by Michael Stocker | Aug 16, 2017 | Ceremony
My name is Kevin. I have been one of the firemen in the Seven Circles community for a few years now. In these years, and also having had previous experience in community, I have realized that being a man in community is hard work. Wood runs and preparation for...
by Michael Stocker | Aug 16, 2017 | Ceremony
As far back as I can remember I have longed, often painfully, for something that seemed to be missing from myself. Misunderstanding the intensity of this longing, I spent years in the addictive cycle of substitution, constantly searching to feel whole. After a while...
by Michael Stocker | Aug 16, 2017 | Ceremony
I am finding something that is both difficult and delightful about getting older; as I look back into the past, I have a longer distance to view. It is hard to believe that it was only ten years ago that I was as reckless as I was – with my self assured confidence...
by Michael Stocker | Aug 16, 2017 | Ceremony
I was at a Tipi meeting at Redwind (San Luis Obispo, California) when I heard for the second time that year about the all White-man Sundance in Ashland Oregon, and that Wallace Black Elk was the intercessor. In the meeting this white guy had given a woman some cedar...
by Michael Stocker | Aug 16, 2017 | Ceremony
The original cultures did not have an economy based on acquisition, rather their lifeways were based on giving and receiving. Much in the way that the fruit tree receives nourishment from the earth, and then gives her fruit to the animals, who then return the gift...
