Somos 4-LIFE
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For me there was something beyond the pain of grief that I had to find. Possibly, a life path, a deeply rooted journey with a strong thread and lifeline to my past. When I calmed my spirit and listened to the beat of my heart, I started writing. I began to mend a Crow Indian legend by giving it the sound of my voice, the breath of my spirit and love from my soul. It was as if someone handed me a broken legend and wanted me to repair the story and give it my life and of course I did. I listened to the beat of my heart and I started writing. As I wrote the constant ache that once filled my heart from grief finally softened. I began to understand why Ricky’s death should never live inside my heart. The love that flowed in his veins also flowed in mine. He was my soul mate. Immune to the temperature outside, I placed my fingers on the keyboard and I transformed a Crow Indian legend into my own personalized narrative. Like a needle making its way through alternating warp threads, I introduced Ricky into the weave by adding the story of our life that we shared together into the legend’s loom. My story is now recorded in this book and the special love shared by two spirits is sealed and bonded together forever within each letter, each word, each line, and each chapter. With the influence of my sacred ancestry, my heart mended, a story that I can share with you. Somos 4-Life meaning “We are for Life”
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A common theme in life is death. Those who lose someone to death must find a way to continue living. Grief was not something for me to understand or even question. Grief was something I had to experience. For a long time after Ricky’s death, I woke up unable to see the morning sun. Two questions overwhelmed my mind; why did Ricky die, and what am I supposed to do now? One day, the morning sun found me. Like the reassuring touch of my Mother’s tender hand, the sun’s warmth landed on my face and gave me peace. It was important for me to remember my soul mate and to grieve. Our life was not always perfect, but we were in it together. At times, we did not have to make things work, they just did. I realized that because love was at the core of our relationship, it should also be at the core of my grief and that pure love sustains all. Overtime love flowed back into my heart like a stream that grows into a river and powered my recovery. From my heart I could hear the melody and see the radiant colors of life all around me. Familiar with how love sounds and what love looks like I was alive again. Then, I came across a Crow Indian legend. It was as if someone placed a story in front of me and pleaded to give it life. I surrendered my heart and started to write. Guided by the sound of my spirit and breath of my soul I revived the Crow Indian legend by weaving threads of my life into the story. When someone dies their voice and their stories are gone but the essence of their love remains forever in someone else’s story. Somos 4-LIFE is my story.