81 days down/135 days to go
Yesterday ( I must be losing faith…this seems to becoming a pattern! forgetting to blog or being to tired to blog before bed! ack) Anyway, yesterday was wonderful. Volunteered at the homeshow in the aft/evening and then went to the mind, body, spirit expo aftwards with my mom…we didn’t get home until 10:30 and I was exhausted! Sparky was so excited he actually head butted me in the lips when I picked him up! lol..yes, my little poodle/shitzu cross gave me a fat lip! it’s much better now…only a cut.
Emotionally, excellent, it was great helping out and meeting new people and other REALTORs…and the Mind, Body, blah blha show was good too…except for this white girl SELLING the sweet grass to the other white girls…
For those who don’t understand what I mean: you go to these shows and you always find a racially displaced person who is trying to act like that race but has never even hung out with a person of that race. In this case a white, hippiesque woman, who attempts to act native. But, because of her actions (selling sweetgrass) its clear that she has never bothered to establish a relationship with a native person that was strong enough for them to be taught spiritual stuff… or at the very least took a class in such things. So the poor shoppers talk to this person, presuming she knows her stuff and make mistakes such as buying the sweetgrass. Also for those who don’t know, you are never to buy sweetgrass, it must be given to you or traded and never for money. It actually pisses me off big time when I see ppl selling things that are fobidden to be sold and I highly doubt if I said, I’d trade you this amythist for it, they would be swift enough to do so. bah…another of my little pet peeves. So it really upsets me when someone doesn’t even try to respect the culture, whatever it may be, and is trying to pretend that they are in order to exploit it for their own gain. Know what I mean Jelly Bean?
I know what some of you may be thinking if you noticed my tattoo…how arabic tattoo’d could be disrespecting the Muslim culture. I have several Islamic friends and I cleared it with them before having it done just to make sure I wasn’t insulting anything. and I’m not. If this woman had asked a Native person if it’s OK to sell sweetgrass…they would have said NO! bah…done ranting now. 
