Even when you are hurting, you still feed us, cloth us, hold us, love us. I am in love with you and eternally grateful for your magic and selflessness. I pray as humans we continue to fight to bring more than gratitude, but also healing. I pray we return your unconditional love and build a future sustainable for you, Mother Earth, and that we, humans, can connect with and reclaim our wild roots. 🌍♥️ Greetings & Thanks to the Natural World: Greetings and thanks to each other as people. To the Earth; mother of all, greetings and thanks. To all the waters; waterfalls & rain, rivers & oceans, greetings and thanks. To all the fish life, greetings and thanks. The grains and greens, beans and berries, as one we send thanks to food plants. Medicine herbs of the world and their keepers, greetings and thanks. To all animals and their teachings, greetings and thanks. The trees for shelter and shade, fruit and beauty; greetings and thanks. To all birds large and small; joyful greetings and thanks. And from the four directions, The Four Winds, thank you for purifying the air and giving us strength, greetings. The Thunderers, our grandfathers in the sky. We hear your voices; greetings and thanks. And now The Sun; for the light of a new day and all the fires of life, greetings and thanks. To our oldest grandmother The Moon, leader of women all over the world, and The Stars for their mystery, beauty, and guidance; greetings and thanks. To our Teachers from all times reminding us of how to live in harmony, greetings and thanks. And for All, the gifts of creation, for all of the love around us, greetings and thanks. And for that which is forgotten, WE REMEMBER. We end our words. Now our minds are one. *A daily thanksgiving inspired by the Onondaga Nation, Haudenosaunee. We thank the people of the Onondaga Nation (on of the Six Nations of the Haudenosaunee) for their courage, strength, and perseverance in keeping their earth-centered culture alive despite overwhelming obstacles. Thank you to Jeanne Shenandoah (Eel Clan, Onondaga) for creating this shortened version of “a spiritual reminder to spread the word of thankfulness and appreciation to all Creation”.