Hoop Dancer is a rendering of my understanding of the process by which one enters into timelessness -- that place where one is whole.

It's a little-known linguistic curiosity that the name Jehovah or Jaweh is the same name as Eve; Havva, the counterpart name in Farsi, the language spoken by the Persians, means either Jaweh or Eve.

... America has amnesia. ... Certainly, there is a passion for memory loss in American thought. ... Americans may be the world champion forgetters.

The shadows cannot speak.

An odd thing occurs in the minds of Americans when Indian civilization in mentioned: little or nothing.

The root of oppression is the loss of memory.

Breath is life, and the intermingling of breaths is the purpose of good living. This is in essence the great principle on which all productive living must rest, for relationships among all the beings of the universe must be fulfilled; in this way each individual life may also be fulfilled.