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“Daddy!” Dewa shrieked as i appeared at the threshold of her Kindergarten Classroom, holding my Hall Permit from the staunch Check In personnel at Needham Elementary School, to pick my daughter up early in order to assist the 5-generation Durangoan Zink Family in their Mission to restore 50 acres of Animas River Valley to their vital and historic, wetland condition. We were going to spend our afternoon planting trees in wetlands. As i felt my daughter thump into my outstretched arms in front of her entire class and Teachers, a rush of low self-esteem swept over me…never in my life, let alone at age 5, has ilg ever been capable or willing to display such an outwardly embrace of Love. During our hug, i saw her classmates, each of them smiling at our embrace. “Okay…this mOMent alone is enough,” i felt to myself…yet, it was merely the beginning to another miraculously sacred ‘Daddy & Dewa Day Time’…c’mon…a lot of Dharma to follow!

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unlike the famed song lyrics, “it’s never as good/as the first time…” feeble ilg has found that many of my most sacred, sensual, and awesOMe moments are better than the first time…like for instance, this precious “Full Pink Moon…” This name came from…

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even when her entire Navajo Nation did not return her plea’s for help in bringing her Message of support for Navajo obesity and diabetes awareness and assistance? YOU DID! only you, the WF Sangha provided a huge ripple in what we plan to be a big Wave of Change for all Navajo and Native Americans, so THANK YOU!!!! beyond words, Dawagahti and i, THANK YOU!!! stay tuned for more and enjoy the below…

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THANK YOU! as you know over the past 3+ decades, you can count on coach ilg to embrace only the the most important, vital, world-class projects, services, and products of our precious plane(t)…and so it is with getting Sandra “Dawagahti” Lee to make history this weekend, yet i need your help, now!

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Durango local snowshoe racer, Sandra “Dawagaghti” Lee ( yinishye, Tachii nii nishli, Kinyaa aanii bashishchini – born for the Red-Running-Into-Water Clan, and born for the Towering House Clan), ran a National Qualifying time at Durango’s USSSA-Sanctioned Snowshoe Race; The Winter Warrior 10k (held Feb. 9th, at the Durango Nordic Center), and now stands to make sports history as the first female Native American to ever compete at a National Snowshoe Championship…

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Full Snow Moon

Published on Feb 25, 2013 by in Native Americana, nature, Teachings

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• Full Snow Moon – February Since the heaviest snow usually falls during this month, native tribes of the north and east most often called February’s full Moon the Full Snow Moon. Some tribes also referred to this Moon as…

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(all access!)  WF TEMPLE GONG!  Let’s Make History:  Get Dawagahti To Nationals This March!

HELP ME GET DAWAGAHTI TO MAKE NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY!

She could be the FIRST female Native American to compete at the US National Snowshoe Championships this March 15-17…i NEED YOUR WARRIOR HAND!

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• The Full Cold Moon; or the Full Long Nights Moon – December During this month the winter cold fastens its grip, and nights are at their longest and darkest. It is also sometimes called the Moon before Yule. The term Long Night Moon is a doubly appropriate name because

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