Tuesday, June 19, 2007

The outdoor ceremony was a smudging by elder Linda Blomme, who took quite a while to do it to almost everbody. Here Dean Peter is smudging, which consists of wafting sweetgrass smoke with your hands towards your head, face, and body. A drummer drumed, and he and a young woman sang an Aboriginal tune. I don't think members of the Orange order would have had the open attitude most of the Anglicans there did to this First Nations ceremony, somehow. I was quite proud of the Anglicans, actually. They showed great patience listening to Linda, whose explanation of the ceremony did seen to go on and on, and nearly everyone voluntarily got smudged. I admit I was impatient at first, but the ceremony did turn out to be meaningful.

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