WISDOM OF THE SAGES
EPISODE IX: FALL 2024
Hello People of the World;
September was a rough month for me. It was horrible. I’m writing this in July 2025, that’s how much this month affected me. For a while, these will probably be short and to the point as I work to catch up and remember things from the month the edition is representing. It’s been a tough year. So, now I’m playing catch up.
The weather is getting warmer.
As always: Stay safe. Stay home.
All right, let’s get going:
1:[ This virus really showed how equal we all really are: how much we keep falling for the propaganda.
2:[ MOVIE REVIEWS:
Char finally viewed “Monster”. She thought it was beautiful and was so happy the two lived through to the end. You see, it’s rare for that to happen for such characters. It also made her a fan of Kore-eda Hirokazu….
3:[ This Month’s Essay:
“Our Little Sister”
Elvira is one of my best friends in life. It feels very wrong to try and go back to a regular life after losing someone that means that much to you. My Little Sister was tough and kind and rough and funny. It pains me to see the life she lived. While she thrived, she struggled with the very things we never think about. While we argued about which so-called leader will save us, she was living with the conditions and consequences of their collective actions. She worked to give her children a proper start in life. While we all argued about the racism and harm we wanted in a leader, she lived with its implementation, and we argued about taking away those programs and assistance she relied on.
She struggled with health, financial, racial issues on the everyday while we complained about slap bracelets and old playgrounds somehow making us better than others, visited over-priced coffeeshops and shoved in her face pictures of expensive food she could never provide for her kids.
Here I am, trying to make sense of it all as we mourn a rich actress we've never met over someone who needed comfort and support like so many out there. While we defend that monarchy as something great and worth keeping for some reason, she lived in the poverty of our country's actions. It feels wrong to try and go back to a normal life after losing someone that impacted my life so.
4:[ Observation: “Per Capita payments are an entitlement.”
I’ve heard this being said around the rez recently. It’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard. It’s dumb and sad to see Northern Arapahos falling for this rhetoric. They are a payout based on the resources pulled from our lands. With all the oil, water, and timber this reservation produced, with all that casino revenue, the entire tribe should be mad at how much is being held back or given to the lawyers. We should be mad at how small the amount is.
Instead, we want to be chimpanzee butlers so much we forget treaty rights…
5:[ We cannot go back to “Normal” all after this: What is normal? My little sister said once. “I don’t know what normal is. If I had two or three lives, I would probably figure out what ‘normal’ is.”
I miss my little sister….
That is it for this month.
As always, I invite you to comment, correct, or contradict anything I write here. I am open to a critical debate. Thanks for taking the time to check out what I write here and I will see you in a month.
Until next time, remember “I try to show the schemers how pathetic their attempts to control everything really are.”
2024 Ernest M Whiteman III
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