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Blog Redesign in Progress

Hi! I’m redesigning the blog… again! (My previous theme was discontinued by Word Press.) So please hang on while I tinker with it. Hope to be back soon. Aho & Namaste, Bob

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Preserving Hopi Identity and Our Hope, One Word at a Time

(Photo associated with a 19th Century U.S. idea about “Manifest Destiny”; entitled “American Progress,” Autry National Center [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons This is a hopeful story about a small Native American tribe, the Hopi….

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A New Shaman Lightning Drum for a Restless Healer

THE uNTAMED hEART LIGHTNING DRUM Let’s face it. We are all seekers. You wouldn’t be reading this if you weren’t. We are looking for answers, and despite the explosion of information available to us in…

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Pete’s Drum

Here are a couple of recent photos from new friend Colleen, who gifted a drum (shown below on the couple’s altar) to her husband Pete.  He is a shamanic practitioner and medium in New York….

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New Drums, Love & Links

It is good to remember that beautiful drums require a lot more than the wood and hide that gives them form. The most important ingredient is the love that goes into them from both a customer and the drum maker. That’s what makes a drum a true loving healer in its own right.