Lost In Thought

"An old friend I spent some time with one afternoon. He helped me make an important decision and perhaps I helped him with one too. I'd like to think so, but I think he is much wiser than me."

Photo & Verse by my friend - Ken Vaughan

Sharing Today's Sunset Medicine

O Great Spirit whose voice I hear in the winds, I come to you as one of your many children. I need your strength and your wisdom. Make me strong not to be superior to my brother, but to be able to fight my greatest enemy- Myself. - Chief Dan George, Coast Salish, 1899-1981

Today's Sunrise Medicine #4

An Old Irish Blessing

May the road rise up to meet you,

May the wind be always at your back,

May the sun warm your face,

And the rain fall soft upon your fields,

And until we meet again,

May God hold you in the palm of his hand.

Office Hours - Anthony Buono

http://www.anthonybuono.net/#sharehttp://glassonion8tracks.bandvista.com/

Nostalgic and fresh are words that come to mind when I first heard online cuts of Anthony Buono's Office Hours. He, Doug, Mike & Ted got our toes tapping this Saturday morning to I Need You (you'll swear it's John Lennon) &  Bound To Love shades of David Gates and Bread! Nicely produced and executed guys. Here's an excerpt from Anthony's album site:

Now is the Time

http://www.lordnelsons.com/gallery/frontier/griffing/main.htm

"The American Indian is the vengeful ghost lurking in the back of the troubled American Mind." -Gary Snyder, Earth House Hold, 1968

"But now is the time for a destructive order to be reversed, and it is well to inform other races that the aboriginal culture of America was not devoid of beauty. Furthermore, In denying the Indian his anscestral rights and heritages the white race is but robbing itself. But America can be revived,  rejuvenated, by recognizing a native school of thought. The Indian can save America." - Luther Standing Bear, Land of the Spotted Eagle, 1933

SenecaWolf To Host Karaoke

SenecaWolf the DJ & Karaoke Host is inviting wannabe singers to his show at the East Side Seafood & Raw Bar on US Route 50(Millwood Pike) 1.5 east of Winchester this Friday 15th January night from 8-11:30pm. Bring your friends and come out for the fun. A great crowd came out last friday & we expect a bigger turn-out on the 15th.

Hope to see all my friends there.

Today's Sunrise Medicine #3

It is unsettling to peer into the abyss from this point. Senses are up-ended and the stomach floating with fearful anticipation of the fall into the black misty hole. You look into the eye of this lion and you will be scared.  This is the spot that my ancestors spoke of. - SenecaWolf, 2010


http://www.webwinds.com/yupanqui/iroquoisdreams3.htm 

The Niagara Falls, or Nee-ah-gah-rah (Thundering Waters)  are the most sacred waters of the Iroquois people, and a focus of many of their legends and myths. For centuries, the Iroquois believed that the sound of the waterfall was the voice of the mighty spirit of the waters. Until the mid 18th century, they sought the favor of the Water Spirit by sacrificing a maiden to the Falls each year - sending her in a white canoe decorated with fruits and flowers over the brink of the falls. To be sacrificed was the greatest honor, and insured special gifts and happy hunting grounds in the afterlife. 
In 1679, when LaSalle visited the Iroquois, he condemned their practice of yearly sacrifice, but then attempted to convert the Iroquois to Christianity, and to convince them of the value of the sacrifice that Christ made for humanity. The Iroquois, of course, could not understand how their form of sacrifice could be viewed as bad, but Christ's sacrifice as good.
At this time, in1679, Chief Eagle Eye's daughter Lela-wala was chosen for the sacrifice, even though his wife was dead, and she was his only child. Not until the time of the sacrifice did he reveal the extent of  his grief. He disappeared into the woods, then  darted out in his own canoe following her through the rapids and over the Falls.
The Iroquois believe that "After their death, they were changed into pure spirits of strength and goodness. They live so far beneath the falls that the roaring is music to them." He is the ruler of the cataract; she is the maiden of the mist."

Sharing Today's Sunrise Medicine #2

They Will Return

MY FRIEND,

They will return again.

All over the Earth,

They are returning again.

Ancient teachings of the Earth,

Ancient songs of the Earth.

They are returning again.

My friend, they are returning.

I give them to you,

And through them You will understand.

You will see.

They are returning again upon the Earth.

CRAZY HORSE, Oglala Sioux (1842-77)

Sharing Today's Sunrise Medicine #1

Civilized people depend too much on man-made printed pages. I turn to the Great Spirit's book which is the whole of his creation. - Tatanga Mani, 1871-1967

Manitou

THE WORLD of the Native American, spiritual and otherwise, is not to be understood by assuming that it can be described easily in the English language, and in religious terms. What we now think of spirituality was not a religion in the commonly accepted definition of the word. It was their way of life, which is to say that it permeated their lives to such an extent as to be inseparable from everyday living....Manitou was not a supreme being, but rather a way of referring to the cosmic, mysterious power existing everywhere in nature. - Eunice Baumann-Nelson, Ph.D., Penobscot

Being a believer in Jesus Christ, of German/Scot heritage & a Sovereign member of the Seneca Nation, I embrace beliefs
that are hybrid based in Nature & Christianity. - SenecaWolf

http://www.curledup.com/viewfrom.htm

The Great Spirit is in all things

He is in the air we breathe. The Great Spirit is our Father, but the Earth is our Mother. She nourishes us, that which we put into the ground she returns to us... - Bedagi (Big Thunder), Wabanki Algonquin, 1900's

Washita Cuts Mother to the Bone

It disturbs me greatly to witness first-hand 12 tractor-trailer loads of timber clear-cut from the forest of our beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains & foot-lands every working day. That's 60 trucks a week, 3,120 yearly for over the recent 2-years I have lived on US route 50. Stop it NOW! - SenecaWolf, 1/10/2010

"I feel pain and anger that in your rush toward development. the fabric of this globe has been rent, and what you call the biosphere, or ecosphere - but which my people more simply call Mother - has been so neglected and hurt....Our elders tell us we have to do more than save what is left of our traditional homelands. We need to contribute to an overall change of mind...so that human-kind can begin to initiate strategies which will preserve and sustain the environment that all cultures and nations share." - Ruby Dunstan, Lytton Indian Band

Catch the Plan B Band

Be sure and don't miss Skip Groves's PlanB Band playing once a month at Winchester's EastSide Seafood & Raw Bar. Close your eyes and hear their Classic Rock Sounds like Collective Soul and many more LIVE in Concert. These four talented musicians ROCK! Go check them out and tell them Seneca Wolf sent you....

Wedded Bliss

On June 15 Laura & Seneca celebrated 1 day of wedded "Bliss" at their favorite Tavern in Flint Hill, Va. Robbie Limon played and of course what would a reception be without Glass Onion the awesome Beatles cover band the following night.
Joining them in the fun where their four daughters- Dianne, Tisa, Chelsea, Cassy and three sons- Dwight, Matt, Michael. And last but not least their Griffin Family!http://www.griffintavern.com/

Why Listen to the Beatles of the Past?

http://www.griffintavern.com/
When you can hear them Live today or actually on June 2nd at the Griffin Tavern in little ol'(blink your eye)Flint Hill, Va. The Tavern is located in heart of Virginia Wine Country, nestled in the hills of the Shenandoah Valley on Rt 522 between Front Royal and Little Washington, Va.
So why listen to old vinyl or cds? When you you can hear the real deal! I have never experienced the Beatles Live in concert, But this must have been the way it sounded at the Cavern in Liverpool. From the moment you catch the ambience of Ted Seely's guitar and the authentic Lennon-like voice of Anthony Buono your feet are tapping and head swaying. There's nothing that compares with the dynamics of a Live performance!

Check out their schedule at their site: http://glassonion.info/

The Blues Vultures are Coming to Roost

Ronnie Younkins, formerly of Kixx fame and his Blues Vultures are coming to the Lone Oak Rest. in Boyce, Va on Friday Feb 24th. Be sure and ask Ronnie to sing some Jagger for you and tell 'em Seneca Wolf sent ya! Their new CD "Cheap Guitars & Honky Tonk Bars" will be available. Be sure to get yours and help support local musicians. http://bluesvultures.com/BVgigs.html

Bluesmaster "Fingers" Freeman Appearing

A boyhood friend of famous Rappahanock County bluesman the late John Jackson. Eric "Fingers" Freeman, also of Rappahanock, will perform at the Lone Oak Resturant in nearby Boyce, Va at 8:pm til ? on Saturday, February 18th. Eric claims the former blues great John Jackson as his mentor . His inspirational favorites include Robert Johnson and Mississippi John Hurt among others. Check out Jackson at http://www.music-tree.com/jackson.html