Lore De Silvestri R.’s Reviews > A Steady Brightness of Being: Truths, Wisdom, and Love from Celebrated Indigenous Voices > Status Update

“Speak proudly, live well, and take care of one another.”

“Our language animates and explains our existence and our universe in beautifully subtle and complicated ways that English simply cannot capture.”

“So even if the story of our time has plenty of bad, I like to think there is just as much good. Because where there is bad there is good. There just is.”

“I wonder and worry about that side for you-I’ve never adequately answered it for myself.”

“Every step I’ve take in my life, every new town, every new identity, has taken me a little farther away from what your ancestors called your real home”

“I don’t remember what your voice sounds like anymore, but I remember your laugh as clear as day. It’s nice to know you love so much that it’s stuck in my memory like that.”

“My learning journey is a lifelong one, one which continues with the benefit of ny family, who can help me better understand my mistakes and the ways in which our thinking changes over time, based on our experiences. We can and do change our opinions. In every experience, there is something new to learn, which can and does change our actions toward others. That is not hypocrisy, that is how we learn and grow.”

“Remember, we are all learning”

“(…) we are never truly alone. Our ancestors walk beside us in this journey until we become the ancestors of our future generations -a circle of life that never ends.”