The best teachers have showed me that things have to be done bit by bit. Nothing that means anything happens quickly--we only think it does. The motion of drawing back a bow and sending an arrow straight into a target takes only a split second, but it is a skill many years in the making. So it is with a life, anyone's life. I may list things that might be described as my accomplishments in these few pages, but they are only shadows of the larger truth, fragments separated from the whole cycle of becoming. And if I can tell an old-time story now about a man who is walking about, waudjoset ndatlokugan, a forest lodge man, alesakamigwi udlagwedewugan, it is because I spent many years walking about myself, listening to voices that came not just from the people but from animals and trees and stones.
Joseph BruchacTags: wisdom time journey patience story path personal-mythmaking wandering
Strong words outlast the paper they are written upon.
Joseph BruchacIf it wasn't for good," my mother says, "we human beings would have been wiped out a long time ago. Either the monsters would have gotten us or we would have killed each other off with greed and jealousy and anger. So we have to believe in good. We have to look for the good in ourselves.
Joseph BruchacLibrarians. . . have been my lifelong friends, guides and heroes.
Joseph BruchacWe need to walk to know sacred places, those around us and those within. We need to walk to remember the songs.
Joseph BruchacTags: philosophy environment
The best teachers have shown me that things have to be done bit by bit. Nothing that means anything happens quickly - we only think it does.
Joseph BruchacA story is a burden which must be carried with as much care as we carry a sleeping child
Joseph BruchacTags: pafge-85
Another of the hard things about being in a war, grandchildren, is that although there are times of quiet when the fighting has stopped, you know you will soon be fighting again. Those quiet times give you the chance to think about what has happened. Some of it you would rather not think about, as you remember the pain and the sorrow. You also have time to worry about what will happen when you go into battle again.
Joseph BruchacTags: fear war quiet fighting-battles
Kill every enemy twice, Wilky said. Better than gettin' shot by a soldier pretending to be dead.
Joseph BruchacTags: war enemy battle twice possum pretending-death shot-twice
Never think that war is a good thing, grandchildren. Though it may be necessary at times to defend our people, war is a sickness that must be cured. War is a time out of balance. When it is truly over, we must work to restore peace and sacred harmony once again.
Joseph BruchacTags: war peacemaking defend-our-country
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