18 February 2013

I am from music, from Sony head phones and hoodies.

I am from the gossip of small town people.

I am from sunflowers, roses, and weeds, the colors making me feel like I'm home.

I am from family diners, and good cooks, from the Brockway's and the Basham's.

I am from "you need to do this." And "you need to be that.".

I am from "we are all gods children." And "god forgives all sins.".

I am from the place of hick and dancing around fires, beer and deer.

From the Cherokee, a medicine woman, just as my great great great grandmother was.

I am from the walls in the dens and halls, in the shoe boxes in the closets, in the photo albums in the dresser, in the greater parts of their hearts.

I'm what made the family strong and true and I will always be what holds us together through the years.

I am the eagle, the bear, the deer, the rabbit, I am the fearless man staring back in the eyes of the future you.

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