"Precious Gifts & Blessings" Print

Original acrylic painting with texture (mixed media) on canvas, gallery wrap with painting around edges. This piece has a blue sky with white and blue clouds, light and dark greens for the trees and brush both in the forefront and on Half Dome, whites, greys and blacks for the granite of Half Dome, and whites, yellows, and browns for the grizzly bear and eagle with the eagle being textured. Wired & ready to hang. 10% of art sales donated towards helping animals and Native Americans. Time-lapse creation video available at . For the many who venture to see Yosemite National Park, they find it to be a peaceful and beautiful place often beyond words. But, for Native American tribes that once called Yosemite home for thousands of years before being forced out such as the Southern Sierra Miwok tribe, it is a sacred place, a place we can still feel the presence of our ancestors calling to us. Whether it’s Tesaiyac (Half Dome), ‘Üshumati (the bear, a great protector and healer), Wip•aya•ku (the eagle, a great messenger), any of our other brothers and sisters, or our ancestors, they all call to us to return to and honor our home. To a place filled with abundance, but one where we never took more than we needed. A place we honored our ancestors and animals, our brothers and sisters, and so much more for we valued every single thing around us. A place that is our home, no matter where we may live. Our ancestors reside in us, call to us, teach, guide, and protect us in so many ways. Whether you are from the Southern Sierra Miwok, another Native tribe, or are not Native at all, you must always be willing to learn and hear what your ancestors are telling you. They are always there to guide us along our paths, but we first must be willing to listen. So often we get caught up in our life’s that we can’t hear their guidance. But if we stop to listen, to take the time to hear them, we will begin to find the peace we are seeking within and so much more. We must always be grateful for the blessings we have and receive, and look at all around us with an appreciation. Open your mind and eyes to see the beauty that is all around you. Appreciate and honor the value of the blessings you have around you at every single moment. For each and every moment in time and every single thing, whether it is living or not, is something to be appreciated and honored, for they are all precious gifts and blessings.