In 2012, the Lakȟól’iyapi Wahóȟpi preschool opened its doors to its first cohort of 3 years olds to receive 100% of their instruction in Lakota.

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Keeping a distance…
Away from the hate…

Hiding all feelings…
Behind a traitor’s gate…

That stands tall and strong…
Providing protection…

Allowing the prisoners…
Space for reflection…

And time to consider…
What is the next move…

So many options…
But so little to choose…

As the mountainous path…
That was once followed…

Is now over grown…
The weeds have swallowed…

Making it difficult…
To keep on the right…

Whilst avoiding the wrong….
That comes out at night…

And blinds the eyes…
That once could see…

It was perfectly clear…
But now it’s muddy…

Leading to confusion…
Messages that are mixed…

Points of view distorted…
No hope they’ll be fixed…

By words or by deeds…
No matter the intention…

The river now too wide…
No bridges to mention…

Just the edge of the abyss…
That draws people in…

Across the white line…
Where only the Devil wins…

Becoming a limbo…

Do not fear your enemies.The worst they can do is kill you.Do not fear friends.At worst, they may betray you.Fear those who do not care; they neither kill nor betray, but betrayal and murder exist because of their silent consent.”

Düşmanlarınızdan korkmayın.Yapabilecekleri en kötü şey sizi öldürmektir.Dostlardan korkmayın en kötüsü size ihanet ederler.Asıl hiç aldırış etmeyenlerden korkun !Onlar ne öldürür,ne de ihanet ederler ama ihanet ve cinayet onların sessiz rızaları yüzünden vardır..

― Bruno Jasieński

Last week, Brian became licensed as a mental health counselor in the state of Florida.  It took several years for him to reach this point, including the completion of a master’s degree and several hundred hours of supervised experience as an intern.  And even though he’s now licensed, it doesn’t mean his work is done. To maintain his license, he has to earn continuing education credits every year.  It’s a lot of work to become a therapist, and understandably so, as therapists are working with people in their most vulnerable places.  The potential to help is enormous, but so is the potential to cause harm.

Why am I telling you this? As much as I just want to brag all over my husband for being awesome – and goodness knows I do plenty of that already – I’m sharing this because lately I’ve been seeing some things that I find…

When all else is lost, the future still remains. ~ Christian Bovee

Science-fiction writers have long been looking ahead — getting readers to envision the future. To dream it. Feel it. Live it.

Fiction, in general, focuses on vision — dreaming up stories with little known characters and worlds. Such a narrative requires tensions and problems, which forces one to consider a spectrum of potential, of roles we might play in making the world better or worse. 

The future remains a concept we explore in a myriad of ways.

In case you haven’t heard, FutureMe is a new website that allows you to write an email that will be delivered sometime later. Years from now, you could get a letter from your younger self saying, I hope you broke it off with that egomaniac and finally got around to the career you were talking about.

Of course, it would…