Introductory First Entry

My First Blog Entry - January 12, 2009

This isn't by any means my first blog entry. I began a blog on my personal website back in 2001 - and back then I had to do a little research to learn what a blog actually was!

Now Journals, I know. I have kept one since I was about 12 years old and some of them have been very extensive. I was always quite consistent in writing in my Journal, but life comes a long and children and other things and I somehow didn't find the time to do some Journal writing for several years. But it is amazing to go back and read how I felt, thought and saw life at 17, at 20 and at 32, for an example. I've carried them every where I've gone in life, every move and here they sit today, just waiting to be re-read. Writing a Journal, helped me tremendously during one of the most difficult periods of my life, when my Mother was ill and then died from colon cancer. She had just turned 52 years old; I was 24 and it was one of the most challenging times of my life.

However, in retrospect, I am so grateful I was given an opportunity to take care of Mom and be with her until she crossed over. I later thought - what a beautiful gift. We were together, when she gave life to me and we were together when she was reborn into the spirit world.

Next month, it will be 33 years since she left. It's hard to believe how many years have passed!

Anyhow, here I am writing a new blog. I felt it would be an interesting addition to My Two Beads Worth and it would give me an opportunity to write in a more personal way and perhaps to have discussions on the many issues we have in Indian country and our world today. There are so many things we can discuss, we can never run out of possibilities.

So, my friends, welcome to my blog and my first blog entry. I have to get to work - and start working on the first edition of My Two Beads Worth in this new year - 2009. Wow - 2009!

Hard to imagine enit? We use to talk about the 1990's, let alone 2009 and we thought by this time we would all have vehicles similar to the one George Jetson used in the Jetsons - a cartoon that was quite popular in the 1970's and 1980's. (laughing). It would be nice, wouldn't it - to be able to fly over long lines of traffic?

To all of you and to your families, I wish you all the best in this new year.

For now, I have to scoot, if I hope to get anything going - so that's it, my first blog entry for the day. Maybe there will be more later.

Jeanne