Rolling Thunder: medicine man

“All life is a circle. The atom is a circle, orbits are circles, the earth, moon, and sun are circles. The seasons are circles. The cycle of life is a circle: baby, youth, adult, elder. The sun gives life to the earth who feeds life to the trees whose seeds fall to the earth to grow new trees. We need to practice seeing the cycles that the Great Spirit gave us because this will help us more in our understanding of how things operate. We need to respect these cycles and live in harmony with them.”

-Rolling Thunder

RT was a Cherokee medicine man who became Shoshone by marriage. He lived In Carlin, Nevada (near Elko). I stayed at his camp: Meta Tantay in 1981.

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