The First Love Medicine

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Water was the first love medicine.

It will be the last, too.


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Love Medicine of Another Sort

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And as he descends for the night, the wind dies and the snow arrives, and it is love medicine of another sort.


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Indigo Fire

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And he sits there on the post, limned by setting sun, gold and red and blue all at once, indigo fire and molten ice, and he brings me

Love medicine.



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Promise

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The bluebird is here, and his indigo feathers hold the promise of spring.



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Assurance

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Their love medicine is confidence, assurance, the knowledge that we will survive, and thrive, and live to fly on warmer winds.




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Afterglow; First Light

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Sun meets Moon in one last embrace before he sets off on his daily journey across the sky.


To him, it is afterglow; to us, first light.



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The First Day of Spring

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Today is the first day of spring.

Oh, I know what the calendar says, but the calendar is wrong. In this place, the first day of spring is the day the first meadowlark appears.

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Lovers' Dance

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They sit atop the fence, side by side in the late sunlight.

This is the start of the lovers’ dance, love medicine made form and flesh and act.

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Shadows On Hearts

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And the spirit horse, all spirit now, lives in the light, and she sends us the shadow in lieu of her touch.

That is her gift now, her love medicine: shadows on hearts.



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Distant Blue

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They are the color of the sky behind the storm, the distant blue above the setting sun.



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Clouds and Ships

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Clouds and ships are asail on the light.



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Stardust and Light

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And I know this is the love medicine that she carries, a bundle amassed over near-twenty years, one that she bears on her journey across the sky:

Stardust and light.

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Watch

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Sometimes, love medicine is a watch kept by a stranger.



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Spirit Horse

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The Spirit Horse races across the starlit path of dreams. Tonight, she no longer runs alone.

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Reds

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They are his gifts to me, these years ago: the reds of home, made home here in this place.

They are romance, and they are love.

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Maps

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And this, too, is love medicine, these messages and maps, a reminder that we do not cease to be of use when breath departs.

We live on, and so does love.



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Heart of Stone

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Heart of stone, of earth, of world.



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A Moment of Magic

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It is the star falling from the top of the tree, backlighting for a blue spruce that reaches past it in search of other worlds.

A moment of magic.

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For Earth and Sky

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It is time for a love medicine for earth and sky; time to conceive a new day once again.

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A Place to Be

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Love medicine is having a place to lay your head, a place to rest body and spirit.

A place to be.

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