path
• more faithfully than spoken promises.
• And when the world turns restless,
• follow what remains innocent within.
• Those who keep company with gentleness
• rarely lose their way home.
• Artist and storyteller: Dorothy Vera