I have spent the last weekend in Nova Scotia teaching at the Atlantic Dowsers Society. The beauty of this part of Canada is captivating. We were at Tatamagouche Centre, the place located in the middle of the astonishing, small community of Tatamagouche. People there are kind and welcoming, a native community open and friendly.

The women who helped us with the closing ceremony and drumming, Kathleen, told me part of the story about their people. I would like to share it with you, since it truly touched my heart.

My dear friend Kathleen told me that, according to their legend, Mi’kmaq people were created by three thunders. First one, when it hit the ground, created some kind of platform by melting the ground. The second created a human, but this human had been attached to the platform, therefore could not walk. It was only the third thunder, which made the very first human free, able to walk and act.

The name Mi’kmaq means “People”, all of us, since they believe that there is no difference between you and I. Them and us. Others and us. Whichever way we would like to call it, it is us, we are friends, brothers and sisters: The People, who are here, on the Planet Earth together to be one, serve each other and the Mother Earth.

I love those people and their land, since all of it is based on love and respect, acceptance and openness, peacefulness and honoring.

It reminds of the sentence I have read once: “There is no passengers on the spaceship called Earth. We are all crew”.