potlatch

conducting business
at the intersection between
privilege and responsibility
abundance and gratitude

The first time this name would
be held by a women in
89 years

on our way home
i realized

that knowledge never needed to be
written down - because history
is held in the living beating heart
of a culture that knows how to
feast itself

it was more like a wedding
this new chief
becoming married to the people

and
600 people listening
from 2 pm till past 10

rights of leadership
responsibility of leadership

and I thought of how we
conduct business in my tradition
and the discord of question period
in a house of, commons?

adversity - criticism - voting
positioning - exerting power over

the heart of a society
no longer directed by the sun
and the rhythms of our mother
who will be the one to feed our
children.

and she
would be our priority if we
lived for our children
but we've got a bit caught up
in our own perpetual adolescence