Quote Of The Week

Here is this week's quote.  I hope you find it food for thought or inspiring or, better yet, both.  If you have any suggestions for quotes please pass them along to me.  I hope you enjoy this week's edition.

“I have tried to put on canvas what my people lived for, what they accomplished, the dances they created and so forth. It is an art that has been almost entirely forgotten, and if it isn’t revived or preserved, it will be forgotten altogether.

“Without that feeling in our hearts, we are going to be a lost race for the rest of our lives.”

George Clutesi, Tseshaht Artist and Author from Vancouver Island, British Columbia

Testimony at the Royal Commission, 1949

As we prayerfully consider Canada's past, the Residential School System, and the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, it is important we listen to the words of those who were there.

"George remembered being forced to go to the Alberni Indian Residential School. He remembered his father, through tears, throwing rocks at him and telling him he “had to” go to school. There was a “total alienation of parental love for the small child” within this school" - Tseshaht First Nation

May we open our minds and our hearts, to listen and learn. May we become advocates of truth and reconciliation, and amplify the voices of those who bear the generational trauma.

-Donna