The Medicine wheel

Wisdom of the Medicine wheel

I have been lucky. Many kind Native Americans took me under their wing and taught me how to find peace.

At the Mall I went to the so-call Native American store. A Middle Eastern man tried to sell me a Chinese made items. I touched a Medicine Wheel.

I told him: “A proper Medicine Wheel has the power of the four winds.”
I touched a Dream Catcher.” A real one would protect your spirit and keep bad dreams away.”

He grinned at me. He didn’t understand a word that I have spoken. He told me. “It does the same things.” I left the store with nothing.

I sat with my Apache Friend and his family outside the gate of Fort Hood, Texas. I sat and listened to him. His skin hardened by the Texas sun. I came and sat with him every Saturday for many…