Welcome mat

Not sure if there were any People here when our family arrived those many generations ago but I would hope that they would take our plea to live and work here and give us permission to do so.  We already give our nod to the four legged and elements and insects, and most especially, we have always made friends with dogs, cats and best of all, horses.  Some of these People were here when we came and some came after, in no way was there ever a need to say, "You're not welcome here" until a marauding group entered our waters and started shooting.  For a long while, many of us have been ambivalent about the newcomers and still have hard feelings, me included.  So much has happened since, culminating in the "administration" of "our" country by gwb, but if nothing else, it crystalized one's view about what must be done.  Have a passion, life is short, do it for the People.

Being Nii Mii Puu was so important to me, no more.  I am a Zircon.  Being literate, connected, loved, comfortable, fit, happy, honest, empathetic, dancing, alive, all out the window I can no longer afford.  It is all about survival now, but as a Zircon, I know that we have been here before.  I'm still Nii Mii Puu though, ayy!

So it's possible to forgive those that came after for all that they have begat and begun and lay out the welcome mat once they do their bit, asking permission.  It might bring a bit of balance and humble-tude to the mix.  

My dream is that we get all the nations together and either ride or walk into the Obama inauguration and present that welcome mat and pledge our friendship and our hope for harmony and health to all.  We have to have a hoop and a staff but we won't make him wear a headdress, even I hate that.  Once this symbolic act is accomplished, the welcome is out and we start something REALLY different, but we start is over with real compassion and respect.  We have to start over.