Letters

Dakota's mother has written letters to her dead children:



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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butsudan

A Butsudan (仏壇, lit. "Buddhist altar"), sometimes spelled Butudan, is a shrine commonly found in temples and homes in Japanese Buddhist cultures.[1] A butsudan is either a defined, often ornate platform or simply a wooden cabinet sometimes crafted with doors that enclose and protect a Gohonzon or religious icon, typically a statue or painting of a Buddha or Bodhisattva, or a calligraphic mandala scroll.

The butsudan's primary use is for paying respects to the Buddha, as well as to family members who have died.














A Native American woman guided me in this ritual. It was done because my home area was in seven straight days of severe drought with dangerous ozone levels in the air. This event happened on Saturday, June 12, 1999 at dawn. I went outside and saw that the entire sky had a thick cloud cover that was pink and blue all over, like a baby's blanket. My daughter's baby boy, Dakota, had died at birth, three months before this event. 

Dakota was stillborn on March 11, 1999.

Mizuko was stillborn on August 10, 2010

Their sibling later died in a miscarriage.

There was only one star visible high in the sky; I walked into the front lawn to put that star directly over my head. This required me to walk on the grass about six feet from the front of our house and about three feet from the center of the house while facing the house; 

I was facing toward the West Power which is of Rain and Life; I looked up and smelled a fresh flow, as if the water from the earth were going back up into the sky; then I bent backwards, while standing, to search the whole sky to see if there were any other stars; there were none visible except one, very bright star, which appeared to be hiding itself behind a tree; 

I offered a gift which I believe has great spiritual power and is actually named Gentle Rain. I believe that the star above me was my grandson, Dakota, and that the star behind the tree was his sibling, Mizuko.




When I leaned back and saw the star behind the tree, I felt as though I was being lifted up by my back:




“Perhaps they are not stars in the sky, but rather

openings where our loved ones shine down to let us

know they are happy." ~ Inuit Elder Saying



"Peace... comes within the souls of men when they realize their relationship, their oneness, with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the Universe dwells Wakan-Tanka, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us."
--Black Elk (Hehaka Sapa), Oglala Lakota
Ella Cloud Horse, Little Warrior, Black Elk. Circa 1950



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