Someone once asked me what I mean when I say, “Stay Brown.” Well, my people say that life is a circle. They say that we are part of all of life. They also say that, as a part of all of life, we are creating our lives every instant we are here. My spiritual father taught me this way: What I think I create. What I create I become. What I become I express. What I express I experience. What I experience I am. And so on and so on and so on. That’s the circle moving. My responsibility to myself and to life is to act as though I believe this until I do believe it. So, stay brown. Be the circle moving…
Richard Wagamese
(Embers, One Ojibway’s Meditations, 2016)
