September 1, 1999

The day is bright and clear and the sky is sunny and warming. All is wonderful in the chicken pen. Everyone is eating and laying eggs and the little ones are playing. However, out there is a weasel with big teeth that needs to eat. One of the chickens will be his. He licks his lips with only one thing on his mind - EATING… it does not matter if it is a little one or a big one, male or female - EATING is the thought; the only goal he has.

The weasel will wait until the time is right. With patience, he will get his reward. His goal is to kill a chicken and eat. He has and he always will. If there is a chicken and a weasel, the weasel will want his due -- his dinner -- the chicken.

To deal with the weasel, the farmer gets a dawg, not just any dawg, but the hound dawg -- one who hates weasels and will bark any time he smells one. This alarm system allows the farmer to get his gun and kill the weasel. The chickens know they can rely on the hound dawg, and that they can rest.

The weasel on the other hand, just waits. He knows eventually that the dawg will go to sleep. Bamm, the weasel hits! A chicken and three babies are gone. The weasel licks his lips and laughs; "I'll be back for more soon!"

I want us everyone to look at their minds and see that they can be a meal for someone else to dine on. The ones I want you to think of most are the children, for they are in the most danger. Choices that lead one to being a meal are; serving objects, becoming full of greed, surrendering to chemical addiction, become out of control, and succumbing to being mentally ill. These are some of the weasels that exist among two-leggeds today, along with loss, failure and death to the spirit, as well as the body.

How many weasels are there? Anything you don't like can be called a weasel. Anytime you are scared or want something to blame, then it's a weasel. The human two-legged society today has become a game of Pop Goes the Weasel. Remember the key words: Anytime, Scared, Blame, and you win -- Pop Goes the Weasel. It is important to understand that when we blame no one wins. What we need to do in life is admit our wrongs and change and there will be no more Weasel. We need to balance our fear, which will bring an understanding. When we understand then we can take action. The most important thing to understand may be mental health. It maybe that a person is a killer. Or that the person is very abusive and you need to remove them from your life.

In these times the weasel is called evil and bad. When you have problems with a youth, blame is placed on the music, the game, or the friends the young one runs with. Sex, TV Shows, riding around in a car, dancing, movies, and the Internet are also targets for blame. Okay, you've identified the weasel. Now, what are you going to do?

Here is a teaching from me to all. To be able to take care of your family, you need to understand that you will not stop the weasel with a gun, a dawg, or a jail. How the Chickens will be safe is by understanding life and teaching the Good Red Road. (The Good Red Road is sobriety, good mental health, respect for your body, prayer, and honor.) They need to follow the teaching of good ways. To teach your young the lessons of sound minded and right and wrong. Walking the Good Red Road is done with courage and trust. It is up to each individual to learn the lessons of the Good Red Road. While walking the Good Red Road we learn lessons. Failure is a lesson and it is just the opportunity to learn. The Good Red Road is the Grandmother/Grandfather/Great Spirit through prayer.

Our youth, as always, have a choice and the job of the village is to teach the children. We allow the gun, the music and the abuse, that is eating up the humans of the earth and destroying all in its pathway. It will be our success when we turn to the choices and apply the teachings of truth and knowledge. Our freedom of speech and art and the right to bear arms is truth, but the responsibility to the ongoing youth is the truth also.

So, what happened to the weasel, dawg and the chickens? Could it be that the farmer gave up and killed them all? Could it be the farmer went to Safeway and got his chicken? Could it be there was only one weasel left and he died? Could it be the chickens crossed the road and ran off? The truth of the story of the WEASEL is that the weasel is in the chicken house.

Did you notice I said that the weasel was in the chicken house? If you understand what the chicken house symbolizes, then you are on the way to solving the problem of the weasel. A dysfunctional family full of abuse and control issues can only come to an end when you understand that the chicken house is you. It is a place where your chickens are, which is the place of yourself and your children. There needs to be Prayer with action in your life. Listen to your inner voice. We must do something, we have weasels eating and more are coming.

From the beginning of man, there's always been blame. Hindsight is always clearer than prevention. To reconstruct the value within life, we first have to accept the weasel. Teach the children well…it is only when you don't know something that harm is at hand. It seems that there must be something that can be done with the weasel, because if you understand the story, you will see that everything and everybody is wrong, when in fact the weasel was only hungry. So, we must open our doors to structure understanding, responsibility, and limits.

I have the job of watching over the children. All are children. Stop the violence. You and I and all are in this life together, just remember -- do to me what you want me to do to you and it works. If the words are poison we will die. We have the Medicine of Choice and Change and we can do just that! Choose and Change, and You Win!!!!!! Aho

The next topic will be "The Voice of the Raven - How Humans Lose Their Magic."

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