{"id":3302,"date":"2013-01-18T05:56:05","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T05:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.littlewing.se\/?p=3302"},"modified":"2013-01-18T05:56:05","modified_gmt":"2013-01-18T05:56:05","slug":"white-shell-ever-changing-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlewing.se\/?p=3302","title":{"rendered":"White Shell Ever-Changing Woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Poetry By: Sunny Dooley (Former Miss Navajo Nation,<br \/>\nStoryteller, Poet &amp; Folk Singer)<\/p>\n<p>White Shell Ever-Changing Women<\/p>\n<p>At the purest edge of darkness<br \/>\nAt the purest start of light<br \/>\nMists of sky and mists of earth<br \/>\nEmbraced<br \/>\nAs clouds of white, blue, abalone and jet swirled<br \/>\nFrom east to west<br \/>\nFrom north to south<br \/>\nUnfurled ribbons of rainbows crossed<br \/>\nBeneath it&#8217;s arch<br \/>\nTaking sacred breath was a child<br \/>\nResting on all the essences of what is all of earth<br \/>\nand what is all of sky<br \/>\nnourished on dewdrops and pollens<br \/>\nShe stood on tourquoise<br \/>\nStepped into her white shell moccasins of endurance<br \/>\nShe wrapped blue velvet clouds around her<br \/>\nUpon it she placed the mountains, rivers, streams and cloud vapors<br \/>\nShe belted her waist with the rainbow<br \/>\nOn her wrist she placed laces of swirling clouds of white shell, turquoise<br \/>\nabalone and jet<\/p>\n<p>She took a grass brush<br \/>\nBegan to comb her hair that lay as sprays of rain and fragrant blossoms<br \/>\nShe combed into each strand every subtle nuance of<br \/>\ngrace, strength, charm and<br \/>\nWisdom<br \/>\nWrapped it into abundle at the nape of her neck<br \/>\nTied it with sunbeams<br \/>\nShe stood<br \/>\nIlluminated<br \/>\nThis Whiteshell-Ever-Changing-Woman<br \/>\nWhen she spoke<br \/>\nIt was:<br \/>\nHo zho jii<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.littlewing.se\/?attachment_id=3303\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3303\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3303\" title=\"artwork by Linda\" src=\"https:\/\/www.littlewing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/artwork-by-Linda.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"826\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.littlewing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/artwork-by-Linda.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.littlewing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/artwork-by-Linda-270x371.jpg 270w, https:\/\/www.littlewing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/artwork-by-Linda-590x812.jpg 590w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poetry By: Sunny Dooley (Former Miss Navajo Nation, Storyteller, Poet &amp; Folk Singer) White Shell Ever-Changing Women At the purest edge of darkness At the purest start of light Mists of sky and mists of earth Embraced As clouds of white, blue, abalone and jet swirled From east to west From north to south Unfurled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlewing.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlewing.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlewing.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlewing.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlewing.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlewing.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3304,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlewing.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3302\/revisions\/3304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlewing.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlewing.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlewing.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}