The Buffalo Bunch
from Machaelle Wright, perelandra-ltd.com

For some time now, as we have hopped from one crisis after another, we have been suggesting which Perelandra products can help you move forward. But as time has gone on, the crises — personally, locally, nationally and globally — have only increased in number and intensified. Let’s face it, these times are tough. Especially if your inclination is to want to do something, respond, help out . . .

In Ken Burns’ latest documentary, “The American Buffalo,” and its companion book, “Blood Memory,” we learn that the buffalo has something to say to us, if only we will listen. It’s been passed down for thousands of years from one generation to the next. And yet it still applies to today’s situation.

Dan O’Brien writes: “I think that one of the ways they [the buffalo] survive, and had survived for thousands of years, is they turn into the wind. They move through the storm, rather than being chased by the storm. I’ve never lost one in a storm. When I ran cattle, we lost a lot of cattle in storms. Cattle go with the storm. The same storm can snow on them for three days because they keep moving away. A buffalo goes the other way, and the storm doesn’t last as long because they go through it.

“They are survivors. They’ve evolved, and their genes are telling them they’re going to survive. They’re tough as hell. And I think that that same thing that drives them to turn into a storm and to walk forward, is why we still have buffalo today.

“George Horse Capture Jr. said he was taught a lesson his elders had learned from the bison. ‘Turn and face the day’ is something you hear when you’re having a hard time.

“ … So, in a bad storm, a buffalo has to turn and face that storm or else things won’t be good for him. And I heard that saying, and as I started looking at them, it made sense to me. If you don’t face the day, you don’t face the storm, there could be problems.”

Duncan, Dayton; Burns, Ken. Blood Memory (p. 195).
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