As the year comes closing

2010 is nearing the end and we say good bye to the summer and welcome fall.  It's been quite a year for me as I've made my travels to and fro.  I've grown extensively this year and be made quite humble in this past year.  I've counted my blessings and have had many prayers answered by the Great Spirit who has given me so much.  I've worked hard and long to reach the part of the mountain I'm on and although I'm not there yet I know by trudging day by day I will reach the summit.  My two year training came to an end this summer and it was with great happiness that I accomplished quite a task.  I am now fully trained in Broadcasting-Television and I welcome the road ahead.  It just goes to show that no matter what the dream, it's never too late to go after what you love and believe you were meant for.  In saying that, I am pleased to say that my dream of owning my video production company is on it's way and I'm preparing for everything I want to produce with it.  Ideas always will flow through my mind, here and there.  That door never closes and never will.  My first project is a docu-drama that I want to produce in the new year and my crew and I are eager to get started.  Drafting a script is a job in itself but one that I'm happy to write, it's all exciting and I couldn't ask for anything else. I know I'm exactly where I need to be in life and I'm headed to a place where I can be a voice amongst my people.  After all the hustle and bustle of trying to figure out where I belong, I realize that it is with my people that I will begin my work. It's the most important right now.  When I was a young girl I used of dream of making movies and now my dream is at hand.  So as I sit here to write, I want to say to you who is reading - never give up on your dreams!!  Miigwetch

Words say so much

Words have a profound effect on us as humans and they last for years.  They can help shape a future or tear down your soul.  We never know which directions our lives are headed to but it's sure that words help us get there.  Indefinitely.  My father had a saying he used to say, "when I say something, it's got to be right."  I never knew until some time later in life how those words shaped me.  In my version of life, it means to always speak the truth.  Do not throw away words senselessly.  Words are precious, just as life.  Words can change the world.  Living your word is such an important part of a human being. When we live with our words, we are much happier people, more free.  When we tell ourselves things such as, "I think I'll buy a car this year" or "I think I'll lose 5 lbs this summer" and we do it, it's a sense of freedom.  We've done exactly what we've said we'd do and it sets us free.  However, when we do not do what we say it can eat away at us for years and our lives do not move forward.  Because our spirit knows the truth and our spirit knows what it wants.  Our spirit is the true essence of what we are and when we deny it we don't live by the words.  This is where unhappiness comes from.  In order to turn it around, we have to listen to ourselves and reconnect with our true selves.  It is the only way and words can help us get there.  Words are magic, words are powerful, words can create worlds and help shape your future.  They are a force that we possess, a force so powerful that we don't even realize the magic we hold.  Words have created some of the best writers, best songs, best films, best plays, best students, and whatever else you can think of to put in this list.  Like a song that is timeless, it was the words that has lived on in our hearts that made it so.  Words are alive and they belong to us.  They belong to you and they belong to me.  This is what my father taught me all those years.  It is the gift that he left me with and I am grateful.