A Tribute to Almine by Grandmother Nagi Ugugunega Whiteowl (Elder of the Cherokee, Lakota and Osage)
It is my sincere pleasure to speak to you of Almine. When I met Almine, her high energy level and obvious knowledge of ancient healing ways were what first caught my attention. I spoke to her in a private place away from the eyes of others.
Almine saw immediately what most others had not – my suffering. She shed tears of compassion and then she prayed with me and over me. She gifted me with medicine. She knew without asking that I couldn’t afford it. She saw without my telling her my sexual abuse from when I was a very young child. She said it had left me with a viral infection in my spine and that the medicine she’d given me would help clear it away.
I had an appointment with a bone specialist soon after. As he looked over the bloodwork and x-rays, he said: “Your spine somehow is much better, but you do have a viral infection in the spine.” Almine had seen with her heart what doctors had missed for years. This beautiful woman I have come to think of as my daughter/friend, approaches life with respect, honor and compassion – the traits of a true healer.
A Tribute to Almine
A Tribute to Almine by Grandmother Nagi Ugugunega Whiteowl (Elder of the Cherokee, Lakota and Osage)
It is my sincere pleasure to speak to you of Almine. When I met Almine, her high energy level and obvious knowledge of ancient healing ways were what first caught my attention. I spoke to her in a private place away from the eyes of others.
Almine saw immediately what most others had not – my suffering. She shed tears of compassion and then she prayed with me and over me. She gifted me with medicine. She knew without asking that I couldn’t afford it. She saw without my telling her my sexual abuse from when I was a very young child. She said it had left me with a viral infection in my spine and that the medicine she’d given me would help clear it away.
I had an appointment with a bone specialist soon after. As he looked over the bloodwork and x-rays, he said: “Your spine somehow is much better, but you do have a viral infection in the spine.” Almine had seen with her heart what doctors had missed for years. This beautiful woman I have come to think of as my daughter/friend, approaches life with respect, honor and compassion – the traits of a true healer.