Yesterday we had a very exciting event in our family. Laura was part of a basket dance ceremony, one which marks her crossing from a child to a young woman in the First Nations Tradition.
Each morning for four days before the ceremony, Laura had to get up just after dawn and go have a bath in Goldstream River. She was then not allowed to nap for the rest of the day and she was also to keep busy and helpful to her family.
The ceremony was amazing and I wish that I could describe it here but is is very sacred and is not to be talked about to those not involved directly.
The young people were then talked to by elders who explaining the purpose of the ceremony to them.
After it was all done, everyone went to the dining hall for a feast and time of visiting.
It was incredible and I am so grateful that my children can have the opportunity to be a part of their heritage. There is so much care and family orientation put into something like this and you would never know unless you were directly involved. I consider myself to be very lucky to be a part of it.
"Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again." -Goethe
"All that we are is the result of what we have thought." -Dhammapada
"How soon not now becomes never." -Martin Luther
"Even the longest journey begins with a single step." -Chinese Proverb
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