Every year around the holidays, my family gets together to share what we've been up to for the past year. We play, eat, sing, and listen. It's a time to strengthen our bonds with eachother. This year would mark our 13th year. The past few years we've been doing it on Black Friday...We jokingly say that we are celebrating Black Friday but we are actually having our Native American Ceremony. We have Osage Indian in our blood. My dad and brothers have made medicine bags for each of us and we have special blankets. We have a Sacred Circle and get smudged as we enter into it. Everyone looks forward to it every year. This is how we celebrate the holidays.
This year we did the sacred circle a little bit different than normal. We had Tiki Torches lighting it up. It was nice to have the extra light and it totally reminded me of Survivor (yes...my favorite show)...
I was able to take a few pictures until my battery died. I was a little erked by that, but it's the memories of the togetherness that will always be cherished. I love my family. Each and every one of them. We all have very different views about life, politics, and religion, but when we get together, we are accepted as ourselves and loved unconditionally. This tradition isn't going to end anytime soon, it's only going to get longer and longer in length because every year there someone new in that circle...this year, among some honored guests, it was Carly, the newest member of our family, who had a medicine bag made just for her.
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